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THE PRESS RELEASE

This is an opportunity which should not be missed! ¬ÝThere are 6 places available on this ground-breaking workshop; so put your name down early so that you don’Äôt miss out.
Please also feel free to forward this invitation to anyone else who may be interested in the workshop.
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Interactive Video workshop at Wits Digital Arts
Dates: 18 ’Äì 20 March ¬Ý(beginning Friday late afternoon, full day Saturday and Sunday)
Course Leader: Nathaniel Stern
Cost: ¬ÝR650
Who should attend: ¬Ývisual artists, VJs, performance artists video practitioners and anyone interested in real time interactions between images, sound and performance.
NB> Basic computer literacy and an interest in making things are the only requirements.
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Venue: The interactive media design lab at WSOA Digital Arts
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Leading New Media artist nathaniel stern ( http://nathanielstern.com ) was a ¬Ý2004 Kebble award winner with his ground-breaking interactive art installation called ’ÄúStep Inside’Äù.

Nathaniel, who is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, and a lecturer on the Wits School of Arts’Äô Digital Arts MA programme, will be leading ¬Ýa ¬Ýtwo and a half day hands-on introductory workshop to Interactive Video.

This discipline combines the use of video cameras and computers in ¬Ýorder to ¬Ýtrack bodies, motion, proximity, light and color for use in ¬Ýinteractive installation, multimedia performance, and VJing. The ¬Ýworkshop will cover a basic intro to all of the above, as well as real-time video mixing, scrubbing and effects, and the use of sound to generate and/or interfere with video.
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The workshop will utilize Max/MSP and Jitter as its development environment. ¬ÝThis application uses a simple, graphical interface (which looks very much like a flow chart) to accomplish the artist’Äôs goals. ¬ÝFor more information, ¬Ýsee http://cycling74.com
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Amongst the various activities, the two and half day workshop will ¬Ýexplore examples of Interactive Video work by contemporary artists, suggest some of ¬Ýthe other possibilities for tracking information from the physical ¬Ýworld through cameras, and also look at other software and hardware available for tracking and manipulating audio and video.
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For more information, or to sign up, contact ¬ÝMrs Natalia Fiandeiro, WSOA Digital Arts, (011) 7174663 or fiandeiron@artworks.wits.ac.za.