For Immediate Release
February 21, 2004
Contact: Sophia Bicos
Phone: (626) 792-5101 x 134
E-mail: sbicos@armoryarts.org
www.armoryarts.org

Art In Motion Presents AIM V: SYZYGY (the human remix)
An Exhibition Presented in Collaboration with the
Armory Center for the Arts
March 7 – June 6, 2004
Opening Reception, Saturday, March 6, 7-9 p.m.

Pasadena, CA – AIM V: SYZYGY (the human remix) is part of the fifth annual international festival of time-based media presented by the University of Southern California School of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Armory Center for the Arts. The exhibition at the Armory will include Internet-based projects such as web sites, collaborative networks and technologies for spatializing information; wireless technology; hardware design; performative, installation and augmented reality projects; video, digital video, animation; computer games; and sound pieces. The show will feature works by Bruce Yonemoto, Lev Manovich, Lew Baldwin and many others. AIM V: SYZYGY (the human remix) will be on view at the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 North Raymond Avenue, Old Pasadena. The exhibition runs from March 7 through June 6, 2004. There will be a public opening reception on Saturday, March 6 from
7–9 p.m.

AIM V: SYZYGY (the human remix) received an overwhelming response of more than 700 excellent entries from 39 countries. Approximately 16 of the submitted works will be included in the AIM V exhibition. Comprising an exhibition of selected entries, screenings on the video billboards on West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip and satellite lectures and events throughout Los Angeles, as well as Hong Kong and Peru; AIM V: SYZYGY explores the increasingly interdependent relationship between human and machine. Now in its fifth year, Art In Motion is one of only a handful of festivals or programs worldwide that exhibits and offers continual development opportunities for international new media art.

Works that will be included in the exhibition have been screened by the AIM V Screening Committee: AIM Director Lynzie Baldwin; Amauta Technologies President Carlos Battilana, artist and educator Caroline Clerc; and AIM Cofounder Janet Owen. Recipients of both the Bernay Kurland Grayson Award for Creative Excellence and the AIM Student Award are selected by the AIM V Jury: N. Katherine Hayles, Natalie Jeremijenko, and Nils Roeller.

This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of USC School of Fine Arts, USC School of Fine Arts’ Intermedia Program, USC School of Engineering, USC Integrated Media Systems Center, USC Marshall School of Business: CIBEAR, Armory Center for the Arts, Amauta Technologies, Bank, City of Pasadena, Cultural Affairs Division, City of West Hollywood, Bernay Kurland Grayson, THE_GROOP, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, James Irvine Foundation, Key Club, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems Company, Pasadena Art Alliance, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Joe Shooshani, Sunset Videotron, Susquehanna Art Museum, Wallace Foundation, Webby Awards.

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