[Sfbay-video] Fwd: VIDEO ARTIST TO PROJECT STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

[a. mark liiv]

>Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:03:25 -0800 (PST)
>Subject: VIDEO ARTIST TO PROJECT STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
>From: "bijan yashar" <b at bijanyashar.com>
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
>31 January 2006
>
>Contact:   Bijan Yashar   415-205-7584	  b at bijanyashar.com
>
>VIDEO ARTIST TO PROJECT STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
>
>Experiment in distorted projection of George W. Bush speech at Market and
>Sanchez
>
>SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area video artist Bijan Yashar will project in
>real-time George W. Bush's 2006 State of the Union address onto a wall
>adjacent to a defunct Shell gas station at the Corner of Market and
>Sanchez. He will filter the live speech through a camera utilizing extreme
>and shifting angles to underscore point of view and bias in political
>posturing.
>
>Yashar performed similar experiments for the 2003 and 2005 State of the
>Union speeches. The events took place in San Francisco at the corner of
>Market and Sanchez (2003) and the corner of Market and Duboce (2005). In
>2003 he distorted and projected the televised image of the speech in
>real-time from a Shell gas station onto an adjacent building. About 170
>people gathered to watch the projection. The event was covered on Channel
>5 Eyewitness News, KRON 4 News, and CNN News. In 2005 the speech was
>projected above a Union 76 gas station directly across the San Francisco
>Mint Facility, and was covered in the San Francisco Chronicle.
>
>For more information and images from the 2003 and 2005 projects, please
>visit http://web.mac.com/byashar/iWeb.
>
>This event will take place Tuesday, January 31 at 6:00 pm.
>
>For more information, contact Bijan Yashar at 415-205-7584 or
>b at bijanyashar.com
>
>http://web.mac.com/byashar/iWeb