Eliza Fernbach
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Eliza Fernbach lives and works in Hoboken, NJ and Merigomish, Nova Scotia. She specializes in cinema/installation art and collaborative projects. Currently she is in production on "Rumour Becomes Line", a short film inspired by the poem "!" written by the Canadian poet Anne Simpson. She has worked with Buck Henry, ("The New Yorker") and recently appeared in Zoe Beloff's film "Charming Augustine". In 2006-7 Eliza was the founding artist-in-residence at Bloomfield College, NJ where she completed the installation "Amaze Labyrinth". The work was a culmination of experiments initiated at the Atlantic Centre for the Arts in New Smyrna Florida. She was the first film director to implement the PAWSTM camera array-(the effect seen in "the Matrix" films) in her short film "Time Suspended". Her one woman show "A Quest for Man" toured Fringe festivals internationally and she continues to draw on her Classical theatre training at the Royal National Theatre in London in her collaborative art and cinema work. Eliza is a member of The Actor's Equity Association, The College Art Association and the Merigomish Equestrian team

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Articles/Reviews by Eliza
 Web Cinema: Alone together with Chris Marker in Second Life

released 29/5/09
Second Life is the perfect realm for Marker to further his socially conscious antics. While newcomers to the moving image who may never have spliced a real piece of film let alone toiled at a steenbeck lay claim to being the future of "web cinema", Marker has moved on and taken the foundations of cinema experience with him into SL.
audiovisual, cinema, cyberculture, Film, media art, video
 The edgy discomfort of G.H. Hovagimyan's rant work

released 21/10/08
Eliza Fernbach interviews G.H. Hovagimyan a Performance and New Media artist based in New York about his ongoing Rant series started in the 70's. In the raging shadows of punk and performance art, these works have evolved in their content while maintaining the raw energy and volume, as contemporary and challenging critiques.
activism, agency, behaviour, critical, curation, cyberculture, media art, performance, satire, social
 Why Some Dolls Are Bad

released 14/4/08
Dynamically generated graphic novel built on the Facebook platform. Assembling a stream of images from Flickr matching certain tags and mixes them with original text to produce a perpetually changing narrative.
community, Internet Art, narrative, net art, networked, social
 You Can't Stay Here PAM!

released 31/1/08
Eliza Fernbach Interviews Lee Wells from [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine. The online Video Portal, a growing Internet community collaborating with artists for exhibitions and distribution, based in New York.
collaboration, community, curation, digital, distributed creativity, exhibition, Film, interview, media art, net film, participation, platform, real time, resource, video
 disturb.the.peace [angry women]

released 29/10/06
Disturb.the.Peace [angry woman] will be aimed at creating a collaborative net-based installation with the core concept of the visual portrait of feminine anger.
collaboration, collective, cyberculture, cyberfeminism, feminism, gender, Internet Art, media art, net art