9th FEST - NYC Oct 2 - invite !

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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Dear Friends,&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Please post and relay this announcement for our&#160;&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">9th Annual Not Still Art Festival in NYC!&#160;&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Come and enjoy the great work and artists' talks:&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">PRESS RELEASE:&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">WHAT:&#160; 9th Annual Not Still Art Festival&#160;&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>of non-narrative and abstract electronic motion imaging with
music/sound design</i>&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">WHEN:&#160; Saturday October 2, 2004&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">WHERE: Micro Museum, 123 Smith Street, Brooklyn NY&#160; (718)
797-3116&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">CONTACT:&#160; nsa &quot;at&quot; improvart.com&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">ADMISSION:&#160; $10. / $5.&#160; student/senior (no one refused for lack of
funds)&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">INFO / IMAGES / PRESS:&#160; </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#008000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u>http://www.improvart.com/nsa/</u></span></font><font
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">The 9th annual Not Still Art Festival&#160; will screen it's eclectic
international mix of&#160; music, abstraction and non-narrative shorts at
8:00 pm on Saturday October 2nd at the Micro Museum in
Brooklyn (Bergen St. stop on the F train from Manhattan).&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">This finely wrought exhibition of unique and original work will be
preceded in the afternoon from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm by previews
and interviews with attending artists.&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">&quot;I'm so glad I found you&quot; is an oft repeated phrase from artists
tucked away in their studios in far-flung parts of the world.&#160; Often
they travel to New York for the festival to meet their peers.&#160; This is
a joyous event for everyone attending; a party and celebration for
the long hours spent in creating their work.&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">WHO:&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">ATTENDING ARTISTS: William Brown, Christine Dunn, Chris
Ernst, Ido Fluk, Carol Goss, Annie Loui, Jae Yoon Park,</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:10pt">Robert
Pirretti, Stephanie Maxwell, Allan Schindler, Bart Woodstrup,
Walter Wright.&#160; (Please see links to their home pages at NSA
home)&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">There is a great line up of debut pieces!&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Chris Casady's very art deco flash animation; Ido Fluk's rant &quot;What
I Want&quot; (not &quot;…a dying mortgage… a house, an SUV, …spend my
life in front of the television…&quot;);&#160; Chris Ernst's on and off
relationship with the Watts Tower in LA,:&#160; Carol Goss' &quot;Byegones&quot;,
a&#160; contemporary take on a 1925 Boswell Sisters tune;&#160; Francesco
Leprino's very sexy, Italian &quot;On Smoking&quot;;&#160; Tod Pardon's fast
pasted &quot;Undercover&quot; romp;&#160; and Judson Wright's completely
abstract &quot;Homicidal Maniac for a President&quot;!&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Human relationships are obsessed over in &quot;Cyberdate&quot; (Bart
Woodstrup), &quot;Madcatter&quot; (Robert Pirretti), and &quot;Sing to Me You
Precious Wound&quot; (Max Gleason).&#160; William Brown takes us to a
seemingly absurd ritual in India in &quot;Holi Celebration.&quot;&#160;&#160; John
Kneckt's playful &quot;Crisis in Sapville&quot; resonates with the daily news
on a surreal level . Mark Zaki's &quot;Absence Presence&quot; is an
impressionistic collaboration with dancer, Annie Loui.&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Amazing abstract animation from Stephanie Maxwell,&#160; Christine V.
Dunn, Keum-Taek Jung, Stephan Larson, Gerhard Mantz, Walter
Wright, and Audri Phillips is complemented by music from a range
of composer/musicians, including:&#160;&#160; John Adamczyk, Christopher
Brakel, Allan Schindler, and Edgar Grana.&#160; World class improvised
jazz comes to us from Arrigo Cappelletti /Giulio Visibelli and the
Jon Voight Ensemble.&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">ADDITION:&#160; Friday night October 1 at 9:00 pm at the Micro
Museum there will be a live Electrovideomove Performance with
Music:&#160; DJ DeftlyD, Darryl Hell, David Linton;&#160; Video:&#160; Dial888,
Lena, w2;&#160; Dance: Joe Burgio, Teresa Czepiel, Heather McQuiston,
Edisa Weeks.&#160; Make sure to catch this the night before the Not Still
Art Festival&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">BACKGROUND:&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Founded and curated by Carol Goss as a sponsored project of the
New York Foundation for the Arts, Not Still Art began in 1996 when
four video artists (Goss, Walter Wright, Peer Bode, Bob Doyle)
from the 1970s gathered together in Cherry Valley, New York for a
public screening of&#160; their abstract and non-narrative video art.&#160; That
event evolved into the annual Not Still Art Festival International
Screening pimarily by word of mouth and e-mail relay.&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">The impetus was twofold:&#160; first, there was a need for a festival that
focused exclusively on abstract and non-narrative electronic
motion imaging with music/sound design; secondly,&#160; with the
internet and e-mail it was at last possible to reach many of the
international artists working in this form with a very small budget.&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">SPONSORS:&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Abstract and non-narrative work has never been easy to fund raise
for - mainly because it defies description - so try to write a grant
proposal!&#160; So the Not Still Art Festival has progressed with the help
of the artists, who contribute an application fee, and the
Experimental Television Center, which pays a stipend to traveling
artists from a Presentation Funds Grant (redistributed funds from
the New York State Council on the Arts) .&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">We are also are fortunate to have Gala Radowic of GRS Systems
in Manhattan convert PAl submissions to NTSC.&#160; The Laziza's of
the Micro Museum support us with their energy and their space.
Telenet.net, a subsidiary of Logical.net, has provided us with a
website and internet connection from day one and Improvart.com
has shared equipment and technical resources.&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">(If you want to be removed from this list, please reply with &quot;nsa14&quot;
in the subject.)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">N O T&#160;&#160; S T I L L&#160;&#160; A R T</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">http://www.improvart.com/nsa/</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">[email protected]&#160;&#160; FAX: 1.607.264-3476</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">P.O. Box 496, Cherry Valley, NY 13320-0496&#160;&#160; </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>NSA is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the
Arts.</i></span></font></div>
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