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Description
Superschmoozio, The Game of the International Art Market is an interactive
online game. Played and/or simulated, live and/or archived. It replicates
the aggressive drive of climbing the ranks of a career in high profile
top dollar art from the perspective of the "professional artist". Superschmoozio
is currently being workshoped via utilization of visual chatware. In collaboration
with DestopTheater (http://www.desktoptheater.org) this improvisational
approach challenges concepts of hierarchy through the exploration of the
myths surrounding "art", "advancement" and "success".
Bio
Co-Director of ABC No Rio and Co-Founder of Allied Productions Inc., both
not-for-profit artist run facilities and multi-purpose umbrellas, I have
Co-Sponsored and Produced exhibitions, performances, tours and projects
as a means of exploring the social ramifications of ways and means of
production. Usually in a collectivist oriented group process which has
facilitated my own endeavors as an artist using all available media including
but not limited to film, dance, video, music, visual art, installation,
performance art, theater, writing, and electronic arts.
Selections
from my film/media works are the subject of a recently completed preservation
by Visual AIDS¹ Estate Project for Artists With AIDS. These are distributed
by NYC's Film Maker's Cooperative and archived at New York University's
Fales Library and Special Collections. A selection from this archive will
be viewed in an April 2001 presentation by the Center for the Study of
Gender and Sexuality at New York University in April 2001.
Further
Bio Information
JACK WATERS
is a writer, film maker, media artist, choreographer and performer. His
video short The Male Gayze was shown at the Whitney Museum Of American
Art's February 1995 exhibition The Black Male. As a journalist he has
published articles on politics, cultural affairs, and reviews in visual
arts, film, and media. He was a founding contributing writer for Color
Life the news journal for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgendered and two-spirited
people of Color, and for LGNY, New York City's LGBT news bi-weekly. Other
writing credits include The Coney Island Wedding of The Great Fredini
and Kiva, Princess of Pyrotechnics for Conde Nast Bride¹s Magazine, and
a January 2000 profile of the HIV positive artist Valerie Caris for Poz
Magazine. Waters was a panelist on the February 2000 College Art Association
panel Archiving the Unarchivable headed by Martha Wilson. A graduate of
Juilliard's Dance Division, Waters¹ with his life-partner Peter Cramer
was the co-director of the Alternative Community Arts Center, Abc No Rio,
and the co-founder of Allied Productions, Inc. a multi purpose not-for-profit
umbrella arts organization. Waters and Cramer¹s 20 year collaboration
was represented by their interdisciplinary work Black and White Study:
The Dance performed last year at NYC's Danspace at Saint Mark's Church
and then at the Miller's Studio in Zurich. This was followed by the creation
of Short Memory/No History, an interdisciplinary media/live work about
memory, perception, history, and representations of AIDS Activism and
queer culture which was previewed at Zurich's Shedhalle in June 2000.
Their media environment Time Warp 2000 was shown last November at NYC's
Anthology Film Archives presented by MIX, the New York Lesbian and Gay
Experimental Film Festival.
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