The San Francisco Performance Cinema Symposium
Date: 27 September 2003, starting at noon, running into late evening.
Location: Dimension7 video gallery, 150 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA
Recent innovations in computer software and performance gains in hardware are now permitting the development of a truly performative cinema. Today, we can see this distinctive new art form growing quickly and this symposium will aid in the formative theory of this new cinematic art - complete with mind-bending performances by leading artists in the field.
On Saturday, September 27th starting at noon, historians, theorists, and performers from all over the world will be attending this historic event, including: Kit Clayton, Christina McPhee, criticalartware, Gregor White, Greg Bowman, the amazing Phoebe Legere , Bello Benischauer , Stefan-G, the award winning Lynn Kirby, Sunit Parketh, Shirley Shor, Fred Collopy, and many others. A full list follows.
An afternoon of presentations and a panel discussion, will be followed by an evening of extra-ordinary performances, installations, and a reception. Requested admission is $5 (all day) or $10 (evening only) and free after 11pm, but all are invited to attend this event at dimension 7, 150 Folsom street, San Francisco.
For more information, contact: Henry Warwick, 415.695.1663, misterwarwick@yahoo.com.
Website: http://www.kether.com/personal/SFPCS/index.html
List and description of performers and presenters:
Scott Arford, of San Francisco, will give his lecture "Total Static Takeover" http://www.7hz.org
Tommy Becker of San Francisco, will perform his latest work. http://tommybecker.com/
Bello Benischauer, from Australia, but originally from Austria, he will be presenting a DVD of his video performances. http://www.artinprocess.com/
Greg Bowman from Seattle, WA, will perform and participate in the panel discussion. http://offlinenetworks.com
Joshua "Kit" Clayton from San Francisco, is the creator of Jitter, a video software development environment and an electronic musician. He will participate in a panel discussion re: performance cinema. http://www.cycling74.com/products/jitter
http://www.musork.com
Fred Collopy from Cleveland, OH will be performing his own video software to music. http://RhythmicLight.com
Sue Costible, from San Francisco, will provide a DVD of various video performances. http://www.orthlorng.com/sue/
criticalartware, from Chicago, IL, will be giving a collaborative talk "realtime histories: analog bridges to digital systems" http://www.criticalartware.net/
Caterina Davinio from Rome, Italy, will be providing video of her work and theoretical texts. http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/davinio/statement%20on%20performance.htm
Stefan G from San Francisco, CA, A leading authority and historian of VJ culture, will give a presentation of this history.
Michael Heap, from the UK, An historian of video performance and installation will provide, via DVD, a lecture on the history of video performance.
Lynn Kirby, from San Francisco, an award wining cinema artist, will be performing with Alex Killough- focusing on glitch and improvisation. Alex's work: http://romans2.web.aplus.net/ Lynn's bio: http://www.canyoncinema.com/K/Kirby.html
Phoebe Legere, of New York City, a critically acclaimed performance artist, will perform her latest video performance work. http://www.phoebelegere.com
Christina McPhee, from Los Angeles, will be performing and participating in a panel discussion on performance cinema. http://wwww.christinamcphee.com
Sunit Parekh, from Marin county, CA, will be presenting his performance cinema with live dancers, and will also give some words regarding this work.
http://www.3dluvr.com/voltaire/valentina/movies
Shirley Shor, from San Francisco, will display her software that makes mesmerising and ever changing geometric patterns. http://shirley.friskit.com
Henry Warwick, of San Francisco, Will discuss performance cinema.
http://www.kether.com
Gregor White from Dundee, Scotland will be giving a few words and performing his work which frequently addresses ideas of digital distribution and composition. http://computing.tay.ac.uk/lifelines
