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Flint at Sugar Creek
Abel Flint / Able Flint
performance / text

Rock
Backtide at the Altar
performance / installation

satyrn
Touching the Moons
imagery for dance theater

two headed fish
acCount
CD-ROM

knight and woman
ScruTiny
in the Great Round
CD-ROM


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Backtide at the Altar cd and performance	scenes in the early morning	Backtide at the Altar is a written text and a 24 hour interactive work created for installation and performance. The story ingredients consists of an ensemble of characters in a mythic world mixed with persons and events in history. Animation, sound, texts and behaviors are all in some way influenced or directed by the time of day. Elements of the work also respond to improvised factors, light/sound levels and viewer input. Featured on the video Evolving traditions: artists working in New Media - A documentary by Seth Thompson focusing on four artists working in new media: Mark Amerika, Tennessee Rice Dixon,Toni Dove. and the Troika Ranch theater company. .................see more about BackTide...............

	55 minute portion presented in '98 as work in progress at Roulette, NYC in the Mixology Festival 5/98 with: Lynn Book - performer and stage direction Katherine O'Sullivan - reading Joe Melhado - technical assistance Funding contributions from: Experimental Television Center Ltd. and NYFA.

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Flint at Sugar Creek
Able Flint over Sugar Creek, a 100 year explosion sent him of reeling into the expanse of his objective...

ABLE FLINT
ABEL FLINT

performance
and text

Able Flint-Abel Flint looks at real estate through the life and times of Able Flint, a fictional character, and Abel Flint, an American priest from the late 1700's and author of 'A Treatise on Geometry and Trigonometry' for surveyors.

This exploration is realized through moving imagery of Midwestern flatlands, old letters and documents, tools and diagrams of measurement, settlers and land development through the century running off into nighttime horizons and undulating lights. These montages and sound recordings create a period authentic yet transcendental experience.

The performance includes projected interactive imagery, live video and text input, ambient sound, text to speech narration, archived folk singing and live music developed and performed by reknown european rock artist Jeno Menyhart on electric guitar

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(realAudio) clip at Roulette TV

Created in 2001-02
taped at DCTV in NYC
as apart of Roulette TV Broadcast Performances '02
with Jeno Menyhart live on electric guitar
aired in 03 on channel 56 Manhattan cable television

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May text animation
animation of old Korean poem about the moon in May

Dong Dong
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Touching the Moons

projected imagery
for theater performance

Dong Dong - Touching the Moons, the Korean-English title of an interactive music, dance and image performance directed by Jin Hi Kim.

The project interweaves traditional Asian performing art forms with digital media and real-time processing. The performers, the visuals, the sounds, the stage area, are all 'wired' and capable of spontaneous or predetermined interplay with each other. The large scale projections of animated scenes respond to environmental sensor data and are directly activated by dance movements, electric kumongo and lighting. Each scene is distinct in character as it concentrates on the satellite moons of one planet as observed in our solar system as well as myth and poetry.

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Composed and directed by Jin Hi Kim
Tennessee Dixon - interactive projection and animation
Alex Noyes - sound engineering/MAX programming
Tony Giovennetti - lighting
Samir Chatterjee & Kwon-Soon - musicians
Sin Cha Hong, Yin Mei, Parul Shah and others - dance

Performance Venues:
The John F Kennedy Center -Washington DC Oct '02
The Kuss Auditorium -Springfield, Ohio, presented by and the Korea Society in Oct '02.
The Kitchen -NYC, '01
Mass MOCA '00 North Adams, Mass

Awarded the Wolff Ebermann Prize '01.

WASHINGTON POST, October 11, 2002

Kim's Universal 'Moons'
Friday, October 11, 2002; Page C03

Korean composer Jin Hi Kim's latest interactive, multimedia artwork, performed Wednesday night in the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, is literally out of this world. Titled 'Dong Dong - Touching the Moons,' it includes visual projections on a large screen: surreal and symbolic visions of the moons of Saturn, Mars, Uranus, Jupiter, Earth and Pluto.

The music is exotic, digitally enhanced and sometimes distorted, drawing on several ancient Asian musical traditions and curiously compatible with the visuals and with two dancers who perform in some segments. Musical styles include dong dong, dance music from the royal court of 15th-century Korea; Kwon-Soon Kang's computer-enhanced Korean kagok singing; and Indian tabla music played by virtuoso drummer Samir Chatterjee. The tabla is joined by a Korean changgo drum, played by composer Kim, who also performs brilliantly and evocatively on an amplified komungo, a plucked string instrument.

The dancing is styled in two Asian traditions: Indian kathak (dancer Parul Shah) and Korean (dancer Yin Mei).

All this may sound highly eclectic and questionably compatible, but in performance the result was tightly integrated and deeply effective. Jin Hi Kim's work has the audience's senses of sight and hearing working powerfully together with the audience's sense of wonder. Her unique vision blends science fiction images, state-of-the-art technology, ancient mythology and timeless music and dance traditions. No other artist is doing work quite like this, and she does it with superb style.

-- Joseph McLellan

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acCount cd-rom installation	conversation	acCount is a story/conversation on cd-rom, aspects of which change with mouse activity and to the viewer's voice input via a microphone. The dream-like animated scenes depict the memory/story being reconstituted by two people as they recollected a night spent together. Sound and pictures fade in and out and a text unfolds revealing their own personal twist on the situation. Viewer input alters the words of the written conversation and the mood which can range from a conflictual to harmonious exchange between the two. Runtime is about 20 minutes. Essay by Alan Sondheim [ jennifer ] - This essay currently posted at rhizome.org was published in an earlier format in Aporia, a zine edited by Ryan Whyte in Toronto.

	acCount was first made in 1998, reworked and presented 98-01 at the following: NY Museum of Contemporary Art,'01 NY Expo of Short Film and Video Stephen Gang Gallery, NYC Harvestworks, NYC.

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knight and woman
conversation

ScruTiny
in the
Great Round

cd-rom

ScruTiny in the Great Roun is an interactive collage on cd-rom that has received numerous awards since its publication in 1995.
The story has a dream-like sensibility as it follows a male and a female, each portrayed in various stages of transformations, as they the encounter each other and the mystery of the body and spirit. Each scene is a painted animated landscape embedded with symbols, artifacts, poetry and sounds from cultures and religions around the world.

The cd-rom is based on the limited edition artist book ScruTiny in the Great Round by Dixon published in 1993 by Granary Books in NYC.

SEE DEMO

(SHOCKWAVE) movie at ScruTiny website

Articles to read: HypertextNow and SALON

Co-creator Jim Gasperini.
Sound contributions by Charlie Morrow.
poem by Kim Lyons

Distributed internationally in German, French, English and Japanese editions.
First published in 95 by Calliope Media
Macmillan Interactive Publishing, England
EuroVideo Bildprogramm GmbH
Synergy Interactive, Tokyo

WIndows and Mac OS

-- In North America
Distributed on-line by
Organa
Agence TOPO
Wigged

ScruTiny is in the unique postion of being a groundbreaker - art in a new medium - it makes you look at computers in a different way.
-Bernard Yee, Paper Magazine, March, 1996

In a market crowded with mindlessness, a title mindful of thought.
-Newsweek, December 18, 1995