transcinema

[Jeremy Bernstein <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

THIS WEEKEND / NEW YORK CITY:

COME TOUCH! Josh Goldberg's ironically interactive TV/NATO hybrid
sculpture.

COME HEAR! Kurt Ralske and Jeremy Bernstein make eine kleine
audio noise.

COME SEE! Kurt Ralske and Jeremy Bernstein make eine kleine video
noise right before your eyes.

other performances featuring the super-saturated video work of
Adam Chao, the analog sensitivity of Benton-C Bainbridge and
Stackable Thumb. also Basic Ray, Zipperspy, and Test:

AND LOTS OF OTHER ARTSTUFF at _TRANSCINEMA_

______details follow:

Transcinema 00

www.transcinema.com

November 24-26.  Here Art Center, 145 6th Ave., New York.

Performances
8:30 pm, 12:00 am
[see schedule below or website for specific times/dates]

Test: (SF)
Benton-C Bainbridge (NYC)
Madame Chao (NYC)
Basic Ray (NYC)
Jeremy Bernstein-  Kurt Ralske (NYC)
Zipper Spy (NYC)

Screenings
Fri, Nov 24 5:00 pm
Shorts from Transcinema 1,2

Sat, Nov 25 5:00 pm
Short film and video program sponsored by Ifilm

Sun, Nov 26 5:00 pm
Short film and video program sponsored by Ifilm

Installations:
open daily from 1:00 pm and during all performances/screenings

altzero by squid soup (London)
PlanarVideo by Coin Operated (Jonah Brucker-Cohen) (NYC)
BOLT (SF)
"Dilute! Dilute! Dilute!" by Joshua Goldberg (NYC)
Sunset - an internet art project by Pall Thayer (Iceland)
Video Hoookah - Adam Chao (NYC)
Box #6 by Sarah Teitler  (NYC)
Growing up Now by Antony  Widoff (Hudson)
Synesthesia by John Plenge and Helen Beekman (NYC)


Press Screening + opening party
Tuesday, Nov 21, 8:30 pm

Symposium
Sunday, Nov 26, 5:00 pm
discussion w/ artists etc

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 26, 2000

TRANScINEMA 00.  Festival of e-media.

blasthaus gallery, 3feetofftheground and 7hz present TRANSCINEMA
00, 
the third annual electronic media festival featuring film
screenings 
and performances November 24, 25 and 26th at HERE Art Center, 145
6th 
Avenue in New York City. Each year TRANSCINEMA brings together 
interdisciplinary artists from around the world exploring the
cutting 
edge of technology and experiential art with live performances, 
interactive installations, screenings and a panel discussion.

blasthaus director William Linn describes this year's program as
"an 
intense exploration into the realm of new media performance, from 
lo-tech to hyper-tech. It is a rare chance to catch some of the 
international rising stars of this burgeoning new movement within
the 
electronic arts."  TRANSCINEMA provides a platform for new and
unique 
visions of modern technology and culture and how they interact
and 
affect each other. "The explosion of digital technology in our 
everyday lives has brought a new wave of artistic thinkers who
have 
been inspired to attack the digital canvas. Transcinema will
showcase 
those who have re-engineered modern and not-so-modern
electronics," 
says Gregory Cowley of the Test: project.

Three nights of audio and visual performances feature artists
using 
time-based media in real-time performance. Collectively, these 
performers represent a videokinetic body of work that attempts to 
fuse the often separate notions of cinema and performance, sound
and 
image, environment and spectacle, reflection and experience. Some
of 
the featured performers include: Test: who merges new control
systems 
with old slide projector technology to a create stop-motion, 
Muybridge-esque, sub-cinematic, immersive environment. Madame
Chao 
who creates hyper-kung-fu collages of psychedelic patterns and 
Samurai movie slices.  basicray who slides viewers through hyper 
modern 3-D landscapes. Kurt Ralske and Jeremy Bernstein who use
the 
latest, state of the art software - Max, MSP and Nato.0+55 - to 
fracture video and audio into entirely new forms.

Throughout the three-day festival, interactive installations will
be 
displayed utilizing new technologies. Featured are works which
take 
advantage of web-based and streaming media, live remote video,
and 
user-driven interactive input. These installations blow apart the 
boring paradigm of computer monitor and mouse-clicking which
usually 
passes for "interactive". Squid Soup's altzero creates an ongoing 
collective composition driven by users worldwide as they navigate 
through 3-D environments. B.O.L.T. links us to our technological 
near-past with appropriated obsolete video games. Pall Thayer's 
Sunset presents an ongoing live sunset as viewed from remote 
locations from around the world. Coin-operated gives us a user 
controlled, remapped video fly-through of the festival
in-progress.

Transcinema also features daily screenings of films, videos and 
computer works from young, cutting-edge digital filmmakers and 
tech-artists from around the world. For more specific program 
information and tickets, visit transcinema.com. Direct all press 
inquiries to will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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DAILY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

TRANScINEMA 00 will take place Nov 24-26 at the Here Art Center 
located at 145 6th Ave., New York.

Tuesday, Nov 21

8:30 pm.
Special press preview

Friday,  Nov 24

5:00 pm, Matinee - Transcinema 1/2, short videos and films.

8:30 pm, Perfomances by
Test: (SF)
Madame Chao (NYC)
Jeremy Bernstein-  Kurt Ralske (NYC)

12:00 am Performances by
Test: (SF)
Madame Chao (NYC)
Basic Ray (NYC)
Jeremy Bernstein-  Kurt Ralske (NYC) + Zipper Spy (NYC)

Saturday,  Nov 25

5:00 pm, Matinee - Ifilm program, short videos and films.

8:30 pm, Perfomances by
Test: (SF)
Benton-C Bainbridge (NYC)
Zipper Spy (NYC)

12:00 am Performances
Test: (SF)
Stackable Thumb (NYC)
Zipper Spy (NYC) + Jeremy Bernstein - Kurt Ralske (NYC)
Basic Ray (NYC)

Sunday,  Nov 26

5:00 pm Symposium
visit with the artists

8:30 pm, Perfomances
Test: (SF)
Basic Ray (NYC)
Madame Chao (NYC)
Benton-C Bainbridge (NYC)

The gallery will be open from 1:00 pm and during all screenings
and 
performances. Tickets are $10 for film and video screenings, $20
for 
performances.

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INSTALLATIONS
open daily from 1:00 pm and during all performances/screenings

  altzero
by squid soup (London)

altzero is a multi-user 3D interactive environment where people 
communicate with each other, online and offline, through the use
of 
music and chat. The combination of the different sounds is
mirrored 
by a visual response, and the player navigates through changing 
abstract 3D landscapes. The result is a collective composition, a 
live concert with performers from different parts of the world.


PlanarVideo
by Jonah Brucker-Cohen (coin-operated.com) (NYC)

This is a web streaming real-time video system that allows for a
live 
video stream to exist in a 3D / VRML environment. The system
consists 
of 40 planes arranged on the x axis and a virtual camera that
flies 
through each plane on the axis. The planes update in real-time as 
video content is streamed to the server and linked to each
frame's 
texture.


"Dilute! Dilute! Dilute!"
by Joshua Goldberg (NYC)
It's a live video "mirror" enclosed in a television case that
detunes itself and must be adjusted using the antennae on the
case.


B.O.L.T. (SF)

The Bureau Of Low Technology (B.O.L.T.) was founded in 1997as an 
entity devoted to the preservation and appreciation of all things 
low-tech. The bureau functions as a reminder of the early
techno-era, 
when computers were simple and functioned in a very abstracted,
often 
"stupid" manner. B.O.L.T. embraces this old school bitmapped
culture 
via outdated video game displays.  BOLT is an interactive,
playful, 
and fun nostalgic reminder of the days when computers were our
friend 
and the idea of the information superhighway was a science
fiction 
fantasy.


Sunset - an internet art project
by Pall Thayer (Iceland)

Participants from all over the world will be transmitting live
video 
captures of the sun setting which will be displayed on the host 
computer.  A unique soundtrack will also be created as a product
of 
the sunset itself.  The transmissions will all be timed so that
only 
one is running at a time and the result will be a nonstop chain
of 
live sunsets each with their own soundtrack.


Video Hookah
Adam Chao (NYC)

Exactly what it sounds like - "must be experienced to be
understood". 
Video heads can plug-in to the hookah by donning headgear which 
contains video goggles and headphones.


Box #6 (NYC)
Sarah Teitler

Box#6, and it is an interactive wall-mounted cardboard box, with 
video content on back wall that is controlled by user moving 
cardboard flaps.


Growing Up Now
Antony Widoff

Growing Up Now is at its core an essay on the complex &
conflicting 
issues involved within present-day efforts to find meaningful 
occupation and develop maturity.  My desire is to cultivate 
and maintain a perhaps traditional artistic impulse - that of 
examining the world in a deeply personal way - within culturally 
fresh forms.  Achieving this requires that I impel the computer
to 
play a role it is explicitly designed to avoid.  I accomplish
this in 
the "Instructional Fixture" by fully enveloping the technology in
an 
antique school desk, by eschewing "cutting edge" technological 
esthetic for a clunkier software feel, and by facilitating 
progression from one screen to another through the manual
striking of 
a small bell mounted above and to the right of a flatscreen
imbedded 
desk surface.