jihui presents Grahame Weinbren -- Friday, 4/18, 7PM

April 7, 2003

Type: discussion

jihui - Digital Salon
presents
Grahame Weinbren
Friday, April 18, 2003 7 PM
@ Parsons Center for New Design
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
Live Webcast @ http://agent.netart-init.org starts 7pm EST.

Grahame Weinbren's talk, titled "In the Ocean of Streams of Stories," is
centered on the problematics of interactivity. What expressive possibilities
does it open? How is it connected with concepts of non-and multi-linearity?
Is the notion of interactive narrative a useful one, or is it no more than
old wine in new bottles? What are the psychological and ideological
implications of interactivity? Weinbren will discuss and present his own
projects in the light of these questions, which take on a particular
currency as computer interfaces are increasingly integrated into our
environments, from toys and games, to kitchen gadgets, to advanced weapons
of warfare.

Grahame Weinbren has worked in film and video since the early 1970s and was
one of the first artists to incorporate interactivity with the moving image
in the work The Erl King (1983-86). His interactive cinema installations
have been exhibited internationally since 1984. TUNNEL (2000), a large scale
interactive environment, was made in collaboration with architect James
Cathcart for a disused coal-mine in the Ruhr Valley, and his three-screen
interactive cinema installation Frames, based on the first photographs of
mental patients, was commissioned by the NTT/ICC in Tokyo for its 1999
Biennial. Frames was recently exhibited in "Interactive Legends" at the
Kitchen in New York. Weinbren's documentary film George, made in
collaboration with Henry Corra, was broadcast in 2000 on HBO. Weinbren has
been an editor of the Millennium Film Journal since 1985, and his writings
on cinema, new technology, and media art have been widely published. He is
on the faculty of the graduate division of the School of Visual Arts and has
recently been a visiting artist in the Department of Visual and
Environmental Studies at Harvard.

jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites
all interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc.
jihui is where your voice is heard and your vision shared.
jihui is sponsored by the Digital Design Department
and Center for New Design @ Parsons School of Design
jihui is organized by agent.netart (http://agent.netart-init.org),
a joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT