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And my mascara's smeared
Annus Bifurcatious.
Fractal Video Premiere 3/18
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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 09:15:32 -0500
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9302261415.AA29484@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: And my mascara's smeared
from comp.risks (I'll bet three other people post this one):
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1993 14:06:39 PST
>From: leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner 71348 )
Subject: And You thought Your Computer Chat Was Private
In the February 7, 1993 NY Times (sunday) on page 32 they had an article
(about 10 column inches) detailing privacy issues with email.
They talked about Oliver North's message in 1986 to his aide Ronald Sable:
"Oh Lord, I lost the slip and broke one of the high heels. Forgive please.
Will return the wig Monday".
The article quotes Paul Saffo (Institute for the Future) talking about "we
have yet to establish the conventions for e-mail).
marty leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Annus Bifurcatious.
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 15:31:46 +0000
From: Gordon Joly <G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <9302261032.aa06339@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
OK, so I am little late, but why did Bill Clinton not successfully
complete his Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford? Even if he did not breath
in he, could have seen the light in the bottom of the cookie jar...
El Gordo.
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 16:36:16 EST
From: Mark_Colan.LOTUS@crd.lotus.com
Message-Id: <9302252136.AA18220@lotus.com>
To: "unixml.. subgenius@media.mit.edu"@lotus.com
Subject: Fractal Video Premiere 3/18
Subject: Time:12:26 PM
OFFICE MEMO Fractal Video Premiere 3/18 Date:2/25/93
Attention all mondo techno ravers and other crazy smart people:
RETINABURN, the first interactive film for nightclubs, will be having it's
official Boston premiere on Thursday, March 18th at the Europa Club, 51 Stuart
Street, near the Wang Center in downtown Boston. Doors open at 9:30, events
start at 10, DJs start spinning at 11 and RETINABURN goes on at 1am. It will
be projected on something like 18 huge video monitors. There will be a variety
of other musical and artisitic diversions also happening that evening, all with
a distinctly futuristic bent, which will also be worth your while. For more
info, the club's phone number is (617) 482-3939.
For those of you who don't know:
o RETINABURN is an hour-long silent film, an orgy of fractal animation
by
Boston musician and cybernaut Frank Coleman.
o It's also an attempt to answer one of the central questions posed by
the
notion of interactivity in art. At what point does the artist relinquish
control, yet retain enough that the piece has their recognizable authorial
mark?
o By allowing the DJ (or home audience) to select the music, they get
to be a
50% partner in the creation of the artistic experience.
o Since there's no deliberate synchronization between the music and the
video,
this also means that every performance is one-time-only, in the spirit of John
Cage's chance operations.
Spinning tunes will by WZBC DJ par excellence Andrew Wolf. WZBC is Boston
College's radio station and the possibly most radical avant-garde station in
New England, and Andrew's one of their most gleefully weird DJs. Their motto
is "no commercial potential." It should be a riot.
The film's gotten great press so far in Option, Boston Rock and an L.A.
magazine called URB. VHS copies are available for $14.95 plus $3.00 shipping &
handling from Ray Vonne Filmworks, 406D Bryant, Ojai, CA. 93023 (805) 640-1732.
I know it's a late hour, but you know how irrepressible those youngsters are...
Hope you can make it,
FBC
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