————————————

{R} A K E

{A performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video}

This Month’s A/V

Set 1 – Richard Garet – Video
Set 1 – Eric Lyon (laptop) and Christof Knoche (alto sax and electronics) – Music
Set 2 – Billy Gomberg – Video
Set 2 – Iron Dog (Sarah Bernstein and Stuart Popejoy) – Music
Set 3 – Color is Luxury (Charles Cohen and hair_loss) – Music
Set 3 – Dan Winckler – Video

{R}ake is a performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music and video. Performances range from pure improvisation to more structured pieces, with video-artists and musicians working together in exploratory ways.
Monkey Town serves dinner during the show, so come hungry. Seating is limited — It’s a good idea to make reservations on their website

Monkey Town

58 North 3rd Street
(bet. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
718 384-1369

$7 Admission; $10 Food/Drink Minimum

nattily-compressed preview videos:

http://www.poppingpixels.org/

This year’s theme is “WIDE OPEN” in honor of the wide open spaces of the prairie where the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is located AND where the 2008 exhibit is being graciously hosted.

THE SHOW DATES ARE NOVEMBER 4TH, 2008 THROUGH JANUARY 4TH, 2009. OPENING CELEBRATION WILL BE DECEMBER 11, 2008 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. The UIUC Laptop Ensemble will perform live improvised soundtracks to the videos in the exhibit, as well as some pre-composed music during the opening.

The following artists have been selected for the 2008 exhibit:
Jim Bizzocchi (Surrey BC CANADA) , Leigh Brodie (Austin TX USA), Sheldon Brown (Encinitas CA USA), Sean Capone (Brooklyn NY USA), Ina Conradi (Singapore, SINGAPORE), David Crawford (Gšteborg, Sweden), Adam Cruces (League City TX USA), Bryant Dameron (Richmond VA USA), Robert Ladislas Derr (Columbus OH USA), Daria Dorosh (NY NY USA), Brian Franklin (University Park PA USA), Billy Gomberg (Brooklyn NY USA), Lei Han (Asheville NC USA), Andrew Harrison (Hightstown NJ USA), Bjorn Erik Haugen (Oslo NORWAY), Lori Hepner (Pittsburgh PA USA), Wobbe Koning (West Orange New Jersey USA), Richard O’Sullivan (Pontyclun R.C.T. UNITED KINGDOM), Elise Roedenbeck (New York NY USA), Cynthia Beth Rubin (New Haven CT USA), Tim Skinner (Colchester Essex UNITED KINGDOM), Simone Stoll (Frankfurt GERMANY), Michael Szpakowski (Harlow Essex UNITED KINGDOM), Dirk Vis (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS), Chirstinn Whyte (Cambridge Cambridgeshire UNITED KINGDOM), Jody Zellen (Santa Monica CA USA)

This year’s CURATOR/ORGANIZER IS DAMON LOREN BAKER. Damon is the Associate Curator of Art, Design, and Technology at the Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He directs the Intermedia Gallery/Lab which brings together artists from around the world to explore the opportunities provided by advances in science and technology, collaborates with researchers in laboratories at the Siebel Center for Computer Science, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Beckman Institute, develops software for the creation of virtual reality art, and is part of the Cultural Informatics project of the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies.”