ALIVE@9th Street Presents Storytelling and the Internet Age: New Media, Nonlinear Expanded Cinema, Flash Animation and Interactivity

(PRWEB) January 2, 2005

In addition to her own substantial film credits, Carroll Parrott Blue’s book The Dawn At My Back: A Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing (2003, The University of Texas Press) was also released as a DVD-ROM adaptation by the Labyrinth Project at the Annenberg Center for Communication of the University of Southern California. The DVD-ROM expands on the book by encouraging users to explore unique visual fields of interwoven narratives and to create their own pathway in response to their journey. Using an interface inspired by her great grandmother’s quilt, users interweave stories that are embedded within several animated “panscapes” created from original photographs, video and archival materials. Carroll is currently teaching at the University of Central Florida.

Louis Fox’s pioneering Flash technology has been seen by millions of web users and has been featured in news networks across the world including CNN’s Crossfire, The Washington Post, Fox News and The New York Times. Shift magazine named Fox one of “The Thirty People Saving the Earth” for his work in building a powerful movement of progressive political and social messages distributed to the general public via the web.

Brad deGraf is the founder of the Venture Collective, a venture fund focused on systematic social change solutions. Wired calls deGraf “an icon of 3D animation”. In the 90′s deGraf was Director of Digital Media at Colossal Pictures and then went on to found Protozoa (aka Dotcomix). His credits also include the first virtual character for Television Moxy, the emcee for the Cartoon Network; Peter Gabriel’s Grammy Award winning video Steam, the first computer-generated ride film The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbara, 2010, The Last Starfighter, and many others.

The ZKM Mediammuseum cited Lynn Hershman-Leeson as the “most influential woman working in new media” and was named as one of the top five innovators in the arts by the World Technology Network. Hershman-Leeson’s work has pioneered technological advances through the integration of machines and humans to create ‘techno-human identity’. Her 53 videotapes and seven interactive installations have garnered numerous international awards, and her photography, video, installation, interactive and net based works are a part of such prestigious collections as the Museum of Modern Art (N.Y.), The National Gallery of Canada, DG Bank Frankfurt, The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and the Hess Collection. Lynn is a Professor of Digital Art at the University of California, Davis and recently received the A.D. White Professor at Large Award from Cornell University.

ALIVE@9thStreet Forum Series is curated by Janis Plotkin for The Ninth Street Independent Film Center, and is a joint production of Film Arts Foundation, the National Asian American Telecommunications Association, Frameline and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. In addition to these four organizations the Ninth Street Independent Film Center is home to Canyon Cinema, San Francisco Cinematheque, Teaching Intermedia Literacy Training (TILT) and the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC). For more information about the Ninth Street Independent Film Center and its resident organizations visit http://www.ninthstreet.org.

The ALIVE@9thStreet Forum Series was made possible by the generous support of the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, The Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.

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