If you're coming to Austin for SXSW, consider coming a day early to
check out this show!
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AMODA 3rd Anniversary DIGITAL SHOWCASE
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Austin, TX
@ Bonggo's (formerly Texture - 505 Neches)
9pm - 2am / 18+
$7 general admission
Free for AMODA members
Free for SXSW Interactive badgeholders
LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC:
-- Blip vs. 2*Bz0k (Austin)
-- Self-Contained Unit (Austin)
-- Proem (Merck, n5MD / Austin)
-- Treewave (Dallas)
-- Richard Devine (Warp, Schematic / Atlanta)
-- About This Product (Phthalo, Tigerbeat6 / Houston)
VISUAL ART:
-- Pleix Collective
-- Nate Pagel
-- Bill Hundley
-- flora&fauna.visions
-- Fork Unstable Media
-- Robert Hodgin
-- Sue Costabile
-- Ben Hodges
-- Brian Alfred
-- re-move
-- Ryan Molloy
-- Eric Tomberlin
-- Takagi Masakatsu
-- Jeffers Egan
-- Young Min Kang
Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is non-profit organization that
promotes access to and appreciation of digital art. We define digital
art as art that incorporates digital technology in the product,
process, or subject. The Digital Showcase is a bi-monthly event
featuring live performance of electronic music, ranging from abstract
beats to ambient drones, along with various forms of visual art,
including video and interactive works.
http://www.amoda.org
MUSICIAN BIO'S:
Blip
Austin, TX
Blip is Glenn Barovich, a native of Florida who has lived in Austin for
several years. He is a rock and roll musician who has long been a fan
of drum machines, samplers and synthesizers. Blip makes up one half of
the DJ group Transexformers Sound System, who specialize in new-wave
electro and dirty digital music. His solo DJ sets are wildly varied,
incorporating a huge range of genres and resulting in unexpected twists
and turns. His goal is to give the woofers a workout and not be boring.
2*Bz0k
Austin, TX
Erich Ragsdale is an indulgent, lackadaisical corpuscle-pod and
avant-geek. A native Austinite, he has obediently never tried to escape
from his cage and continues to derive joy in the minutiae of planetary
existence. Currently on hiatus from the grand halls of Academia, his
time is metered in plate-sized servings of optic stimulae and
synth-aesthesia. Futurist, Cymaticist, avid thought collector and
neo-percussionist, Mr. E is working toward the ball in fractal symmetry.
Audio and visual ephemera are produced in full stereo effect. Someday
he hopes to own a computer.
Self-Contained Unit
Austin, TX
"Imagine the sound of a CPU the fraction of a second before it
recognizes itself - that is the sound of Self Contained Unit. Cool and
precise, SCU strings together chains of ones and zeros to the tune of
softsynth squiggles and a sharp 4/4 step. Blissfully unaware of the
world globetrotting to the Next Sound around him, this gear-fetishist
chooses to spend his days with friends Roland and Korg, building
bleeping blocks of beats and drifts of subliminal melodic tones
twisting in-between. All of the Turing tests have failed - ready
yourself for Self Contained Unit's agitated AI atmospheres." - Red
Antenna
Proem
Merck, n5MD
Austin, TX
Proem is a veteran of the Austin electronic music scene, having
performed at many previous Digital Showcases and other local events. He
has also performed at many shows across the country, including
safteyinnumbers' SiN Festival in New York City (both in 2000 and 2001)
and the 2001 Winter Music Conference in Miami.
Proem's recorded output is equally impressive, having released 5
full-length albums and numerous EPs, singles, and remixes over the past
several years. His releases have appeared on such respected labels as
Merck, Hydrant and n5md. Most recently, he released the full-length
"Socially Inept" on Merck and a live album on n5MD, both in early 2004.
In addition to music, Richard is also a talented visual artist and
graphic designer. Richard's designs can be found on Proem releases and
website, several AMODA Showcase flyers, as well as years of paintings
that decorate the walls of his apartment.
Treewave
Dallas, TX
Treewave is a music/digital art project featuring warm accessible music
and visual imagery created using obsolete computer equipment. The
instrument lineup includes an Atari 2600 game console, two Commodore
64s, a 1986 Compaq, and a dot matrix printer. Projected visuals are
generated entirely by the Atari 2600.
Leaning towards shoe-gazing and thick pop structures of Stereolab and My
Bloody Valentine, textured layers of warm drones & electronic machinery
are enhanced by lush, female vocals. Previous performances include The
Little Theatre (Seattle), Fluxfactory (New York), Cinematexas (Austin),
Dallas Museum of Art, and The New York Underground Film Festival.
Richard Devine
Warp, Schematic
Atlanta
Once a daring skater kid from Atlanta, now a computer science
student/pioneer-to-be, Devine found electronic music and has reinvented
it in his own way. In the latter part of his 25 years, he learned to
build, manipulate, and master the machines of modern music. To date, he
has released 3 albums on respected labels such as Warp and Schematic
Records, and has performed numerous shows all over the world.
In his music, Devine masterfully orchestrates a titanic array of
rapidly moving information, cleverly channeling it into an organized
stream of sound. There are seemingly endless layers of rhythms,
spanning every notch of frequency, spiraling around one another like
complex DNA strands hinged together in a grid-like lattice. The human
mind can only process so much information at one time, and Devine knows
this well -- it is one of his sonic weapons. Like optic art, when the
eyes are fed too much data, the overload of his music produces a
prismatic, entrancing effect. He often wraps these elements around a
steady groove, resulting in strange, mechanical funk music.
At other times, Devine's music assumes the eerie calm of dark ambient
and the beatless sonic explorations of musique concrete. His second
album, "Aleamapper", mostly focuses on this territory and it often
evokes the atmospheric tension of a futuristic horror film. His most
recent release, "Asect: Dsect" combines the best of his ambient and
beat-driven work resulting in his most balanced and varied album yet.
About This Product
Phthalo Records
Houston, TX
About This Product strive for real experimental electronic music
without compromise. With strong punk ethics, and an obsessive love for
experimenting in sound, this young Houston laptop duo creates gritty
dense walls of noise and energetic rhythms with a constant element of
irreverence and fun.
The duo's unscheduled and chaotic performance at Digital Showcase 11
immediately caught the attention of Phthalo Records head Dimitri
Fergadis (Phthalocyanine). The label later released their debut album
"Trash Art", which was hailed as "A battle royale between chaotic noise
and musical structure...so exquisite it'll make your ass hurt." -Heath
Highnight/XLR8R
About This Product frequently plays live in Houston and Austin where
they've opened for Kid 606, Phthalocyanine, Thomas Jirku, Hrvatski, Dat
Politics, and Mogwai. One of their tracks also appears on a compilation
from the respected Tigerbeat6 Records.
VISUAL ARTIST BIO's:
Brian Alfred
New York, NY
Brian Alfred was born in Pittsburgh and currently is living and working
in Brooklyn. He has had several shows including two solo exhibitions at
the Max Protetch gallery in New York City. Starting out as a painter,
for his last exhibition at Protetch, Alfred also exhibited four
animations based on his paintings. He also collaborated with electronic
musicians, who for the cdrom catalog for the show, were asked to create
a song in response to viewing the artists work. This fall he will have
a solo show at Sandroni Rey gallery in LA, and will have the second
version of the cdrom project with a group of new musicians.
Bill Hundley
Austin, TX
Bill Hundley was born in St. Paul, MN, earned a BFA in Studio Art from
SWT, and now lives and works in Austin, TX. Hundley is a painter by
training, and is formerly one half of the group Industry of Light. His
video works mix intensely glitchy After Effects editing techniques with
painterly textures and often focus on human physical movement. His work
has been shown at many previous Digital Showcases, and other various
local events and art shows.
Sue Costabile
Musork, Reline DVD
San Francisco, CA
Sue Costabile (a.k.a. sue & the musorkians) is a photographer and video
artist working with a combination of analog and digital processes, both
as a solo artist and in collaboration with various musicians. Born in
long island, new york in 1974, she has resided in san franciscos lower
haight since 1996. With academic training largely focused on both the
natural and built environments (first studying ecology and then
architectural engineering) themes of the organic and the inorganic are
often explored. Her live improvisational video performances involve
various media including photographs, negatives, drawings and tiny
objects, set in motion and digitized in real-time, then processed in
the jitter software environment.
flora&fauna.visions
Berlin, Germany
flora&fauna.visions founder Leigh Haas grew up in Scotland, spending her
formative years in Glasgow studying architecture and designing club
flyers for local bands. After graduating from architecture at the
Glasgow School of Art 1993, she moved to Berlin, Germany where she has
been located since.
flora&fauna.visions exists since 1998 and is specializing on the
development of multidisciplinary design in the environment to develop
design solutions, that support brand and communication strategies. They
approach design as an emotional and active part of our subculture
process, whether it be through site specific event projection, live
performance, or graphic design.
Over the last 3 years the company has gained respect for their design,
commercially and non-commercially, working with many different
international networks and scenes.
flora&fauna.visions has worked internationally in countries such as USA,
GB, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Belgium, Germany and Russia. Since 2001
Leigh also collaborates with David Linderman from Fork Unstable Media.
Fork Unstable Media
Berlin, Germany
David Linderman's work is most commonly associated with experimental and
commercial design projects at Fork Unstable Media, a design studio
co-founded by Linderman in Hamburg, Germany in 1996.
In 1999 Linderman moved to Berlin founding a second studio. Inspired by
the unique co-existence of visual arts, graphic-design and club-culture
in Berlin at that time, Linderman shifted his focus in experimental
projects to nteractive, or reactive, video installations and live video
performances. Again, his work is characterized by a unique amalgamation
of borrowed and self-made material remixed contextually into
provocative visual artifacts resembling dream-like states of
conciousness.
Linderman has performed or created installations since 1999 throughout
Europe and the United States, most notably in the Kuenstlerhaus Vienna,
in 2001, as part of the Stealing Eyeballs exhibition and for the Warner
Media Lounge at the Kunsthaus, Hamburg in December of 2002.
Since 2001 David also collaborates with LEIGH HAAS from flora&fauna.
Ben Hodges
Austin, TX
Ben Hodges is a graduate student at the Américo Paredes Center for
Cultural Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He works with
film and digital media to explore the layering of memory and place. From
Bulgarian seaside resorts to academic conferences, Hodges has used his
productions to address local concerns through the art of personal
expression. Currently Hodges is editing a short film, researching the
culture of online learning, and pursuing funding of all kinds.
Robert Hodgin
Boston, MA
Robert Hodgin is a commercial designer and artist from Boston,
Massachusetts. He's the co-founder and Creative Director at the
Barbarian Group, where his groundbeaking Flash work for Volkswagen has
recieved numerous major awards. Robert's creative outlet is
flight404.com, an interactive experimental Flash site that has also
garnered him international recognition. He has spoken at Flash Forward
2001 and other conferences on the use of experimental Flash, and also
worked with Macromedia in the development of Flash 5. His many design
awards include the Grand Clio, multiple Gold and Silver Pencils, and
several Hatch Awards. His work has been featured in virtually every
major design magazine. Robert earned a bachelor's of fine arts degree in
sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.
Jeffers Egan
Jeffers Egan has worked for the last several years to combine the
mediums of abstract painting, real-time visuals, motion graphic design,
architecture and electronic music. Jeffers has shown his work worldwide,
in galleries, clubs, film festivals, and museums. He has worked on
several seminal audio/visual projects with electronic musician Jake
Mandell, including their latest Slither DVD. Along with Jarrett Smith,
he is one half of the visual art group Mordka, who performed live at
AMODA's Digital Showcase 20. Jeffers studied in the Graduate Fine Art
program at ArtCenter in Los Angeles, CA. Professionally, he has worked
as a freelance motion graphics designer and animator in Los Angeles and
Berlin.
Takagi Masakatsu
Carpark Records
Kyoto, Japan
Born in 1979, and currently living in Kyoto, Japan, Takagi Masakatsu is
talented and prolific as both a musician and a visual artist. His work
has gained much attention for its high level fusion between sound and
visual elements. His activities transcend various fields such as music,
club culture, fashion, cinema and visual art -- he's done several video
installations at art spaces and had live performances all over the
world.
To date, Takagi has released approximately 7 CDs and 4 DVDs on various
record labels worldwide such as Carpark, Karaoke Kalk, and Daisyworld.
In 2003, he had a video installation at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
of Contemporary Art, and the Singapore Art Museum. The later part of
2003 saw the release of his CDs "Eating 2" and "Sail", as well as his
DVD "World Is So Beautiful".
Nate Pagel
Designate
San Francisco, CA
Nate is a new media artist who collaborates with choreographers,
composers, and designers to create theatrical performances, installation
work and works for tape, CD-ROM, DVD and the Web. He has served as new
media consultant and videographer for the Sharir Dance Company in
Austin, collaborated on virtual reality and teleconferencing projects
with the Electronic Café International in Santa Monica and University
of Texas Professors Marcos Novak and Allucquere Roseanne Stone. Nate's
work has been shown in New London, Austin, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City,
Chicago, Milwaukee, Oberlin, San Francisco, Klagenfurt, Hannover,
Rotterdam, Oslo and Lisbon.
PLEIX Collective
Paris, France
Pleix is a community of digital artists (graphic designers, 3d artists,
musicians...) willing to mix their skills to gain greater freedom for
various projects. The Pleix touch could be a common work on limits,
contradictions and accidents that show the fragility of the digital
world. These artists produce tension by joining together heterogeneous
graphics, videos and sounds.
re-move
Vienna, Austria
Lia has been working on digital art since 1995, after graduating from
the High-school for Students of Music in Graz, Austria. Living in Vienna
since then and currently between Vienna and Porto, Portugal, she splits
her time between visual design, web art, video and realtime visual
performances, apparently different activities that she however manages
to bind together trough her unique approach to creativity and
production. Over the last years she has also been teaching as an
invited teacher at the Fachhochschule Joanneum in Graz, Austria and the
École Cantonalle d'Art de Lausanne, Switzerland. written by Miguel
Carvalhais
Ryan Molloy
Austin, TX
Ryan Molloy is a recent MFA graduate and currently a visiting lecturer
at the University of Texas at Austin's Design Division. He received his
Bachelor of Architecture degree from Texas Tech University in 1998.
Upon graduation he returned to his hometown the dusty bodertown of El
Paso, Texas. There he worked within the field of architecture towards
receiving his architecture license and enrolled in post baccularate work
in graphic design at the University of Texas at El Paso. His current
work examines a fascination of type that zooms across the screen,
animated characters, fast paced video games, mouse-overs that make
objects dance, and images that appear and disappear. It explores the
allure and the appeal of the moving image and how it reshapes
traditional printed media.
Young Min Kang
Seoul / Austin
Young Min Kang was born in Seoul, Korea. He has studied as a graduate
student in Studio Art program at UT Austin since 2001. His diverse
approach has been shown not only in traditional genres but also in
sculpture, video, and digital photography. He continuously plays with
the relationship between human perception and media in our mediated
world. His digital pieces not only demonstrate the use technology in
art work, but at the same time, reveal its possibilities and limits by
incorporating more basic and low-tech methods of the medium.
FLYER ARTIST BIO:
Andy Potts
London, England
Andy Potts was born in Dudley, England in 1973. Potts eventually
enrolled at Portsmouth University to study Illustration. After
graduating, he moved to Brighton and found work in a new media agency,
had a crash course in "taming a computer" and discovered whole new
world of image creation. Since then Andy Potts has moved to London and
had dual careers. He is a freelance illustrator/animator, creating work
for advertising, publishing and editorial clients such as TBWAGTT,
Random House and the Guardian and animated sequences for short films and
Creative Review's DVD. He is also an interface designer and animator of
music DVDs at Abbey Road Studios, having worked for acts such as
Radiohead, Coldplay and New Order.
ABOUT AMODA:
Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is non-profit organization that
promotes access to and appreciation of digital art. We define digital
art as art that incorporates digital technology in the product,
process, or subject. The Digital Showcase is a monthly event featuring
live performance of electronic music, ranging from abstract beats to
ambient drones, along with various forms of visual art, including video
and interactive works.
http://www.amoda.org
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Todd Simmons
Digital Showcase Director
Austin Museum fo Digital Art
www.amoda.org
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