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July 18th, 2006
11:00 am - One Day Fest of Electronic Music, Bands and New Media Art in Brooklyn
Hey New Yorkers or those in the area this weekend!! This Friday, July 22nd, the Bushwick Art Project is having a full on crazy fest like the subject heading says! It's called BAPLab and the day looks jam packed amazing. I wish I could be there.
Torsten and I have our video, I am Today's Lesson Plan in the mix. It's the one where we perform psychic surgery onto each other and the world is reduced to stacked taffy planes that spin round and round. The program is called Alternative Realities (The Infinite Sights of a Techno-Natural Landscape) curated by Ashley Bellouin, though on-line it is generically titled Video Program - B. Our program starts at 4pm and looks like a great line-up. Ashley is screening our work with one of my oldest favorite video art pieces and one of my newest. The late 80s tape Lilith by Steina is named after Adam's first wife and unfolds via the manipulated sounds and images of Doris Cross processed upon and within a wooded background. Both painterly and synthesized, it is uncertain whether the subject plants a curse or is telling a story that demands the attention that her knowing lines grant her. Takeshi Murata's Monster Movie with an amazing soundtrack by Plate Tectonics immerses his subject further into a technological gel. A giant hairy fanged long-armed monster arises, struts and spins his way through the decomposition and reconstruction of his own image. Monster Movie contains a contemporary twist on the psychedelic aesthetic which bears a humorous and uncanny resemblance to the decay of corrupt media files.
For further details see the link above.
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June 4th, 2006
May 26th, 2006
12:53 am - Radiolarian
If low frequency radio waves emanating from the earth shaped little organisms in the sea, what do classic rock stations make?
This is a sculpture for radio. It can play any station in range. Heck…it can even play your favorite audio CD or cassette tape (remember those?).
( More pics )
Current Music: early Jackson 5
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April 30th, 2006
11:27 pm - China Crumble – a video poem
Hey, the month’s not over and I thought I’d sneak in a poem of sorts. I’m not one for the wordy sort, so I’ll just do one with annoying sounds and oscillating images.
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April 24th, 2006
08:30 am - Diptych Photo Etch a Sketch a Sculpt
My BAHA (bone anchored hearing aid) doesn't do well in the outdoors on windy days. I had the desire to make a wind shield for it since it often sounds like a mic in the wind. That then turned into the larger unpractical task of creating mini-sculptures to be worn on top of BAHAs. I think I need a few more wearers besides me, though right now the photos feel like little personal performance pieces. These are just the first sketches and a nice break from larger video and sculpture works I'm trying to get off the ground.
Unfortunately, it seems lately like everything I do artistically is a sketch. I'm in a very different place then I'm used to. Usually I have some grandiose project that takes a couple years to pull off while baby projects burst from the main one all the while. Now, I feel like I'm just making stillbirths as a way to get to something alive. A part of me is discovering all these linkages to things that interest me and I kind of feel like reading all the time. But the guilty "you should be making art" voice calls and so I skim and try and run to the studio.
( More pics behind the cut )
Current Location: studio
Current Music: yoko ono - fly
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April 4th, 2006
07:24 am - Is science always stranger than fiction?
At the end of last week, I took a few hours to write up a proposal for a Small Grant in Aid of Research here at UC Davis. It was one of those moments that thoughts kind of came together easily and consolidated a direction of interest in my solo artwork. I know it’s a bit academic speak for LJ but I thought I’d throw it out there to share. I’ve added a few pics to spice it up but even if you don’t get through it, I’d recommend visiting an odd site that has become a major jumping point for my thoughts and work… Deafness in Disguise.
beard receptacle hearing device
( Proposal and pics behind the cut )
Current Music: yeah yeah yeahs
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March 6th, 2006
08:27 am - The Abominable Freedom
Howdy NYers,
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bearbait and I will be in town, March 10th-13th for The 13th NY Underground Film Festival. Torsten and I are premiering The Abominable Freedom as part of A-Bomb Nation: or A Bombin' Nations! on Friday, at 7:00pm at Anthology Film Archives. If you're thinking about coming...word of warning: Sometimes tickets sell out for weekend shows, but maybe it won't be as big of a deal since we will be in the larger theater. Unfortunately, Torsten is away in Korea teaching, so I'll be representing solo, but hopefully some of our players will be there.
the star of the show
For the curious, I put a simple set of stills up on my site that you can get to from here! And a small Qtime excerpt and a larger Qtime excerpt with song sung by the lovely Britt Eckland. Other celebrity cameos include a young Don Johnson and Andrea the Giant.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/sad.gif) abominable!
Current Music: Britt...singing her witchy song
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March 2nd, 2006
07:36 am - Screening Alert - Bay Area
I have a couple screenings coming up. One at Berkeley on Wednesday, March 8th at 7:30 pm at the Pacific Film Archive as part of the series Video: Recent and Strange curated by Steve Seid. The other is in NYC next weekend but I’ll post on that one later. For specific dates, times and locations go to my website.
In the meantime, I thought I’d post some stills. A couple of them are links to excerpts from the videos just in case you’re thinking about coming, but want to see what you’re getting yourself into.
my sometimes collaborator Torsten plug lickin’ in Currents
( More pics and links behind the cut )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/angry.gif) why does rushed look angry?
Current Music: some classical diddie
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January 30th, 2006
08:14 am - Anyone know anyone in Chicago or NYC interested in the pseudo-sciences?
Then pass it on…. Soft Science is coming to Chicago, Feb. 2nd and will be in NYC, March 1st. It’s a series of experimental videos about pseudo and actual sciences. For more info on exactly where and when go to darrinmartin.com.
Martin probes Burns in Learning Stalls
Besides Torsten’s and my little workshop scenario (Learning Stalls:Lesson Plans) based on our net art piece or visa versa, one will find plenty o’ other gems like Chicago’s own Jim Trainor’s The Bats. Yes, it’s a subject that usually makes me wet my drawers but Trainor’s use of childlike animation to imbue the flying mammals with adult longings makes it a hoot. Other highlights include a series of very short shorts called Cinema of Attraction, where the curator asked scientist friends for some R and D visual material and commissioned Joe Milutis to write musical scores to their unfolding. And of course there is Rachel Mayeri’s Stories from the Genome; An Animated History of Reproduction, a sci-fi experimental narrative about cloning which activates a few illustrations by my new favorite 19th century illustrator, Ernst Haeckel (though he's probably considered a scientist first, I'd take his illustrations over his science any day).
( More images behind the cut )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/tired.gif) groggy
Current Music: The Incredible String Band
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