As the New Media Caucus Vice President in charge of Exhibitions (for the past several years), I am super-proud to claim this one as my baby. It's going down in conjunction with the annual College Art Association conference in Chicago next week!
Announcing: The New Media Caucus Live Cinema Summit!
Thursday February 11, 2010 / 5-10:30PM
Columbia College Chicago - Conaway Center
1104 S. Wabash Ave, 1st floor
Free & open to the public!
A one-night-only showcase of ten national and international artists/artist collectives working in the emerging field of real-time audio-visual performance. The event features a full line-up of back-to-back live cinema performance demonstrations with break-out discussions and plenty of room for dialogue.
featuring:
DataIRJ
Potter-Belmar LabsJon Satrom
Live Cinema:
"... real-time mixing of images and sound for an audience, where the sounds and images no longer exist in a fixed and finished form but evolve as they occur, and the artist's role becomes performative..." Holly Willis (Afterimage Vol 37, No 1, p. 11)