Family Files,a CD-rom by Mari Soppela

Mari's CD-rom Family Files was produced over a period of almost two years and partly developed on her Website. There you can still find a number of shockwave movies of various sections in the CD-rom, as well as various links to past end future presentations. You'll find Mari's site at http://www.xs4all.nl/~ano.

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 '...Soppela is not a video artist, pasting together personal pictures with a black box. She writes in the electronic medium, and does so in the most fundamental sense of the word. She creates forms which allow the user to see pictures which are both everyday and less everyday, which are filled with meaning. And all of this stems from the subtle power of a keen mind. And love.'

Review by Dirk van Weelden in Mediamatic Vol 9#1

Family Files is published with the printed edition of Mediamatic Magazine, Vol 9#1 the Secret Agents issue. As an introduction to the cdrom Dirk van Weelden wrote a short review about Family Files(excerpted above). This issue also features articles on Tom Ray's Tierra Project, Finnegan's Wake as secret text-agent, a secret mission in Vietnam, SuperBug and a collection of reviews.

To order Mediamatic Vol 9#1, including the Family Files CD-rom of course, just fill out the form or send email to orders@mediamatic.nl.

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