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Directed by Oscar-winning production designer Eugenio Zanetti (Restoration) and produced by Barnet Bain and Stephen Simon (What Dreams May Come), the $3 million Quantum Project wants to be the Jazz Singer of cybercinema--a landmark for the millennial medium. "The Net is a mirror for the way human beings think," says Bain. "Hypertext is the bedrock for a whole new nonlinear art form. When you're clicking your browser from site to site, you're exploring chaos theory. The scenes have no connection, except in your head. Quantum Project is like that. It's not just nonlinear...
...Academic instinct might suggest that the viewer compare each piece in the show with that of a well-known artist of the contemporary canon. A still life by Barnet Rubenstein can be likened to the work of Wayne Thiebaud, or an oil-and-wax painting by David Ortins seems like a disciplined Franz Kline. Yet this exhibit demonstrates that this is precisely not the point; the works are to be judged on their own terms, within their own visual languages. If anything, the most liberating aspect of the show is its unfamiliarity. It is the experience of thinking and seeing...
...least, is a no-brainer. Virtually everyone agrees that the advent of Net movies will certainly be a boon for independent film- makers, who, thanks to the plunging cost of digital video cameras, powerful PCs and editing software, are already making decent films on modest budgets. Metafilmics producer Barnet Bain expects Quantum to cost around $3 million to shoot--way below the Hollywood average of $50 million a picture. That will enable the company to finance the project privately...
...Japanese version of the show, according to the catalogue, didn't include the contemporary works, and, without them, must have been painfully dull.) Contemporary artists grapple with mass-produced products as subjects, trying to endow them with the individuality that every flower or piece of fruit naturally possesses. Barnet Reubenstein's "Oyster Pails" of 1978-79 shows stacks of hundreds of Chinese take-out cartons; though in reality they are identical, Reubenstein uses variations of tone and shading to make each one unique...
...Latin-American community has typically been viewed as a Democratic stronghold, but they are beginning to move toward the right, said Mercedes L. Barnet, president of Massachusetts Hispanic Republicans...