Tonights screening is for those of you who shudder at the thought of film or video art. Possibly, you dislike meandering, navel gazing soliloquies or enthusiastic use of early 80s special effects. Tonight, we will prove that media art is not all the same. Featuring the best short clips from a wide selection of artists and styles, we have assembled a montage of active, innovative use of the medium. This stuff is real. Sometimes crude or challenging, always thought provoking.

Boxed by Genevieve Anderson

Animated puppets live in paranoid fear. Innovative lighting and remarkable set design combine to create an intriguing, terrifying world.

In The Land Of Giants by Patrick Halm

All hail to the king and his grand visions. Green fields and festivals, dancing fools, a baker and a cake.

Adrenaline by Mathew Scott

Please enjoy the retinal excitement and optical pleasure of watching these frames of color, light and kinetic energy.

X Minutes of Original Programming by Doug Henry

Liquidlight lensflare. The sound of breathing. Dougs work gives you the feeling that someone is inside the television watching you.

Long Into The Night, Heavenly Music Flowed out of the Street by Reynold Weidenaar

In 1922 some engineers staged a publicity stunt using the worlds first electronic instrument. Media art has never been the same.

A Sheep in Wolfs Clothing and others by Sam Easterson

What happens if you stuff your videocamera in the dryer, or put it in a running vacuum cleaner, or attach it to a live sheep running amok?

Squid-0 and Brain Gargle by Mark Gillespie

Marks poetry and hilarious computer drawings will give your brain fresh minty breath.

Welcome and others by Brent Wantanabe

Line animation and creative video displayed with excellent meter, Brents work transports the viewer to an another space and feeling.

Mass-media news, Korean-American Christianity, and Mark Twain as market commodity. Three Los Angeles based video makers take an unconventional look at these distinctly American phenomena. Although widely varying in subject matter and style, these documentary artists share a desire to expose truths about the creation of meaning in our culture.

Unabom Part I
Unabom Part II, Plea Bargain
Waiting for Monica, Part I
Waiting for Monica, Part II
Academy Awards
David Reed

Acting as an anthropologist uncovering the culture of the news teams and their artifacts (shoe laces, cigar wrappers, dead batteries), David visits the saturated news sites of the Unabom trial, Monica Lewinsky's father's house, and the Academy Awards.

New International Version
David Cho

Using his own experience as a starting point, David Cho questions the hypocrisies in both the Korean and Christian communities, and explores issues of identity of first and second generation Americans.

The Mark Twain Company
Adam Goldman

A dense and selective history of Mark Twain's writings, family members, and commercial interests of the Mark Twain Estate, Goldmans work portrays this American institution with appropriate absurdity.