These works are a hybrid of still digital imagery that is converted to video. With the advent of flexible multiple keyframe motion software, I was able to bring this imagery into the temporal medium of video. Using this software, I was able to create a series of video files that were then composited into a dynamic collage. Each of the pieces is edited in the high definition 1080i format and was scaled down to QuickTime files on DVDs.

This approach made it possible to create a complex interplay of imagery along with original digital electronic music that I have termed "Electronic Poems."

In creating these pieces, the following software was utilized: Photo to Movie, Final Cut Pro, Reason Music Synthesizer, and Live 5 Digital Audio Workstation.

Selected Exhibitions of Video/Photographic Work:

Video Works:

Harmonizing: Harmonizing is a 26 minute documentary of the doo wop group "The Emeralds" that originally formed in the mid-1960s. The Vietnam war interrupted their progress and a key member Jerry Tempesta, was critically wounded and "lost singing in my heart". In the mid-1990s Jerry and another original member, Joe Porpora, re-formed the group that includes three other members including Richie Grasso a Philadelphia songwriter with 93 credits listed with BMI. It is the story of five "brothers" that have established a solid musical reputation in this region and continue to pursue their ambition for success and vocal excellence. Broadcast summer and fall 2006.

Electronic Poems a DVD consisting of nine visual/music works created from a complex panoply of multiple imagery and digital music. Five of these were selected to run on the Moov art channel of the Voom high definition network.

*FightNight, a twelve minute documentary of an evening of prize fights held in Philadelphia at a venue called the “Arts Palace.” It consists of a series of interviews, fights, ring girls and associates of the game.
TATTOO 2, thirty minute documentary of the Second Annual NYC Tattoo Convention
*TATTOO 3 a twenty five minute piece on the Third Annual Convention NYC Tattoo Convention
*COWBOY ACTION SHOOTING, a sixteen minute documentary of this odd sport growing in popularity among older retired individuals that combines guns and nostalgia for the “Old West.”

* available for viewing on Google Video [video.google.com search porett]

Photographic /Digital Exhibitions:

“Interpretations” solo image and media exhibition at Haverford College
“Pre-emptive D'gustation” a mixed media installation as part of the Operation Rapid American Withdrawal 1970 - 2005 exhibition, Philadelphia
"Taken by Design" Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Image included in the catalog/book from show.
Ninth New York Digital Salon, NYC, IMAGINE 2001, Gävle, Sweden, Photo 2001 & 2002, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC, Eighth New York Digital Salon, NYC; Digital Landscape, Silicon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Siggraph 2000 Art Show, New Orleans, LA; Intersections, Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia; CrossWaves Festival, Annenberg Center, Philadelphia; Digital Vision-Digital Voice, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia; (inter)Active: electronic art channels, Trenton State College; Philadelphia Art Now: Artists Choose Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; ARTIFICES, Paris; Digital Image - Digital Photography, Dallas; SIGGRAPH Art Show, 1982, '83, '85, '86, '87, '91, '99; International Painting Interactive 1992; Art-in-Science V, University City Science Center, Philadelphia; New Spirit of Photography, Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC; Digital Visions, IBM Gallery, NYC; Electra Exhibition, Musée d' Art Moderne, Paris; PIXIM, Paris

Awards:
Guggenheim Fellowship - Photography 1971, UICA research grant, UArts Faculty Grants 1983, 1985, 1993, 1995, 2003 and WYBE Philadelphia Stories 2005

Published images in the following books:
Art of the Digital Age
Neo-Impressionism: Artists on the Edge, Art of the Electronic Age, Design Principles & Problems, Photographing in the Studio; The Complete Printmaker -Techniques/Traditions/Innovations, Making Art Safely; Philadelphia Images; Digital Imagery; Digital Visions, Photographic Possibilities; Introduction to Visual Literacy; Drawing with Computers; Photography; The New Photography; High Contrast; Photography: A Handbook of History, Materials and Processes; Frontiers of Photography; The Art of Photography; Vision and Expression.

Computer Mediated Electronic Image and Sound Pieces 1981 to 2004americAmiracle, Hymns of the Republic, Mystery Street, Deceptions, Timeline, Victims, Patrianostra, Ikons: An Interactive Image Journey, Mosaic Transforms, Masks, Animal Dreams, Softlands

World Wide Web Art sites:
ArtPrints http://www.dimagery.com/
Multi/Art http://www.dimagery.com/multiart
theBeautiful http://dimagery.com/theBeautiful/ambeau.html