Heads up, New York media-art-junkies. On Wednesday, October 30 at 8 PM, Location One Gallery at 26 Greene Street in SoHo is presenting a free art event called "Part Two: a networked event on world conflict." This will be the second in a series of events at the gallery that employ a collaborative video-jamming software through which artists and remote participants create a live, improvisational digital video mix.
"Four artists will experiment with this new medium to explore alternative ways of thinking about heavily mediated world events. Using excerpts from a previously recorded television news broadcast of America's first war with Iraq, Part Two (a networked event on world conflict) will center on the media spectacle of war. The recorded broadcast of this event will serve as the backbone for a live session where the video artists will mix previously compiled images and sounds from different sources. A live feed from a current television news channel will also be incorporated into the performance. Every participant will prepare material in accordance with a script synthesized from the transcript of the 1991 broadcast. The experiment seeks to resist the prevailing media discourse by breaking its present structures and creating alternative audiovisual configurations that challenge the mechanisms for "manufacture of consent."
