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From: "Martin Rieser" <martinrieser@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:44:02 +0000
To: rachel@rhizome.org
Subject: New Media Book-seminal work

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Title: New Screen Media Publication
New Publication:

Martin Rieser, Andrea Zapp, editors:
New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative

The British Film Institute (BFI), London/Center for Art and Media (ZKM)
Karlsruhe, 2002

This publication juxtaposes the work of leading cultural theorists and
philosophers of new media, against creative artists' attempts to accommodate
to these vehicles of content. The book shows how classical narrative in many
areas has been giving way to a new, more fragmentary culture of drama. It
re-purposes the use of critical tools for discussing the inner design and
immersive effects of the new media forms and its social, political and
cultural contexts. Alongside a discussion of how these new stories relate to
issues of identity and the body, restructured temporal and spatial models
and interfaces, the book explores differing creative platforms such as the
Internet, Media Installation, Interactive Broadcast, CD-ROM and Expanded
Cinema. The artists, themselves exploring innovative solutions, critically
examine their own practice, with a special focus on fiction-based forms of
interaction.

The advent of new media presents a serious challenge to our understanding of
visual representation, of narrative and indeed the whole art of the moving
image. New narrative forms in hypertext, multimedia, computer games,
interactive broadcast and screen media are constantly redefining the
relationship between the creators of content and their audiences, who
increasingly are becoming the co-producers of meaning.

The volume is presented with an accompanying DVD-ROM, featuring extracts
from some of the groundbreaking works discussed by leading media theorists
from Europe and the USA, including: Annika Blunck, Alex Butterworth, Sean
Cubitt, Soke Dinkla, Jon Dovey, Timothy Druckrey, Malcolm Le Grice, Lev
Manovich, Peter Weibel, Paul Willemen and John Wyver.

DVD-ROM

Made in conjunction with the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe,
Germany, this unique addition to the book provides a rich sampler of
interactive work and videos by which to explore the experimental territory,
where the cinematic and digital arts are converging in new forms of
narrative.
Such work has usually been shown in international gallery and conference
venues, which have been inaccessible to a general audience. This compilation
is carefully cross-referenced with the book to open a comprehensive overview
to a wider public. The cross-platform DVD-ROM provides up to 4 Gigabytes of
detailed illustration and analysis of the work of artists and interactive
filmmakers from around the world, who are at the cutting-edge in creating
and critiquing these new hybrid forms of interactive narrative.
Practitioners such as: Zoe Beloff, Michael Buckley, Luc Courchesne, Toni
Dove, Ken Feingold, Chris Hales, Graham Harwood, George Legrady, Merel
Mirage, Martin Rieser, Jill Scott, Bill Seaman, Jeffrey Shaw, Eku Wand,
Grahame Weinbren and Andrea Zapp are featured. A representative selection of
Installation forms, CD-ROM, Web and Broadcast are examined in depth.


For full details including how to order your copy see
www.bfi.org.uk/newscreenmedia or Amazon.com

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from

Martin Rieser

20 Elliston Road, Redland
Bristol BS6 6QE UK
0044 117 9731041


Senior Lecturer in Digital Media
Bath Spa University
Sion Hill
Bath BA1 5SF

www.sof.org.uk

coming soon:
Martin Rieser/Andrea Zapp, editors:
New Screen Media
Cinema/Art/Narrative
Book and DVD
Publisher: British Film Institute (BFI), London and Center for Art
and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe, October 2001
http://www.bfi.org.uk/bookvid/books/catalogue/details.php?bookid'5


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