<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#930000" face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img height="218" width="324" src="cid:A28E42D0-DABF-4B01-86BB-861BBC1F6195@Belkin"></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#930000" face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'American Typewriter'; "><div></div><div></div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6600FF" face="'Franklin Gothic Medium', Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#930040" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 28px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#999999" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; "><br></span></font></b></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#930040" size="3"><h1><font color="#cc0000"><big><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Alexander Hahn/LUMINOUS POINT <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'American Typewriter'; font-size: 28px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">at </font></span><font color="#33cc00"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Le Petit Versailles! </font></font></span></font></big></font></h1><div align="center"><big><big><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Swiss artist of intercontinental repute, <b>Alexander Hahn</b>, </font></big></big></div><div align="center"><big><big><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">presents a live narrated screening of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">his interactive video,</font><small><small><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"> </font></small></small><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><b>Luminous Point</b>!</font></span></font></big></big></div><div align="center"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; "><br></span></font></font><u><big><big><big><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><b>Saturday, May 15th</b></font></big></big></big></u><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><b><br></b></font><u><big><big><big><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><b>8:00 PM</b></font></big></big></big></u><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br>at<br></font><font color="#33cc00"><big><big><big><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><b>Le Petit Versailles Garden, </b></font></big></big></big></font></div><div align="center"><font color="#33cc00"><big><big><big><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><b>346 E Houston St.</b></font></big></big></big></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><b><br></b></font><font color="#33cc00"><big style="font-size: 12px; "><big style="font-size: 15px; "><big style="font-size: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><b>Garden opens @ 7pm. FREE</b></font></big></big></big><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><b><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "> voluntary donations are greatly appreciated!</span></font> </b></font></font><br></div><div align="center"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#33CC00" face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'American Typewriter', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; "><div><font color="#009900"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"> <a href="http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com/">http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com</a> <a href="mailto:petitversailles@earthlink.net">petitversailles@earthlink.net</a></font></font></div><div><font color="#009900"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"> 212 529 8815</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#009900" face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; ">It's going to happen Rain or Shine.</span></span></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#009900"><big><big><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b>F / V trains to Second Ave. Walk east on Houston St. or<br>J / M trains to Delancey. Walk northeast to Houston St</b></span></font></big></big></font></div></span></b></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br></font><b><u><big><big><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">The Work: "Luminous Point"</font></big></big></u></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Luminous Point</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"> is an </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">interactive video</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"> about memory. Memory both human and artificial. Navigating per remote control, the viewers explore a digital recreation of the artist’s Lower East Side tenement apartment—</font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">a virtual wunderkammer and archive in which distant places and different times, personal biography and cultural history, fact and fiction all coexist just like in the mental space of memory</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">. Effortlessly changing between microscopic and macroscopic dimensions, the visitors pass through a labyrinth of spaces, descend into subterranean worlds, lift off skywards like dreamers, free from the binds of gravity and linear time. Luminous Point seamlessly combines video and computer generated material, creating a new form of electronic work, a hybrid composed of elements from narrative and documentary video/film, computer game, virtual reality, and photography.</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 10px; ">My work explores the shifting realities of everyday life, memory and dream. The method : overtly and covertly recording what‘s ephemeral and seemingly mundane. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 10px; ">Aided by a computer and a 3D application, I mull over the various ways these snippets might possibly relate, much like a scientist or detective trying to fit the pieces of an unknown puzzle.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Check him out on the web:</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.alexanderhahn.com/">http://www.alexanderhahn.com</a></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Even get a sneak peak at the material (even though it will be nothing like seeing it LIVE in the Garden!): </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"> </font><a href="http://vimeo.com/903246"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Luminous Point - a guided tour to the interactive dvd</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"> from </font><a href="http://vimeo.com/alexhahn"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Alexander Hahn</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"> on </font><a href="http://vimeo.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Vimeo</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">.</font><font color="#009900"><b><big><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; "><br></span></font></font></big></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></font></font></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Alexander Hahn:</span></font></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Born in Rapperswil/CH, 1954 </span></font></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 10px; "><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">lives and works in New York and Zürich. </span></font></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 10px; "><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Selected Solo Exhibitions<br><br></span></font></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">2008 Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa/IT <br>(Festival della Scienza: Alexander Hahn)<br><br>San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco/US<br>(Room for Thought: Alexander Hahn & Yves Netzhammer)<br><br>2007 Padiglione d‘Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara/IT<br>(La Signoria degli Astri)<br><br>Museum der Moderne Salzburg/AT (Works 1976-2006)<br><br>Kunstmuseum Solothurn/CH (Works 1976-2006)<br><br>2006 Darat-al-Funun, Amman/JO<br><br>2002 Musée Jenisch, Vevey/CH (Mémoires Astrales d'un Homme Volant)<br><br>2000 Netmage, LINK, Bologna/IT (Memory of Presence)</span></font></font></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Has been </span></font></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">awarded</span></font></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> with the Cultural Award of St. Gallen/CH (2009), Media Production Grant of the New York State Council on the Arts, New York/US (2008), Work Grant of the City of Zurich/CH (2007), Finishing Funds Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY/US (2005), the namics Art Prize/CH (2002), the Laser d’Oro, VideoArt Festival, Locarno/CH (1998), Price for Young Swiss Art, Zurich/CH (1995), NYSCA Media Production Grant, New York/US (1988/89/90/95), Swiss National Grant/CH (1987/88/93), Work of Excellence, Tokyo Video Festival/JP (1990), New York Foundation for the Arts/US (1986); received the Bogliasco a.i.r. in Genova/IT (2006), a.i.r. at Darat-al-Funun in Amman/JO (2006), DAAD fellowship in Berlin/DE (1993), a.i.r. at Harvestworks, New York/US (1989)</span></font></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 10px; "><br></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">*********************</span></font></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; ">*********************</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; ">*********************</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; ">*********************</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; ">*********************</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; ">*********************</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; ">*********************</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; ">*********************</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 28px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" style="font-size: 28px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00853D">2-8pm</font></span></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 28px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" style="font-size: 28px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00853D"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; "></span>Petit Versailles Y'ART SALE</font></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 28px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00853D">(Like a yard sale with art!</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00853D">)</font></span></div><div style="font-size: 28px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'American Typewriter', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00853D"><br></font></font></div><div style="font-size: 28px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00853D">Clothing, Plants, Cosmetics, Photographs, Rare Books and Prints,Toys, Antiques, Paintings, DVD's and more!</font></span></div><div style="font-size: 28px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="'American Typewriter', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 28px;"><br></span></font></span></font></div><div><font color="#666666"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00853D"><b>Le Petit Versailles</b></font> was created in 1996 by community neighbors. It is a GreenThumb garden and a project of <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#004182"><b>Allied Productions, Inc.</b></font>, a non profit arts organization. LPV provides a green oasis for meditation and relaxation dedicated to fostering the interest of all segments of the community in the arts, broadening and enriching the general public through performances, screenings, workshops.<br><br>LPV events are made possible by: Allied Productions, Inc., Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, </font></font></div><div><font color="#666666"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Materials for the Arts, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation & NYC Board of Education<br><br>LPV Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.</font></font></div></div></font></span></span></font></span></font></div></div></div></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#930000" face="Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#930000">Luminous Point has been made possible with support from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, the</font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#930000"> </font></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#930000">Experimental Television Center <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; ">and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(13, 0, 131); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(147, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">.</span></span></span></font></span></font></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#930000" face="Helvetica, Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'American Typewriter'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#E13915"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Le Petit Versailles</span></font></b></span></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">346 East Houston St. < Avenue B & C></span></font></b></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><a href="mailto:petitversailles@earthlink.net">petitversailles@earthlink.net</a> <a href="http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com/">http://www.lpvtv.blogspot.com</a> 212 529 8815</span></font></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; ">Subway: F/V- Second Ave. - J/M/F- Delancey/Essex</span></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ArialMS; font-size: 12px; "></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span><img height="200" width="128" src="cid:FCD58556-CDCE-46EE-8165-EA4DEAEA622F@Belkin"></span></span></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>