Friday, August 9, 2013, 7:00 pm, $6-$10,
Please, drop in for the presentation between 7 and 10pm to:
See a hybrid literary-video-performance project that grows on the Internet…
Watch content being created live before your eyes…
Make collaborative content, instantly uploaded to social media sites…
Join an explorative, fun, and questioning project…
This interactive presentation introduces the ongoing performative social media fiction project called “The Nova Avon.” A cast of characters interact with real people on the internet to form a story that interweaves with true life. Come see videos, performances, and other media that tell stories of fictional people who navigate the internet as a model for interpersonal life. Watch an instant video and staged photos being made and uploaded onto this project. Participate by contributing ideas, create new characters, get behind or in front of the camera (or keyboard, pen, paintbrush). Join the social networks of these characters, reflect on your place in the network of real and virtual interaction, and have fun! Claire Bain and guest artists will be present to provide a thought-provoking and fun experience that will make you see your world differently! Join in, or sit back and wonder…
Claire Bain is a Bay Area artist working in processes and ideas concerning systems-power-identity in western society. She uses whatever media and materials needed to support each project, including the internet, installation, photography, painting, video, drawing, sculpture, graphic art, writing, and performance. Bain has presented work in several Bay Area venues such as ATA, Somarts, Southern Exposure, SF Cinematheque, Other Cinema, Pacific Film Archive; and in New York and New Mexico.