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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Reading at Remote! July 15
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 01:18:15 -0400 (EDT)
Reading at Remote! Portraits at Other Sides: Tuesday, July 15th at Remote Lounge, 327 Bowery above 2nd St. Doors will open at 7pm, the event will start at 7:30. There is a $5 cover. The readers are: Samuel Delany Alan Sondheim Rob Stephenson Tom Zummer Ellen Zweig Portraits From Other Sides: Rob Stephenson presents an evening of text, sex, video, a philosophical dog, and maybe robots with Ellen Zweig, Alan Sondheim, Tom Zummer and special guest Samuel R. Delany. Remote Lounge is a revolutionary new concept in nightlife entertainment. Located in downtown Manhattan, it is a technology-themed cocktail lounge and new media art space unlike anything else in the world. The lounge is outfitted with over 60 video cameras - covering every square foot of the space from multiple angles - and this live video is displayed on over 100 output devices, such as CRTs, LCDs, large format plasma screens and video projectors. Into this mix of live feeds are an ever-changing roster of digital and analog video artworks, animation, special effects, web-based art and interactive multimedia created by both emerging and established new media artists. Samuel R Delany is a writer and literary critic. Delany is best known for writing extensively in the mainstream science fiction and fantasy genres. He has won four Nebula Awards. The best-selling novel. Dhalgren, has sold over a million copies. He is also the author of a number of fictional and autobiographical works that include references to extreme aspects of human sexuality. His most recent novel is The Madman. Tom Zummer studied philosophy under Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, and is an artist and curator. "Zummer's uncanny portraits of robots are beautiful and out of this world. He is also a theorist, book designer, professor, and comic art novelist, Zummer's artistic talents are as eclectic as they are numerous." The Austin Chronicle Alan Sondheim is a writer/multimedia theorist (editor of Being On Line). Alan is a poet and critic who writes on and about the Internet. His books include Disorders of the Real, and the anthology Being on Line. He co-moderates several email lists, including Fiction of Philosophy, Cybermind, and Cyberculture. He was also virtual writer-in-residence for the trAce (sic) online writing community at the beginning of this year; he worked on a number of collaborative projects at The Lost Project at trAce, and his trAce projects are collected in their Writers-in-Residence archives. Ellen Zweig is an artist who works with video, audio, installation and performance. Her most recent work is the video series, HEAP, a collection of experimental portraits of Westerners who have studied, invented, misunderstood and loved China. "(tongue tongue stone) G. W. Leibnitz" premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2003. In her installations, Zweig has used optics to create camera obscuras, video projection devices, and miniature projected illusions. She has also created multi-channel video installations that have toured the US (museums include: New Mexico Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe, List Center for the Visual Arts at MIT, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, P.S. 1 in New York). Rob Stephenson's writing has been published both on and offline in a wide variety of publications, recently including the Blithe House Quarterly, Dangerous Families, Velvet Mafia, Please Records, and Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness. He designs a continuing series of chapbooks that feature his poetry, essays, stories, artwork, and photography. Some of his short films were shown at the International Film Festival in Seoul Korea this year. His drawings have been exhibited at the Intersection Art Gallery in San Francisco, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Katona Museum, and the Wexner Museum. ___