University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
SF, CA 94117
McLaren building, Room #251

More info and RSVP.

• 6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking. During the evening anyone in the audience is welcome to present their work in 30 seconds.
• 6:45-7:10: Linda Gass (Artist) on “Can Art Change Our Water Consciousness?”A visual presentation on textile-based art informed by site, maps, aerial photography and environmental activism. The artwork portrays aerial views of the human marks on our landscape in an effort to draw attention to concerns about water, using beauty to encourage people to look at the hard issues we face.
• 7:10-7:35: Peter Foucault (SFAI) on “Systems and Interactivity in Drawing”A discussion on how drawings are constructed through mark making systems, and how audience participation can influence the outcome of a final composition, focusing on an interactive robotic drawing installation
• 7:35-7:50: BREAK
• 7:50-8:15: Cindy Stokes (Photographer) on “Dynamic Form”A discussion of photographs and comments on some of the universal principles involved in the image structures
• 8:15-8:45: Imin Yeh (Zer01 Artist in Residence) on “Downloadable Mahjong”A discussion and craft circle based upon print media in the digital age and contemporary possibilities for “La Perruque”.
• 8:45:  Piero Scaruffi on the next Leonardo Art/Science eveningI will simply preview the line-up of speakers for the next Leonardo evening.
• 8:45pm-9:30pm: Discussions, more socializing You can mingle with the speakers and the audience.

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Alchemy is an annual San Francisco event, packed with interactive art installations built to connect and amaze you. Participation highly encouraged — but we know you won’t be able to resist picking up that joystick, paintbrush, or microphone. See the flyer and press release below for more information.

For investors, some of the more visible outbursts of imagination will come on May 1 at Gray Area Foundation For The Arts (GAFFTA), where Alchemy will take place. Activities from zoetrope-building to ice cream making will take place alongside an interactive hyphae video floor, puppet theater, an immersive diorama, strobe flowers, and demonstrations from a wide range of experts in exotic disciplines.

WHEN: Saturday May 1, 8pm-2am
WHERE: GAFFTA, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco
HOW: $15 at the door
WHY: Because you’re tired of those same-old jello-mold art gallery evenings and want to have FUN with art instead!
RSVP: on the facebook page

Schedule of Speakers

9PM – MetaMind Evolution by Andreas Stadler, software engineer and inventor, presents his work on neuro-feedback EEG mind-machines. He explores their applications to meditation, lucid dreaming, and brain training, as well as creative uses in music and art. After the talk, you’re invited to don the MetaMind headset and software, displaying beautiful visualizations from multiple channels of your very own brainwave data. (http://meta-mind.de/)

10PM – In Your Mind’s Eye by Dr. Tristan Ursell, Stanford University. You are a highly evolved creature, bred to perceive that which keeps you alive best, not what represents reality best. Learn about why you see the colors you do, and how your brain distorts the world around us.

11PM – John Bela is a founder of the design collective REBAR, creators of the global PARK(ing) Day event, Civic Center Victory Garden, Panhandle Bandshell, and other transformations of public space. He is a producer of creative ideas and a maker of things. John will present the works of Rebar, and how its many pursuits remix the ordinary, repurpose the ubiquitous and restructure the fabric of the urban environment. (http://www.rebargroup.org)

12AM – cutsupposepossesssuck by M. Ryan Noble, redefines social roles for artists through collaborative and therapeutic art processes, covering a wide range of media and experimental performances that fuse archetypal traditions with contemporary experience. A discussion of cultural engagement, sensory integration, and sub/un/hyperconsciousness as a means to create a metaphysical art experience leads into an experimental performance. Noble becomes a living sculpture in the space, guiding and collaborating with participants to develop the piece. (http://www.imagici.org)

1AM – Matt Bell is an inventor, artist, and entrepreneur who has done a wide variety of projects including gesture-based interactive displays, intricate laser-cut sculpture, and, most recently, floating art for the Ephemerisle festival. He’ll walk you through his multiprojector no-computer-necessary video feedback system that generates fractals live, allowing you and your friends to manipulate the parameters and output.

Artists and Installations

- Tyson Ayers’ Sound Cave Roadshow
- Strobe Flower Garden by Shawn Lani and PJ Reptilehouse
- Ice Cream Lab by Langton Labs
- Group A – Telephone Booth and TXT ME MOVE ME
- LoveTechSF’s Electronic Jam Lounge
- The Bone Conductor by Jean Rintoul
- Head Room by Brent Bishop
- Hyphae Dancefloor by Mary Franck and Michael Broxton
- Cheeky and Practice - interactive video installations by Scott Murray
- Galaxy Conduit by Rich DDT
- Zoetrope-Making with Tim Anderson
- Mini-Masher by Moldover
- Finger Puppet Photo Booth & Salon
- Alchemyville Post Office

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Washington, DC — Officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced that no regulations will be placed on the so-called Outlandish Ideas (OI) market. This move is seen as a victory for both capitalists and artists preparing for False Profit, LLC’s fourth annual Alchemy event on May 1.

“We’re pleased that the commission sees the wisdom in letting us take our batshit-crazy ideas as far as possible,” said False Profit staff economist Rosco Petracula, speaking through a prismatic tube from a tiny sacred galaxy unfolding inside the mind of an obscure minor deity. “After all, hasn’t this sort of reasoning driven every major economic advancement in history?”

Two years ago, the public learned an acronym previously only known to quantitative financial analysts: CDS (Credit Default Swap). These financial instruments, built on bets around subprime mortgages, led to the massive collapse of credit markets and sent the global economy into a tailspin. In hindsight, the way these types of investments pretended to do away with risk seem absurd.

Today, we know that risk is unavoidable and absurdity inevitable. False Profit’s Alchemy event, now cleared by the SEC, is expected to further provoke wild creativity in the OI markets. No idea is too outlandish to be unleashed. While some fear increases in spontaneous interaction and artistic expression, many are welcoming the preposterous unpredictability.

Reacting to the SEC statement, Mary Pranckster, Director of the Gonzo Tactics Institute said, “The primary reason we saw a meltdown in ‘08 was actually low insanity levels. Sure, at the time everyone thought things were crazy, but let me tell you: You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

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This Thursday is the next edition of the Recombinant Media Labs +dialog symposia series, presented at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. This month we will be exploring sustainable models of cultural production within organizations and festivals, and will be joined by several leading voices in entities known for their artistic incubation.

Alain Mongeau of MUTEK, Marian Goodell of Burning Man, Naut Humon of Recombinant Media Labs, and Mathias Holzmann of Palomar5 will be lead in discussion by Mathew Dryhurst. As we enter into both a new economy and a new technological reality with the means of production distributed to a wide audience, focus and foundation of arts organizations must change to properly catalyze and nurture artistic works and communities. We’ll be discussing ways that some of these organizations have already managed to be agile enough to survive in this complex environment.

When: Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 7:00pm
Where: Gray Area Foundation For the Arts, 55 Taylor St. San Francisco
Recommended $5-10 donation, however no-one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Seating is limited, and on a first come first serve basis.

Recombinant Media Labs is proud to present the third installment of its monthly +dialog symposium series.

In the aftermath of the economic meltdown, arts and innovation play a pivotal role in reinterpreting and revolutionizing the spaces where we live, work and play. Whether it be in re-branding business practice or empowering community development, creative thought is an indispensable ingredient to reclaiming and recoding our collective futures.

This discussion will focus on new and sustainable models for creative economies, and the importance of nurturing creative impulse to developing new models, new tools and new behaviors. What are the challenges we will face in this new dawn of creative enterprise? What roles can we play as individuals and communities to support these efforts?

Invited to this discussion is Alain Mongeau, founder and Artistic Director of Montreal’s MUTEK festival. MUTEK is a non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination and development of digital creativity in sound, music, and audio-visual art. For 11 years, Mutek has worked to challenge and redefine notions of our communities and greater culture, paving the way for numerous artists, festivals, labels, and other relevant support nodes. Earlier this month, MUTEK was the proud recipient of the distinguished Grand Prix du Conseil des Arts de Montréal, the highest honor bestowed on an arts organization in Montreal.

He will be joined in conversation by:

Marian Goodell, Director of Business and Communications for Burning Man. Amongst other accomplishments, Goodell worked with Burning Man participants in 1997 to create a Regional Network supporting their local communities, inspiring civic participation, and engaging people through Burning Man’s ethics and values. As of 2009, the Regional Network includes over 160 individuals in 125 locations worldwide.

Naut Humon, founder of Recombinant Media Labs, former Director of A&R at Asphodel Records and AV curator for select portions of the annual ARS Electronica Festival in Austria where he also helped coordinate their Digital Musics category for ten years.

Mathias Holzmann, resident artist at Gray Area Foundation For the Arts and founder of Berlin’s nomadic Palomar5, a non profit initiative that explores new spaces for innovation and new formats for people to cooperate and make real change.

The panel will be moderated by Mathew Dryhurst (Recombinant Media Labs).

The event will take place at 7:00pm on Thursday, April 15th 2010 at Gray Area Foundation For the Arts, 55 Taylor St. San Francisco. Recommended $5-10 donation, however no-one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Press inquiries, general questions and suggestions are welcome at mat [åt] rml-sf [dot] org

Schedule:
7:00 – 7:30pm reception
7:30 – 8:30pm panel discussion
8:30 – 9:00pm Open Q & A
9:00 – 10:00pm Networking and drinks

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The Hard Rock Wall is an 18’x4’ multi-user, multi-touch high-resolution wall showcasing thousands of pieces of searchable memorabilia at the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas Nevada. Three 2k projectors handle 100 hi-res images and videos simultaneously in realtime for up to 6 users. Images flow seamlessly between screens and scale up to 12 megapixels for incredibly lifelike interactions with the objects.

Complementing the video system is a six channel audio spatialization system that creates a unique experience for each user. Each person hears a spatialized representation of the sounds produced by their memorabilia, or the currently playing video. Items can be flicked down the screen, creating sound effects shooting across the entire wall.

From the Communication Arts Jury:

“A perfect complement to the physical memorabilia; it creates a virtual link between visitors and Hard Rock Cafes all over the world. It’s a great example of a brand that understands how to create a sense of connectedness.” —Rachel Pasqua

“The physical space has barely been tapped and the RockWall is a perfect example of what’s to come. Beautiful design, animation and a huge achievement.” —Mathew Ranauro

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Also presenting a new installation at the Gray Area Gallery on One Button Objects, is Peter Kirn, curator in conjunction with game art collective Kokoromi; just in time for the Game Developers Conference this week.

LOCATION:
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
55 Taylor Street
Thursday, March 11th
7PM – 9:30PM

The presenters are:
* VISDA GOUDARZI (Stanford CCRMA), will present Fosotomo/Gestonic/Neuroklang a video-based interface for the sonification of hand gesture for real-time timbre control. The goal of the system is to survey the space of musical possibilities and generating computer music using human movements. The system is build up on top of chuck and processing and uses simple frame difference as the metric.

* Composer CHERYL E. LEONARD will discuss how she creates music with natural objects, materials and sounds. She will demonstrate several of her unique natural-object instruments, including ones constructed with materials, such as penguin bones and limpet shells, that she collected in Antarctica last year.

* SURABHI SARAF will present her recent audio/visual works. She is interested in the dense, layered structure of sound with a focus on creating dynamic physical experiences. Her short performance will involve live singing and digital manipulation of the sound.

* JULIA OGRYDZIAK will present on working with the K-Bow, a new technology from Keith McMillen Instruments, which provides expressive live controls through a specially designed blue-tooth bow, transforming the possibilities of string performance. She will show how the bow works and give a live performance.

In addition, we will have awesome short LIGHTNING TALKS:
* SARAH GRANT says “i will be discussing my latest work using conductive felt as an interface for sound. i am interested in drawing connections between the similar properties of sound and fabric — specifically texture and the malleability and layering of form.”

* PETER KIRN (representing the Kokoromi collective of women and men) on the GAFFTA exhibit of ONE BUTTON OBJECTS: What can you do with one button? In an age of ever-more-complex touch interfaces, we’d like to imagine what a single, tangible, hardware button can mean for a design. To celebrate the arrival of their Gamma game event in San Francisco, art game collective Kokoromi is teaming up with Create Digital Music and Create Digital Motion to launch a one night show of objects that respond to this question. The work extends from games to interactive art and musical instruments.

BIOS

VISDA GOUDARZI is a computer musician interested in research in software for computer music, human-computer interaction, gesture-based interfaces, computer graphics, sonification, sound synthesis, and the application of new media in art. She is currently a researcher at Stanford working on an audio-visual feedback device in the Department of Oncology. She received her MA in Music, Science, and Technology at CCRMA in 2009. She also holds an MS in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, which she earned in 2008. Visda began her studies at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran before relocating to Vienna in 1998.

JULIA OGRYDZIAK started the playing the violin at the age of 3 and made her solo debut at age 6. She has performed throughout Europe and North America, including the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Tanglewood Festival, and at Lincoln Center. She studied at the SF Conservatory of Music, receiving their Distinguished Alumni Award, the New England Conservatory of Music, and in Paris. Julia has a Masters with Distinction from Harvard Design School and dual degrees in Music and Physics from MIT, where she received the AMITA award for most outstanding woman graduate and worked in the Hyperinstruments Group at the MIT Media Lab. A vocal proponent of modern music, she is involved as both artist and composer. Her recent projects include BELLA piano trio, collaborations with Capacitor Dance, and shows combining live performance and immersive visuals, such as Dark Blue Sky Dream which premiered at the Chabot Planetarium. Julia is also an award-winning visual artist, Creative Director, and serial entrepreneur. She is the founder of Blacksquare, a digital media studio; she has received multiple Webby Awards and the Vera List Prize, and her work has garnered national media attention and exhibited at MOMA. She is currently working on a new startup: IMHO, a new model for media distribution online, and is thrilled to also represent Keith McMillen Instruments as a K-Bow Artist and Evangelist.

CHERYL E. LEONARD is a composer, performer and instrument-builder whose music investigates sounds, structures and materials from the natural world. Her recent works cultivate stones, leaves, wood, water, ice, sand, shells, feathers and bones as musical instruments. Leonard uses microphones to explore the intricate worlds of sound hidden within these instruments and develops compositions that highlight the unique voices they contain. Many of her projects involve constructing one-of-a-kind sculptural instruments, which are played live onstage. Cheryl also enjoys creating site-specific works and collaborating across artistic disciplines. She has written numerous soundtracks for film, video, dance and theater, and designed sounds for exhibits at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Cheryl holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MA from Mills College. Her music has been performed worldwide and featured on several television programs and in the video documentary Noisy People. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, ASCAP, American Composers Forum and Meet the Composer. Leonard has been awarded residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Villa Montalvo and Engine 27. Recordings of her music are available from NEXMAP, Unusual Animals, Pax, Apraxia, 23 Five, Old Gold, the Lab and Great Hoary Marmot Music. www.allwaysnorth.com www.musicfromtheice.blogspot.com

SURABHI SARAF is a new media artist whose work brings together elements from experimental sound art, classical music, choreography and video art. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009 with an MFA in Art and Technology. Prior to that, she obtained her BFA in Painting from MSU Baroda (India) in 2005. Surabhi is the winner of Art vs Design (2009) organized by Artists Wanted, New York and presented her work at the announcement reception at the New Museum, NY. Her work PEEL is the Winner of Celeste Prize (2009), Italy and was exhibited at Alte AEG Fabrik, Berlin. Surabhi’s collaborative work with Nadav Assor, was presented at the NETMAGE 10 International Live Media Festival, Bologna, Italy. Her video Peel was also shown at the 13 International Video Festival, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Vojvodina, Serbia. Surabhi is the recipient of the International Graduate Student Scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her solo and collaborative works have been presented at the Links Hall, Looptopia and Sullivan Galleries in Chicago. She has shown at the Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi and was a part of Peers student residency program at Khoj International Artist Association New Delhi in 2006. Surabhi currently lives and works in San Francisco.

SARAH GRANT is a multimedia artist, developer, and alumni of NYU’s ITP, interested in designing soft instruments and textile-based controllers for sound. Her work brings together sculpture, fiber arts, electronics and experimental sound manipulation and signal processing. Her goals are to connect people to sound through physical means that are more germane to the nature of sound than traditional knobs, sliders and buttons, in order to facilitate more meaningful interactions. She is constantly on the look out for new ways to implement textiles as a means of interacting with sound be it wearable, architectural or sculptural. She often works in collaboration with her sister, Lara Grant. Their work can be found at http://www.fsp.fm….

One-button objects curator PETER KIRN is a composer/musician, media artist, and technologist, as well as writer and editor of createdigitalmusic.com and createdigitalmotion.com. The Handmade Music event series he originated with Etsy.com and Make Magazine is now spreading to other corners of the globe, from Texas to Portugal. He has also written for Computer Music, MAKE, Keyboard, Macworld, and Wax Poetics. He is the author of Real World Digital Audio (Peachpit Press). His own work spans live visuals and computer music, collaborations with modern dance, music for early instruments and voice and ambient techno, working with original software in Processing/Java and other tools. He’s currently teaching visual programming and sound and music design at Parsons The New School for Design and is a PhD candidate in music composition at The City University of New York Graduate Center.

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March 8 – 2:00 to 4:00 PM
35 West 4th Street, 6th Floor Conference Room

Since 1987 Jon Rose has pioneered the exploration of interactive electronics at STEIM through a series of violin bow powered MIDI compositions.

In 1998, he became the first violinist to manipulate iconic violin images and live video at the end of his bow.

Now utilising the latest in violin bow technology, surround sound, and interactive media, he puts his virtuosic violin technique to the test in a new series of challenging interactive environments.

BIO:
For over 35 years, Jon Rose has been at the sharp end of experimental, new and improvised music. Central to that practice has been ‘The Relative Violin’ project, a unique output, rich in content, realising almost everything on, with, and about the violin – and string music in general.  Most celebrated is the worldwide Fence project; least known are the relative violins – over 20 home experimental string instruments, created specifically for and in Australia.

In 1977, he started Australia’s first musician run collective for the promotion and recording of improvised music – Fringe Benefit.

In the area of interactive electronics, his work is considered exemplary, having pioneered the use of the MIDI bow in the ‘Hyperstring’ project in the 1980s with the Steim Institute, Amsterdam – and with whom he continues to collaborate often in interactive projects involving sport, games, or the environment.

Jon Rose has appeared on more than 60 albums and collaborated with many of the mavericks of new music including Kronos String Quartet, John Cage, Derek Bailey, Butch Morris, John Zorn, Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, George Lewis, Otomo Yoshihide, Christian Marclay, Eugene Chadbourne, etc. at festivals of New Music, Jazz, and Sound Art world wide such as Ars Elektronica, Festival D’Automne, Maerzmusik, Dokumenta, North Sea Jazz Fest, Leipzig Jazz Fest, European Media, New Music America, the Vienna Festival, the Berlin Jazz Festival, etc.

Recently Jon Rose was commissioned by the Kronos String Quartet to write and build “Music from 4 Fences” for the Sydney Opera House; realised his bicycle powered “Pursuit” project at Carriage Works, Sydney; performed a completely new and improvised solo part for the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; created two major radiophonic works for the BBC on the first Aboriginal string orchestra and the history of the piano in 19th century Australia; toured in Europe with his current improvisation groups ‘Futch’ and ‘Strike’; premiered his interactive huge Ball project at The Melbourne Festival; performed his interactive multi-media composition “Internal Combustion” for violin and orchestra at The Philharmonic, Berlin; and been apprehended by the Israeli Defence Forces at the Separation Fence near Ramallah in the occupied territories.

In 2007 he gave the Peggy Glanville-Hicks address – Listening to history: some proposals for reclaiming the practice of music. It has been published in over six journals, including The Leonardo Music Journal of MIT Press.

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Leonardo ISAST in collaboration with USF invites you to a meeting of
the Leonardo Art/Science community.

Like previous evenings the agenda includes some presentations of
art/science projects, a couple of brief “news”, and time for casual
socializing/networking.

Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com . Admission is limited.

When: March 8, 2010 at 6:30pm

Where: USF campus, San Francisco
(RSVP for detailed address and directions)

What:
6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.
6:45-8:45: Presentations
Helena Carmena (California Academy of Sciences) on “Connecting Art and Science
Thorough Museum Experiences”
Jesse Austin & Charles Lee (BIOS Design Collective) on “The application of
biological patterns to architecture”
Anna Couey on “Communication systems as social sculpture”
Taraneh Hemami (Visual Artist) on “One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran”
8:45-9:30: Q/A and discussion. Socializing/networking.

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The opening is this Friday night at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

The Global Lives Project (GLP) is a collective of filmmakers, artists, designers, programmers and everyday people who seek to expand individual global awareness through documenting 24 hours in the lives of people throughout the world. Rather than present narrative film, Global Lives seeks to present life as it unfolds at its natural pace. We hope that this experience will foster empathy, and compel viewers to think about their own lives within the context of a larger whole. Already the footage has been captured, edited, translated, and subtitled for 10 countries; Brazil, China, India, Japan, Malawi, the US, Lebanon, Indonesia, Serbia, and Kazakhstan.

Providing music for this event will be the impeccable Kid Kameleon, Chief Boima and Tinker; we’re incredibly excited to have them on board.

Join us from 7:30pm to 11:30pm
on Friday February 26, 2010
the party is FREE, but do RSVP HERE
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Groove globally and drink locally with the Bay Area’s freshest beatsmiths Kid Kameleon, Chief Boima and Tinker while immersed in the lives unfolding around you on the massive 10 screen video installation created just for this opening in YBCA’s Forum.

We’ll have a cash bar, chocolate tasting from TCHO, food by Onigilly, a La Cocina business, and a special appearance by the Slot Blades, a band of SF Cable Car operators, one of whom is  featured in Global Lives!

You’ll also get to meet many of the Global Lives producers and directors who are in town for this opening.

The 10 screen Global Lives installation will be open over the weekend if you are not able to make the opening night party; admission is free and docents will be on hand.

YBCA’s Forum hours are Saturday February 27 from noon to 8pm

and Sunday February 28 from noon to 6pm

This is the opening party for the world premiere installation of the Global Lives Project presented by YBCA; an innovative video installation capturing 24 hours in the lives of ten people from around the world who represent the diversity of the global population, on exhibit in the Room for Big Ideas through June 20, 2010.

Special thanks to our amazing volunteer collaborators and our sponsors for this exhibit: The Long Now Foundation, the Adobe Foundation, the Burwen Education Foundation, the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco, and the Black Rock Arts Foundation. The work itself was made possible by hundreds of individual donors and sponsors, and our key partners: Temple University Japan Campus,DotSUB, Creative Commons, the Museu da Pessoa, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, and United Nations University.

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Tickets: http://cmpnd333.info

It’s been quite some time since we’ve hosted an event of our own, and you can be certain we’ve chosen just the right reason to rise from our slumber. Yes indeed, it is a rare occasion that Stefan Betke aka Pole visits SF, we heard cries for months from those who missed his last performance here. Seriously, you do not want to miss this opportunity!

Our friends at The Bunker in NYC on his work:
“Stefan Betke aka Pole is one of the most important and well known electronic music producers to emerge in the past decade. His first three albums (“1″, “2″, & “3″), released from 1998 to 2000
and packaged in solid blue, red, and yellow sleeves, are absolute stone-cold classics. Betke reissued these three sadly out-of-print albums as a box set on his own ~scape imprint (titled “1 2 3″) in 2008, so they are once again available to the unfortunate souls who missed his timeless music the first time around. More recently, Pole released the “Steingarten” album on 2007, further developing his sound. He also did A&R for the critically acclaimed “Round Black Ghosts” compilations on ~scape, two collection of tracks that blur the line between dubstep and techno. We’ve caught Pole’s newest live set a few times in Europe, and he’s taken things in a much more dancefloor direction while maintaining the Pole sound design and creativity we all love.”

Joining Pole on the journey from Berlin to SF (via Unsound at The Bunker NYC) is the ~Scape label co-founder Barbara Preisinger. Since 1996, Barbara’s musical preferences as dj have changed and developed continuously from all kinds of experimental electronic music, via Hip Hop and Dub influenced tunes to House and Techno and beyond. But her passion is to play for the dancefloor, mixing kicking house and deep techno – often incorporating the music of scape related artists and label friends such as John Tejada, Stephen Beaupré, Portable, Safety Scissors, Daniel Bell, Dimbiman aka DJ Zip. All the while remaining open towards interesting and outstanding tunes that makes you move. She has been doing exactly that at many a prestigious location around the globe in recent years, including WMF in Berlin, Robert Johnson in Frankfurt, Batofar in Paris, Culture Box in Copenhagen and festivals as Sonar, Benicassim, DMF, Groove Parade Spain, to mention but a few. Since 2008 Barbara has hosted the party series DEEPERSTILL together with Daniel Bell in Berlin. In Autumn 2009 she started the 12inch vinyl label SLICES OF LIFE.

And of course the night would not feel complete without the heart & feet warming contributions of two of our favorite SF DJs: Nikola Baytala & Jason Short!

Further details, including directions and set times will be announced day of. email: cmpnd333@gmail.com

com#333 is a new name for a longstanding, ever-rotating collective of people working to present extra-ordinary, family-style experimental, hybrid, and electronic music events & spectacles in our legendary immersive space in San Francisco.

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Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is pleased to announce its 3rd exhibition, opening to the public on Saturday, February 20th. The show will feature the work of artists Aaron Koblin and Robert Hodgin.

Transpose continues Gray Area’s investigation into expansive forms of technology and the painting of landscapes through digital means. Code is a rule for converting a piece of information into another form or representation; Here we present two artists who work visually and creatively with code, shifting data around into different compositions, transposing their received nature into an alternate one through interpolation and algorithms and communicating through this source.

Aaron Koblin is an an artist specializing in data visualization. His work takes social and infrastructural data and uses it to depict cultural trends and emergent patterns. Aaron’s work has been shown at international festivals including Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and TED. He received the National Science foundation’s first place award for science visualization and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Currently, Aaron is Technology Lead of Google’s Creative Lab where he helped to launch Chrome Experiments, a website showcasing JavaScript work by designers from around the world.

Robert Hodgin is the founding partner of the Barbarian Group. His work ranges from simple 2D data visualizations to immersive 3D terrain simulations. His primary interests include theoretical physics, astronomy, particle engines, and audio visualizations. He works in Java, Processing, C++, Cinder, OpenGL, and GLSL and has spoken at conferences around the world, including FlashForward, FITC, Flash on the Beach, OFFF, and FlashBelt. He was also a guest lecturer at NYU’s ITP program, UCLA’s DMA program, and SCI-ARC and his work has been shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Wing Luke Asian Museum, McLeod Residence Gallery, Wired NextFest, San Francisco Exploratorium, and the San Francisco Independent Film Festival.

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