Affiliated Projects:
NetCinema
A Live Internet Cinema Event
An interior of a cinema with a simple
white screen to be constructed on the Internet as part of
the Electronic Shadows web-site. The screen will feature
trailers and information of the NetCinemaês virtual screenings
of artistsê film-makers super 8 films, which are rarely
seen. The NetCinema will be housed on the internet, but
will only have live projection screenings at scheduled times
to link up with the twin venue. After the screening a discussion
will take place through the use of streaming video/conference
technology. Opening up a cultural dialogue between the twin
venues.
The internet is a form of transportation
for these live art events. They do not exist as art works
on the net but as shadows and traces. When the viewers log
on, they travel through the net as virtual beings to interact
with the work. They are transported into a space that is
real. In the digital world, the electric current is the
fleeting presentation of those invisible properties which
do not and cannot exist as an image in any time and place
other than at the moment of representation. The component
of an image is not an image until presented as such. These
latent impulse-images form part of the omnipresent consciousness
maintained in the hardware circuits of the Internet where
their condition as images is only achieved when they are
called into being by the viewer. The interactive combination
of images in the virtual time and space of the Internet
called up by the viewer becomes their imaginary narrative
simultaneously exterior and interior.
The work, being largely based on live
performance and presentation, has within it a greater degree
of feed-back from the audience than is the case with traditional
art works. The feed-back is neither mechanistic nor formalised
through questionnaires, for example, but is none-the-less
real and has a real affect on the process. This experience
of the manner of audience engagement is directly influential
on future experimentation.
Does the experience of the interaction
between the viewer and the art work on the Internet represent
a form of exteriorisation of the imagination?
Is there a fundamental difference between
the intermittent cast in film projection and the steady
smooth transition characteristic of digital electronic display?
In creating a different form of experience does it also
carry significantly different meanings?
To have a critical dialogue with the aim
to re-consider and identify issues around contemporary practice
within the moving image. Making new relationships with other
film/video makers and to review the present, and the future
within the context of the internet and its possiblies.
The Research outcomes will enhance the
profile and project the image of the College at the cutting
edge of contemporary technology.
Through collaboration with other centres
and the research, I should be able to take full access of
wireless broad/narrowcasting innovations in addition to
an IRC based critical forum surrounding the shared experience.
The first screening will be in October
03. Negotiations for a world-wide tour are just beginning.
--Professor Tina
Keane
