The OpenEnded Group: Upending with music by Morton Feldman followed by The Making of Upending with The OpenEnded Group :: March 25 and 26, 2010, 7:00 p.m. (Matinee: March 27, 2:00 p.m.) :: Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, EMPAC @ Rensselaer, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY.

Upending is a revelatory stereoscopic theater performance: an animated, actor-less drama of disorientation and reorientation that compels viewers to rethink their relationship with the material world. Using ordinary flat photographs and stereoscopic HD video as the basis for a battery of non-photorealistic rendering technique, Upending transfigures familiar objects, spaces, and persons in ways that are both beautiful and uncanny. Continue reading

((audience)) presents Dub Shop Saturday, March 6, 2010 and Sunday, March 7, 2010 from 12:00 noon to 7:00 p.m. :: at Kleio Projects , 153½ Stanton Street (between Suffolk and Clinton Streets), New York City :: Subways F, J, M, Z to Delancey Street

Dub Shop will exhibit works by Noah Angell, Alexis Bhagat, Ed Bear & Lea Bertucci, Simona Brinkmann, R. Luke Dubois, Nate Harrison, Harvestworks / Tellus Tapes, Richard Kostelanetz, Lary 7, LOUD5, Loud Objects, Cedric Maridet, Ken Montgomery, mudboy, Michael Northam, Ben Owen, Seasonal, thenumber46 (Suzanne Thorpe & Philip White)

Dub Shop at Kleio Projects is a pop-up exhibition organized by ((audience)) co-curators, Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati. Continue reading

Takuro Mizuta Lippit a.k.a. DJ Sniff :: November 23, 2009; 11:00 p.m. :: UdK Medienhaus, Grunewaldstrasse 2-5, Schoeneberg, 10823 Berlin (U7, station Kleistpark), Room 111 (class de Campo).

STEIM - 40 years in live electronic arts by Takuro Mizuta Lippit / Artistic Director.

For the last forty years STEIM, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam has been the leading institution in research, development and facilitating live electronic music and arts. Many unique instruments and tools have been created over the years; Blackbox Modular Synth System, Crackle Box, SensorLab, The Hands, LiSa and JunXion are just to name a few. Continue reading

Nick Didkovsky Krys Bobrowski, Cheryl E. Leonard will perform: new music for homebrew software, electric guitar, everyday objects and invented instruments, and amplified natural objects :: Saturday, October 10, 8:00 p.m. :: at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA, 94613
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– Breathtaking work located at the intersection of the natural world and new technologies –

Nick Didkovsky will perform solos for prepared electric guitar, electronics, and his own software. Krys Bobrowsky’s will present works featuring everyday objects and invented instruments made from natural materials. Cheryl E. Leonard will premiere new compositions for amplified natural objects and field recordings from Antarctica.

Zachery Leiberman / Lesley Flanigan / Brenden Fernandes :: Friday, October 2, 2009, 7:00 p.m. :: at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, 596 Broadway #602. New York City (at Houston St) :: Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince :: Free

As part of the New York Electronic Art Festival 2009, a month-long series of concerts, workshops, and exhibitions centered on the cutting-edge work being done at the intersection of art and technology, Harvestworks will present the first in a series of New Project Demos on Friday, October 2nd with presentations by new media artists Zachary Leiberman, Lesley Flanigan and Brendan Fernandes. Continue reading

The Boston Area Definitive Audio Student Summit :: September 26, 2009; 9:00 am - 4:30 pm :: The New England Institute of Art, 10 Brookline Place West, Brookline, MA.

This is the third year this AES regional student summit has been hosted by the New England Institute of Art. Audio students, educators and enthusiasts have been invited for a full day of workshops, tutorials, studio and software demos. Some popular studio demonstrations will be limited in size. To ensure your inclusion, arrive as early as possible. Really cool T-shirts will be given to the first 200 attendees.
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Upgrade! Boston: China Blue and Joseph Butch Rovan :: September 22, 2009; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Center for Advanced Visual Studies | MIT N51-390, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA.

China Blue is an internationally exhibiting artist who is interested in how sound shapes space. She searches for the hidden acoustic identity of a structure, and uses those sounds as sculptural material to create immersive environments. China Blue’s work has been shown in galleries and non-profit spaces world-wide, including Finland, Sweden, France and the US. She was the US representative at OPEN XI, Venice, Italy, an exhibition held in conjunction with the Architecture Biennale. Continue reading