Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. and INTEL are pleased to invite you
to

Dana Atchley's Interactive Multimedia Performance at the KITCHEN
Wednesday, June 2nd & Thursday, June 3rd at 8PM
Benefit event for ASCI… $20 Tickets at the door only (6-8pm)
http://www.asci.org/cyberart/Next.html

Dana Atchley's NEXT EXIT will be shown for the first time in New York at
the KITCHEN on June 2nd and 3rd at 8pm. NEXT EXIT is an interactive
theatrical performance created and presented by Atchley who, sitting on
a log next to a digital campfire and, drawing from a virtual suitcase of
seventy stories, creates a unique selection for each audience. As
reported by critics from many fields, NEXT EXIT is humorous, touching,
surprising, and emotionally resonant.

Technically speaking, Next Exit spans one hundred and fifty years of
personal and family archives and incorporates more than two dozen image
formats from the daguerreotype to digital video. Images are processed on
a Macintosh G3 using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and AfterEffects.
Video is captured on using a Targa RTX system direct to StreamLogic
Arrays. The performance combines Quicktime stories along with original
words and music via Macromedia Director. Although Next Exit takes
advantage of digital technologies to be transparently interactive, there
are nearly one hundred pages of code written by Patrick Milligan, that
facilitate the show's interactive capabilities including the use of a
wireless mouse from the stage.

Coming from a video tradition, Atchley has achieved a mature and natural
transition into new media. Indeed, his seminal work is helping to
create the new form of interactive multimedia performance. "Next Exit
served to underscore a lesson many performers in this field have not yet
taken to heart. Computers can't be the main event; they should be a
blank slate for the creative mind," Scott Rosenberg, A Dazzling Highwire
Exhibition, the San Francisco Examiner.

NEXT EXIT is a benefit performance for Art & Science Collaborations,
Inc. (ASCI) and is being sponsored by INTEL. $20 Tickets sold at the
door only 6-8 pm June 2nd and 3rd . The Kitchen is located at 512 W.
19th Street (between 10th and 11th Ave; just east of the West Side Hwy;
ample street parking; good Chelsea restaurants nearby.)