eSights eSounds Premiere
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eSights eSounds, Scribe’s New Media Initiative, premieres at apogee@brandywine!
Follow this link to buy tickets:
http://www.livearts-fringe.org/details.cfm?id=9065
Part of this year’s Philly Fringe, this special Street Movies! features an indoor/outdoor art installation that includes: economic data transformed into an animated mural by Timothy Portlock; an online museum of folk arts by FACTS Charter School, Asian Americans United & Philadelphia Folklore Project; an interactive resource for holistic health by Serena Reed; testimony confronting poverty in the U.S. by Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign.
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More About the eSights eSounds New Media Initiative:
As part of our 25th Anniversary celebration Scribe launched eSights, eSounds, a special New Media initiative that commissioned four works by both individual artists and members of community groups who are exploring social, cultural and political issues of concern to the region. This project, which is being supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, supports artists in using new technologies -- cell phones, interactive web sites, video games, podcasts, etc -- as creative tools to tell their stories. This special program is a chance to enlarge and expand the creative palette at Scribe Video Center, a media arts center know internationally for its community-based media projects.
Culture Tools
The Folk Arts/Cultural Treasures Charter School, in partnership with Asian Americans United and the Philadelphia Folklore Project, is putting the curatorial skills and responsibilities in the hands of students, parents, and community members through the Cultural Treasures Project, an online museum that highlights the everyday richness of Philadelphia's diverse communities. Designed and programmed by Kathy Shimizu.
Faces of the Fallen
by Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
As a multimedia database filled by the testimonies of the country's impoverished, the "Faces of the Fallen" website serves as an accessible resource both for those with stories to tell and for those who seek to listen. While providing online training and instruction for people wishing to upload material, the website encourages wide participation in the documentation of economic human rights violations and in their cogent and assertive exhibition.
Philly Homegrown Project by Serena Reed
The "Philly Homegrown Project" is an interactive website that provides enough resources for any Philadelphian to become an expert in local holistic health. Through user-created audio, video and text, the website offers an impressive breadth of alternative health education anchored in Philadelphia through strategies of local authorship, community news, and an animated transit map that allows viewers to plan their own routes between the city's holistic health resources.
New Media Mural by Timothy Portlock
Following in the tradition of some of Philadelphia's finest artwork, Portlock's project aims to bring a new media mural to an empty wall in the city. The project visually juxtaposes different understandings of "economic 
wellbeing" through four different video projections, each of which is animated and altered by live, streaming data from internet sources.
The four projects are guided by New Media artists Shu Lea Cheang, Michelle Halsell, and Mendi and Keith Obadike. Project Coordinators are Michael Kuetemeyer and Anula Shetty of Termite TV Collective.
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About apogee@brandywine
apogee@brandywine supports creative initiatives in visual fine arts, media and design arts for the region’s emerging professionals. Apogee is a new programming initiative of the Brandywine Workshop that will serve as a content creation and presentation resource. Programs will be housed in and around the restored nationally historic firehouse building at 730-32 S. Broad Street, Avenue of the Arts in Philadelphia. Programs will take the form of entrepreneurial and educational efforts in a cross-disciplinary, multicultural and multi-generational setting.
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About Solutions for Progress
Solutions for Progress focuses upon delivering technology that improves the efficiency of government through eGov systems that directly assist individuals and families with low to moderate incomes o they may obtain work and income supports easily and with dignity.
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eSighst eSounds is made possible with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
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Street Movies! is made possible with support from H. Fred and Karen Clark, the Samuel S. Fels Fund, Independence Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Juliette Goodfriend, Ann Greene, and Laurence Saltzman. Media partner: Media That Matters