Contact: Patricia Ivers, pattytv52@gmail.com
GoNightclubbing Archive Project
The GoNightclubbing Archive Project by Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong is the definitive historic video record of the 1975-1980 New York City punk scene . It includes 82 bands in 115 performances, 27 interviews, as well as music video, video art, photography and ephemera of the time. The Archive was recently acquired and restored by the Downtown Collection at NYU’s Fales Library. We are exploring using an interactive interface for accessing the archive in a gallery or museum setting using tablets or laptops.
The Project has three phases:
Phase 1– an interactive interface to be used to playback programming in the recreation of the Danceteria Video Lounge, which will be viewed at the Fales Gallery from March 20-May 30, 2014. The installation celebrates Ivers and Armstrong’s 1980 work at the iconic club where they created the first application of video in a nightclub as an art and entertainment installation and pioneered the concept of the video DJ. It will be a featured project of NYU’s 40th Anniversary of Punk academic symposium. At this phase and in keeping with the original plan, the content will be controlled by a VJ feeding to a series of monitors in kitschy living room settings.
Phase 2-An interactive interface for multiple users in a museum or gallery setting where users control the content and watch it on flat screens with headsets. Ideally, the users could also access the Archive on their phones and other smart devices in museum public spaces like coffee shops and lobbies.
Phase 3- an interactive feature that would allow for user question or comments. (Traditionally, we had a Q and A’s after a linear screening of our videos and the discussion and exchanges are always fascinating. Our proposal would allow this to continue in cyberspace and give us the opportunity to directly respond to the viewers.
Extra Credit!
In addition to the above, we propose the recreation of the art project, Alone At Last, originally an ITP 1987 science fair project. It anticipated Match.com with an interactive booth that allowed a solo viewer to enter a booth and pick a certain someone from a menu of onscreen sexual preferences. That person then appears in a video and attempts to seduce the viewer. Alone At Last!
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