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WIGGED.NET DECEMBER 2000 E-NEWSLETTER--VOL. I ISSUE 6 Wigged.net (http://www.wigged.net) is a bi-monthly webzine that is focused on bringing innovative short videos, animations and interactive works over the internet. Our mission is to be a showcase, distribution and promotion center for media artists via the World Wide Web. Wigged.net is for audiences seeking innovative alternatives to traditional forms of entertainment. Wigged.net now has video articles! ****************************************** NOW SHOWING Check out featured artists in the new issue of Wigged.net: Humberto Ramirez's Thirst. "Thirst" is a video in which verbal and visual clues converse on the uncertain engagement of discourse and desire. Visual and acoustical layers of language point to an unattainable state valued by the very nature of its absence. "Thirst" is about wanting and the impossibility of completeness at any given time. 2000. United States. Visit the "Now Showing" page at http://www.wigged.net Marikki Hakola's TRIAD Hyperdance. This project is based on "TRIAD NetDance," a live telepresence performance on the Internet between Helsinki, Finland; Tokyo, Japan; and New York City, United States. "TRIAD HyperDance" forms a virtual installation where the audience is invited to interact with the artists and build up new interpretations out of the audiovisual and choreographic elements. 2000. Finland. Visit the "Now Showing" page at http://www.wigged.net Markus Winkler's Medialab. The digital media lab is a stage for experimental art and animations. The site focuses on the human body and ways in which to interact with it. 1999-2000. Austria. Visit the "Now Showing" page at http://www.wigged.net Lou Anne Colodny's In the Negative. Mysterious and brief, this video explores identity and physical, emotional entrapment. 2000. United States. Visit the "Now Showing" page at http://www.wigged.net Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo's from one to two too one. The work is composed of three sections in which the two partners use physical metaphors such as sewing or being stuck together with tape to express their contradictions about merging and separation. 2000. United States. Visit the "Now Showing" page at http://www.wigged.net Lara Frankena's VidBody. This interactive video piece is composed of 9 frames of soft focus black & white video loops, which can run all at once, or one at a time. All video loops are close-ups of the human body in motion. 1998. United States.Visit the "Now Showing" page at http://www.wigged.net Avi Rosen's Free Art. The Webiste, "Free Art" enables every user creating and consuming art as he wishes. Each selection opens a window with random background (one of seven) and random music (one of ten). The windows consist of digital 'ready made' like: images, animations, text and sound. By dragging the components to a desired composition a new artwork is created. The user can also add his own text and mail it to the site. This mode of creation fits with Joseph Beuys words: "I demand an artistic involvement in all realms of life. Whereas I advocate an aesthetic involvement from science, from economics, from politics, from religion - every sphere of human activity. Even the act of peeling potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act". 1999-2000. Isreal. Visit the "Now Showing" page at http://www.wigged.net Mike Lyda's Search Space. "Search Space" is a series of virtual spaces which represent search engine results in a 3D format. Each space represents an actual search by a web user to the Magellan search engine, and the objects within the spaces correspond to web sites which were returned in the search engine results. The individual vrml spaces were created by viewing search engines as chaotic systems and visulizing their results in three dimensional terms. 2000. United States. Visit the "Now Showing" page at http://www.wigged.net Gebhard Sengmueller's VinylVideo "VinylVideo" is a new, wonderous and fascinating development in the history of audio-visual media. For the first time in the history of technological invention, "VinylVideo" makes possible the storage of video (moving image plus sound) on analog long-play records. Playback from the "VinylVideo" picture disk is made possible with the "VinylVideo" Unit which consists of a normal turntable, a special conversion box (aka the "VinylVideo" Home Kit) and a television. In it's combination of analog and digital elements "VinylVideo" is a relic of fake media archeology. At the same time, "VinylVideo" is a vision of new live video mixing possibilities. By simply placing the tone arm at different points on the record, "VinylVideo" makes possible a random access manipulation of the time axis. With the extremely reduced picture and sound quality, a new mode of audio-visual perception evolves. In this way, "VinylVideo" reconstructs a home movie medium as a missing link in the history of recorded moving images while simultaneously encompassing contemporary forms of DJ-ing and VJ-ing. 2000. Austria. Visit the "Now Showing" page at http://www.wigged.net ****************************************** WIGGED NEWS Check out Peter Schmidegs's article, "John Whitney Circa 2001." See a video article on Tiffany Holme's cd-rom entitled "Littoral Zone." Get a sneak preview to Markus Huemer's "Polke's Pasadena Stones" installation on view at Max Planck Gesellschaft in Munich, Germany from February 2 - March 23, 2001. Find out more about the artists who are featured in this month's issue of Wigged.net. The above articles can only be found on the "Wigged News" page at http://www.wigged.net ****************************************** STUFF YOU NEED Buy cutting edge cassettes, cds and cd-roms that are for sale on the "stuff you need" page at http://www.wigged.net. ****************************************** CALL FOR WORKS Seeking innovative and experimental new media works as well as animation and videos. Please visit http://www.wigged.net and go to the "submit media" page to fill out our on-line registration form and send requested materials. DEADLINE: February 1, 2001 for April/May 2001 issue. ****************************************** PUBLICITY OPPORTUNITY We are looking to promote your upcoming exhibitions and new releases. 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