AMODA DIGITAL SHOWCASE
Wednesday, November 17th, 2004
Austin, TX
@ Copa (217 Congress)
9pm-2am
$7 General / Free with membership
18 and up
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LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC:
quoted 1 line MC LXXIX + 2*BZ0K
>> MC LXXIX + 2*BZ0K
(Austin, TX / eclectic DJ set)
quoted 1 line DEADBEAT
>> DEADBEAT
(~Scape, Intr_version / Montreal / warm digital dub)
quoted 1 line BUS
>> BUS
(~Scape / Berlin / dub-influenced hip-hop)
quoted 1 line CRACKHAUS
>> CRACKHAUS
(Mutek_Rec, Onitor / Montreal / humorous, glitchy house)
quoted 1 line DJ D METEO
>> DJ D METEO
(~Scape, Meteosound / Berlin / microhouse dance jams)
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VISUAL ART:
quoted 1 line BEAU CASEY
>> BEAU CASEY
(San Francisco, CA / 3D virtual environment video)
quoted 1 line BOB GREEN
>> BOB GREEN
(New York, NY / video mix)
quoted 1 line DANIEL SHIFFMAN
>> DANIEL SHIFFMAN
(New York, NY / interactive camera feedback system)
quoted 1 line JAUN CARLOS GONZALES
>> JAUN CARLOS GONZALES
(Austin, TX / playstation driven video)
quoted 1 line KARI ALTMANN
>> KARI ALTMANN
(Baltimore, MD / digital prints)
quoted 1 line PETER NYBOER
>> PETER NYBOER
(San Jose, CA / animated still photos)
quoted 1 line ROBERT MELTON
>> ROBERT MELTON
(Austin, TX / figurative video)
quoted 1 line EMMETT FELDMAN
>> EMMETT FELDMAN
(San Francisco, CA / 3D generated video)
quoted 1 line WILLIAM SELLARI
>> WILLIAM SELLARI
(Austin, TX / deconstructive video)
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ABOUT THE DIGITAL SHOWCASE:
The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is a 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
electronic music and visual art, ranging from abstract to accessible,
presented in a social setting.
http://www.amoda.org
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ABOUT THE MUSICIANS:
MC LXXIX
Austin, TX
Abraham Freeman seems to have become a nearly ubiquitous presence at Austin
house parties as of late. He can often be spotted playing an eclectic DJ
set, along with his frequent collaborator 2*Bz0k. Their sets cover a wide
range of music from reggae and dub to German minimal techno to
unclassifiable bleepy fun.
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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.
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Deadbeat
~Scape, Intr_version
Montreal, Canada
Deadbeat is one Scott Monteith, an adopted Montrealer who has been releasing
his own special blend of dub laden minimal electronics since 1998, for
labels such as Cynosure, Force Inc, Intr_version, Revolver , and Scape. His
work has been met with consistant critical acclaim from the industry's
leading publications and websites, and drawn performance invitations for
some of the world's most respected festivals, including Barcelona's Sonar,
Berlin's Transmediale, and Montreal's own Mutek. From 1999 to late 2003,
Scott worked, assuming various roles, for the Montreal based company Applied
Acoustics Systems, makers of the Tassman Software Synthesizer. Having now
moved on to pursue his own musical efforts full time, the experience has
left him with a passion for the development of new creative interfaces, and
a strong grasp of some the most cutting edge technology in the industry.
Whether crafting quirky, not-quite-dancefloor techno, or rumbling digital
dub,Scott continually strives to create music that honours the past beyond
empty tribute or cultural appropriation, by infusing the digital tools of
the present with a little of the magic spice known as human imperfection.
Hindered only by the occasional buffer underrun or synapse misfiring, Scott
continues to search for his own unique voice between the ones and zeros - a
story to be continued.
http://www.techno.ca/deadbeat/
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Bus
~Scape
Berlin, Germany
Since their inception in 2001 Daniel Meteo and Tom Thiel have zigzagged
their dub double-decker between a handful of stops to release their music
into this world. When it comes down to it, their common love of reggae can
always be relied on as an ignition and musical compass.
It comes as no surprise that Daniel Meteo and Tom Thiel would meet one day,
as both are heavily involved in Berlins musical menagerie. Daniel runs his
own experimental dub label (Meteosound), stages acclaimed events with a
focus on local electronic music and places the artist rosters of ~scape,
Meteosound, Ocean Club and Shitkatapult at the right clubs worldwide with
his booking agency flow-er. Tom Thiel, on the other hand, was already
writing international headlines a decade ago as Sun Electric (together
with Max Loderbauer), followed by their experimental live improvisation
project s.e. electric.
Bus create their electronic dub on two Powerbooks and enrich it with
elements of hiphop and minimal electronica. At the same time, they are eager
to cultivate intense collaborations with other musicians like MC Soom-T
who, on their latest album Middle of the Road, became less of a guest and
more of a temporary project member. Bus are most of all about the joint
communication of musical ideas. Initially devised separately by each member,
they later work out the common ground between the elements both like. To
Bus, reggae is not a way of life - quite the contrary. Rather, they
eliminate sticky clichés and invest the structure with their own, emotional
spirit and understanding of the music they both venerate. Another
characteristic is their pragmatic, ideology-free use of the laptop as an
instrument. Daniel Meteo: The laptop offers us normal instrumentation
like guitar, bass, harp or piano just as much as the crackly-Max-MSP-stuff.
As we love using both, we really appreciate the freedom it allows us.
http://www.scape-music.de/
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Crackhaus
Mutek_Rec, Onitor
Montreal, Canada
Having originally met in 1999, Stephen Beaupre and Scott Monteith have been
involved in various creative projects, begining the same year with the
development of the (now defunked) Covert Ops multimedia collective, which
engaged in various event/installation projects in and around the Montreal
area, focusing on real time audio and video performance, and the development
of new interfaces merging these two mediums.
Inspired by the micro sampling work of fellow Montrealer Akufen (Marc
Leclair), and international luminaries such as Matthew Herbert, Monteith and
Beaupre began the Crackhaus project in the interest of further exploring the
use of unconventional sound sources (found sounds) within the confines of
traditional house and techno, and to inject their increasingly grown up
lives with some much needed child like fun.
The Crackhaus project made its debut as part of the 'Montreal Smoked Meat'
CD compilation, released on Force Inc Music Works in March 2002. In 2003,
they released their first album on Onitor Records, and in 2004 came their
follow-up on Mutek_Rec.
http://www.mutek.ca/
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DJ D Meteo
~Scape, Meteosound
Berlin, Germany
Daniel Meteo splits his time up between many artistic activities. Along with
Tom Thiel, he's one-half of the dub / hip-hop duo Bus. He also runs his own
experimental dub label called Meteosound, and stages events in Berlin
focusing on local electronic music. He even runs a booking agency called
flow-er that places the artist rosters of ~Scape, Meteosound, Ocean Club and
Shitkatapult at the clubs worldwide.
On top of all this, Daniel frequently plays DJ sets to accompany Bus shows,
in which he spins a variety of music. This can include everything from
mellow reggae and hip-hop early in the night to dancy techno and house music
at the end of the night.
http://www.meteosound.net/
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ABOUT THE VISUAL ARTISTS:
Beau Casey
San Francisco, CA
Beau's work has been predominantly appreciated by the Academic Community. He
has studied at the University of California Santa Cruz BA "Sonic Art" 2000
and Mills College Center for Contemporary Music MFA "Electronic Music and
Recording" 2002. His work has been recognized in many academic festivals:
the Electro-Acoustic Music Festival University of Kansas City Missouri 2000;
Center for Experiments in Art, Information; and Technology (CEAIT) festival
CalArts 2001; Woodstockhausen Festival University of California Santa Cruz
2003; and The Fisrt International PD~Convention at the Institute for
Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) Graz, Austria 2004. In 2000 Beau
participated in a student exchange program where he studied electronic music
at the University of Sheffield and Dartington International Summer School,
special thanks to the Performing Rights Organisation of the United Kingdom.
Beau recently started working for the Academy of Art University San
Francisco in the 3D animation department. Beau has also been envolved with
communitty groups Artseed San Francisco working with children, and the
Rhubarb Review Communitty Theater of Marin working with Senior Citizens.
Lately Beau has taken some of his talents to the Club scene on projects
affiliated with the Drum Machine Museum and Dimension 7.
http://geocities.com/recursionvideolab/
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Daniel Shiffman
New York, NY
Daniel Shiffman currently works as a resident researcher and assistant
adjunct professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at
NYU's Tisch School for the Arts. His software artworks have been exhibited
at The Chelsea Art Museum, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art
Directors Club of New York (winner: Distinctive Merit, 82nd Annual Awards),
Galapagos Art Space, Remote Lounge, Tisch School for the Arts, The Savannah
College of Art & Design, The Emerging Technologies Exhibition at Siggraph
2004, Ciberart Bilbao, and PixelACHE in Helsinki. Dan is also a founder and
producing director of Page Seventy-Three Productions, a not-for-profit
theater company dedicated to producing and developing the works of emerging
playwrights. Originally from Baltimore, Daniel received his BA in
Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University and a Master's degree from
ITP.
http://www.shiffman.net
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Juan Carlos Gonzalez
Austin, TX
JUAN CARLOS GONZALEZ currently resides between CALIFORNIA and NEW YORK in
Texas depending on his current projects and more importantly the weather. "I
love to travel and it's only a matter of time that I go international. I am
willing to relocate at the drop of a CRAYON...whether it be further into
MEXICO or South of FRANCE...my manic-hyperactivity is my passport and
detachment from anyone or any location."
Juan Carlos is often addressed by many names and his ability to reinvent
himself makes his personal history elusive and unimportant. Juan Carlos
evokes the power of the present where futures and pasts collide seamlessly
within a community of cultures subjectively collaborating under the umbrella
of Reality. Follow the bio as it unfolds: www.myspace.com (search for
"mrmultiple2") www.livejournal.com (search for "mrmultiple2")
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Kari Altmann aka Blackmoth
Baltimore, Maryland
Blackmoth, aka Kari Altmann, is a 21 year old Dallas native currently
attending the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, pursuing a
degree in digital arts with a concentration in video and doing various
freelance work. She likes glitch and bananas, and is often spotted in
obnoxious colors trompsing through the puddled streets of the east coast
causing a general ruckus, behind a computer or lens, or as a groupie whore
for her electronic musician friends. She likes long walks on the beach with
VST plugins and often misses the mess of graffiti and electrical boxes
behind Castilian on Guadalupe Alley so if you're reading this and you live
in Austin, please send it lots of love and a few conjugal visits now and
then, and send her an email at kari@altmann.com to detail such events.
http://www.blackmothstudios.com
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Peter Nyboer
San Jose, CA
Peter Nyboer is a programmer, video artist, and musician living in San Jose,
functional in the larger Bay Area. He started to dive into the world of
realtime video manipulation in 1999 when he designed a four screen video
sampler for San Francisco's Recombinant Media Labs to be used in that year's
Ars Electronica performance showcase. He has continued to create realtime
interactive software for audio and video manipulation, and has independently
produced a number programs, including Yowstar, Girl, G, and, in
collaboration with Jay Smith, LiVid Union. They all stem from a personal
artistic vision for creating his own art, and are then generalized and given
an interface for public use.
http://www.yowstar.com
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Robert Melton
Austin, TX
Robert Melton received his B.A. in studio art from the University of Texas
at Austin. His paintings and drawings have an intense focus on light and
atmosphere and his photography captures the dramatic effects that light has
upon nature at night. Having played many instruments throughout his life,
Robert composes and produces music as well. Along with his many art
projects, hes currently working on an album.
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Suryummy (Emmett Feldman)
San Francisco, CA
Emmett Feldman (Suryummy) has been engaged in audiovisual design for the
past 4 years. His visuals are a colorful interplay between bio-mechincal
organisms and naturalistic architectural landscapes. A love for the detailed
structures of plant life and translucent materials gives Suryummys visuals
an innocent edge capable of cutting through the dark realities of this
world.
In 2001 he co founded the visual distribution company eoptica with his
partner Radley Marx (VJ Oz). Emmett also played an integral role in the
early years of VJTV.
His work has been featured in IdN, AVIT, National Geographic, Siggraph and
has been released through the Lightrhythm Visuals label. He is currently
working as a Teacher and Technician within the Visual Effects department at
the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
http://www.suryummy.tv
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William Sellari
Austin, TX
SIDE A:
William Sellari's work deals, in part, with reoccurring themes. These themes
include:
- the idea of self (the way you see yourself, the way others see you, the
way you think others see you, and your true self)
- existentialism (by default)
- surrealism (by chance)
- Marcel Duchamp
- Alan Watts
SIDE B:
It's hardly fair to say that everything I do is serious. In fact, I wouldn't
have felt that this brief bio was any good to me if both of these sides
weren't included. This section isn't even a matter of being serious, rather
it's problem I have of over explaining everything in fear that the
viewer/reader may have misunderstood what I'm saying. I must apologize here,
for with that last sentence said, I don't do a very good job of explaining
myself.
Anyhow, typically I would write something comical here about my three cats,
Marcel Duchamp, and Ted Danson. But how can I say this, on one hand I take
everything very seriously, but at the same time I don't take anything
serious at all. This state isn't even a balancing act, but having both
aspects present at the same time.
Perhaps, if I'm ever asked to return to AMODA I'll make you guys a funny
video; something to do with the Rat Pack and Dance Dance Revolution.
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ABOUT THE FLYER ARTIST:
Delaware
Tokyo, Japan
Delaware is a Japanese supersonic group that designs rock and rocks design.
Works/activities include everything from music_CDs and CD_ROMs to
TV_commercials, magazines, T_shirts, web_site, mobile_phone, cross_stitch
and live shows.
They have released six CDs. In summer 2004, they released solo book
"Designin'_in_the_rain" (ACTAR/Barcelona).
http://www.delaware.gr.jp/
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ABOUT THE DIGITAL SHOWCASE:
AMODA is a 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 electronic music and visual art, ranging
from abstract to accessible, presented in a social setting.
MORE INFO:
http://www.amoda.org
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