FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TRANSMEDIA :29:59
+++ Launch event: AUGUST 3rd, 8-10pm: vjs fluid & faux amie - music by cyan (dj set) & naw (live) Dundas Square - Yonge & Dundas Street, Toronto +++ TRANSMEDIA :29:59 http://www.year01.com/transmedia2959 one minute media artworks on the Dundas Square video billboard every half hour 24/7 August 1 - 31st, 2005 29th minute: Manu Luksch - 'Movie Stars' 59th minute: Jillian Macdonald - 'Screen Kiss' Year Zero One is pleased to announce the launch of TRANSMEDIA :29:59, a year long programme on the pedestrian level video billboard at Dundas Square in Toronto. Beginning August 1st 2005, one minute video works will be broadcast 24/7 every half hour on the 29th and 59th minutes. Featured for the month of October is Jillian Macdonald's 'Screen Kiss' & Manu Luksch's 'Movie Stars'. Jillian Macdonald's Screen Kiss is a web project/video featuring several popular actors including Daniel Day Lewis, Vincent Gallo, Johnny Depp, and Angelina Jolie. Macdonald inserts herself into existing film scenes as stand-in for the actresses being kissed by or engaged in other gestures of romance with these actors. Manu Luksch's Movie Stars was filmed at the shores of Koh Yao Yai in Thailand - the only place where star fish can be trained as actors. Join us in the square on August 3rd at 8pm for a 2 hour opening launch performance at Dundas Square with image vjs fluid & faux amie + music by cyan & naw. attached image from 'Screen Kiss' - Jillian Macdonald +++ YEAR ZERO ONE is an on-line artist run centre which operates as a network for the dissemination of digital culture and new media through web based exhibitions, site-specific public art projects, an extensive media arts directory and the Year01 Forum. http://www.year01.com +++