Technical Notes:
Next Exit spans one hundred and fifty years of personal and family archives and incorporates more than two dozen formats from the daguerreotype to digital video. Images are processed on a Macintosh G4 using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and AfterEffects. Video is captured using Firewire or with a Targa RTX system direct to StreamLogic Arrays. The performance combines Quicktime stories along with original words and music using Macromedia Director 5.0 as the interactive interface.

Although Next Exit takes advantage of digital technologies to be transparently interactive, there are nearly one hundred pages of very creative code written by Patrick Milligan that allow me to control all aspects of the show using a wireless mouse from the stage, drawing from a suitcase containing seventy stories. My intention is to create resonant storytelling within a rich multimedia environment--the medium and the message inseparably one.

Credits:
Words, Images & Music: Dana Atchley
Lingo Magician: Patrick Milligan
Creative Consultant: Joe Lambert
Additional Music: Lol Halsey, Buffalo Rick Galeener, Terry Allen

Sponsors and Support
Over the decade many individuals and corporations have given generously to my vision. This list includes: Apple Computer, Intel, Adaptec Corp., Pinnacle Systems, Adobe Systems, Macromedia, StreamLogic, Varitel Video & Opcode Systems.

Artist's Statement An Overview of Next Exit