Kathy Roses' experimental video “The Inn of Floating Images,” will be screened at DIGIT, a digital media exposition sponsored by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, June 13-15 in Narrowsburg.

NARROWSBURG — Whether you’re an artist with an interest in digital production or you want better understand everyday gadgets like digital cameras and computers, the Fifth Annual DIGIT Expo, presented by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, will help to demystifying technology and spark a dialogue about the pros and the cons of the digital revolution. Attendees can view new digital videos, learn the steps to start a website, participate in an interactive sound composition, and even make their own mini-movie and win $500. On Saturday, June 14, DIGIT hosts a robust series of workshops and panel discussions. At 1 p.m., multi-media artist Daria Dorosh, Ph.D leads a talk titled “Exploring Digital On-Demand Production,” looking at the current do-it-yourself trend. At 2 p.m., a family from New York City who work and play in the digital realm discusses how to “Do it Digitally.” And at 3 p.m., several artists and thinkers will discuss “The Dark Side of Digital,” examining how technology and digitalization is changing all of our lives, as well as the privacy concerns that we must face. Visitors to the Arts Center also have the opportunity to listen to the DIGIT 2008 Best Audio winner: Henry Gwiazda’s sound art piece “Claudia and Paul.” Saturday at 6:30 p.m. on Narrowsburg’s Main Street, composer Tom Holmes will orchestrate his new musical work, “Time Travel Back to the 20th Century: Echoes of John Cage and Charles Ives paddling their canoe up stream....” The work will consist of many non-musicians participating in a chance event. All present at the DIGIT 2008 festival are welcome to contribute. The piece will utilize found sound objects, hand percussion, radios, CD players, a piano, synthesizer, car horns, voice and the kitchen sink. Feel free to bring your own instrument. Groups of musicians will be posted along Main Street in Narrowsburg and informed by directions written on cards as to what there next objective will be. The evening is rounded out by a program of new video works by digital artists from Alabama to Brooklyn, France to Jersey City, in genres including animation, experimental, narrative, and “mockumentary.” The show begins at 8 p.m. at the Tusten Theatre at 210 Bridge Street. $1,500 in prizes will be awarded. Throughout the weekend, artists of all skill levels are invited to make a movie, and make $500. The on-location movies must be no more than 3 minutes long and must be shot and edited between June 13 and 15 in the town of Narrowsburg. The short videos will be screened on Sunday, June 15 at 12 p.m, at the “Quick and Gritty” video slam at the Tusten Theatre. For more details, visit www.ArtsAllianceSite.org. All DIGIT events are free and open to the public, including the opening reception and video installation screenings on Friday, June 13 from 6-9 p.m. at the Delaware Arts Center at 37 Main Street in Narrowsburg. Donations are gratefully accepted. Sponsored by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, DIGIT encourages creative and technical excellence and experimentation among individual artists and small groups working with digital tools. DIGIT is funded in part by a grant from the Electronic Media Program of the New York State Council on the Arts. For more information about the event call 845-252-7576 or visit www.ArtsAllianceSite.org.