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From: Ben Cook LUX [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 May 2004 13:09
Subject: LUX SALON: PETER D'AGOSTINO on Wednesday 19th May at 7pm for
7.30pm start
you are invited to
LUX SALON: PETER D'AGOSTINO on Wednesday 19th May at 7pm for 7.30pm start
LUX is pleased to welcome US-based artist Peter d'Agostino for a rare UK presentation. D'Agostino has been working in video and new media for the last three decades. His pioneering projects have been exhibited internationally in the form of installations, performances, telecommunications events, and broadcast productions. Using computer imaging, collage and virtual realities, d'Agostino's work explores history through the prism of technology. For the LUX salon, he has chosen five works, from the 1980s up to one of his most recent tapes. http://www.temple.edu/newtechlab
Admission to the LUX SALON is FREE but places are limited so booking is essential. To book a place email <[log in to unmask]>. If you reserve a space but cannot attend, please let us know as it deprives others of a place.
LUX SALON takes place at LUX, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ. see directions at http://www.lux.org.uk/directions.html
TransmissionS 1985-90, 28 min, color, sound
Through a fluid visual and aural collage, TransmissionS explores the history of 20th-century communications, and probes the cultural and personal implications of technology's power to effect change. Music by Jon Gibson.
VR/RV: A Recreational Vehicle in Virtual Reality 1994, 11
min, color, sound
Using state-of-the-art computer graphics systems, d'Agostino creates virtual dystopian spaces on an electronic superhighway that includes the Mid-East during the Persian Gulf War.
TRACES 1995, 15 min, color, sound
A touching commemorative piece, TRACES addresses the collective memory of some of the traumatic scenes of the bombing of Hiroshima and the annual peace ceremonies as well as d'Agostino's own recollections of his childhood.
Y00 (YearZEROZERO) 1999-00, 6:30 min, color, sound
Racing backwards and forward in time, Y00 is a dense collage of images that incorporates the "Y2K computer bug" as a metaphor to explore many of the hopes and fears of the emerging millennium.
Between Earth & Sky: Cordoban Ceilings, 2003 5 mins color, sound
A DVD from an installation featuring a series of walks by d'Agostino through three of Cordoba's major architectural landmarks - the Great Mosque, the Alcazar, and Synagogue -set to a soundscape by composer Maurice Wright.
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