FW: Prix Selection Opening Friday!

May 19, 2004

Type: discussion

PRIX SELECTION at EYEBEAM

Opening reception:
Friday May 21, 7-10pm
Preview the installations and meet the exhibiting artists. Live music
performance at 9pm by Rupert Huber, electronica composer fro Austria,
with visualizations by Justin Manor from Boston, MA.

On view:
May 21-July 18, 2004
Tues - Sat, 12-6pm

540 w21st Street (between 10th & 11th Aves)
Admission free with suggested donation

Eyebeam is pleased to present Prix Selection, an exhibition of
award-winning and groundbreaking interactive art installations. Prix
Selection is part of Digital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 years of Ars
Electronica, a series of exhibitions, screenings, panel discussions and
events in New York City in honor of the 25th Anniversary of Ars
Electronica, the world's largest and most renowned institution for
digital media culture, and is in collaboration with the American Museum
of the Moving Image and the Austrian Cultural Forum.

Installations by:
Myron Krueger & Katrin Hinrichsen
Jeffery Shaw
Paul Sermon
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
Hachiya Katsuhiko
Luc Courchesne
Lynn Hershman
David Rokeby

I Dream Electric Sheep - A selection of Ars Electronica Computer
Animation Art prize winners, dating from 1987 to the present. This
hour-long animation screening features the less commercial and more
experimental short works from Ars which explore styles, techniques and
technologies that have influenced the field, including a broad range of
artists from Michel Gondry to students who have captured the Prix.

For complete listings and more information on Prix Selection please
visit: http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/exhibitions/prix/prix.html

For more information on the Digital Avant-Garde festival please visit:
http://www.aec.at/nyc.
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Support for Prix Selection and Digital Avant-Garde is provided by SAP,
the world's leading supplier of business software. Additional support
is provided by WIRED Magazine, Tekserve, Austrian Cultural Forum New
York, the Gershwin Hotel and Brooklyn Brewery.

Support for Eyebeam is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts,
the New York State Council on the Arts, the Atlantic Foundation, the
Greenwall Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,
the LEF Foundations, the Jerome Foundation, Alias Systems, Inc.,
Alienware and Discreet.