Photo by Harding
Paul Elsner , Chancellor Emeritus, Maricopa County Community Colleges
Danial Pink, Fast Company
"Somewhere on the road between Mark Twain and Jack Kerouac."
Peter Bergman, Firesign Theater
"A storyteller with the voice of Garrison Keillor, the timing of Lily Tomlin and the sensibility of Hunter Thompson."
Nick DeMartino, Videography
"Atchley is a storyteller in the Spalding Gray sense of the word– except that Dana is more approachable, funnier and, as storytellers go, there is none better."
David Coursey, Newsletter
"With the polish of a professional well acquainted with his virtual instuments, Atchley muses through recollections of family, friends, and his own childhood memories with Garrison Keillor-like coziness."
Paul Beddoe-Stephens , Wired.com
"Atchley has firmly grasped the essence of what interactive multimedia can do for the performance artist. The most important element of Next Exit is its emotional content which proves most convincingly that multimedia will be a vehicle for personal expression."
Jonathan E, Microtimes
"Atchley is an excellent storyteller...a complex, affecting piece that demonstrates that multimedia--although quite different from the more linear forms of film, fiction and theater--can be in every way as engaging and powerful."
Laura Nugent, New Media News
"Dana Atchley is a virtual
electronic age Homer...poignant detail reminiscent of Schumann's Scenes
from Childhood."
Diane McGary, iics Newsletter
"Next Exit served to
underscore a lesson many performers in this field have not yet taken to
heart. Computers can't be the main event; they should be a blank slate
for the creative mind."
Scott Rosenberg, A Dazzling Highwire
Exhibition, SF Examiner