New Voices New Visions 1995: A Selection from the Second Competition

"Interested in seeing what artists around the world have been doing on their computers? So were Voyager and Interval Research, so in 1994 they launched the New Voices/New Visions contest. The results were so exciting that the 1995 contest was started immediately. Here, we present a selection from the sixty finalists that were chosen from more than five hundred works submitted by independent artists-filmmakers, designers, poets, musicians, students, and writers-of all ages and from twenty countries: Live Wire 1.0 by Stephen Jablonsky, a half-hour drama with a sci-fi edge about the intertwined lives of four slackers; Women at Risk by Carolyn Sherins, a hip and instructive program centered on the stories of three women with AIDS; Actlab's The Revolution Will Be Digitized by Tamara Ford, Troy Whitlock, and Jef Bekes, guerrilla multimedia about the revolutionary Zapatista movement in central Mexico; Gregory Haun's Personal Dictionaries, in which photographs combine with quirky 'user dictionaries' in brilliant, one-shot portraits; and I Love You by Laurence Arcadias, a cartoon allegory of modern love, Punch-and-Judy style." -- from Voyager