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Photo by Winnie Berrios Using a variety of art forms as sets of interchangeable parts, Arleen Schloss, founder and director of A's, has been fluxing the mix of Film/Video, Performance Art, New Music and Live Video Performance since the 1970s. Arleen introduced Wednesdays at A's with collaborators RL Seltman, Tod Jorgensen 1979, and Angela Hans Scheirl in 1980. Collaborative events of the 90s include: "A's WAVE", a Cyberevent series transforming the real into the Virtual with VR images by Amusitronix. |
Arleen Schloss and A's HistoryA's is an ongoing project working with the contemporary art community. Since she founded it over 20 years ago, Arleen Schloss has managed the performance art space and gallery known as A's, located in the heart of Manhattan's Lower East Side.In 1978 Schloss developed her own methods of mixing art forms and established "It's A Performance Art Workshop" designed to encourage experimentation of disparate art forms simultaneously. PAW evolved into A's, where the concept of collaboration still remains a magnet to artists around the world. From the days of student guitarists and improvisatory jams of the 1970's, through the analogue electronix of the 80's to the digital changes which began in the 90's, there were always collaborations going on between artists of different mediums. One of the collaborative events was A's Wave, a Cyberevent series which was presented on and off-line and featured live music and video, combined with navigable web-Projections. Today, A's is entering a new phase in its interdisciplinary evolution. A's Wave, the digital sibling and resource for a program known as City As School, is a design which involves performance and interactive projects with multimedia technologies, and will be augmenting its production and creative facilities with a Digital Creativity Center.
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