For Immediate Release
February 11, 2003
Turbulence Spotlight: Barbara Lattanzi
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/lattanzi/index.html

Sampling the classic horror movie, "Nosferatu" by F.W. Murnau (1922),
the selected shockwave applets test one model of interactivity in which
the interpretive process of cinematic editing is meant to coincide with
the time of viewing. At a central moment of "Nosferatu," a threshold is
crossed, into the 'land of phantoms'. That threshold of horror mirrors
the idea of the computer interface itself. Thus, the interactive setting
for "Nosferatu" invokes a problematic, unsettling metaphor for the
interface - both cybernetic and social.

Barbara Lattanzi has presented Muscle and Blood Piano, experimental
software for moving-image performance, at the Wisconsin Film Festival,
the 2001 "Ready to…" conference in Prague, Czech Republic; and the
2002 European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. Her website
includes downloadable software as well as interactive applets. She is
Visiting Artist in Digital Media at Smith College, Northampton,
Massachusetts.

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