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RMX: Media Experiment #1

KEYWORDS: 15 SF-based artists, remix, sound, net culture, rx gallery

www.mediaexperiment.org

Rx Gallery
132 Eddy Street @ Mason
San Francisco, CA 94102

Thursday, December 1, 2005, 7-10 PM

*FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC*

Fifteen San Francisco-based artists present their work around the concepts of
contemporary net culture, sound and remix this Thursday, December 1, 2005 from
7-10 PM at the Rx Gallery (www.rxgallery.com). The show, which features
installations, projections, and performances, is a quick one night remix of the
pre-existing work in the space and the participating artists in this "media
experiment #1," the first in a series of on-going media experiments over the
next year.

The night begins promptly at 7 PM with four experimental video shorts such as
Ashanti's "Meditative Pulse in Flux" explores through montage, examples of
general rhythms from South-East Asia to San Francisco. "Intertitle" by Todd
Daniel Fiore re-examines the film Nosferatu with contemporary audio-visual
layering and folding while Jose-Luis Mejia's work collages visual features of
people of different ethnicities in a sonic urban landscape.

Sound performances during the night include "The Big Beat" by Darby
Kaighin-Shields and Rafael Canedo. This work presents live sound cut-ups,
experimental mixing with multiple turntables, and live fabrication of wax LPs.
"Diamond Scratch" by Mike Daddona is a group performance that amplifies
various found objects not normally considered musical or aural. Both of these
projects are open to participation by people attending the event.

Installed in the space is Deer Fang's "The Unique Dancer" that projects
pre-recorded individual dancing and encourages people to contribute their own
to the mix. Josh Pavlick's "Selectron The Arbitrator" collects audio inside one
three foot clear latex helium balloon. This is then transmitted to the primary
sound mixer for the night, Jacob Sperber, who is doing a "RMX of RMX" using
audio output from the participating artists and the sounds in the space to
create an audio atmosphere. 

This partial list of projects serves to contextualize all work in the show as
"Media Experiments" of differing diverse viewpoints through multiple media
remixed in the Rx Gallery, a cozy lounge complete with wine and sake bar. 

The artists presenting work are Ashanti, Rafael Canedo, Darby D, Kanako
Shibata, Deer Fang, Todd Daniel, Jen Rabon, Jose-Luis Mejia, Sarah Williams,
Han Choi, Jsun McCarty, It Lives, Jacob Sperber, Josh Pavlick, Dax Henderson
and Mike Daddona (Sabreteeth). The show is produced by Jon Phillips
(www.rejon.org).

Check out Fourstones install of ccHost. It looks really great!

Whoa, Nicu has some nice silhouette images waiting in the queue for Open Clip Art Library.

The Open Clip Art Library is going through a slight transition post-security problem and it has been about 2 months since we have done a release, which is off of our normal monthly schedule. Thus, new blood is needed in our project. This starts with me giving some blood and spending a couple of hours today contributing some time to getting upload and some other quick features online. Also, please join #openclipart on irc.freenode.net to jump in to discussing the project, what needs to be done and where things are going.

I wonder if a good strategy might be to make Friday’s Open Clip Art Library days, much like how the Tango Project does with their project. What do you all think about this?