Title: exoptic fields: for the reversal of movie-media logic by visual deflection
produced&designed by willy mal
image & fx: vid-savant Matt Dibble, pixel pusher Benton-C Bainbridge & animator Eric Solstein
music: Joe Mendelsson droneclickskiploop sample: Gen Ken
voice: Catherine Adamidi production: digital media zone, NYC
cover design: Bob Gill

Title: blind heat
produced and conceived by willy mal
image & sound design and creation: Benton-C Bainbridge

Title: "The video to end all videos?" Utne Reader display
design and headline: Bob Gill
copy: Bob Gill and willy mal

willy mal is the pseudonym of a New York-based researcher and writer whose print and moving-media projects focus on sensational displays of modernity’s advance, particularly in popular culture.
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Matt Dibble

Matt Dibble is an Oakland, California-based, video artist and editor. Spring of 2000 he was visiting professor of digital media at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Dibble has been actively involved in the conceptual development of the "blind eye project" for several years. His earliest exchanges with mal go back to the mid-80's when they both worked on a shoot with Barbara Mandrell and Dibble neglected to record the front shot of the interview.

In his video art, Matt Dibble has investigated new uses for the medium through interactive installations and performance-based work. In the fall of 1994, he exhibited an interactive video work as part of the Luxor v1.0 show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Viewers were able to interact with a 25 foot video projection based on an image comprised of 256 separate screens. Turtle Boat Head, a video installation created with Y. David Chung, opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art and was awarded "Best of Show" at the 1992 Rosebud Awards in Washington, DC. It has since traveled to other museums and broadcast venues around the country. Other video installations have been shown at the Alternative Museum and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC, Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, MD, Art Sites 96 in Washington, DC, the Silicon Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, and the Mesa Art Center in Mesa, Arizona. Since 1990, Dibble has worked with Charles Woodman in viDEO-sAVant, a video performance group. He also has created video backdrops for many theatrical performances, most recently for performance poet Silvana Straw's shows at Dance Place, and the J.F. Kennedy Center, Washington, DC.

Dibble link: http://www.washingtonart.com/dibble/home.html
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In making exoptic fields Benton Bainbridge worked live video signals layer upon layer to render moving image from abstract design.

New York artist Benton Bainbridge has been working in video and related media since 1983. Since 1989, Bainbridge has concentrated on performing cinema, when experiments with David Jones' unique video instruments at upstate New York's Experimental Television Center confirmed Bainbridge's belief that video is meant to be played, like a visual form of music. Much like music, performed media is a primarily collaborative art form. Bainbridge co-founded the groups The Poool (with Angie Eng and Nancy Meli Walker), 77 Hz (with Jonathan 'Naval Cassidy' Giles, Philip R. Bonner, Michael Schell and Eric Schefter) and NNeng (with Nancy Meli Walker and Brian Moran) to perform improvised and composed video live on stage. Bainbridge has worked with DanceKumikoKimoto, Ikue Mori, Abigail Child, Maria Beatty, Zeena Parkins, David Weinstein, Nick Didkovsky, Gen Ken Montgomery, 99 Hooker, Hoppy Kamiyama, Elise Kermani, David Linton/Unity Gain, Ron Anderson & The Molecules, Jason Kao Hwang, Liminal Projects, Barbara Held, Eugene Thacker and dozens of other artists.

Bainbridge has performed, screened, streamed, broadcast and installed video world wide over the wires and airwaves and in museums, galleries, clubs, colleges and festivals including the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Mercat des les Flores (Barcelona), Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris (NYC), Uplink Factory (Tokyo), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), The Kitchen (NYC), Blasthaus (San Francisco), Dallas Video Festival and Hotwired (World Wide Web).

In 1997 Bainbridge launched the website Pulsating OKAY! as an information nexus on realtime cinema and performed video.

Currently, Bainbridge is constructing new analog audio/video synthesis devices with Bill Etra. In December, Benton-C will install a video jukebox at the Kitchen, dispensing "TRIGGERS."

http://www.bentoncbainbridge.com/ (benton bainbridge)

http://www.nneng.com/ The Home of NNeng

http://www.stackable.com/ The Home of Stackable Thumb

Eric Solstein is a documentary producer and AfterFX artist who owns and runs digital media zone, the nexus of high end media production in New York City.
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Joe Mendelson is a composer and sound designer working for independent films, TV, radio and commercials.

He has been part of the musical groups, "Rise Robots Rise" and "Fibre." September 2000 he toured with the Trey Gunn Band.

His New York studio is Antenna Digital Audio Post. Telephone: 212 967 0968
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Gen Ken’s sounds accompany the Free Bound Images opening of the exoptic fields video.

Gen Ken: "I am involved in events which bring people together to focus on the experience of listening. I’ve become increasingly appreciative of enduring

impressions arising out of transitory moments - sound as a form of transportation."

In 1989 Montgomery founded Generator, the first sound art gallery in New York City. He continues to produce concerts and recordings of his work and other sound artists.

DRONESKIPCLICKLOOP and contact with Gen Ken are available in its entirety as a set of 4 mini CDRs at www.generatorsoundart.org.
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Bob Gill is a designer, an illustrator, a copywriter, a teacher, a film maker, a terrible be-bop pianist and one of the original partners of Pentagram, the celebrated design constancy.

He was elected into the New York Art Director’s Club Hall of Fame and a recipient of the British Art Director’s Club Lifetime Achievement Award. Gill’s most recent book is, "Graphic Design Made Difficult."
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