F5 is a cutting-edge festival exploring the intersection of art, design and entertainment. F5 brings together the thinkers and doers that are breaking ground and shaping new standards in media and design.

The two-day festival gathers filmmakers, digital artists, photographers, producers, interactive designers, motion artists, graphic designers, agency executives, visual effects experts, musicians and industry visionaries—to name only a few. In short, F5 is unexpected and profound.

F5 is more than just the pulse of creativity; it is its heart.

F5 takes place April 16-17 at the historic Roseland Ballroom in Times Square. The epicenter of global creativity, New York City is the perfect home for F5, and the venue blends rock and roll with old-world charm, making it the ideal venue for F5’s eclectic speakers.

The F5 Opening Party on April 15, 2009 at the Grace Hotel features an interactive logo cube and integrated branded visuals by Forward Motion Theater.

For more information on F5 go to http://f5fest.com/

Blood is Life is a 10 minute animation by media artist Holly Daggers, currently on display at FMT studio. The work is created with procedural programming, where the animation is allowed to breathe within preset variables resembling the rhythms of a living organism. Cells rush over a slit-like orifice or wound that slowly undulates and glows. Stills of the work and an artist’s statement can be found at her site:
www.wetcircuit.com…

Holly Daggers is a live-video artist who creates and composes visual media in real time. She’s performed as a concert VJ for Busta Rhymes, James Brown, Page McConnell, Moby, and T.I., and was voted a Top 20 VJ worldwide by DJ Magazine, UK. She has designed video environments for Fortune Magazine and Old Navy, and created interactive video installations for the Museum of Modern Art, NY. Holly collaborates with musicians and choreographers presenting her media performances in both art gallery and theatrical settings, and has opened her shooting studio to create Dance on Video as a hybrid performance venue. In 2006, Holly traveled to 34 cities with music acts featuring Ludacris, The Roots, Common, Talib Kwali, Pharcyde, and Blackalicious, creating opportune art performances by pulling members of the hip hop audience into her live chromakey rig. As co-director with Eric Dunlap of Forward Motion Theater, a non-profit arts organization, she developed EyeWash, a six-year performance series which has fostered interdisciplinary collaborations between more than 150 digital media artists and live performers.

Holly is supported by Edirol/Roland, Korg, and Reflecmedia. Her portfolio and other visual interests can be found at WetCircuit.com.

In The Mix!
Sharing and cocktails @ City Center

Ann Marie DeAngelo invites you to peek inside DeAngelo Dance Projects - “creating a platform for artists to collaborate and share.” You will be entertained by an excerpt of IN THE MIX!, and Cynthia Gregory will be on hand to share her coaching project.

WHERE:
City Center Studio #4
130 West 56th St. (between 6th and 7th Ave)
Backstage entrance

WHEN:
March 4, 2009
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Refreshments will be served

RSVP (212) 463-7618
E-mail deangelodance@gmail.com… with any questions.

IN THE MIX! is a dance for a new age, a work that juxtaposes styles and crosses boundaries, incorporating ballet, jazz, tap,
social dance, gymnastics, circus arts, martial arts and live music. The show is intimate in its focus, centering around personal stories. It is slated for the 2009-2010 performing season. A few of the participating artists presenting material include Hip Hop pioneer Mr. Wiggles, tap wizard Samuel Jason Smith, and former Cirque du Soleil artists Sara Joel and Kevin Gibbs.

PHOTOS from IN THE MIX!

Mr. Wiggles, Deena “Snapshot” Clemente, DP One, Honeyrockwell, NJ World Cup Cheerleaders, Jason Samuels Smith and Jenny Sandler, Sara Joel and Kevin Gibbs.

Mission:
• to perpetuate the appreciation of dance
• to develop the public’s understanding of dance through workshops and other forums
• to produce and present multi-disciplinary dance events to the general public
• to develop new projects from emerging and established artists
• to provide a forum for interaction between those who are well-versed in dance and those who are not.

DRIP at Grace Hotel, Times Square

DRINK AND DIVE – NEW YORK’S LEE CHAPPELL INVITES YOU TO DRIP
GRAB YOUR SUIT & DIVE ON IN TO NEW YORK’S NEWEST POOL PARTY
DRIP AT THE GRACE HOTEL.

New Pool Party Brings Out The Cuties! There wasn’t a dry thigh in the house at Drip, Lee Chappell, and Shequida’s new Monday-night pool party at the Grace Hotel, with DJ JonJon Battles spinning from a land zone. Everyone was waxed, smashed, and splashing around as if in a gay version of a Busby Berkeley aquacade, minus the jeweled headdresses and synchronized wrist action.

– Michael Musto

Join the DR!P group on Facebook

WHAT :: Lee Chappell is proud to join S[he]quida in DRIP, a weekly pool party at the Grace RoomMate Hotel featuring the visuals of Wetcircuit and sounds of DJ Scotty Rox. Come play with the beautiful people in this beautiful new space at the pool party launched by famed Roxy entertainment curator Lee Chappell and his street-crossing Foreign Affairs entourage.

WHEN ::
Every Wednesday Evening
Doors open at 10pm
*NO COVER*
appropriate bathing attire is required in the pool…

WHERE ::
The Grace RoomMate Hotel, 125 West 45th Street, between Broadway and 6th Avenue

WHO ::
Lee Chappell, the man behind the wildest nights at the Roxy and the Palladium, returns to New York nightlife with S[he]quida for an unforgettable pool party featuring visuals by Wetcircuit and music by DJ Scotty Rox.

“The very mixed crowd scampered across the street to Drip, Chappell’s pool party at the Room Mate Grace hotel. A lot less dignified, this party featured clubby music, artistic light projections, and lots of thin, muscled and hair-deficient young men stripping to their fancy undies and jumping into a heated, bar-side pool. The effect was amazing. Gay boys hopping in and out of showers mingled barefoot with dignified ladies in cocktail dresses and their very het’ro boyfriends….”

For Further Information Please Contact :: 646 694 3222 or visit www.leechappell.com… or www.myspace/shequida.com

MEDIA ENQUIRIES CAN BE DIRECTED TO ::

Jeanine Pepler (m) 917-797-0676 - Jeanine@aka-pr.com…

THE 2008 KOREA EXPERIMENTAL ARTS FESTIVAL
The purpose of Korea Experimental Arts Festival is to build a communication between audiences and experimental arts. This festival happens every year since 2002 under the art director of Kim Baek Ki who is a performance artist and chief of KoPAS.

Select performers were invited to showcase materials of their performance at the Expression Gallery YOGIGA. Forward Motion Theater’s collaboration with Eseohe Arhebamen, Fire Butoh 3, was on display. The festival was carried by South Korea’s major broadcasters.