Conducting a week-long video workshop in Luang Prabang, Lao People’s Democratic Republic for 1minutes foundation/UNICEF. Two days at the tail to shoot material. Looking for an actor to deliver a monologue in an internet cafe. Lao bluescreen pop, country groove and karaoke music videos are fuelling my anticipation.
This Friday night I will be in Eindhoven, providing musical accompaniment to Alexei Shulgin (386DX!) and Amy Alexander’s performances during the opening night of the Funware exhibition at Mu. Artists exhibiting include Adrian Ward, Amy Alexander, Annina Ruest, Bob Zimbinski, Carmen Weisskopf / Domagoj Smoljo / Roger Wigger, Christoph Haag / Franziska Windisch / Ludwig Zeller / Martin Rumori, Colin Green / Matthew Fuller / Simon Pope, Dave Griffiths / Aymeric Mansoux / Marloes de Valk, David Link, Electroboutique, Gazira Babeli, Joan Leandre, JODI, Jon Satrom / Ben Syverson, RTmark, Runme.org.
Freaks run the world. It is through fun that they invent what becomes our reality, even if their jokes are later updated to guide matters in unappetizing ways. Our society is built and managed by software. To understand how we can act in relation to such systems and how they are made, we need to get a sense of the energy that drives software, the energy based on fun. We can come closer to these practices through the territories that are in-between geeky humour, digital folklore, cultures of using conventional software, artistic software and history of computation. It is in the fact that exploration takes place through fun and the bizarre territories always exist that there is a hope for an open horizon.
Read an interview with curator Olga Goriunova on Rhizome http://rhizome.org/editorial/3843
Full details at http://www.mu.nl/?cl=uk
Producing the event and performing as DJ Bushdoof this Saturday at Netherlands Institute for Media Art, Amsterdam. Museum Night 2010, from 22.00-02.00. NIMk has a busy public program starting at 7pm, we wind up the night with a big doofing party. Selector Tiny Tim is bringing fresh Jamaican bashment and live MC’s, the visuals are arriving via filetransfer services as I type; Mexico, London, Melbourne, New York and Amsterdam Oost.
http://www.bushdoof.eu/?p=33
http://nimk.nl/eng/museum-night-2010
DJ Bushdoof http://www.bushdoof.eu
Sensiriti Sound w/ MC http://www.myspace.com/sensiritisound
Visuals by
Maximum Rim (Australia) http://moopjaw.tumblr.com
Yoshi Sodeoka (Japan/U.S.A.) http://www.sodeoka.com
TV aka Clickjaw (Mexico/Australia) http://clickjaw.com
Flyer image by Antuong Nguyen of Maximum Rim.
Analog media seizure. Sony Cassette Walkman discontinued in Japan and Technics 1200 turntables discontinued globally. 30 year old technology. Beginning of personal audio. Beginning of scratching, club culture. Analog components difficult to source. Challenges in the marketplace. Walkman’s death announced on the birthday of the ipod.
http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/sony/
Bring Your Own Beamer group exhibition curated by Angelo Plessas
Athens Kunsthalle, 23 October 2010
Participating Artists: Alexandros Georgiou, Alexandros Psychoulis, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Amateurboyz, Andreas Angelidakis, Angelo Plessas, Anne de Vries, Billy Rennekamp, Dimitris Foutris, Dimitris Papadatos, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Eftihis Patsourakis, Emile Zile, Irini Karayannopoulou, Ioanna Myrka, Georgia Sagri, Katerina Kana, Kostis Velonis, Lakis & Aris Ionas/The Callas, Mai Ueda, Makis Faros, Mano Plizzi, Maria Papadimitriou, Natasha Papadopoulou, Pantelis Pantelopoulos, Pegy Zali, Petros Moris, Poka-Yio, Rafaël Rozendaal, Sifis Lykakis, Spiros Hadjidjanos, The Erasers, Theo Michael, Theodoros D Giannakis, Vassilis, Patmios Karouk
Saturday 23rd October 2010, 8 p.m.
Kerameikou 28 str., Kerameikos – Metaxourgeio, Athens
Κunsthalle Athena has the honour to host “Bring your own beamer” (BYOB) event, an “exemplary” and crucial gesture supporting creative expression in a period of financial, social and cultural crisis.
“Bring your own beamer” (BYOB) exhibition comprises an edition of a broader set of events organised by different artists in different cities every time. In every occasion the organisers choose the participating artists with the aim to experiment and discover “what will occur in site when it is filled with moving light”.
In this special evening, under the acronym BYOB (a symbolic reference to bring your own booze parties), artists are invited to bring their own beamer and present any work they choose in any place they desire to. It is a case of “presenting” moving images and performances in a DIY context, expected to evolve organically in progress of the evening. Therefore, a significant aspect of BYOB’s concept is to be realized without the financial support of any third parties beyond the immediate participants.
The first BYOB event was held with great success in Büro Friedrich, Berlin with the initiative of Rafaël Rozendaal and Anne de Vries. Now, curated by Angelo Plessas, BYOB makes its second worldwide appearance in Kunsthalle Athena. All the artists will attend the event, even those who are not based in Athens, so you are welcomed to contact them. Complementary to the event and during the night a joined performance will take place by artist Angelo Plessas and japanese artist Mai Ueda followed by DJ sets from Amateur Boys and Emile Zile.
EMILE ZILE ARTIST TALK AT FAVSC, SEP 23 FOOTSCRAY ARTS
LIVE A/V YOUTUBE ESSAY PERFORMANCE SEP 22 AT STUTTER
DJ BUSHDOOF SEP 17 AT OPENING OF NEW GALLERY PARADISE HILLS
One night exhibition in Berlin, hosted by Anne de Vries and Rafael Rozendaal.
21:00, Tuesday July 20 2010. Bureau Friederich Holzmarktstraße 14 Berlin.
http://bringyourownbeamer.tumblr.com
http://emilezile.com/installation/spielberg-on-kubrick/
AIDS-3D ALEXANDRA DOMANOVIC ANDREAS ANGELIDAKIS ANDREW KEATON ANGELO PLESSAS ANNE DE VRIES BILLY RENNEKAMP CONSTANT DULLAART DAFNA MAIMON DARRI LORENZEN EMILE ZILE HAYLEY SILVERMAN HELGA WRETMAN JAIME WHIPPLE JULIETTE BONNEVIOT KARI ALTMANN KATJA NOVITSKOVA KINGA KIELCZYNSKA LINDSAY LAWSON MAI UEDA MIKE RUIZ OLIVER LARIC RAFAËL ROZENDAAL SPIROS HADJIDJANOS TIMUR SI-QIN VOIN DE VOIN WOJCIECH KOSMA
Bushdoof representing for ‘SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE STATE OF MIND’.
Full event data available at http://www.bushdoof.eu/?p=19
4 July DE SERVICE GARAGE CLOSING, ROOFTOP PARTY w/ Baba Electronica, DJ Amaral, DJ Lonely.
11 July GERRIT RIETVELD AKADEMIE GRADUATION CEREMONY
Saturday 24 July + Saturday 31 July ROOF TERRACE OF KRAAIENNEST PARKING GARAGE, BIJLMER w/ Baba Electronica, DJ Amaral, DJ Lonely
‘Forever’, the analogue feedback music video for Love Of Diagrams screens in the Rojo Nova Audiovisual Sessions, happening July 1st – August 15th 2010 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. http://www.rojo-nova.com
If you cant make it to the museum in Brazil, you can watch the video here: http://www.messandnoise.com/tv/3916440
Electric Cinema presents two striking examples of essay film-making Tuesday evening at the old squatted film academy at Overtoom 301: Chris Marker’s serene and mesmerising Sans Soleil against Johan Grimonprez’s unrelenting history of terrorist airjackings, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. http://www.electric-cinema.org
Bar at 20:00. Starts: 20:30 hrs. Last Electric Cinema program before cinema renovations and the summer break.
Nightly membership: 4 Euro
OT301 / Overtoom 301 / 1054 HW Amsterdam
Produced and presented by Emile Zile.
The guiding visual thread of the piece is the almost exhaustive chronology of airplane highjackings in the world. The soundtrack is constituted of a fictive narrative inspired by two Don DeLillo novels—White Noise and Mao II—which, for Grimonprez, highlight the value of the spectacular in our catastrophe culture. - http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/dial-history/
One connection or reflection in the movie becomes four or five in your mind as you watch Sans soleil or think about it afterwards, as if the filmmaker has sent you on a mission to find out this or that idea or bit of information (the movie is inspirational in a very concrete sense), or to consider something from a different perspective, and still another, and so on; the cinematic equivalent of a stone being thrown into a pond, wherein you are the pond. All this, and Marker still finds room for a melancholy, weary, yet strangely optimistic, exhilarating emotional texture. It also happens to be very funny at times. - http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/marker.html