SUBTROPICS 03 VIDEOS ON-LINE

SUBTROPICS 03 VIDEOS ON-LINE AN INNOVATIVE INTERACTIVE VIDEO
EXHIBITION ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

Exhibition dates:April 15-June 15, 2003
Exhibition location:http://www.subtropicsvideo.org
System Requirements:DSL/Cable modem, Flash, Real Media Player and
recent version of Netscape or Microsoft Explorer
Producers:Wigged Productions, Akron, Ohio and Subtropics New
Music Festival, Miami, Florida


Akron, Ohio-April 14, 2003-Akron, Ohio media artist/educator Seth
Thompson and Miami, Florida based filmmaker/curator Humberto Ramirez
collaborated to create an innovative Web-based video exhibition that
invites viewer participation. Subtropics 03 Videos On-line presents
a cross section of video producers interested in art as a vehicle of
cultural discourse.

Curator Humberto Ramirez selected works that address such issues as
patriotism, colonialism, nationalism, and AIDS. Challenging in
nature, these videos attempt to question current positions on these
subjects. He states, "The importance of these videos is that they do
not retreat into the facile realm of the "experimental" and
"abstract" but rather use the abilities of the medium to directly
communicate and polemicize.

Artists included are: Gregg Bordowitz, John Distefano, Elizabeth
Hall, Mary Ann Toman, Craig Snyder, Deva Eveland and Jason Simon.

Seth Thompson comments, "No longer is an exhibition restricted to a
physical location with the advent of the World Wide Web. With a
computer and Internet access, artists, curators and audience can
globally interact and generate dialogue. This site was created to
provide a venue for politically and socially motivated videos and to
encourage discourse on related contemporary issues ."

The exhibition is co-produced by Wigged Productions
(http://www.wigged.net), Akron, Ohio and Subtropics New Music
Festival (http://www.subtropics.org), Miami, Florida.

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Seth Thompson
Wigged Productions
[email protected]
http://www.wigged.net