[spectre] E.A.T. 9 Evenings
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> Objet: E.A.T. 9 Evenings
> Date: 12/12/06 22:30
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> > E.A.T. 9 Evenings
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> > 12 DECEMBER 2006 - PRESS RELEASE
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> > Contact for press/preview discs/screening bookings:
> > Patrick Kwiatkowski +1-713-412-5120,
> > patrick at microcinema.com
> > www.9evenings.org
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> > Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
> > ARTPIX
> > Microcinema International
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> > announce
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> > 9 Evenings: Theatre &
> > Engineering - a 10 DVD set of films on a
> > legendary series of theater, dance, music and
> > performances at the New York 69th Regiment Armory in
> > 1966 by 10 New York artists: Robert Rauschenberg,
> > John Cage, David Tudor, Yvonne Rainer, Deborah Hay,
> > Robert Whitman, Steve Paxton, Alex Hay, Lucinda
> > Childs and Öyvind Fahlström.
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> > In 1966 10 New York artists worked with 30 engineers
> > and scientists from the world renowned Bell
> > Telephone Laboratories to create groundbreaking
> > performances that incorporated new technology. Video
> > projection, wireless sound transmission, and Doppler
> > sonar - technologies that are commonplace today -
> > had never been seen in the art of the 60's. The 9
> > Evenings DVD Series is an important documentation of
> > the collaborations between the artists and engineers
> > that produced innovative works using these emerging
> > technologies. These performances still resonate
> > today, as forerunners of the close and
> > rapidly-evolving relationship between artists and
> > technology.
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> > The DVDs – one on each artist’s performance -- will
> > be released sequentially over the next two years
> > with the initial publication of the series: Robert
> > Rauschenberg - Open Score, available Feb 27, 2007,
> > followed by the second in the series: John Cage -
> > Variations VII, available June 26, 2007. Each
> > DVD will
> > be PAL and NTSC system compatible.
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> > 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering is recognized as a
> > major artistic event of the 1960s. The performances
> > represented the culmination of a period of
> > extraordinary creative energy in art, dance and
> > music in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and they
> > also pointed to the future, as artists began to use
> > new technology in their work.
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> > 9 Evenings was organized by Robert
> > Rauschenberg and
> > Billy Klüver, then a research scientist at Bell
> > Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was held
> > at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City from
> > October 13-23, 1966. As Billy Klüver has written:
> > "9 Evenings was unique in the incredible richness
> > and imagination of the performances. The Armory
> > space allowed the artists to work on an
> > unprecedented scale, and their involvement with
> > technology and collaborations with the engineers
> > added a dimension of unfamiliarity and challenge.
> > They responded with major works."
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> > 9 Evenings was the first large-scale collaboration
> > between artists and engineers and scientists. The
> > two groups worked together for 10 months to develop
> > technical equipment and systems that were used as an
> > integral part of the artists’ performances. Their
> > collaboration produced many "firsts" in the use of
> > new technology for the theater, both with
> > specially-designed systems and equipment and with
> > innovative use of existing equipment. Closed-circuit
> > television and television projection was used on
> > stage for the first time; a fiber-optics camera
> > picked up objects in a performer's pocket; an
> > infrared television camera captured action in total
> > darkness; a Doppler sonar device translated
> > movement into sound; and portable wireless FM
> > transmitters and amplifiers transmitted speech and
> > body sounds to Armory loudspeakers.
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> > Using archival film footage and original sound
> > recordings, the 9 Evenings films reconstruct each
> > artist's performance as fully as possible; they also
> > contain new interviews with artists, engineers and
> > performers to illuminate the artistic, technical and
> > historical aspects of the works.
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> > Performances are by nature ephemeral events; this
> > DVD series assures that the 9 Evenings will not be
> > lost but will be available to new generations of
> > dance and theater students as well as art scholars,
> > artists and the general public who will have a
> > concrete representation of what 9 Evenings looked
> > like and how it came to play such an important role
> > in American 20th century art.
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> > The films on 9 Evenings are produced for E.A.T. by
> > Julie Martin and directed by Barbro Schultz
> > Lundestam. They are funded in part by generous gifts
> > from Robert Rauschenberg and the Robert Rauschenberg
> > Foundation as well as with support from the Daniel
> > Langlois Foundation for Art Science and Technology.
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> > The 10 disc DVD series, 9 Evenings: Theatre &
> > Engineering, is co-produced by E.A.T. and ARTPIX and
> > will be distributed worldwide by Microcinema
> > International.
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> > E.A.T. is a service organization that
> > promotes the
> > collaboration between artists and engineers to
> > provide artists with access to new technology and to
> > facilitate their participation in projects dealing
> > with areas of social concern.
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> > ARTPIX is a non profit organization that produces
> > DVDs about the arts including: Robert Whitman:
> > Performances from the 60s; Trisha Brown: Early Works
> > 1966-1979; William Wegman: Video Works
> > 1970-1999.(www.artpix.org)
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> > Visit www.9evenings.org for more information.
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> > Microcinema is a leading international
> > distributor and licensor of the moving image arts.
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> > Microcinema International is exclusive distributor
> > worldwide for the entire series of 9 Evenings:
> > Theatre & Engineering (www.microcinema.com). The
> > series will be available online at
> > www.microcinemadvd.com or for wholesale,
> > institutional or educational purchasing. For info
> > and for theatrical/institutional screening/display
> > information please contact: Joel Bachar,
> > Microcinema International, 1636 Bush St., St. 2, San
> > Francisco CA 94109, +1-415.447.9750 / FAX
> > +1-509.351.1530 / joel at microcinema.com
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