More Render: "Screening Coffin" meets "Call of the Dead"
Andrew Hunter
a3hunter at uwaterloo.ca
Tue Nov 6 12:53:35 EST 2007
RENDER in collaboration with CrimeLab presents:
Marcel O'Gorman's Screening Coffin featuring Dane Watkin's Call of
the Dead
This interactive work by Marcel O’Gorman (Department of English
Language and Literature, University of Waterloo) and Dane Watkins
(independent media artist, Somerset, England) is being presented as a
compliment to the Department of Drama and Speech Communications
production of The Rocky Horror Show. The project repurposes
O’Gorman’s Screening Coffin to present Watkin’s recently completed
animated comic strip The Call of The Dead, a darkly humourous
narrative that the artist describes as a “zombie love story.”
Screen Coffin/Call of Dead will be viewable when the ML theatre is
open for The Rocky Horror Show. http://www.drama.uwaterloo.ca/07-08%
20season.htm
Dane Watkins is an independent media artists based in Somerset,
England. He is currently collaborating with RENDER and the CrimeLab
on several new projects including a survey-based personality profiler
being developed in collaboration with students in Marcel O’Gorman’s
fall 2007 course, The Discourse of Advertising. eatmydata.co.uk
CrimeLab (Critical Media Lab) is a new UW initiative led by Marcel
O’Gorman. The CrimeLab supports interdisciplinary research-creation
projects that draw on new media to investigate the impact of
information technology on the human condition.
criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca
RENDER (formerly the University of Waterloo Art Gallery) is led by
Director/Curator Andrew Hunter. It’s program focuses on the
production and dissemination of contemporary art projects
(exhibitions, screenings, performances, publications, lectures, think-
tanks, research labs, test runs, samples, multiples, fanciful ideas,
challenging thoughts, odd things, etc…) that emphasize innovation,
critically engage the use of new technologies, address current social
and cultural concerns and contribute to a dynamic learning
environment at the various campuses and facilities of the University
of Waterloo and throughout the Waterloo Region. RENDER’s main
presentation space is in East Campus Hall). www.artgallery.uwaterloo.ca
for more information about the RENDER program, contact: Andrew
Hunter, Director/Curator, a3hunter at uwaterloo.ca
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