Ken Dryden is part of the Utopia Suite project. So far, it's been projected in cinemas (Toronto International Film Festival/Camera 2008 and Jhilava IDFF 2008), in galleries (WNDX/PLATFORM in Winnipeg and Thames Art Gallery in Chatham), and in a douglas fir box enclosure (AIPAD 2009 in NYC and Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto – this version is called 'Ken Dryden in the Box'). Experimenting with different kinds of exhibition is one of the Utopia Suite project's aims. In this case, we're learning from seeing how the same work changes depending on how it's shown and heard, including via the web.

Ken Dryden is an example of 'dynamic cinema', made with a hybrid mix of found materials, crude cinema tools + web technology such as animated GIFs (simple web image sequences) and html. You'll never see and hear it the same way twice as the tiles are loaded randomly (with javascript) each time the work cycles. The images and soundtrack re-mix continuously, there's no beginning, middle, or end. This is an attempt to add 'liveness' to cinema.

Ken Dryden Technical & Exhibition Notes:

::  the audio track is 6:25, and loops independently of the image; the visuals take about 8 minutes to finish one cycle, depending on your computer and connection speed.

::  Quicktime Player is required to play the audio in the above linked window, but you can also download the mp3 here (RIGHT click and save to disc) and play it any way you like. Clive recorded the interview in the mid-eighties from an AM radio with a handheld microphone, and Oscar van Dillen completed the soundtrack for this work in 2008 (the horn honking and yelling are from an all-night Turkish community soccer victory celebration in Rotterdam in the summer of 2006).

::  if you're watching at home, you might want to centre the image on-screen and/or grab the bottom-right corner of the browser window with your mouse and stretch it to fill the screen with black surround.

::  for best projection results, especially in cinemas, launch image window and then use the browser's "Full Screen" mode (available for Safari with the 'Glims' plug-in; standard in Windows Explorer); another option when using a projector is to use its 'over-scan' adjustment (in the menu controls) to hide the browser controls at the top and bottom of the screen (so only black surrounds the image, and so that the image window completely covers the audio window).

::  if you have a slower connection, allow the visuals to cycle once; this will load the images into your browser cache (i.e. it will play much more smoothly from there).