More Render: "Screening Coffin" meets "Call of the Dead"

[Andrew Hunter]

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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