The Red Spot Outdoor Slide Theatre

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The Redspot outdoor free for all slide show. Over the course of nearly ten years, a public art project ran in New York city which enlisted any artist willing to put their work onto the format of 2X2 acetate slides. These un-censored slide shows were projected onto buildings in the lower east side of Manhattan using powerful Hassalblad slide projectors. The shows have become a part of NYC history.
The slides still exist, though some of the narrative sequence is missing. What we have started to digitize here is about one fiftieth of the collection, mostly from the Metropolitan Transit Authority performance (somewhat culled for erotic content). Thumbnail versions from an earlier, free show are running at bobbi's page.
Although the Red Spot Outdoor Free For All Slide Show will never run again, we believe that the historic archive can serve as an inspiration for future online art work of similar scope, and is worth digitizing and presenting online for its own sake. In fact, the programming for the Webbittown slide shows was created to deliver the Red Spot slides. We are in the process of making proposals for funding the project of digitizing the archive. Your comments or feed back will be extremely important to creating this proposal, so please write, and tell us your impression of the show.
bobbi@webbittown.net

12/15/01 01:57:52 PM