Damn it, I already asked for Thursday and Friday off for SXSW, but I have to
work Wednesday, so I can't go. I'd love to see Joseph Nothing live. And Mum.
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From: "Austin Museum of Digital Art" <info@amoda.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:43 PM
Subject: AMODA Digital Showcase - Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 @ Texture
***AMODA Digital Showcase - Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 @ Texture***
We've put together an extraordinary Digital Showcase preceded by an
Interactive Art Show to celebrate the First Anniversary of the Digital
Showcase! Experience interactive digital art performances, installations,
projections and live electronic music performances. It should be a
spectacular night so please pass this email on to your friends and spread
the word!
Electronic Musicians:
Stars As Eyes (Tigerbeat6, TX)
Lesser (Matador/Tigerbeat6, CA)
Joseph Nothing (Planet-Mu, Japan) [exclusive US appearance]
Múm (Morr Music/FatCat, Iceland) [exclusive US appearance]
Flowchart (Darla/Fuzzybox, PA)
Visual Artists:
Levitated
Travis Lindquist
Moboid
OCMA
Zach Simpson with Mine-Control
Karen Skloss
Dr. Strangevibe
John Barker
Industry of Light
Ryan Junell
neverthesameriver
3/12/02 @ Texture (505 Neches)
7pm - 2am (music starts at 9pm)
18 and up
$9 general admission; $5 students
Free for AMODA Members (see www.amoda.org/membership for details)
**Advance Tickets available at 33 Degrees Records & CDs at 4017 Guadalupe
St. for $10 cash/$11 charge to the general public & $6 cash/$7 charge for
students.
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More information is available on all contributing artists below or at:
www.amoda.org/showcase
Stars As Eyes (Tigerbeat6, TX)
http://www.tigerbeat6.com
Up-and-coming Tigerbeat6 recording duo Stars As Eyes write music inspired by
the Delaware landscape, and Providence noisescape; with a love and
admiration forsoft radio hits, kraut and psych rock, hip-hop, and electro.
Manipulating both "real and fake instruments", their refreshing lo-fi rock
sensibility distinguishes them from glitch-based contemporaries.
Lesser (Matador/Tigerbeat6, CA)
http://www.lsr1.com/
Having just completed a world tour supporting Björk as a member of Matmos,
Jason Döerck, aka Jay Lesser, built his reputation fusing digital noise,
musique concrête, and manic dance music with releases on such labels as
Vinyl Communications and Tigerbeat6. Lesser's "Gearhound" (Matador Records,
2001) was recognized with an Honorable Mention for Digital Musics at Prix
Ars Electronica 2001.
Joseph Nothing (Planet-Mu, Japan) [exclusive US appearance]
http://joseph.nothing.is.absent.org/
After starting his musical career as a studio programmer while attending
university, Tatsuya Yoshida worked for Japanese pop musicians and composed
video music and jingles in Japan. Previously known as Rom=Pari, Yoshida
toured and remixed Audio Active and Asian Dub Foundation. In 2001, he
started writing and performing under a new moniker, Joseph Nothing, and
released an album on Michael Paradinas' (Muziq) label Planet-Mu.
múm (Morr Music/FatCat, Iceland) [exclusive US appearance]
http://7mares.terravista.pt/mumweb/
Falling under Rolling Stone's "hot Icelandic import" category (2001) are
Mum. This quartet's North American debut has created a level of excitement
similar to that of the first Sigur Ros stateside
appearances due to their current press darling status. "Yesterday Was
Dramatic, Today is Okay" (Thule Musik) is a glitch-spattered mix of
impossibly cute melodies and experimental cool, placing just as much
importance on samplers as ancient Icelandic folk instruments.
Flowchart (Darla/Fuzzybox, PA)
http://www.fuzzybox.com
With a discography that can cover a wall, Sean O'Neal has made a large dent
in the ambient/experimental scene releasing records on a dozen different
labels in a dozen different countries. Flowchart (Philadelphia's Sean O'neal
and Erin Anderson) continues to
serve an extraordinary side of experimental electro-pop with a minimal
techno edge.
O'Neal runs two record labels, Fuzzy Box records and Tuning Spork records.
John Barker
Visual Artist and Musician John Barker (aka Waterfalls) has presented work
at several of the past year's AMODA Digital Showcases. Barker's beautifully
meditative and calculated films are greatly influenced by his experience
working with film artist Bill Lundberg.
Ryan Junell
http://www.junell.net/
Junell presents the video component of "Talon Slalom"; a visual score
created specifically for a musical performance by Blevin Blectum's. "Talon
Slalom" has been featured in several galleries and music shows in the United
States.
Levitated.net
http://levitated.net
Levitated.net will be presenting their interactive generative poetry engine
based on the I-Ching. Levitated.net are featured on the highly esteemed
Linkdup.com for "showcasing the beauty of
data-structures, algorithms and logic in the context of design and
interaction." Levitated.net member Jared Tarbel's work 'Moonlight' will
also be featured in AMODA's Inaugural Exhibition.
Travis Lindquist
http://www.wakinglifeartists.com
One of the animators for the movie Waking Life, Travis will be showing
digitally manipulated doll sculptures and videos dealing with the human
spirit in our commercialized consumerist age and the
never-ending contradictions of life.
Mine-Control
http://www.mine-control.com
Interact with a virtual world where fire burns off your skin, butterflies
sit on your head, and sand pools in your hand. This "shadow-garden" has also
been show in Barcelona, Spain.
Moboid
http://www.moboid.com/
Game Designer Heather Kelley presents an abstract 3D world constructed using
tools from Id Software's Quake III Arena. Participants are challenged to
navigate through a world of mirrored, transparent, and otherwise misleading
surfaces in a space where the rules of physics are often relaxed.
neverthesameriver
http://www.neverthesameriver.com
Formed in May 1998, neverthesameriver is a collaboration of works by John
Witham, Karen Pittman and Rob Lewis. These artists will be showing original
source video digitally manipulated live to
accompany Stars as Eyes music set.
OCMA
The Organization for Contemporary Media Art is dedicated to machines and the
art they produce. An objective of OCMA is to inject the general public mind,
with work that transcends commodity. OCMA will present interactive "sound
sculpture"; machine-art composed of cannibalized electronic equipment.
Karen Skloss
Skloss presents "Blind Date", an social experiment focused on human
communication in the electronic age. She uses live video to create a virtual
stage that participants can use as a cumbersome tool for exploring and
examining their interpersonal communication in a
social setting. Skloss' work has been shown at MOMA NY, the Austin Museum
of
Art, Cinematexas, and Gallery Lombardi.
Dr. Strangevibe
Active in computer based art and music for over 15 years, Dr. Strangevibe's
current piece incorporates images of Mardi Gras, live video, and images
created using Artmatic video synthesis software, all processed through the
Onadime Composer system (a visual programming and performance environment).
His style ranges from fluid abstraction to the incorporation of thematic
elements ranging from evolution, the juxtaposition of natural and artificial
forms in photography, and our insatiable lust for shiny things.
Industry of Light
http://iol.2y.net
Industry of Light will be showing painterly luminescent ghost-like videos
featuring models, colored lights, strobes, and lots of spontaneous action
that allude to the paintings of Francis Bacon. Their work has been featured
in many galleries throughout Texas.
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AMODA is an institution 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 site-specific works. For more information
log on to www.amoda.org/showcase.
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