Optic Nerve (CD-ROM)
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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Optic Nerve
| Type = studio
| Longtype = ([[Charitable organization|Charity]] [[CD-ROM]])
| Artist = [[Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series]]
| Cover = David Wojnarowicz - Optic Nerve (CD-ROM).jpg
| Released = [[1999]]
| Recorded =
| Genre = [[Multimedia]]
| Length =
| Label = [[Red Hot Organization]]
| Producer = [[Red Hot Organization]], [[Funny Garbage]]
| Reviews =
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| Last album = ''[[Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove]]'' <br/>(1998)
| This album = '''''Optic Nerve''''' ([[David Wojnarowicz]])<br/>(1999)
| Next album = ''[[Red Hot + Indigo]]'' <br/>(2001)
}}
'''Optic Nerve''' is an interactive, [[CD-ROM]] showcasing the life and work of [[multimedia]] artist [[David Wojnarowicz]]. The disc includes film, interviews, music, performance, painting and writing from the artist. The release is the first entry in the [[Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series]] with a non-musical focus. Production was handled by the [[Red Hot Organization]] (RHO) and [[Funny Garbage]], in conjunction with the [[New Museum of Contemporary Art]] exhibit entitled '''"Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz."'''
The disc also features an interactive version of '''''ITSOFOMO''''' — the series of public performances, featuring readings from Wojnarowicz's work, along with multiple video images which the artist either created or selected.
Optic Nerve was originally available from [[New York City]]'s New Museum bookstore. At that time, four dollars received from the sale of each disc was donated to the [[Hetrick Martin Institute]] — an entity which had Wojnarowicz as a patron. The HMI is a leading professional provider of social support and programming for all at-risk youth, particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning youth in the New York metropolitan area. The CD-ROM has since become available from the Red Hot Organization.
==External links==
*[http://www.redhot.org/projects/optic_nerve.html Information page] on ''Optic Nerve'' at the Red Hot Organization website
*[http://www.artincontext.org/listings/pages/exhib/y/z7fdlc8y/press.htm Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz]
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