San Francisco Performance Cinema Symposium September 27, 2003

The very idea of "performance cinema" might seem like an oxymoron, but new developments in software are facilitating the rise of an artistic movement in which visuals are manipulated in real time. Combining improvisation, the fractal techniques of glitch electronica, and moving pictures, the genre references classic experimental cinema while branching off into a rapidly developing array of startlingly new directions. Today's symposium brings together a score of the medium's artists — among them Jitter developer Kit Clayton, Sue Costabile, Christina McPhee, and Phoebe Legere — for a day packed with panels and performances