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Finishing Funds

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1999

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 1999 were made to: Irit Batsry "Neither There Nor Here" - video and film poetic essay evoking the different meanings of Aplace", and a voyage into a Ameta-place@ Ericka Beckman "Hiatus" - experimental 16mm narrative film about a young woman who creates an on-line interactive identity game Rosateresa Castro-Vargas "An Angel Voice in the Subway" - experimental audio work presenting the truncation of voice by urban environmental sounds David Crawford "Here and Now" - interactive web project suggesting new relationships within the new interactive telecommunications environment

Terry Cuddy "Dr. Steadfast's Last Migraine" - absurd narrative video, reading like a post-modern ABartleby the Scrivener@ Pat Doyen "Singsong" - experimental 16mm film about association and memory and their representation Elif Savas Felsen "Coup!" - documentary film examining military coups in Turkey over the last 40 years. Rebecca Herman "Easy-to-Draw Dictators" - an examination of systems of learning, and the subtle relationships between image, mode of presentation and authority Hey-Yeun Jang "Recycle" - experimental 16mm film about the confusion of identity during pregnancy

Ken Kobland "Arise! Walk Dog Eat Donut" - landscape study about going on, getting by, aging, losing friends, working, looking back and looking ahead Megan Michalak "Event-Horizon" - culled from found footage and science films, the work examines ways in which technology fragments our sense of space Jamie Mirabella "S.O.S" - the reception of knowledge, commonplace information exchange and the development of beliefs as they occur in everyday life Prema Murthy "Flicker" - interactive video and sound installation, a metaphor for the bi-polar relationship we have with technology

Sarah Pierce "The Remorse of Synchronic Space" - a video channel video installation exploring filmic narrative and cinematic gesture John Roach and James Rouvelle "Theoretically Yours" - an artwork for pedestrian, disposable object and transmitter Mark Shepard "Industrian Pilz*/Pilzcontainer" - interactive, site-specific installation presenting the post-unification organizational strategies in an industrial zone of West Germany Michael Smith and Joshua White "Open House" - a large scale video installation recreating a video art exhibition in a Soho loft, recently up for sale.

Panel: Ghen Dennis and Kristin Lucas.

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Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center supported by the New York State Council on the Arts; awards for 1999 were made to multiple artists and collaborative teams for projects in video and film, experimental 16mm narrative works, audio pieces, interactive web projects, and installations. Notable recipients and works listed include Irit Batsry (Neither There Nor Here), Ericka Beckman (Hiatus), Rosateresa Castro-Vargas (An Angel Voice in the Subway), David Crawford (Here and Now), and Michael Smith and Joshua White (Open House); technologies cited include 16mm film, interactive video and sound, and web-based interactivity. Projects addressed topics such as identity, memory, telecommunications environments, military coups in Turkey, and post-unification industrial organization in West Germany; a panel featured Ghen Dennis and Kristin Lucas.

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