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March 30, 2005
Yuerba Buena's Bay Area Now 2005
Congratulations to Apex, Neonski, Nome Edonna, Scatha G. Allison, Ezra Li Eismont, Sirron Norris, & Andrew Schoultz for their invitation into Yuerba Buena's Bay Area Now 2005 as the Gestalt Collective. For a full list of participating artists and show dates, click here.
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SignalFlow 2005
SignalFlow is a four day annual event featuring masters degree students of the Mills College music department. In the past SignalFlow has featured compositions for ensembles large and small, electronic works, interactive concerts via the internet, installations of all descriptions, dance and theater pieces, video screenings, meditations, songs, and much else besides. The one thing these events have had in common is a thirst for sonic adventure and a willingness to take risks.
Various daily performances Weds 3/30 thru Sun 4/3, 2005
Mills College Music Bldg., 5000 McArthur Blvd., Oakland
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March 27, 2005
Autechre U.S. Tour
The new album from Autechre Untitled was released on April 18th in the U.S. They'll be on tour promoting the project. You can catch them passing through the Bay Area on Saturday, May 20 at San Francisco's Mezzanine. See you there!
Discography:
Autechre on Amazon
AUTECHRE'S May 2005 USA Tour Dates
Fri 06 Washington DC Black Cat
Sat 07 Philadelphia PA Trocadero
Sun 08 NYC Webster Hall
Mon 09 Boston Paradise
Tue 10 Montreal Usine C
Wed 11 Toronto Opera House
Fri 13 Chicago Metro
Sat 14 Minneapolis Ascot Room
Tue 17 Vancouver Commodore Ballroom
Wed 18 Seattle Neumos
Thu 19 Portland Berbatis Pan
Fri 20 San Francisco Mezzanine
Sat 21 Los Angeles El Rey
Sun 22 Tempe AZ Freedom
Tue 24 Dallas TX Trees
Wed 25 Austin TX The Parish
Thu 26 New Orleans Twiropa
Fri 27 Atlanta Variety Playhouse
Sat 28 Asheville NC Orange Peel
(all dates with DJ Rob Hall + SND Live)
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March 23, 2005
Banksy Exhibits in Four NYC Museums
Banksy installed four new works in the city of New York on March 13, 2005. The diy exhibits appeared in such notable institutions as the Metropolitan Museum, MOMA, the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Natural History. The British artist entered the establishments during regular hours disguised as a bearded man in a trenchcoat and installed the works himself.
"Give peace a chance"
vandalised oil painting, 2005
recently removed from the American Painting Wing of the Metropolitan Museum NYC
"You have beautiful eyes"
vandalised oil painting, 2005
Great Historical Painting Wing of the Great Historical Painting NYC
For more information see Current Exhibitions on Banksy's website.
Also check out Wooster Collective for some great documentation photos.
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March 14, 2005
Sam Smidt speaks at SJSU
neo and San Jose State University graphic design presents:
an evening with Sam Smidt
Wednesday, March 16th, 7pm
San Jose State University
Art Building, Room 133
$3 students, $5 general
We have the blessed fortune to call Sam a mentor as well as a friend. He is one of the few people that encouraged us to blur the lines between art and design, and to work with clients that we enjoy for the relationships and the mutual creativity, not just the billable hours. With his deep resonating voice and his passion for the purebreds, he's a fascinating character we know you'll enjoy.
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Sam Smidt is a graphic designer whose work is marked by the characteristics of curiosity and play. In a career spanning more than fifty years, this curiosity has lead him to continuous exploration of two- and three-dimensional mediums--from graphic design and photography to signage and video. Finding inspiration in the everyday, Sam's work transforms the mundane into striking images full of color and artful composition.
From the principle of an agency with over 20 employees in the 1960s and 1970s to his present intimate studio, Sam has created spare, elegant, and engaging work which has had the honor of being included in the collections of the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Publications that have featured Sam's work include Graphis, Communication Arts, Modern Publicity (UK), and Design World (Australian), among many others.
Situated in downtown Palo Alto, Sam made the decision to design for only those clients whose work he is truly interested in, clients such as Healing Environments, a non-profit creating environments for those who are seriously ill. Sam has come to realize the benefits of designing for certain corporations, non-profits, museums, and cultural institutions who respect creativity. For Sam, graphic design is a game that is fun and intellectually challenging--after all, fun is what it's all about.
A Professor Emeritus at SJSU, where he taught from 1960 until his retirement in 1997, Sam has been a mentor to hundreds of students and West Coast designers.
visit www.samsmidt.com
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A World of Influence Exhibit
Urbis Artium Gallery presents A World of Influence which will feature paintings, murals, and installations from the Workhorse Collective.
Featuring: Adam 5100 / Empte Eyes / Ephameron / Erick Rodriguez / Evol CTink / Lesley Reppeteaux / Logan Hicks / KGBE Rotgut / Man One / Nick Walker / Pisa 73 / CTink / Sean Starwars / Surge MDR.
Opening Reception - March 17th, 6:30-10:00pm
Exhibition on view thru April 30th, 2005
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March 11, 2005
SRL - L.A.
V. Vale's latest newsletter mentions a Survival Research Lab event happening down in L.A. at an undisclosed place, time and location until the day of the event (only referred to as "a weekend in April.") A little digging on the SRL site led me to their calendar, there is a reference to an L.A. trip the first of April....April Fools? All info will be posted on their site only, the day of the happening. "Producing the most dangerous shows on earth"....gotta love that!
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Unmask the Mysteries - Mardi Gras to Benefit HIV/AIDS Awareness
The AIDS Coalition Silicon Valley is a non-profit grassroots volunteer organization that is dedicated to increasing awareness, involvement and support of HIV/AIDS through our community. The fatal disease is increasing among young people, women and communities of color.
The Unmask the Mysteries Mardi Gras Gala will support the ACSV in their work with numerous local organizaitons in the fight against this disease.
When: Saturday, May 7, 2005, 7:00pm
Where: Children's Discovery Museum
Attire: Formal attire and elaborate masks are welcome
Tickets: Individual gala tickets are $100 /group tickets available.
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March 10, 2005
Amazing Grace - Jeff Buckley
I was introduced to Jeff Buckley's music by our friend Lisa Dewey two years ago. She was performing at a Phantom reception and did her incredible version of "Last Goodbye." Since then, Grace has been a staple in our daily music rotation. Last night we watched the documentary Amazing Grace by Nyla Adams and Laurie Trombley at Cinequest. It was a revealing look at Jeff as a person as well as the profound impact he has had and the loss of having such rare talent die so young. It's screening again this Saturday (3/12) at SJSU University Theater.
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March 08, 2005
MusiCollage tonight at Stanford
A Happening by CCRMA and friends...
Developed at Black Mountain College by (Merce) Cunningham and lifelong creative partner John Cage, the "happening" was an experimental coming-together of music and dance in unlikely settings. Come to a present-day happening, as presented by Stanford students and faculty from the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) who have been researching and creating music using methods developed by Cage. The musicians will be joined by dancers from Cunningham's company to carry the tradition of the happening late into the night!
Musical and video works composed and improvised by CCRMA faculty, students and friends will be accompanied by the dancers of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate spaces of the Cantor Arts Center.
Featuring works and performances by:
The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Mark Applebaum
Jon Appleton
Steven Baker
Per Bloland
Nathan Breitling
Jonah Bokaer
Juan Pablo Caceres
Jen Carlile
Chris Chafe
Carolyn Chen
Parag Chordia
Adrian Coburn
Nathan Fitzgerald
Jesse Fox
Masaki Fujihata
Kiyoshi Furukawa
Kevin Gabayan
Jason Gatt
Miri Hutcherson
Johnny Hwin
Damondrick Jack
Fernando Lopez-Lescano
Brandon Jacobs Mills
Jennifer Lane
Phil Lesh
Grace Leslie
Max Mathews
Roberto Morales
Wolfgang Munch
Greg Niemeyer
Gautam Rangan
Bruno Ruviaro
Kristine Samuelson
Rodrigo Segnini
[sic]--the Stanford Improvisation Collective
Danile Squire
Erica Simmons
Jeffrey Trevino
Mitchell Lamar Wilcox
Christian Wolff
Matt Wright
Woon Seung Yeo
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
8:00 pm to 12:00 am, Cantor Arts Center
Tickets: FREE
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March 07, 2005
Lawrence Lessig free to artists and students this Wednesday!
This Wednesday, March 9, Lawrence Lessig speaks at the Commonwealth Club on the subject of Killing Creativity: How Today's Intellectual Property Laws Are Strangling Creativity In Music, the Arts and at Home. It's been arranged through some great local support (thank you!) for both artists and students to attend for free! (General admission is $15)
Prof. Lessig is also the founder of Creative Commons. CC is "a nonprofit foundation developed to address the current Gestapo state affecting copyright law and intellectual property rights in today's tech-savvy world. In the simplest terms, CC offers a midway point between 'all rights reserved' and 'no rights reserved.' An artist, teacher, author, painter or DJ can register their works with Creative Commons, allowing permission for others to sample, remix and otherwise build upon." ...see Killing Creativity by Todd Inoue in this week's Metroactive calendar.
We encourage you to take advantage of this speaker event which is provided by the Common Wealth Club. It is free to local students and artists who make reservations before Wedneday March 9 and reference this posting. Contact the Commonwealth Club office at (408) 351-3479 to make your reservation.
KILLING CREATIVITY: How Today's Intellectual Property Laws are strangling Creativity in Music, the Arts and at Home
A lecture and book signing with Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig
Wednesday, March 9, 6:30-8:00 pm at The Tech Museum, 6 pm doors open.
We hope to see you there.
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March 03, 2005
Messing with the Masters
"O, gentelmen, the time of life is short!...
An if we live, we live to tread on kings."
~ Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
I came across this quote this morning while reading Guy Dubord's Society of the Spectacle. It reminded me of a conversation my partner, Cherri, and I were having the other day about the Chapman brothers' Insult to Injury (2003) series where they took Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War etchings and "reworked and improved" them. The brothers set aside money earned from selling each previously "rectified" series of 83 etchings and put it towards buying the next. They are currently on the third series.
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March 02, 2005
Nomadic Museum in NY
Just as the Gates installation in NY's Central Park came down, another work of artistic splendor prepared itself for the world to descend upon it. The Nomadic Museum, as seen above at its temporary home through June of 2005 on Pier 54 along the Hudson River in NY, brings photographer Gregory Colbert's vision to the U.S. This travelling exhibit combines the beauty of prefab architecture, diy culture and the growing necessity to re-engage our public spaces in ways that inspire our daily lives.
The imagery in Colbert's Ashes and Snow exhibit captures the essence of the human spirit in harmony with whales, elephants and other animals. The Nomadic Museum opens on March 5 through June 6 at its current location and then makes its way to Los Angeles, Beijing and Paris.
All photos Gregory Colbert.
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March 01, 2005
MAVERICKS IS ON!
On Wednesday (3/2), the best big-wave riders on the planet will return to face waves that have crested over 60 feet, frigid waters, dangerous currents, jagged rocks and the ever-present threat of the Great White Shark in the Mavericks Surf Contest. Located a half mile off the coast of Pillar Point in Half Moon Bay (CA) they expect a crowd of 15.000 so get there early!
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"Killing Creativity" by Lawrence Lessing
This presentation couldn't be timelier, currently in front of the U.S. Supreme Court is the high-profile case of MGM vs. Grokster. This case pits the entertainment industry against two Internet file-sharing companies, with the future of technological innovation potentially in the balance.
KILLING CREATIVITY: How Today's Intellectual Property Laws are strangling Creativity in Music, the Arts and at Home. A lecture and book signing with Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig (founder of Creative Commons.)
Wednesday, March 9, 6:30-8:00 pm
The Tech Museum, 6 pm registration.
General Admission is $15 (OLLI Members: $10). To purchase your ticket contact the Commonwealth Club or call (800) 847-7730.
General Admission is $15 (OLLI Members: $10). To purchase your ticket contact the Commonwealth Club at (800) 847-7730 or (
Come enjoy this opportunity to hear one of our nation's leading experts on the increasingly high-stakes debate surrounding intellectual property rights and the ability of new generations of innovators to create the opportunities and art of tomorrow. Professor Lawrence Lessig (
Professor Lessig is also a founder of Creative Commons -- a nonprofit that offers a flexible copyright for creative work (www.creativecommons.org). The recent "Wired CD" included in the 12/11 issue of Wired Magazine was produced under the Creative Commons license. Contributing artists included -- The Beastie Boys, David Byrne, My Morning Jacket, Gilberto Gil, Dan the Automator, Paul Westerberg, and Danger Mouse. Professor Lessig writes an occasional column for Wired Magazine. Check out recent article - an interview with Jeff Tweedy of the band Wilco. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/view.html?pg=5
(And, yes, for you fans of the TV show The West Wing the recent character of "professor Lessig from Harvard University" trying to pound out a new democratic constitution for Belarus is indeed the same professor Lessig. He has a past life as a professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard University, but that's another story.)
This presentation, co-sponsored by the Commonwealth Club and The Tech Museum, could not be timelier. Currently in front of the U.S. Supreme Court is the high-profile case of MGM vs. Grokster. This case pits the entertainment industry against two Internet file-sharing companies, with the future of technological innovation potentially in the balance.
Brendan Rawson
Program Director
UCSC Extension, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
10420 Bubb Road, Cupertino, CA 95014-4150
408.861.3876
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