eSights, eSounds

Scribe's New Media Initiative
eSights, eSounds

As part of our 25th Anniversary celebration Scribe is launching eSights, eSounds, a special New Media initiative that will commission up to four works by either individual artists or members of a community group who wish to explore social, cultural or political issues of concern to the region. This project, which is being supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, will support artists in using new technologies -- cell phones, interactive web sites, video games, podcasts, etc -- as creative tools to tell their stories. This special program is a chance to enlarge and expand the creative palette at Scribe Video Center, a media arts center know internationally for its community based media projects.

Scroll down for Application Cover Sheet and Guidelines PDFs.

Up to four projects will be selected for funding and be guided by new media artists Shu Lea Cheang, Michelle Halsell, and Mendi + Keith Obadike. Project Coordinators are Michael Kuetemeyer and Anula Shetty of Termite TV Collective.

Scribe Video Center is now accepting proposals.
The application deadline is May 19, 2008.

Interested applicants should contact Scribe at inquiry@scribe.org or call 215 222 4201.

eSights, eSounds New Media Presentation
Friday, April 18 at 7:00 pm
Learn more about "new media" and the eSights, eSounds application process.
This free events will take place at Scribe Video Center.

Local artists will present and discuss their New Media work. Rana Sindhikara (multimedia artist) will present and talk about a community web project she did with Cosa Cosa. John Phillips and Carolyn Healy (installation art) will talk about their process in creating large site specific installations. Matthew Fisher (interactive installations) will talk about touch screen installations and other interactive technologies. Laura Deutch (multimedia artist) will discuss exploring personal and community connections through web projects. Mike Kutemeyer (multimedia artist) of Termite TV will discuss one of the installations he has made for Termite TV.

More About the Guest Artists

Shu Lea Cheang, a multi-media artist working in the field of net-based installation, social interface and film production. In 2007, she launched "MobiOpera", a collective public cinema made with mobile phones as part of the New Frontier section at the Sundance Film Festival. Now based in Paris, Shu Lea Cheang previously presented works at Scribe in 1989 as part of our first series of Producers' Forums.

Mendi + Keith Obadike are a poet and a composer/sound designer. They are among the first artists in America to explore the Internet as a creative medium. Their work has been commissioned by the Whitney Museum of Art, Yale University, the New York African Film Festival and Electronic Arts Intermix. Their upcoming projects include a new installation and album entitled TaRonda Who Wore White Gloves and an Internet opera entitled Four Electric Ghosts. The Obadikes have been guest presenters at Scribe Producers' Forum.

Michelle Halsell is the CEO and a Co-Founder of Missing Pixel, a web design and interactive media company. Her ongoing collaborations with award-winning artists have led to the development of web sites, CD-ROMs, DVDs, digital video projects and interactive installations. She teaches graduate seminars in Interactive Documentary production and Social Activism at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and has taught a Master Class at Scribe.

More About the Project Coordinators

Anula Shetty is an award winning filmmaker who received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Film & Media Arts from Temple University. She is a producer and co-director of Termite TV Collective, a group of video artists who produce experimental and activist media. She is a recipient of three Media Arts Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has taught film and video production at the University of the Arts, Arcadia University, Asian Arts Initiative and Scribe Video Center.

Michael Kuetemeyer is an award-winning experimental and documentary filmmaker and a founding member of the video collective Termite TV. He has received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach film in India and, as an assistant professor, teaches video and new media at Temple University.

More About the Artists Presenting on Friday, April 18th

Carolyn Healy is an installation artist who began her career exhibiting small, abstract sculptures made of found objects at the Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, in 1979. Since 1987 she has created numerous large site-specific installation pieces, some for performance events and many in collaboration with sound and video artist John Phillips. These have been seen in museums and university galleries as well as performance and alternative environments, nationally and internationally, including Carnegie Mellon University; LaMama and Symphony Space, NYC; the Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy; Institute of Contemporary Art, and Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia.

John Phillips is a sound and video artist. His work has included interactive sound pieces and collaborative sound/sculpture/video installations in museums, alternative spaces and various university art galleries. His tape works have been performed at New York City dance and theater venues, international electronic art festivals and on nationally syndicated New American Radio. His composing has been supported by American Composers Forum (collaboration with Pauline Oliveros) and the Millay Colony (composer in residence) and he has enjoyed three residencies at the Experimental Television Center to pursue his video work.

Laura Deutch is an MFA candidate in the Film and Media Arts program at Temple University. Over the last 10 years she has been involved with different facets of independent media and social justice work. Most recently, her work has engaged new technologies, media education, and community stories to explore the relationship between individuals and their environment. In 2007, she helped produce the multi-media installation, Cross/Walks: Weaving Fabric Row. She is currently an instructor with the Media Mobilizing Project, Our City Our Voices, helping to train immigrants and union leaders in community journalism. Her current work can be viewed online at www.crackingopen.org.

Matthew Fisher is co-founder and President of Night Kitchen Interactive, an award-winning design firm with over 10 years of experience in the arts & cultural heritage. Through close collaboration with curators, marketers, and educators, Night Kitchen creates transformative online experiences that inform, engage, and inspire. As early as 2003, Matthew began to explore the effective use of Web 2.0 technologies in facilitating online communities and promoting the arts.

Rana Sindhikara is a teacher, photographer, and community-based artist. Through photography and electronic design, she explores relationships among individuals, communities, and environments. Her work collates visual information with non-linear text, spoken word and other performative/interactive aspects to investigate how group knowledge is reproduced and communicated in populations with varying languages and literacy levels. She has been artist in residence at the Asian Arts Initiative, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Martha Madigan Studio and COSACOSA. Sindhikara is currently a teaching assistant at the Folk Arts - Cultural Treasures Charter School and a teaching artist with the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial's Southeast Philadelphia Collaborative "Homemade" community arts project.