Grahame Weinbren

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Born in 1947 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Grahame Weinbren has been a professor, a media artist, and a mentor since the 1970s, and has since established himself as a pioneering figure in interactive cinema. He currently (2008) resides in New York City.

1 Education
2 Work
3 Works/Filmography
4 Research Papers
5 Reference
6 Further Research

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Education

Underwent studies in philosophy at the University of London from 1965-1968.
Continued his studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo from 1986-1971.

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Work

From 1972-1973, he gave lectures in philosophy, film, and art history at California Institute of the Arts.
In 1979, he was a visiting professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig (D). At the same time he was editor of the Millennium film journal, a journal of avant garde film, video and works in other image technologies, New York.
Since 1990, he has been a visiting professor for photography and computer arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

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Works/Filmography

He made films since the early 1970s, and has edited features, documentaries, music videos, and commercials.
He has published widely on interactivity and cinema, and has lectured on interactivity and cinema throughout the world since 1982.
He has made interactive cinema art-works since the early 1980s.
Among his works, Sonata is the most well-known.
He produced The Erl King (1983-86) with Roberta Friedman

His 1997 work, shared with James Cathcart, is March II.
He was the mentor for a Berlinale Talent Campus Production: On Time.

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Research Papers

Grahame's research into narrative principles:

Ocean, Database, Recut - Paper on the idea of database cinema, printed in Database Aesthetics. Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art.
In the Ocean of Streams of Story - Printed in MFJ No. 28 (Spring 1995): Interactivities. Centers on the problematics of interactivity. Listen to Weinbren lecture
The Digital Revolution is a Revolution of Random Access - discusses the possibilities of interactive cinema.