Regina/Millie,
Powerful piece. At first I wasn't aware of the faces and bodies in the
mountains, The combination of sounds, visuals, and the motion and the
dissolving of the flakes create an eerie sense of the anguish and pain.
Thank you.
-Peter Ciccariello
ARTIST'S BLOG - http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
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From: Regina Pinto <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:03:46 -0200
Subject: [WDL] News from the Earthquake Zone
Dear all,
I (Regina Pinto) collaborated (a little bit > the image and some other
stuff) with artist Millie Niss to create News from the Earthquake Zone
(http://www.sporkworld.org/kashmir/) a web-work about the October,
2005
earthquake in Kashmir. This work shows the news from Kashmir in the
form of
animated snow falling on a backround image made up of Himalayan scenes
and
images of the earthquake victims. The snowflakes each carry a letter,
and
spell out sentence fragments describing the situation in the
earthquake
zone. The letters blow around, as if subject to the winter's wind, and
slowly fall until they melt into the landscape. The work is entirely
in
black-and-white, emphasizing the starkness of the remote mountain
region
affected by the earthquake. A soundtrack made up of snatches of
Pakistani
and Indian music, combined with wind, weather, and the sounds of the
earth
trembling, accompanies the piece. The work is a memorial to the
victims, a
tribute to the suffering of the survivors, and a plea to the rest of
the
world to contribute to the relief effort. There are links to
background
information about Kashmir and the earthquake on the work's title page,
and
the main page has a link to the International Committee of the Red
Cross,
where viewers can send their donations towartds earthquake relief.
We are waiting for you there (http://www.sporkworld.org/kashmir/) ,
Millie Niss
http://www.sporworld.org
http://www.sporkworld.org//index.php
New work:
http://www.sporkworld.org/kashmir/
Regina Célia Pinto
http://arteonline.arq.br/
http://arteonline.arq.br/library.htm
New Works:
http://arteonline.arq.br/eua200km/
http://www.sporkworld.org/kashmir/
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