The Film Institute of Northern California is proud to present New Media for the millenium.
Admission is free.
The presentation also includes a special live link with the renowned InterCommunication Center in Tokyo on Saturday, October 9. Presented by Jan Millsapps of San Francisco State University and Randall Packer of the University of California, Berkeley, Pleasure Island , creates an on-line community inhabited by fictional characters and visitors who perform to create spontaneous and interactive narratives. Based on the history of the actual Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, Pleasure Island creates an immersive world that includes artists, scientists, seers, spies, slackers and hackers to name but a few. Sam Jose's guided tour of Ahurwam's Compound is disrupted by the raucous downton residents as Violet accuses him of blowing up the island's only work of art, a goddess statue dating from the 1939 World's Fair. Visitors can take Sam's tour or explore on their own.