Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:51:22 +0930
Reply-to: dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
From: Samara Mitchell <samara@ngapartji.com.au>
To: "'dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu'"
<dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: RE: Anti Choreography/ Re-embodied Intelligent
Hey Thar...
In response to a request regarding Bill Seaman:
Bill Seaman is a multimedia artist, writer. Professor at the Department of
Design, Dixon Arts Centre, Los Angeles, USA.
http://www.cda.ucla.edu/faculty/seaman/
seaman@ucla.edu
I hoiked this blurb from the Adelade Telstra Festival 2000 site about his
latest work (that I'm aware of) called RED DICE:
Bill Seaman presents a new video based work related to Stiphane Mallarmi`s
poem Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance / Un coup de dis jamais n`abolira
le hasard.
Red Dice can be seen as innovative writing, which explores text, image and
music as three evocative inter-relating milieux. Where Mallarmi opened the
door onto exciting new linguistic structures, Red Dice functions as homage
to his explorations.
The work muses on a network of foci exploring new forms of computer-based
conveyance. It unpacks a set of relations internal to the original poem. It
poetically explores such concepts as Derrida's Diffirance and a number of
ideas presented in 1000 Plateaus by Deleuze and Guattari - the Rhizome, The
Desiring Machine, the Machinic Assemblage. A spoken text is set against
images of technologies from the past - the power loom, the mill, the player
piano, the turbine. A droning/moving techno/machinic soundtrack contributes
to the evocation of the work. The poetics of cybernetics focuses the
extension of this network of musings, suggesting an expanded linguistics as
manifested by recombinant computer mediated poetic construction. The work
was commissioned by the Canadian National Gallery and functions as a
companion work to my earlier interactive work Passage Sets / One Pulls
Pivots At The Tip Of The Tongue.
The work contemplates a network of foci by exploring new forms of
computer-based, reconfiguration of meaning, thus unpacking a set of
relations internal to the original poem.
As for other URLS, perhaps U could try
FAKESHOP: www.fakeshop.com
Blast Theory: http://www.blasttheory.easynet.co.uk/
The Performing Arts Multimedia Library:
http://www.cinemedia.net/PAML/outline.htm#
Prof. Dee Reynolds,
Dept. of French Studies
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
email: Dee.Reynolds@man.ac.uk
Tel: 161-2753212, secretary 2753211/08/09
fax: 161-2753031
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