This film was only available during the Computer Baroque online exhibition, which ran from 14 April-14 July 2009.

Produced by James Duesing
Assistants James Spiers, Christopher Young and Marjorie Garrett
Voices Sandrika Jamal Lazarides, Dan Kleingers, Aralee Strange, Rose Fey and Jimmy Dee
Music John Erhardt and Dan Kleingers
Produced at University of Cincinnati DAAP Computer Graphics Center
Audio Post Production Instant Replay Cincinnati
Audio Engineer John McDanial
Funding Ohio Arts Council, AFI/NEA Regional Fellowship, DAAP Research Challange, University of Cincinnati Research Council and City of Cincinnati Arts Allocation Committee

In a world that has shifted to being information and service based, industrialists are corralled on a reservation named Lorado, to sell plastic things as remnants of their past culture. The reservation is built on a polluted lake which is a tourist attraction. In Lorado there are many forms of love and every one keeps a pet. The story turns on the suicide of Fashionette's fish, because of bad water conditions, and ends with a large scale chemical fire. This project took over three years to produce and all of the images are computer generated and animated.

Duesing depicts the minutiae life in a fictitious ecological disaster area, gaining a complexity of characterisation and scale of production by drawing with the early 'electronic paint' systems.

James Duesing is a computer animator and video artist. His work has been exhibited throughout the world in venues as diverse as: The Sundance Film Festival; PBS; SIGGRAPH; The Berlin Video Festival; MTV; Shanghai Animation Festival; Film Forum and the Seoul Animation Center.

His work is held in collections at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Goethe Memorial Museum, Tokyo; the UCLA Film Archive, Los Angeles and The Israel Museum. His work has received much recognition including: Grants from Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, an American Film Institute Fellowship, an Emmy Award, the Deutscher Videokunstpreis, and a CINE Golden Eagle.

He has been Co-Director of The STUDIO of Creative Inquiry a center for interdisciplinary collaboration in art and science projects. He currently is a Professor in Electronic and Time Based Art at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art.

Image courtesy of Video Data Bank