Frames
by
Grahame Weinbren
New York premiere of an interactive cinema work
THE KITCHEN
512 West 19th Street
New York
November 9th 2002 to January 29th 2003
Opening Reception November 9th, 6 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 2 - 6
Closed December 22nd to January
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Grahame Weinbren's Frames is an interactive,
three-screen projection work, using infra-red sensor arrays to
detect user input, combined with randomly accessible video under
computer control. It was commissioned by the NTT InterCommunications
Center, a media museum in Tokyo, for its 1999 Biennial Exhibition.
Frames uses Hugh Diamond's photographs -- the first photographs
taken in a mental institution -- as a starting point for an examination
of the relationship of photographer to subject in the representation
of mental disorder. By pointing through hanging gilded frames
at projected video images, a viewer gradually transforms young
actors into 19th century madwomen. Frames suggests a bridge
from the most recent technologies to the breakthrough technology
of 150 years ago: black and white portrait photography.
Frames
Production Credits
Originally commissioned by NTT InterCommunications
Center, Tokyo
Producer
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Sandra McLean
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Actors of the Juggernaut
Theatre Company
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Joseph Breen, Carolyn Corbett, Lisa Dove,
Jennifer Timm
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Costume Designer
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Rebecca Roberts
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Makeup Artist
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Ronit Yagel
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Principal Videographer
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Ken Kobland
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Additional Videography
(stairs)
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Kimberley Hassett, Kiriko Shirobayashi
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Lead Programmer
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Erwin Redl
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Electronic Design (dissolve
unit)
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Jim Campbell
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Frame Design and Construction
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Eric Managian
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Technical Expertise
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Dayoan Daumont, Nick Weiss
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Installation Assistance
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Shin Il Kim, Juan Recamen
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Hugh Diamond photographs courtesy
Royal Society of Medicine
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Texts adapted from John Connolly's "The Physiognomy
of Insanity," The Medical Times and Gazette,"
1858-1859
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Frames is part
of "Interactive Legends", an exhibition of interactive
works by Grahame Weinbren, Camille Utterback, and Scott Snibbe
curated by Christina Yang, media curator of the Kitchen.
The Kitchen Center for Video, Music,
Dance, Performance and Literature is located in Chelsea at 512
West 19th Street, New York.
For information please call 212 255-5793.
