MAY 15th — “LUMINOUS POINT” by ALEXANDER HAHN — A Live Narrated Screening

Alexander Hahn

LUMINOUS POINT

The Work: “Luminous Point”
Luminous Point is an interactive video about memory. Memory both human and artificial. Navigating per remote control, the viewers explore a digital recreation of the artist’s Lower East Side tenement apartment—a virtual wunderkammer and archive in which distant places and different times, personal biography and cultural history, fact and fiction all coexist just like in the mental space of memory. Effortlessly changing between microscopic and macroscopic dimensions, the visitors pass through a labyrinth of spaces, descend into subterranean worlds, lift off skywards like dreamers, free from the binds of gravity and linear time. Luminous Point seamlessly combines video and computer generated material, creating a new form of electronic work, a hybrid composed of elements from narrative and documentary video/film, computer game, virtual reality, and photography.

Check him out on the web: http://www.alexanderhahn.com

Even get a sneak peak at the material (even though it will be nothing like seeing it LIVE in the Garden!):

Luminous Point – a guided tour to the interactive dvd from Alexander Hahn on Vimeo.

It’s going to happen Rain or Shine.
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Le Petit Versailles was created in 1996 by community neighbors. It is a GreenThumb garden and a project of Allied Productions, Inc., a non profit arts organization. LPV provides a green oasis for meditation and relaxation dedicated to fostering the interest of all segments of the community in the arts, broadening and enriching the general public through performances, screenings, workshops.

LPV events are made possible by: Allied Productions, Inc., Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks,

Materials for the Arts, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education

Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Luminous Point is supported with support from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture and the Experimental Television Center.