Technology in the Theater: Fringe Festival

Apple Store, Upper West Side
1981 Broadway New York City
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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FMT co-founder Holly Daggers will provide a demonstration of some of the 3D and interactive visual technology used in her collaboration with Decadancetheater for the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival.

The New York International Fringe Festival has been a staple in the multi-arts scene for fifteen years. At this event, join moderator Hy Bender and representatives from “Theater of the Arcade,” “When the Sky Breaks 3D,” “The Legend of Julie Taymor,” and “Technodoulia Dot Com” for a discussion about how they use Apple products and technology onstage and behind the scenes.

The Progeny of Alwin Nikolais: From Digital to Analog Technology

FMT founder Eric Dunlap joins fellow Nikolais Alumni Mimi Garrard, Tim Glenn, and Lisa Naugle discuss Nikolais’ influence on their own work and will present examples. Claudia Gitelman, moderator.

Monday, November 1, 2010 – 6:00 PM EDT
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Billy Rose Theatre Division, Third Floor
(Map and directions)
Fully accessible to wheelchairs

This program presented in conjunction with the exhibition Alwin Nikolais’ Total Theater of Motion on display in the Performing Arts Library’s Astor Gallery from October 21, 2010 through January 15, 2011.

For more information on the exhibition visit the NYPL for the Performing Arts.

The Future of Exhibition

FMT founder Holly Daggers will be presenting on a panel at The Open Video Conference (OVC) a multi-day summit of thought leaders in business, academia, art, and activism to explore the future of online video.

Join us for two days of inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, parties film screenings, and much more. Whether you are an artist, a developer, an entrepreneur, a student, or just a citizen of the web, OVC will spark your imagination for what’s possible with open video.

Future of Exhibition: Opening the Box Office
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM

Description:
If cinema going and exhibition is to filmmakers what gigs and concerts are to musicians – a live, unique experience that people are still happy to pay for – why is it a space so dominated by major media companies? And given the rapid technological shifts in film and videomaking, why has the film-going experience barely changed in 60 years? In this session we’ll look at how people are taking exhibition into their own hands – from microcinemas and indie film clubs, to VJing and visual art, fan-driven screenings and audience interactivity, exploring how the future of exhibition goes way beyond the multiplex.

Presenters:
Arin Crumley, co-director of the breakout self-financed New York-set feature Four Eyed Monsters talks about how he created a groundbreaking release for his first film, and introduces his new platform, OpenIndie, funded by Kickstarter and offering a way for filmmakers to organise screenings outside of traditional cinemas.

Holly Daggers, a VJ and visual artist with a CV spanning from James Brown to The Roots, and creator of the EyeWash visual lab and Forward Motion Theater will discus the rise of live visual art, the crossover with music and how the audience can interact with the work.

Jon Reiss, director of the self-distributed and produced graffiti documentary, Bomb It, and author of Think Outside the Box Office, looks at how producers are bypassing traditional gatekeepers to reach out to their audience while exploring the tools that are shaping this process.

Nic Wistreich, author of the self-distributed Film Finance Handbook (now in its 5th edition), former VJ and co-founder of Netribution, will demo findings from their Living Cinema R&D project and explore what is happening to keep the future of exhibition open.

Find more information at the conference’s website:
http://www.openvideoconference.org/

About OVA

The Open Video Alliance, founded in 2009, is a coalition of organizations that aims to maximize free expression and innovation in online video.

Open video is the idea that the moving image should belong to everyone. This vision requires not only free and open video technologies, but also that viewers are empowered to go beyond just watching—creating, sharing, and engaging in the multimedia public sphere they now inhabit.

Students from Juan Morel Campose Secondary School in Brooklyn worked with FMT through NUTUREart’s Educational Outreach Program. After a lecture and subsequent visit to the FMT studio, we collaborated together on a piece of video art.

The students chose the theme of the destructive nautre of gossip as theme, provided the photographic imagery, choreography, physical and audio performance. The project was directed and produced by FMT. The final result will be on display at NUTREart’s gallery space in May 2009 as a part of the SOCIAL (VIRUS) exhibition.

NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. is a charitable organization dedicated to helping promising career-track visual artists creating fine art in all styles and media to support themselves exclusively from the sale of their artwork. The Education Outreach Program was created by Eliot Lable, an artist, educator, and NURTUREart Trustee, and Sarah Hervert, an Assistant Principal and former art teacher, and a member of the Education Outreach Committee and NURTUREart Advisory Board. This after-school program brings together two very important groups within the Williamsburg community: students and artists. For more information visit on this program, visit NUTUREart’s Eduacation Outreach page.