Wednesday, January 18, 2006



I am performing at the r4WB1t5 micro.Fest this Saturday at Enemy:

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// the 3rd (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest happens this SAT
// 2006.01.21 @ ENEMY in CHI IL .US ++ on the interweb!
// join us if you can + as always remember, the r4WB1t5 project
// is an open + decentralized format for you to instantiate!
// contact us @ r4wb1t5 AT gmail DOT com
// to conspire, collaborate [+/or] coordinate!
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// jonCates, jon.satrom + Jason Soliday
// 2006.01.21 (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest organizers
(A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest
@ ENEMY
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd FL CHI IL .US 60622
2006.01.21
FREE + OPEN
DOORS @ 8:00 PM
VIDEO STREAMS @ 8:30 PM
SHARED PLAYLISTS @ 9:00 PM
APPROACHING RANDOMNESS + SUBJECT TO SEARCH are always ON
/ * SHARED PLAYLISTS, APPROACHING RANDOMNESS, VIDEO STREAMS ++ SUBJECT TO SEARCH */
on JAN 21 aka 2006.01.21 Chicago's new ENEMY gallery will host (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest. this instance of (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest focuses on shared playlists, reiterations, projects approaching randomness, video streams, searches, databases + complex overlapping digital, analog + humanistic systems.
/ * SHARED PLAYLISTS */
the following 4 collaborative groups will perform a shared playlist of 7 short realtime audio video pieces reconceived as covers from a mutually determined shared playlist:
Mark Solotroff ++ Mike Nourse
http://bloodlust.blogspot.com
http://www.chicagoartdepartment.org
Insect Deli ++ Madame Chao
http://www.insectdeli.com
http://www.madamechao.com
Wetcat ++ Taeyoon Kim
http://www.wetcat.org
fAULTY mAJICK (The Faultless ++ Majick Missle)
http://www.thefaultless.info
http://magicmissile.us
this shared playlist will be performed in a round. all artists [+/or] collaborative groups will play the complete set as this searchable database repeats + reiterates in each unique variation created in this realtime human feedback system. this shared playlist includes covers of the following 7 songs in the following order:
00. "Night Shift" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
01. "Chopsticks" - Traditional
02. "I Am The Sun" - Swans
03. "Janitor" - Suburban Lawns
04. "White Rabbit" - Jefferson Airplane
05. "A Human Certainty" - Saccharine Trust
06. "WAT" - Laibach
intentional + coincidental connections, overlaps + exchanges will flow through out the space during this event.
/ * APPROACHING RANDOMNESS */
Random Screen by Aram Bartholl:
http://www.datenform.de/rscreeneng.html
Aram Bartholl's Random Screen installation travels from the .DE to the .US for this 2006.01.21 r4WB1t5 micro.Fest, appearing for the first time in the .US! this physical installation piece is a nonelectric "mechanical thermo dynamic display" built fro modified components + arranged in an ever expanding modular arrangement of pixel units powered by tee candle lights. Random Screen approaches randomness while literalizing physical computing + playing w/the rhetorics of New Media art discourse.
/ * VIDEO STREAMS */
Flickr.mov by jonathan coulton:
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/video/Flickr.mov
Brett Levin:
http://blevin.org/cat
Alok Saldanha:
http://www.infinitecat.com/movies
the 2006.01.21 r4WB1t5 @ ENEMY will also feature screen based video works of artists who visualize online databases such as Flickr ++ The Infinite Cat Project. jonathan coulton's Flickr.mov pulls previously disconnected images from Flickr only to reimagine them as an unbroken narrative stream. Brett Levin + Alok Saldanha have both created their own journeys through the ever expanding universe that is The Infinite Cat Project. these 3 video streams visualize online databases not as reductionist graphical abstractions that aim for purity but rather as expansive remixes + hallucinatory reconstructions.
/ * SUBJECT TO SEARCH */
the web based new media aspect of this (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest features projects organized around the theme "SUBJECT TO SEARCH". SUBJECT TO SEARCH includes:
Waiting by Horit Herman Peled:
http://www.horit.com/machsomwatch.htm
Google Talk by Douwe Osinga:
http://douweosinga.com/projects/googletalk
foofoofoo by alku:
http://openserver.cccb.org/~foofoofoo/index.html
popautomate by Jean-Baptiste Bayle + Beatrice Rettig:
http://www.noweb.org/guest/popautomate
Flexicon by robb drinkwater:
http://www.splintergroup.com/rdrink/dislexicon/generators/flexicon
+ thistext by jake elliott:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/thistext
all of these web based new media projects approach searching, databasing + outputting results from searches + databases as artistic methods, readymades + raw materials. these projects variously approach the SUBJECT TO SEARCH from politicized, systematic, secretive + widely accessible positions.
additionally, various freeware + artware project exchanges will be facilitated in the physical space of ENEMY @ this r4WB1t5 micro.Fest.
/* ABOUT */
this (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest is organized by jonCates, jon.satrom + Jason Soliday. Jason Soliday (director of ENEMY gallery) joins jon.satrom + jonCates (previous r4WB1t5 organizers) in developing this most recent instantiation of the open + copyable (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest format.
(A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest is a new platform or framework for (A)narchistic forms of decentralized mini or micro festivals to self-organize around themes + theorypractices of raw bits of digital art + dirty new media. (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest is itself a decentralized + open platform for playing realtime systems + exchanging New Media projects in conversational contexts. (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest extends out of + feeds back into DaDaist, Situationist, Fluxist, punk, digital art + New Media theorypractices, hystories, posibilities + positionalities. (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest is an [open project/conceptual {platformframework}] available to anyOne interested in self-organized DIY digital arts + dirty new media.
http://r4wb1t5.org/2006.01.21
http://cranksatori.net/enemy

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