[spectre] V2_events during Film Festival R'dam: Model Behaviour & Urban Collisions New York

[Nat Muller]

If anyone's around during the Rotterdam International Film Festival, do dro=
p
by Jon Thomson's and Alison's Craighead solo exhibition *Model Behaviour*
and Wiretap 7.13: Urban Collisions: New York.

cheers -

nat


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Model Behaviour
Interactive installations by Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead (GB)
Opening: Friday 25th January 2002, 18.00 hours (with the presence of the
artists)
Date: 26th January  10th February 2002
Open: 12.00  18.00 hours, closed Monday 4th February 2002
Admission: Euro 3,50
Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam

Driving through Las Vegas=92
Choose your own soundtrack by using a patch panel and a headphone, while
cruising the main strip of Las Vegas. Part road movie, part 3D driving
game. DIY cinema for devotees.

CNN Interactive just got more interactive=92
Infotainment ad absurdum: add a variety of soundtracks to the monolithic
CNN Interactive website in an attempt to further mediate a moment of
infotainment -to bring a cinematic conceit to this ever changing global
news feed. CNN Interactive just got more interactive highlights the thin
lines between fact and fiction, news making and entertainment.

Telephony=92
Visitors can dial into a wall based grid of 42 Siemens mobile telephones,
which in turn begin to call each other and create a piece of 'music.' Each
phone has been individually programmed with a different ringtone. The more
people who dial into the work, the more layered the audio becomes.

Biographies:
Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead have been working with video and sound since
1991. More recently they have been exploring the possibilities of the
Internet and screen based multimedia to create navigable or user led
environments. Many of their internet-based works seek to manipulate
existing data (websites, sound tracks, ring tones) in surprising, critical
and humorous ways. The latter often engenders a feeling of estrangement in
the visitor.

Recent exhibitions include 010101 Art in Technological Times=92 at The
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and Art & Money Online=92 at Tate Britain=
.

Jon Thomson studied BA Fine Art in Leicester and PG diploma Electronic
Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and currently
lectures at The Slade School of Fine Art in London.

Alison Craighead studied painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
in Dundee and is currently a researcher into web specific art at the
University of Westminster.

More info: http://www.v2.nl/2002 and on http://www.thomson-craighead.net/

Concept and production: V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL
Rotterdam

=01=91Model Behaviour=92 is supported by: Cultural Affairs, City of Rotterdam,
Ministry of OC&W, Luna Internet, Siemens, KPN Mobile and The British
Council. The works are provided on Courtesy Mobile Home, London

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Wiretap 7.13: Urban Collisions: New York
Presentation/lecture
Date: Sunday 27th January 2002, 16.00 hours
Admission: 4,50 euro
Location: Goethe-Institut, Westersingel 9, Rotterdam

The image of a jumbo jet crashing into the WTC on September 11th is carved
in our cultural memory. Nevertheless, we have been familiarized with
similar images through blockbuster disaster movies in which national
monuments such as the WTC, the White House, the Statue of Liberty and the
Pentagon feature as terrorist targets. =91Wiretap 7.13: Urban Collisions: New
York=92 analyses the visual representation of the attacks of September 11th
in New York from a cinematic, architectonic and cultural-symbolic point of
view.

Jutta Zaremba (D)
Media theorist, researcher at the Department of New Media, Goethe
University Frankfurt
=91MEDIA-SCRAPING: The Media-Arts=B4 Presentation of New York Skyscrapers=92
How are skyscrapers presented in media-art? Which cultural and urban myths
do they perpetuate or debunk?

Birgit Richard (D)
Professor of the Department of New Media, Goethe University of Frankfurt
=919.11. and the Culture of Shifting=92
What happens when sets of fictitious images which were accepted for decades
(think of movies like =91Independence Day=92) are replaced by =91real=92 images?
What is the effect on our view on images?

More info: www.v2.nl/wiretap

Concept en production: V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL
Rotterdam and Goethe Institut Inter Nationes, Westersingel 9, 3014 GM
Rotterdam

The Wiretap 7 series is supported by Cultural Affairs, City of Rotterdam,
Ministry of OC&W, Luna Internet, Thuiskopie Fonds, Rotterdamse
Kunststichting, Martin Behaim Haus Foundation.