Chaise 1 and 2.

Chaise has put out a call for submissions for its second issue. Deadline's May 1, and if you're an artist whose work can be digitalized in any way, even if it moves or makes noise, you want to consider submitting. Take a look at Issue One. 17 videos, 12 audio pieces, still works from nine artists and five interactive DVD-ROM pieces. Go on, sample them.

Let's say you're not an artist, though, but want to play with that first issue anyway. Easy. A SASE will do. It's free. So you'd probably imagine all 2000 copies of the first print run are flying out of the Providence, Rhode Island, where Bennett Barbakow, Michelle Higa, Noah Norman and Chris Smith, all seniors at Brown University, put this together. You'd be right.

But! "Depending on how publicity continues, we may issue a reprint," says Michelle. Even if they don't or can't, though, copies are archived at local RI rental outlets - and we have several as well. A run of 5000 is planned for the second issue, scheduled for release in July or August. "We're spending extra energy this time around encouraging artists who are interested in exploiting dvd specific features," adds Michelle: "Stories that play with multi-angle/subtitling/audio tracks/dvd@ccess, even people who want to tell a story that takes place only in an interactive branching menu system."

There's also to be an emphasis on the potential of the DVD-rom artwork: "Generative software art, hypertext stories, video games, artist multiples on PDF for people to print out at home (comics, artists books, spray paint stencils, postcards, t-shirt image templates). There is no cap on submissions per artists and we are open to any medium."

Got questions? The editors will be happy to hear from you.

Posted by dwhudson at March 23, 2004 12:57 PM