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April 30, 2003 - Presentation Materials

5/23/03: I have revised the original slides to make them more useful in the absence of the presenter. Apologies for any strange effects caused by Microsoft Powerpoint not converting the original slides into web html, particularly for little things like the "bullets" in bulletted lists (fairly ubiquitous in presentations) In fact, Microsoft Powerpoint doesn't even create html pages that will show with great fidelity on its own Microsoft Internet Explorer browser!

The Presentation Slides --->>
(OPENS IN SEPARATE WINDOW) (The presentation contains fairly large files e.g. 150k, so be aware if you are on a slow connection)

Resources for Flash Book Arts and the Web --->>

Vengeance Is Mine - the Flash movie --->>

March 2003 - Presentation Announcement

I will be presenting two Flash movies** of artists' books and a brief technical discussion on Wednesday April 30, 2003. Time and location details below.

I have been interested for some time now in how to make artists' books and other three-dimensional art forms more accessible. Paintings and photographs generally hang on walls and you can readily view them as closely as you'd like. Generally larger sculpture is similarly accessible; you can simply walk around it, crouch down and peer up, or otherwise examine sculpture.

However, when you see artists' books in a museum or even in an art gallery, generally you can't pick them up and manipulate them at all. They tend to be exhibited under/behind glass. And, since Karen has been making artist books and boxes with structured collections of objects (her Aidila project for her mother is an example), I have become more familiar with the form and all of the interesting facets built in, but normally quite inaccessible in a museum or gallery.

So,how did I get to Flash movies from that question? Last spring I attended the final presentation by students in Karen and Miriam Goodman's RADCLIFFE SEMINARS Course, "Word & Image: Making Art in Two Languages", and saw Pamela Worden give a performance of her book, "Letters to Andrew: the house book". This immediately struck me as a terrific starting point for really doing something about my question.

One thing lead to another (partly through the intervention of Miriam Goodman) and I found myself with an additional project of working on a piece done by Dot Krause, "Vengeance Is Mine".

Pamela Worden's book is currently in the Book Arts show at the Cambridge Artists' Cooperative. The movie is on display also.

My ultimate objective is to put this type of work on the web.

For the moment, if you want to see both of these movies come to the presentation.

Boston University - Photographic Resource Center
"Printmaking, Artist’s books, and the Digital Age"

As a part of the jointly sponsored New England School of Photography and the BU Photographic Resource Center "Word and Image" series, Dorothy Simpson Krause, a painter, collage artist and printmaker who incorporates digital mixed media into her art, will talk about her work and Mark Orton, software entrepreneur, will show virtual artist books, he has translated into Flash. Orton has been working with Krause on an electronic representation of her artist’s book, “Vengeance is Mine”, and with artist Pamela Worden to create an electronic representation of her book, “Letters to Andrew: The House Book.”

Wed, April 30, 7:30pm. Boston University, The Photonics Center, Rm 206, 8 St. Mary’s St, Boston. Free! For more info contact Miriam Goodman, 617.868.5215, mirgoodman@attbi.com , or Ingrid Trinkunis (PRC), 617.353.0700, itrinkun@bu.edu . Wheelchair accessible.

One of over one hundred events in the 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival . For more information go to: www.bostoncyberarts.org or call 617 524-8495.

** What is "Flash"?

Flash is a software product of Macromedia, Inc. that provides very light-weight, multi-media capability on the web.