[spectre] LivingTomorrow.v3

[Linda Wallace]

Linda Wallace¹s LivingTomorrow

The most recent incarnation of LivingTomorrow, a three channel DVD
installation -- of what has become a Œmulti-function artwork¹ --  will open
tonight, Friday September 30 2005 at the Videomedeja festival in Novi Sad,
Serbia.

This makes three versions built from the same image files:
1) the three-screen video-database (using weighted/random selectors to
create every-time new combinations)
2) the single channel version
3) the three-screen 30min DVD loop

The original video-database work was launched in March this year at
Montevideo/Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst in Amsterdam, after an
artist-in-residency. The single channel version has screened at C3 in
Budapest and at Cambridge University as part of Cinema, War and a Society of
the Spectacle. There were also a number of prints on silk made from the
video files. Last Saturday September 24 LivingTomorrow, originally
devised as a three-screen network-to-public-space work, was presented at the
Œurban screens¹ conference in Amsterdam.

The DVD loop version is more like a three screen Œimmersive cinema¹, and
presented new and other challenges to the original in which the narrative
fragments can be, and are, seen in any order.

A critique of LivingTomorrow, written by DJ/media theorist Toshiya Ueno will
be published in the Japanese journal Sekai. This text particularly
focuses on the database aspect of the work --given that it was a database,
it was able to incorporate the assassination in Amsterdam of Theo van Gogh
into the characters¹ dialogue soon after this unexpected event. In fact this
live Œevent¹ became the structuring device of the work.

LivngTomorrow will screen at Videomedeja from September 30, has been
selected for competition at the Viper Festival in Basel in November and will
be installed in February 2006 at 24HRArt in Darwin, Australia.


For more information, essays and images see

http://www.machinehunger.com.au/LivingTomorrow

http://www.videomedeja.org.yu/program_e.htm
http://www.viper.ch/
http://www.24hrart.org.au
http://www.iwanami.co.jp/jpworld/top.html  (Sekai article coming soon)
http://www.urbanscreens.org