(dis)LOCATIONS

DVD-ROM with booklet
Photo by Peter Weibel
Interactive artworks by Dennis Del Favero, Agnes Hegedüs, Ian Howard, Susan Norrie, Jeffrey Shaw, and Peter Weibel
Book (English, 112 pages) featuring texts by Jill Bennett, James Donald, Ursula Frohne, Charles Green, Lev
Manovich, Anna Munster, and Peter Weibel. ISBN 3-7757-1087-6. ZKM Digital Arts Edition | DVD-ROM
Eds. ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, and The College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, 2001
Co-produced by Cinemedia Melbourne
Courtesy of ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

In a myriad of ways, the effects of the rapid uptake and convergence of new media technologies are felt and experienced by populations and individuals at the level of a virtual and actual sense of dislocation. Fragmentation of "community," urbanization, and the collapse of locale and neighborhood, the erosion of the private spaces of the sexual and the familial-all these have emerged as themes attributable to the restructuring and divergent flows of new information economies and mediascapes.

-Anna Munste

Photography, video, dance, and music were the media and subjects of the first four issues of the ZKM Digital Arts Edition, which were published in 1998 and 1999. While the first installments in this series were devoted to important works of interactive art that appeared on CD-ROM, the new medium of DVD-ROM was the chosen vehicle of 2001. That issue deals with innovative narrative forms of interactive film in the widest possible sense. The (dis)LOCATIONS DVD-ROM presents new works by Australian and European artists. Varied in form and subject matter, the individual works by Dennis Del Favero, Agnes Hegedüs, Ian Howard, Susan Norrie, Jeffrey Shaw, and Peter Weibel address the specific challenges of interactive narrative conception and design. (dis)LOCATIONS is part of the wider Cinema Project (exhibition, publication, Web site, and conference), dedicated to exploring developments in interactive cinema and conducted collaboratively by the University of New South Wales (Sydney), Cinemedia (Melbourne), and the ZKM (Karlsruhe). Essays by authors including Jill Bennett, Lev Manovich, and Peter Weibel in the accompanying book comment upon the featured works and analyze theoretical aspects of interactive cinema and digital communications media.