FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 16, 2004
Turbulence Commission: /reimaginings/ by iKatun
http://turbulence.org/works/reimaginings
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/reimaginings/ is a research project that aims to augment the Newtonian
7-Color Spectrum by developing a more appropriate model for the digital
age: rSpectrum 2.0. It has become apparent that the 7-C Spectrum and the
color models that evolved after Newton's discovery (RGB, HSB, CMYK,
L*A*B, et. al.) are inadequate for the contemporary practitioner in the
arts and sciences.

/reimaginings/ returns to the classical 7-C Spectrum and its fundamental
truths as the departure point for this study. By applying various
analytic-conceptual models [Newtonian, Chronological, Nodal,
Reenactment], natural language processing (IM conversations) and custom
digital and telecommunication technologies [notably, the Reimaginings
Prism Engine 2004 RX (patent pending)], rSpectrum 2.0 will be a more
perfect representation of the perceptual and conceptual phenomenon of
color in the current age of complexity and informatic dynamism.

/reimaginings/ is a 2003 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts,
Inc. (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible
with funding from the LEF Foundation.

BIOGRAPHIES

IKATUN ("eye-kah-toon", emphasis on "toon") is a non-profit 501©(3)
collective of artists and technologists based in Boston, MA, and founded
in November 2000 by Pirun and Kanarinka. iKatun creates new media and
interactive installation artworks that explore questions of
communication, information, and ideology. "Katun" is a Montenegrin word
that means, roughly, "a temporary village," which describes our
collaborative model.

PIRUN is a new media artist, curator, publisher, and user interface
developer. He has a background in theater, journalism, oral literature,
and online community building. Pirun is a founder of the first online
portal for the country of Montenegro and a founder of the first
Montenegrin online news agency in English.

KANARINKA is a new media artist and curator, and a java programmer. She
is the Technical Project Manager of the WIDE World project at the
Harvard Graduate School of Education. Kanarinka has over five years of
experience building software applications. She is a candidate for a
Masters in Studio Arts through the Maine College of Art.

JIM BAILEY has over 20 years of professional programming experience
working with everything from embedded systems to client-server
programming to sonar fish trackers.

YORI SAKAKURA, programmer, has extensive experience architecting
web-based applications ranging from project management software to java
application servers.

For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org