Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 1-8, 1999

Volume 28, Number 11

DMCA series will focus on
high-tech projects in the arts

The Digital Media Center for the Arts (DMCA) will sponsor a series of presentations in November showcasing multimedia projects that were funded by grants from the center.

The DMCA awarded its Special Project Grants last January. These grants, made possible by a gift from an anonymous donor, are designed to encourage exploration and research of high technology and the arts, as well as foster collaboration between the various arts disciplines.

David Lavorgna, computer support specialist at the Yale Center for British Art, will begin the series with a look at his project "Pieces of Eden" on Tuesday, Nov. 2, at 5 p.m.

"Pieces of Eden" is an interactive, multimedia project that gives visitors a "virtual experience" of the British Art Center via the World Wide Web. "Pieces of Eden" takes its name from "This Other Eden," an exhibition of treasures from the museum's permanent collection that toured Australia during 1998. It features digital images of selected works from the British Art Center and three-dimensional models of the museum itself. By serving as an appetizer, of sorts, "Pieces of Eden" seeks to entice the web-surfers to visit the "real" center and see the art objects first hand.

Peter Novak, a 1998 graduate of the School of Drama who is lecturer in theater studies and dean of Trumbull College, will present a video of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" translated into American Sign Language (ASL) on Tuesday, Nov. 16, at 5 p.m.

The performance of the classic comedy features Peter Cook, one of America's leading deaf poets, who was a principal ASL consultant in the translation of the "script." A production of the play, based on the translation, will premiere in Philadelphia later this year. That performance will, in turn, be transferred onto DVD and CD-ROM, which will allow viewers to watch annotated versions of the play.

The final fall presentation will be on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 5 p.m. Melissa Brown, a 1999 graduate of the School of Art, will unveil the results of her project, "The Calculator Tower," an interactive billboard at the intersection of Trumbull Street and Whitney Avenue.

The presentations will take place in the DMCA, 149 York St. They are open to the public free of charge.

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