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October 24, 2007
Chris Elliman at Art Ark
Chris Elliman at Art Ark
Chris Elliman is having a closing reception of his "Make Love Your Law" exhibit at the Art Ark on Friday, Oct. 26th, at 7pm. These oversized colorbook images of not so kiddie subjects are powerful in person and up close.
The Common House gallery at the Art Ark is located at 1035 South 6th St. (btwn Bestor Park and Keyes Blvd.) in San Jose.
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October 22, 2007
PAUL CURRERI & DEVON SPROULE this Tuesday at Anno Domini!
Anno Domini presents:
PAUL CURRERI & DEVON SPROULE
First time co-bill of these two amazing singer/songwriters on the west coast- on tour for new album releases!
"FOUR STARS. His best yet. A riveting trip!" ~ Paste
"...both down-home and uptown, a delicate, Appalachian stringed-swing… Sproule doesn’t sound like any other singer-songwriter of her generation." ~ Boston Herald
"Sproule's vocal and lyrical beauty is unmatched." ~ Rolling Stone
Date: Tuesday, October 23rd.
Time: Doors open 8pm, $5 admission
Location: Anno Domini gallery
366 South First Street, downtown San Jose
408.271.5155
www.galleryAD.com
Born on a commune in Kingston, Ontario, Devon Sproule claims dual citizenship with both Canada and the US. She now makes her home in Charlottesville, VA. After moving between private, public and home schooling, she eventually left high school, recorded her first record, and began touring nationally -- all before the age of eighteen.
Her newest record, her fourth, Keep Your Silver Shined, presents an honest and sparkling portrait of Devon Sproule: candid, poetic and right at home. "…both down-home and uptown, a delicate, Appalachian stringed-swing… Sproule doesn’t sound like any other singer-songwriter of her generation. "- Boston Herald Devon’s fresh off a 6-week run in the UK. "Sproule's vocal and lyrical beauty is unmatched." - Rolling Stone
Internationally acclaimed as a songwriter, guitarist, and spirited live performer, Paul Curreri “brings a renewed eloquence to the medium.” – The New Yorker. He grew up playing music but ended up enrolling at Rhode Island School of Design to pursue painting and film. “My movies were okay, I guess,” he said. But by the time Paul graduated from RISD, he'd composed over 200 songs on guitar and piano. His newest record, his fifth, The Velvet Rut, is quite the sonic eruption (Curreri played all the instruments himself), and folks seem to be digging it: “FOUR STARS. His best yet. A riveting trip!” – Paste Paul also lives in Charlottesville. He is roommates with Devon. He is also married to Devon.
The two rarely perform together (“You don’t necessarily get paid twice as much just because there are two of you,” Devon laughs. “Plus, it’s nice to miss somebody every once in a while.” “More love letters,” Paul chimes in). This will be their first EVER co-bill run up the west coast! Expect solo sets from each of these fantastic guitarists, plus, we’ve been told crossing our fingers for some duets may very likely pay off!
PAUL CURRERI & DEVON SPROULE WESTCOAST DATES:
Oct 16 Bordello Los Angeles, CA
Oct 17 Tales From the Tavern Santa Ynez, CA
Oct 18 Grove House Claremont, CA
Oct 21 Shelton Concert Series Sebastopol, CA
Oct 23 Anno Domini San Jose, CA
Oct 25 Luna Jazz Eugene, OR
Oct 26 Mississippi Studios Portland, OR
Oct 27 Seattle Folklore Society Seattle, WA
Oct 28 Rime Vancouver, BC
Oct 29 Radio Free Lopez Presents Lopez Island, WA
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October 13, 2007
Best of the Y2K7 Int'l Live Looping Festival at Anno Domini!
ANNO DOMINI presents:
BEST of the Y2K7 INTERNATIONAL LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL
The 'Best of the Y2K7' features six international headliners from the largest live looping festival ever held. Artists from Turkey, Sweden, Italy, Brazil, Germany and Switzerland will descend upon Anno Domini for a night of 30 minute performances by each artist giving the audience a sense of the variety that this musical movement represents.
featuring:
Erdem Helvacioglu (Turkey)
www.erdemhelvacioglu.com
www.myspace.com/erdemhelvacioglu
Fabio Anile (Italy)
Leander Reininghaus (Germany)
www.myspace.com/lealoop
Per Boysen (Sweden)
www.looproom.com
Matthias Grob (Switzerland/Brazil)
Rick Walker (USA)
www.looppool.info
Artist bios available here:
www.y2kloopfest.com/bios.html
Date: Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Time: Doors open 7:30pm/ Performances at 8pm
Admission: $10 door no one turned away for lack of funds
Location: Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
366 South First Street, Downtown San Jose, CA
408.271.5155
www.galleryAD.com
Festival website: www.y2kloopfest.com
Some thoughts from Rick Walker, the festival organizer...
It's been a heady year in this relatively new musical movement:
The mecca website of the movement (started by Bay Area looping hardware designer Kim Flint), www.loopersdelight.com is now getting over a million hits a month from all over the world.
In the last two years alone, suddenly, artists as diverse as Madonna, Bjork, Peter Gabriel and Nine Inch Nails have featured live performances that are use this new technology. This couldn't be said as early as only two years ago. Live looping's technology is mushrooming and innovating continually and it's presence is expanding at an exponential rate in the pop music world.
Production of brand new techology has also doubled in each of the past three years in both hardware and software. Many of those designers have been inspired by the Santa Cruz festival which they have all performed or shown at.
All of this has resulted in large multi-page feature articles in Guitar Player magazine, DRUM! magazine and there are planned features in upcoming months in Electronic Musician magazine, Modern Drummer, Tape Op and Make magazine as the efforts of 'the looping capital of the world: Santa Cruz" begin to have national and international recognition.
To read more about the individual headlining artists, find hi-res photographs for publicity and/or downloadable mp3s, please visit http://www.y2kloopfest.com/bios.html
For more information and/or interviews:
Rick Walker, festival organizer
looppool [at] cruzio.com
Brian Eder, Anno Domini gallery
rEVolution [at] galleryAD.com
408.271.5155
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October 02, 2007
Graffiti Research Lab in San Jose!
GRL in Rotterdam, 2007 (Watch the movie)
James Powderly and Evan Roth of New York based Graffiti Research Lab drop in to San Jose this Wednesday as part of the FUSE lecture series. Powderly with his background in aerospace robotics and Roth emerging from coding, architecture and web design come together to develop new methods of self-expression. Their technological efforts have emerged back on the streets that inspire them using the transitory urban canvas as their showroom. Perhaps it's the ephemeral nature of their work, combined with their authentic voice, tools and open source idealism that has made their artistic efforts embraced on the many streets they have travelled to around the globe. Hope you can make it out. We highly recommend this lecture!
FUSE lecture series
featuring Graffiti Research Lab
Wednesday October 3rd, 7pm
San Jose City Hall, Council Chambers
200 East Santa Clara Street (at So. 4th St)
San Jose, CA 95113
The G.R.L. has embarked on a mission: to revolutionize tools and languages of urban artists with cheap technology and open knowledge. The lab is dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artists and protesters with open source tools for urban communication. The goal of the G.R.L. is to technologically empower individuals to creatively alter and reclaim their surroundings from commercial and corporate culture. G.R.L. agents are currently working in the lab and in the field to develop and test a range of experimental technologies for the state-of-the-art graffiti writer. Their website documents those efforts with video documentation and DIY instructions for each project. < http://graffitiresearchlab.com>
James Powderly is a maverick hobbyist dabbling at the fringes of robotics, chemistry, writing, pyrotechnics, graffiti and art. As a Fellow in the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab for the last year James has developed experimental creative technologies and media for the public domain. Powderly was anengineer and the Director of Technology Development at Honeybee Robotics, and a Manhattan-based NASA contractor. He worked on developing the Mars Exploration Rover's Rock Abrasion Tool and built a wall drilling robot for Diller + Scofidio's retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Powderly has been awarded numerous grants, fellowships and awards, including an Award of Distinction in 2006 from Ars Electronica for his work with the Graffiti Research Lab. His work can be found on the surface of Mars and other people's walls throughout the U.S. and Europe. In the Spring, he will begin teaching a class at Parsons Communication Design and Technology program called, "Disruptive Home Economics".
Evan Roth is a recent MFA graduate from the Design Technology department at Parsons where he was his class valedictorian. He is the creator of Graffitti Analysis video, a project that uses motion tracking, computer vision technology, and a custom C++ application to record and analyze a graffiti writer's pen movement over time. Evan's media experiments also include Explicit Content Only, Postal Lables Against Bush video, and Graffiti Taxonomy.
If you can't make it physically, you can catch the G.R.L. in Second Life, the talk will be streamed live to Ars Virtua in Second Life.
Sam Gould of Red76 and Matthew Coolidge of CLUI's lectures are available as podcasts:
the rss ( for subscription with iTunes and such)
FUSE: conversation
cadre/montalvo artist research lecture series
in collaboration with ZERO1.
co-sponsored by the City of San Jose Public Art Program
FUSE: conversation is a series of lectures by renowned artists addressing some of the most pertinent issues of our time including globalization, sustainability, censorship, human rights, social responsibility, human centered design and the next generation of cultural production.
http://cadre.sjsu.edu/fuse
October lecture schedule
3 Graffiti Research Laboratory
12 Kevin and Jennifer McCoy
18 Natalie Jeremijenko
23 Rosina Gomez-Baeze Tinture**
26 Mongrel
Lectures are presented as part of FUSE:, a CADRE-Montalvo artist research residency in cooperation with ZERO1. One artist proposal will be selected for development in residency and featured at the 01SJ 2008 Biennale.
Unless otherwise noted:
Time: Lectures start at 7:00 p.m.
Location: San José City Hall Council Chambers – 200 East Santa Clara Street,
San José, CA 95113.
The lectures are free and open to the public. Please visit
http://www.sjdowntownparking.com/parking_map.php for information on parking downtown.
Lectures will be simulcast into Ars Vitura, a Second Life arts and media center.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/6/77/48
To request an accommodation or alternative format for City-sponsored meetings, events or
printed materials, please call Brooke Jones at 408 277-5144 X 18 or 408-294-9337 (TTY) as
soon as possible, but at least three business days before the meeting/event.
* At San Jose City Hall Room 118/119
**At San Jose State University, Art Building, Room 133, from 5-6 as part of the Tuesday Night Lecture
Series
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