A note about inaccuracies online, and a warning to those researching Fischinger

 

Multiple errors and misrepresentations are on the website of iotacenter. This company no longer has the rights to use Fischinger materials. They no longer have the Fischinger materials in their collection as mentioned and implied on their website and timeline (such as films, paintings, files, animation machine), these were returned to the Fischinger Trust in settlement of the lawsuit filed by iotacenter attempting to claim ownership of multiple Fischinger materials.

The Kinetica programs they mention on their website ended in 2003. They have not had the rights since 2003 to distribute the Fischinger program which they called Kinetica 2, since The Fischinger Trust and Bill Moritz ended their relationships with iotacenter.

Further, iotacenter did not assist in the final stages of William Moritz's work on Optical Poetry, the Fischinger biography, as claimed on their website and timeline. Nor did they assist the Academy Film Archive in 1998-99 on the preservation of some Fischinger films. The Fischinger filmography and biography on the iotacenter site are not accurate, the filmography is quite flawed. Many of their links and entries from the Absolut Panuska project are not accurate, especially regarding Fischinger and his early projects.

Researchers should not be misled by iotacenter claims that they have substantial Fischinger material. Their advertised "William Moritz Archive" is only online; they no longer have all the Moritz materials referred to on their Moritz section. Moritz's papers and original research collection, including all his Fischinger Research, are the property of Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles.

 

 

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