News Item 1: Richard James Allen (The Kamikaze Mind) recently participated in:
WRITING the STORY of the FUTURE
a one-day seminar on the author in the digital age
The Australia Council for the Arts invites you to a one-day seminar
exploring a universe in which the book is a game without buttons.
This free seminar was held in Adelaide
on Monday 26 February 2007
at the Mercury Cinema, 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide,
between 9.00 am and 4.30 pm.
Local writers, directors, producers, academics and media joined acclaimed US collaborators new media artist Eddo Stern and writer Jessica Hutchins; award-winning scriptwriter Simon Hopkinson; new media educator Christy Dena; new media writer, producer and AFTRS lecturer Jackie Turnure; and writer, performer and filmmaker Richard James Allen, in an exciting discussion of how digital media are transforming storytelling.
Richard James Allen developed the notion of being a “shapeshifting” artist, that is inherently cross-platform in approach to creating work, by drawing on ideas in his recent UTS Chancellor’s Award-winning doctoral thesis and his cross-platform literary work for pages, performance, and phones, The Kamikaze Mind.
Writing the Story of the Future is part of a new Australia Council and AFTRS initiative that will host developmental workshops and a LAMP residential workshop in 2007.
For more information about this and further stages of the project:
visit www.ozco.gov.au/storyofthefuture
 News Item 2
THE KAMIKAZE MIND website has won
The Point of Life Gold Award of Excellence!
Visit The Kamikaze Mind website
Ask for Richard James Allen's new book The Kamikaze Mind
– " moving, beautiful…poetic, saucy, and comic,
with gems of wisdom that seem to appear 'out of the blue'” (dancewest) –
Recent News Item 3:
New York Premiere
for Physical TV's “singular” and “mesmerizing”
multi-award-winning new dance music drama film
Thursday's Fictions
directed & choreographed by Richard James Allen
Producer & Editor Karen Pearlman
was a special guest
of the Dance on Camera Festival.
SCREENING:
Festival: Dance on Camera Festival
Date: Thurs January 11, 2007
Time: 7pm (followed by Q & A
with Producer/Editor Karen Pearlman
on dance within a narrative)
Screening Venue: Maya Deren Theatre,
Anthology Film Archives,
2nd Avenue & 2nd Street, NYC
Price: $10 ($5 for entrants & DFA members)
Click here for more information on the screening.
EDITING PANEL: Karen Pearlman, nominated for The ASE Best Editor Award in a Television Drama for Thursday's Fictions, also participated on a free panel composed of dancers who edit films, both commercial and independent, on January 9th, 6pm at the Donnell Media Center of the New York Public Library. Click here for more information on the panel, entitled "How the kinetic body/mind of a dancer has infliltrated the mainstream through editing of tv and film". Panel Chair: Kelly Hargraves.
MENTORSHIPS ("The Editing Doctor is In"): Taking advantage of Karen Pearlman’s presence in New York, and her Doctoral degree in Editing, the Dance on Camera Festival offered special mentoring sessions called “The Editing Doctor is In”, to which people can bring their works in progress for discussion, development and advice. Click here for more information on “The Editing Doctor is In.”
Click here to read excerpts from Karen Pearlman's Doctoral Thesis on Editing, "Cutting Rhythms".
For more information on the Dance on Camera Festival and for Bookings:
Dance Films Association, Inc.
48 West 21st St., #907
NY, NY 10010, USA
News Item 4:
Two complete Physical TV Productions are NOW available online!
 What I Did on My Nervous Breakdown
 What is Video Dance?
News Item 5:
A question for users...
Physical TV is considering starting a curated video dance "channel" with Switch TV who are currently hosting What I Did on My Nervous Breakdown and What Is Video Dance?, so we would love to know what you think of their service and the notion of a broadband dancefilm channel. Check out the films and email your feedback to PhysicalTV@bigpond.com!
Thanks, Karen and Richard |
