This Friday September 18th Fringe Festival Event at Apogee@Brandywine

For immediate release Friday, September 4, 2009 Contact: Boone Nguyen Email: boone@scribe.org Tel: 215 222 4201

Scribe Video Center Premieres eSights, eSounds New Media Documentary Art At Philly Fringe Friday, September 18, 2009, 8:00pm-10:00pm at Apogee@brandywine, 728-730 S. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA -- Scribe Video Center , widely known as a learning center for emerging documentary video makers, launches into the realm of new media with the premiere of four works of documentary art on Friday, September 18, 2009, 8:00pm-10:00pm, at Apogee@brandywine, 728-730 S. Broad Street . The three interactive websites, to be viewed at kiosks placed in the building's lobby, and a digital mural projected on an outside wall, were commissioned by eSights, eSounds, Scribe Video Center's new media initiative that supports artists and members of community groups in using new technologies as creative tools to explore social and cultural issues. eSights, eSounds expands upon the creative palette at Scribe without straying from the organization's focus on community-based media. The projects include an online museum of folk arts, a collaboration by FACTS Charter School, Asian Americans United and the Philadelphia Folklore Project; "Philly Homegrown," an interactive resource for holistic health designed by media artist, Serena Reed; "Faces of the Fallen," a website by the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign built upon video testimony contributed by constituents living in poverty; and a digital mural animated by streaming stock market data, by painter and digital media artist, Timothy Portlock. "I chose to make a mural powered by data from the stock market because it visualizes the instability that many of our institutions are built upon," says Portlock, who resides in Philly but teaches at Hunter College in NYC. "I want the audience to make the connection between the ever changing stock market and the changing conditions in their lives." The premiere, part of the Philly Fringe Live Arts Festival, will further bridge the digital nature of these new media projects with their real-world elements through live performances by folk artists, the on-site filming of economic human rights testimony, and the presence of food vendors featured in the "Philly Homegrown" website. Scribe Video Center 's eSights, eSounds new media initiative is funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. For more information about the premiere of eSights, eSounds call Scribe Video Center at 215-222-4201 or visit www.scribe.org.