Wigged Productions: Globalization

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DECEMBER 2000 - JANUNARY 2001
	*Humberto Ramirez's Thirst.* Thirst is a video in which verbal and visual clues converse on the uncertain engagement of discourse and desire. Visual and acoustical layers of language point to an unattainable state valued by the very nature of its absence. Thirst is about wanting and the impossibility of completeness at any given time. 2000. United States.
	Marikki Hakola's TRIAD Hyperdance. This project is based on TRIAD NetDance, a live telepresence performance on the Internet between Helsinki, Finland; Tokyo, Japan; and New York City, United States. TRIAD HyperDance forms a virtual installation where the audience is invited to interact with the artists and build up new interpretations out of the audiovisual and choreographic elements. 2000. Finland.
	Markus Winkler's Medialab. The digital media lab is a stage for experimental art and animations. The site focuses on the human body and ways in which to interact with it. 1999-2000. Austria.
	*Lou Anne Colodny's In the Negative.* Mysterious and brief, this video explores identity and physical, emotional entrapment.2000. United States.
	*Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo's from one to two too one.* The work is composed of three sections in which the two partners use physical metaphors such as sewing or being stuck together with tape to express their contradictions about merging and separation. 2000. United States.
	Lara Frankena's VidBody. This interactive video piece is composed of 9 frames of soft focus black & white video loops, which can run all at once, or one at a time. All video loops are close-ups of the human body in motion. 1998. United States.
	Avi Rosen's Free Art. The Website, Free Art enables every user to create and consume art. Each selection opens a window with random background (one of seven) and random music (one of ten). The windows consist of digital 'ready made' like: images, animations, text and sound. By dragging the components to a desired composition a new artwork is created. The user can also add his own text and mail it to the site. This mode of creation fits with Joseph Beuys words: "I demand an artistic involvement in all realms of life. Whereas I advocate an aesthetic involvement from science, from economics, from politics, from religion - every sphere of human activity. Even the act of peeling potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act". 1999-2000. Israel.
	Mike Lyda's Search Space. Search Space is a series of virtual spaces which represent search engine results in a 3D format. Each space represents an actual search by a web user to the Magellan search engine, and the objects within the spaces correspond to web sites which were returned in the search engine results. The individual vrml spaces were created by viewing search engines as chaotic systems and visulizing their results in three dimensional terms. 2000. United States.
	Gebhard Sengmueller's VinylVideo™. VinylVideo™ is a new, wonderous and fascinating development in the history of audio-visual media. For the first time in the history of technological invention, VinylVideo™ makes possible the storage of video (moving image plus sound) on analog long-play records. Playback from the VinylVideo™ picture disk is made possible with the VinylVideo™ Unit which consists of a normal turntable, a special conversion box (aka the VinylVideo™ Home Kit) and a television. In it's combination of analog and digital elements VinylVideo™ is a relic of fake media archeology. At the same time, VinylVideo™ is a vision of new live video mixing possibilities. By simply placing the tone arm at different points on the record, VinylVideo™ makes possible a random access manipulation of the time axis. With the extremely reduced picture and sound quality, a new mode of audio-visual perception evolves. In this way, VinylVideo™ reconstructs a home movie medium as a missing link in the history of recorded moving images while simultaneously encompassing contemporary forms of DJ-ing and VJ-ing. 2000. Austria.