While in the Catskills I met a lot of interesting, artistic people. Lot's of artsy-craftsy types. There was a very interesting and engaging painter named "Grandma Hemp." She had a secondary interest which you can probably guess. Another artist told me that the Catskills has the highest concentration of artists in the country. I believe it.
This latter artist is named Jim Nevin. He's doing some very creative things with performance art and media. He's creating a show about mad scientist who has created an intelligence-enhancing drug that is slowly turning him into a monster. More interestingly, it has an interactive web site as background. Jim actually performs the piece against a blue screen, and then projects the image into the web interface.
When I got home, I was a little disappointed to discover that the web component is not very well developed--or rather it was, but Jim took it down to work on it some more. I for one would be interested in seeing a stand-alone website which had features the performance piece does not. But I guess at this point it's not a priority for Jim.
I'll put the URL up anyway in case sometime in the near future Jim puts it back online.
Posted by jeb at November 3, 2005 8:34 PM | TrackBack