Meta Hari & the Seduction of Technology


Meta Hari will make her debut at the ITP Spring Show
May 8 & 9
(Tuesday & Wednesday)
5 - 9p
721 Broadway, 4th flr

In the meantime you can catch a preview of her on CNET

CHALK in the Forward




Marjorie Ingall wrote a lovely piece about CHALK in this weeks Forward. She gives the best description yet of what its like to participate in CHALK.

CHALK 2007



Thanks to all the amazing Chalkers this year! More photos of this year's Chalk coming soon. In the meantime check this out (H/t to the intrepid Kevin Walter).

This year marked the 4th year for CHALK our commemoration of the Triangle Factory Fire. Each year Chalkers cover the city to inscribe in chalk the names & ages of the victims in front of their former homes.

Update:
Photos from Chalk 2007

NY2NO


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Just back from New Orleans where I was part of an amazing group from ITP. Supported by a grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the project to share tools for digital story telling. One of the things we got going there was a new version of the video booth. Open Shutters is up & recording the stories of the Gulf Coast. The booth itself is made of re-purposed materials from the New Orleans Green Project and the Habitat for Humanity ReStore.

Torino - Don't Worry



After Cesta we moved on to Torino where we joined the rest of Luigi's company L.O.S.S. and added Claudio Cavallari & Christian Fusco to the team. We created a new work Don't Worry which premiered at Torino Contemporanea 3.

Cesta - Boo!




Boo! was made in collaboration with Luigi Coppola, Imagination & My Mother (Susan Hawkins & Olivia Pisani), and Paulina Velazquez at Cesta . We called the site specific piece walking cinema combining live performance, music, fine art, video and interactive components. This film was made to be projected on the wall depicted above.

Turing Machine

ITP Winter Show
Dec. 17, 2-6p • Dec. 18, 5-9p

Turing Machine is an interactive documentary on the life of Alan Turing. The piece, made in collaboration with Gian-Pablo Villamil, uses the device of a physical machine & audience interaction to explore the limits and possibilities of code to depict a life.

For more information on the Turing Machine please go here

Alan Turing, the father of modern day computing, spearheaded the breaking of the German Enigma code during WWII and pioneered ideas of artificial intelligence. Turing refused to be closeted and in 1952 he was convicted for ‘acts of gross indecency’. He was sentenced to a year of estrogen treatments. Two years later, hounded from all possible intimate relationships, Turing committed suicide by eating an apple dipped in cyanide.

Torino


After Cesta, the Boo! collective moved on to Italy to present at the Torino Contemporanea 3


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CESTA was wonderful
















For more images from CESTA click here

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For the month of August I will be in the Czech Republic at CESTA creating a new work in collaboration with artists Luigi Coppola of Italy, imaginationandmymother (Susan Hawkins & Olivia Pisani) of Australia and Paulina Velazquez Solis of Costa Rica/Mexico. For more information on CESTA & the festival please visit here: http://www.cesta.cz/
More CHALK news
(hat tip to Dawn Brekke for bringing it to our attention)
New York Times: NY/Region Opinions June 18, 2006
To the Editor:
It's good to see the remembrance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Katharine Weber's depiction of her family history ("The Fire That Time," June 4). Current residents of the Lower East Side are moved by the chalk notices written each year, on the anniversary of the fire, noting the names and ages of the victims on the sidewalk in front of their erstwhile homes.
Ms. Weber is wrong to suggest, however, that Jews who first settled on the Lower East Side saw "only darkness" when they looked back at their Eastern European homes. We know this from their correspondence, political organizations, relief efforts and precious home movies from trips back across the Atlantic. Surviving Jewish monuments in the neighborhood, such as the magnificent Bialystoker Synagogue or the modest Congregation Anschei Brzezan on Stanton Street, attest to this continuing identification.
Moreover, some Jews don't need to go "back" to the Lower East Side, because we still live here.
Jonathan Boyarin
Elissa Sampson
Lower East Side

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1 May 2006
'Every time a man or woman stands up for justice, the heavens sing and the world rejoices!'
-Cesar Chavez
Check out BELLE on IFC this week:
Saturday April 8, 5am
Wednesday, April 12, 4pm
Saturday, April 15, 5am
Monday, April 17, 4pm
BELLE will screen as part of the John Hopkins Film Festival April 27-30 in Baltimore. For more information please visit: www.hopkinsfilmfest.com
BELLE premieres on IFC Monday March 27th at 8:30pm.
The film will be in rotation on IFC. For more information please visit:
www.ifctv.com
The wonderful Nicole Franklin directs a staged reading of Damon & Debra with Lorraine Braco & Jas Anderson Monday March 27. For more information please visit Nicole's site here:
http://www.nicolefranklin.com/index.html
We now have a searchable Google map that displays all the CHALK names and addresses. Click on 'CHALK' below to visit the map.

Community Walk Map - CHALK
Street Pictures is delighted to announce that Dee Wong will be our Spring intern. Dee is an emerging filmmaker & will graduate from Fordham University in May
BRUCE will screen in Milan in February as part of Cinema without Barriers .
In August Ruth will travel to the Czech Republic to collaborate with artists of other countries and disciplines in a month long festival led by CESTA (Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor).
Belle will premiere on IFC early in 2006. Please check back for exact dates and times.
Ruth was recently interviewed by The Fund for Women Artists. Read it here.