A Series of <ALT> DigitalMedia Events
American Museum of the Moving Image

The Museum presents <ALT>Thursdays, a series of performances, presentations, and demonstrations about audiovisual media performance, its history, and its future directions.

All <ALT> Thursdays events are open and free to the public unless otherwise indicated. For more information, please contact digitalmedia@movingimage.us.


Thursday, October 23, 7:30 PM
Artist talk about DARE/Fabrica,
by Andy Cameron

For the past four months, the interactive installation DARE/Fabrica has been accumulating video, images, and drawings by Museum visitors. As envisioned by Andy Cameron, head of Fabrica's interactive media division, and DARE's principle designer, DARE is complete as an exhibition only when it closes. On October 23, in honor of the completion of DARE, Cameron will discuss the underlying ideas about interactivity, narrative, and creativity that are embodied in the DARE installation. This hour-long presentation will be followed by a reception. Fabrica is Benetton's communications and design research center in Treviso, Italy.


Past Events

June 21, 2003
Reception for Works by Jeremy Blake, Johnny deKam, Fabrica and Marina Zurkow & Julian Bleeker
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.


May 29, 2003
DJ Spooky Performance, Rebirth of a Nation, followed by a discussion
7:30 p.m.

DJ, theorist, and writer Paul Miller, a/k/a DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, will present a prototype of his planned live, radical remix of DW Griffith's controversial and landmark film, Birth of A Nation. In Miller's hands, the film is transformed into a meditation on how "myths migrate through the culture's operating system." Miller says, "remixing this influential film the way a DJ would change a pop tune, I am trying to uncover the blueprints of the future we now inhabit." This one-hour performance will be followed by a discussion with the artist.

Tickets: $15 public, $10 members
Tickets are available for purchase by calling the Museum at 718-784-4520. Advanced purchase is highly recommended.


May 15, 2003
Panel Discussion: Moving Images Performed with Software
7:30 p.m.

Through discussing their own work, artists and programmers Greg Hermanovic, Art Jones, and Golan Levin will provide an overview of audio-visual performance systems, its history, and future.

Hermanovic, co-founder of Derivative, Inc, will demonstrate Touch, a new real-time 3D graphics performance tool based on his Academy Award-winning digital compositing software, Houdini.

Levin will present an illustrated history of real-time moving image performance. His piece, Floccus, is featured in <ALT>DigitalMedia and he recently orchestrated Dialtones: A Telesymphony, a concert performance comprised solely of the carefully choreographed ringing of the audience's cell phones.

Art Jones will present a mini-lecture on "The Fine Art of VJ-ing," with audio-visual accompaniment. His work often concerns the inter-relationships between popular music, visual culture, history, and power.


May 8, 2003
242.pilots Performance
7:30 p.m.

242.pilots, a real-time video improvisation ensemble, will perform at the American Museum of the Moving Image on Thursday, May 8th, 2003. The group is an international mix of three video artists, HC Gilje, Kurt Ralske and Lukasz Lysakowski from Norwary, the US and Poland, respectively, who use custom-made software in live performances to dynamically generate video and sound. They recently won the Image Award at Transmediale 03 in Berlin.


March 6, 2003
Opening Reception for New Works with Artist Talks and Live Performance
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

New Works by Camille Utterback and Adam Chapman, Toni Dove, LeCielEstBleu, and Martin Lenclos and Priam Givord

Artist Talks
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Toni Dove, Camille Utterback and Adam Chapman

Performance
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Live video/audio processing by Mumbleboy


January 9, 2003
Sampling Cinema: A Christian Marclay Program
7:30 p.m.

Sampling Cinema: A Christian Marclay Program is a screening and discussion with New York-based, Swiss-born artist and musician Christian Marclay. The event is held in conjunction with the New York debut of Marclay's newest installation, "Video Quartet," at the Paula Cooper Gallery.


November 26, 2002
<ALT> DigitalMedia Opening Reception
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Works by Karl Ackermann & Mumbleboy; Brody Condon; Cory Arcangel/BEIGE; The Demoscene; Yael Kanarek; Fabrica; gameLab; Golan Levin; ILL Clan; Erik Loyer; Alex Mayhew; Tetsuya Mizuguchi and United Games Artists; Eric Redlinger with o.blaat, Bubblyfish, GeoffGDAM, j.u.l.i.e.t.a, and Daniel Vatsky; Julian Oliver; Oddcast; Anne-Marie Schleiner; Soda Creative; Dan Torop

Lobby Installation: Trash Mirror by Danny Rozin

Featuring live video/audio processing:
Benton-C Bainbridge and Johnny DeKam
Cory Arcangel's 8-Bit Construction Set.