Wigged.net: An Original Flavor

WIGGED.NET JUNE 2002 E-NEWSLETTER–VOL. 2 ISSUE 13

Wigged.net (http://www.wigged.net) is an evolving Webzine focused on
bringing innovative short videos, animations and interactive works
over the Internet. Our mission is to be a showcase, distribution and
promotion center for pioneering artists via the World Wide Web.

For information on advertising in Wigged.net's E- Newsletter or on
Wigged.net, please contact [email protected].

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INDEX

+Call for Works
+Shows & Performances
+ Book Releases
+New Screen Media
+Alt-X launches three new PrintOnDemand books
+ Website Launch-LaurieTumer.com
+ Happenings-Netlinkz Group Invites youS.
+Now Showing on Wigged.net
+Publicity Opportunity


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ADVERTISEMENT

Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media
Video Documentary. 2002. (Color, 56:35)
Directed and produced by Seth Thompson.

Profiles four internationally recognized artists who have
incorporated current computer technology into their work to enhance
their artistic visions. Artists addressed are: Mark Amerika,
Tennessee Rice Dixon, Toni Dove, and Troika Ranch.

The documentary is currently distributed by Wigged Productions and is
available for $29.95 (includes S/H) at
http://www.wigged.net/evolvingtraditions/ .

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BOOK RELEASES

New Screen Media
Martin Rieser, Andrea Zapp, editors:

New Screen Media discusses how classical narrative in many areas has
been giving way to a new, more fragmentary culture of drama. The
book explores the differing creative platforms such as the Internet,
Media Installation, Interactive Broadcast, CD-ROM and Expanded Cinema
within a social, political and
cultural context. The advent of new media presents a serious
challenge to our understanding of visual representation, of narrative
and indeed the whole art of the moving image. New narrative forms in
hypertext, multimedia, computer games, interactive broadcast and
screen media are constantly redefining the relationship between the
creators of content and their audiences, who increasingly are
becoming the co-producers of meaning.

Accompanying the publication is a DVD that provides a rich sampler of
interactive work and videos. Such work has usually been shown in
international gallery and conference venues, which have been
inaccessible to a general audience. This compilation is carefully
cross-referenced with the book to open a comprehensive overview to a
wider public. The cross-platform DVD-ROM provides up to 4 Gigabytes
of detailed illustration and analysis of the work of artists and
interactive filmmakers from around the world, who are at the
cutting-edge in creating and critiquing these new hybrid forms of
interactive narrative. Practitioners such as: Zoe Beloff, Michael
Buckley, Luc Courchesne, Toni Dove, Ken Feingold, Chris Hales, Graham
Harwood, George Legrady, Merel Mirage, Martin Rieser, Jill Scott,
Bill Seaman, Jeffrey Shaw, Eku Wand, Grahame Weinbren and Andrea Zapp
are featured. A representative selection of
Installation forms, CD-ROM, Web and Broadcast are examined in depth.


For full details including how to order your copy visit:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/newscreenmedia/

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THREE NEW BOOKS FROM ALT-X PRESS

Alt-X announces the publication of three new PrintOnDemand books.

The three books encompass three generations of innovative fiction. George
Chambers and Raymond Federman's Twilight of the Bums establishes these
two veteran experimentalists as the Abbott and Costello of postmodernism.
Adrienne Eisen's debut novel, Making Scenes, brings back to life the
rival tradition of American writing from Henry Miller to Kathy Acker.
With Alan Sondheim's novel of mystical eroticism, .echo readers will
lose themselves in a net fiction charged with sex, obsession and codework.

The three new books join the three recently published books of Alt-X
Press POD: Mark Amerika's collection, How To Be an Internet Artist;
the novel Cows by Ronald Sukenick, this year's winner of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters Award for innovative fiction; and Eugene
Thacker's Hard_Code anthology of experimental data prose.

Producing books by, for and through the computer, in both e-book and
PrintOnDemand formats, Alt-X has already launched its highly successful
e-book series which is now followed by the appearance of the POD versions.
They are available for credit card purchase at altx.com, booksurge.com,
half.com, and other channels.

Reviewers may refer to the free complete e-book postings now available in
PDF and Palm Pilot versions at www.altx.com/ebooks.

For more information, please email Alt-X Publicist Kendall Pata at
[email protected]


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WEBSITE LAUNCH

The photographs of Laurie Tumer can now be viewed on her recently
launched Website: http://www.laurietumer.com. Artist Holly Roberts
has called the site an "aesthetic restraint and playful mystery."
Tumer teachers college writing, photography, and digital imaging
courses as well as workshops, including two this summer at the
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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CALL FOR WORKS

Seeking innovative and experimental video, animation and net art.
Please visit http://www.wigged.net and go to the "submit media" page
to fill out our on-line registration form and send requested
materials.

DEADLINE: July 15, 2002 for Wigged's September-December, 2002 issue.

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HAPPENINGS

The NetLinkz Group, Inc. invites you every Tuesday for an evening of
Kool Vibes All Night !!!

Featuring…
Open Mic - Comedy - Dining - Live DJ - Kool Vibes

The RumBar Lounge
@
Negril Village
70 West 3rd
Btwn Thompson & LaGuardia
Greenwich Village, NYC
212 477-2804
Doors Open @ 6pm
Comedy & Open Mic @ 8pm

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NOW SHOWING ON WIGGED.NET

Humberto Ramirez's HATE.
Ramirez writes, "This is a video in which the cultural dynamics of
hatred are explored through a series of talking heads and monologues.
The video seeks to denaturalize a condition in which the potential
solidarity amongst different people is subverted by notions of
nationalism, race, gender, class etc.
By problematizing what seems to remain hidden or at least unspoken
this work seeks to provoke a conversation." United States. 2002.

Agricola de Cologne's Never Wake Up.
Based on the artist's poem of the same name. The poem/movie uses
some fundamental images: The "soldier" is metaphor for the human
individual. "War" is a metaphor for life, respectively the fights of
everyday day life; and the "veteran of war" is the human being who
cannot rid himself of the shadows of the past. Never Wake Up
addresses the loss of identity where the soldiers become distorted
and veterans have difficulty with reintegration into post-war
society. Germany. 2001.

Jimpunk's www.nowar.nogame.org.
Jimpunk ironically states that in his piece www.nowar.nogame.org,
"everything is under control." However get ready for a nerve-racking
event. At first you may think that your computer has been infected
with a virus. But don't worry, it's not. Fasten your seatbelt as
you embark on a mind-blowing journey that is a masterful mixture of
image and sound. Kudos to jimpunk! France. 2001.

Daniel Young's NewZoid.
NewZoid is a work of generative art. It plays with the most common
information form of our time - the headline. NewZoid continuously
collects the daily news, tears it apart, chops it up and endlessly
reassembles the pieces into absurd, funny, shocking and
thought-provoking headlines. The Site has been operating on its own
since April 8, 2001. United States. 2001.

Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez & Gustavo Matamoros's L'Anatomie du Desir.
This assemblage of erotic images, found and damaged footage, and
handcrafted 16mm film was originally projected onto the torso of
Butoh artist Helena Thevenot as part of the one-hour collaborative
piece "The Anatomy of Desire." A tribute to biophysical impulses,
the video version synchronizes the film to its original score by
Gustavo Matamoros. United States. 2002.

Thomas Swiss and Seth Thompson's In the Woods.
In the Woods, a collaborative effort between Thom Swiss and Seth
Thompson examines the ideas of memory, aging and loss. The result of
the collaboration suggests the way language (in this case a poem by
Swiss) can be re-represented and changed by images (a film by
Thompson). United States. 2002.

To view these works visit the "Now Showing" page at http://www.wigged.net


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PUBLICITY OPPORTUNITY

We are looking to promote your upcoming exhibitions and new releases.
If you would like for us to promote your work either through our
newsletter or Wigged.net webzine, please send your press releases to:

Seth Thompson
Wigged Productions
418 Woodland Ave.
Akron, OH 44302

or you may e-mail press releases to [email protected]. No file
attachments will be accepted. If you have images that you would like
to include, please send them via snail mail to the above address.

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