Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1997. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1997. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia, Inc.; Tuesday December 2 9:46 AM EST
David Kushner
Day Without Art's most ambitious interactive project was an event performance of New York's Silicon Alley-based Plaintext (http://www.sva.edu) Players, a new-media group from the School of Visual Arts, broadcasting a live Internet event called Silent Orpheus.
This theatrical production will be an entirely text-based MOO-style performance, telling the story of Orpheus, the singer whose music vanishes when he descends to Hell to resurrect his lost lover, Eurydice.
Audiences used the Internet to follow the the performance or attended the event live in a choice of public spaces; the event was to be projected simultaneously in New York City's Information Technology, Santa Monica's Institute for Cultural Inquiry and Harvard University.
"Silent Orpheus is something for members of the cyberarts community who are trying to deal with the AIDS event," says Kathy Brew, director of Thundergulch, the nonprofit organization that is co-sponsoring the NYC simulcast.
Since May, Thundergulch has been using the Video Wall at the 55 Broad Street Technology Center to host weekly noon digital-art projects ranging from Net-based dance choreography to a demo for GURL (http://www.gurl.com), the independent Web site.
The two-hour, one-time-only Silent Orpheus event was part of Web Action, a DWA programming mission coordinated by Creative Time, New York's 20-year-old nonprofit arts organization.
In addition, Web Action sponsored "The Wish Machine," a "collective action" AIDS Web site. Early Monday, Creative Time, along with the Museum of Modern Art, ArtAIDS, and Visual AIDS, also began taking art contributions for Time Capsule, a sprawling Web site that will collect and distribute AIDS art, stories, and photographs.
After gathering materials Monday and Tuesday, the Time Capsule will be officially launched on Jan. 30, after which one participant's AIDS story will be released online every day until Dec. 1, 2002.
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