I have a video installation in The Project Room in Soho this weekend– please come have a look and say hello.
The piece is a four-channel video installation entitled "Times SquareTimeshare". A single extremely wide video image (7230x1050 pixels) isspread across 4 LCD monitors. The source material is HD footage shotin Times Square at night. It is proccessed so that everything inmotion appears to be at rest, and everything at rest appears to be inmotion.
The piece is about stopping time. The impulse to stop time isconnected with sentimentality, nostalgia, and magical thinking. It isa common response to the universally human experience of loss andmortality.
Other works in the exhibition are by Nam June Paik, Zhang Ga, and Mark Coniglio.The opening is on Sunday from 6 to 9pm. Other info listed below…
Kurt Ralske–http://retnull.comhttp://auv-i.com

The ProjectRoom, an international arts and education programcordially invites you to attenda reception for a new public art program
"A Movable Feast"March 12, 6:00 - 9:00PM13 Crosby Street SoHo
Exhibition: March 12 & 13Zhang GaNam June PaikKurt RalskeTroika Ranch
Talks by artists and lecture by CuratorPaulina Kolczynska, "Collecting New Media Art":Monday, March 13, 7:00-9:30PM
Please RSVP by March 10212-252-2421 ext. 3



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
13 CROSBY STREETNEW YORK, NY 10013TEL: (212) 252-2421 ext 2FAX: (646) 365-3163press@apogeemgmt.com
A New Public Art Program Launches, along with Peoples' Portrait inTimes SquareOpening reception: Sunday, March 12th, 6-9pm
The ProjectRoom, an international arts and education program, inassociation with forward thinking cultural and business organizations,will launch a new public art program - "A Movable Feast" - with areception and exhibition on March 12 at 13 Crosby Street, SoHo. Theevent is dedicated to Nam June Paik who died on January 29. Paik was anesthetic innovator and father of video art whose work broke culturalbarriers.
The exhibition, will present cutting edge new media artworks, including"Peoples' Portrait", a globally networked public art project byAmerican Chinese artist, Zhang Ga; "16 [R]evolutions" 2006 by TroikaRanch, "Interactive performance pioneers" (NY Times), and a newsite-specific work "Times Square Timeshare" by Kurt Ralske, whose arthangs in the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art and has won first prizeat the Transmediale Festival in Berlin in 2003. Visitors to 13 CrosbyStreet on March 12 and 13 can participate in the Peoples' Portrait byhaving their pictures taken and broadcast, via the Internet,simultaneously on public video walls including the Reuters screen inTimes Square - the world's largest digital display system, as well asmuseums and galleries in Seoul, Beijing, Adelaide and Linz.
Also being screened is Nam June Paik's "Good Morning Mr. Orwell",created on New Year's Day of the much anticipated Orwellian year 1984,which was the first artwork to use telecommunications to enable anintercontinental exchange of culture, broadcasting live via satellitesimultaneously between the US, Canada, Germany and South Korea. Today,this vision of global connectivity has come to be realized as theInternet.
Kurt Ralske and Troika Ranch founder, Mark Coniglio are also inventorsof technology and software that artists around the world are using asnew artistic tools. Ralske's video installations and performances arecreated exclusively with his own custom software that is in use byartists in 22 countries. Mark Coniglio, a composer, media artist, andco-founder of Troika Ranch with choreographer, Dawn Stoppielo, inventedIsodora - a graphic programming environment that provides interactivecontrol over digital media.
"Peoples' Portrait" will be displayed on the Reuters screen one minutein every ten minutes, March 3 - 26. Visitors can have their picturestaken and broadcast to public spaces in cities around the world fromthe kiosk located in the Times Square Alliance Information Center. Thecenter is on 7th Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets, and open everyday from 8am to 8pm. "Peoples' Portrait" can be viewed on large LEDscreens, projections as well as computer screens and on web sites.
Nina Colosi is the Producer/Curator of The ProjectRoom, which sheinitiated in 2003 at Chelsea Art Museum. The new public art programwill bring together the arts and commerce in mutually beneficial ways.The launch has been made possible by FJC - A Foundation of DonorAdvised Funds. Reuters and Times Square Alliance are sponsors of"Peoples' Portrait". "Good Morning Mr. Orwell" courtesy of ElectronicArts Intermix. Advisors to the program are: Dan Ionescu Architect,Lawrence J. Selevan, Apogee Management, Joe Ginsberg, Inc, DrakeVenture Capital.
"Our main objective is to create innovative art experiences for thegeneral public and present educational programs with the artists whocreate them," says Colosi. Programs this year will take place in NYC,Buenos Aires, Beijing, Tel Aviv, London, Paris and other cities.
Schedule of events at 13 Crosby Street:Exhibition, March 12, 6:00-9:00 PM and March 13, 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM.Talks by artists and lecture by Curator Paulina Kolczynska, "CollectingNew Media Art", Monday, March 13, 7:00-9:30PM
Press inquiries and information on The ProjectRoom, A Movable Feastand the artists, contact: Rina Oh, Apogee Management -press@apogeemgmt.com Telephone: 212-252-2421 ext. 2
For information on becoming a corporate partner or friend of TheProjectRoom programs, contact: Apogee Management -TheProjectRoom@apogeemgmt.com
www.TheProjectRoom.org


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