goto (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest this SAT 2005.08.27! http://r4wb1t5.org/2005.08.27 =========== (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest 2005.08.27 @ AlterSpace http://www.cayetanoferrer.com/alterspace/ 2430 N. Washtenaw #3N CHI IL .US 60647 http://r4wb1t5.org/2005.08.27/map.html =========== FREE + OPEN START 5 PM END ...(?) (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest breaks into Alterspace! as this Logan Square apartment gallery goes nonlocal, leaving their physical location for future nomadic destinations, (A) r4WB!t5 micro.fest tunnels in, powers up and takes over. (A) r4WB!t5 micro.fest is itself a decentralized and open platform for playing realtime systems in conversational contexts. @ Alterspace 2005.08.27 in chronological order, this (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest includes the following aspects: an artware sandbox pizza party; remixes and pop song mash ups transmitted over radio to old skool boomboxes; dirty new media and digital still art exhibition; experimental musics, realtime audio video and artware performances; installations, distributions and web-based new media art. Artware Sandbox Pizza Party sponsored by criticalartware r4WB1t5 activates Alterspace by bringing a taste of the geek underground and the energy of software development in the Artware Sandbox Pizza Party! "sandbox" is a software term for a playful and experimental research and development area within an application or organization that alows for unstructured use, missuse and exploration. employing the architecture of a sandbox (A) r4WB!t5 micro.fest percolates discussions through guided useage and demos. hang out, download, discuss, install, compile, run and play with various free and open source artware applications and systems while conspicuously consuming energy drinks, Pirate's Booty and veggie pizza! criticalartware + (A) r4WB!t5 micro.fest artists and organizers will highlight software created by artists (aka artware) from around the globe while freely distributing these projects on compact discs. artware sandbox pizza party schedule: ~ 4r+\/\/4r3 54|\||)0x P!ZZ4 P4r+y sponsored by criticalartware, featuring the work of: 5 - 7 PM dyne:bolic! is RASTASOFT by jaromil (BABYLON) http://www.dynebolic.org 7 - 8 PM os_anm by slateford aka Simon Yuill (Scotland .UK) + Tryggve Askildsen (.NO) http://www.slateford.org/os_anm/0.2 8 - 9 PM Processing by Casey Reas (LA CA .US) + Ben Fry (MIT MA .US) http://processing.org # os_anm.nfo "os_anm is an exploration the basic materials of the digital image: pixels and code. The work exists as a series of software tools, each taking a slightly different approach to or realisation of the idea. The different version in the series are numbered with pre-release numbers (0.1, 0.2, etc.), this is to emphasize the nature of the series as a set of explorations and experiments rather than as a commercial, or commercially compatible, 'finished' application. Older version of the series are not rendered obsolete by newer releases. os_anm[0.2] is a lo-tech, lo-resolution video manipulation and animation tool capable of streaming images and working in a peer-to-peer fashion. It uses its own simplified pixel format and video codec, along with its own, crude, scripting language. The command-line and pixel raster are always at the forefront. os_anm[0.2] provides an alternative to the dominant paradigm of the video as photo-realistic, or cinematic, image. It provides a set of non-photorealistic renders which can display the pixel raster in a variety of styles from old-school bitmap and ascii-images to more abstract renders. Some renders treat the image primarily as data rather than representation, using the colour values as stimuli for other forms of graphical output. os_anm[0.2] can be extended through plug-ins or by adapting the source code. The source code has been released along with the tool as an integral part of the work. The functionality of os_anm[0.2], therefore, can also provide a ready-working context within which experiments with the source code can be quickly and easily tested" # os_anm by slateford aka Simon Yuill (Scotland .UK) + Tryggve Askildsen (.NO) # http://www.slateford.org/os_anm/0.2 # dyne:bolic!.nfo "dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives as a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, having automatically recognized most device and peripherals: audio, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb and more; all using only free software! dock! You can employ this operating system without the need to install anything, and if you want to run it from harddisk you just need to copy a directory: the easiest installation ever seen! It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning them into a full media stations: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters. dyne:bolic is RASTA software released free under the GNU General Public License. This software is about Digital Resistance ina babylon world which tries to control and market the way we communicate, we share our interests and knowledge. The roots of the Rastafari movement are in resistance to slavery: this software is one step in the struggle for Redemption and Freedom from proprietary and closed-source software." # dyne:bolic! is RASTASOFT by jaromil (BABYLON) # http://www.dynebolic.org # Processing.nfo "Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to commercial software tools in the same domain." # Processing by Casey Reas (LA CA .US) + Ben Fry (MIT MA .US) # http://processing.org r4W.D!0 P|_4y b4(|< b00/\/\ b0X0r the (quixoticly named in ironic and self-referential codespeak) r4W.D!0 P|_4y b4(|< b00/\/\ b0X0r (aka radio play back boom box) aspect of this (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest brings the robotic funk of audio art and experimental musics to the mashup scene. artist made remixes will be wirelessly transmitted through Alterspace via old skool boomboxes creating digital mixtapes to consider artistically and groove to. 5 PM - ON + mashUp boom box audio file play.bak: ~ r4W.D!0 P|_4y b4(|< b00/\/\ b0X0r by various artists, featuring the work of: dj BC (Boston MA .US) http://www.djbc.net Evolution Control Committee (SF CA + Columbus OH .US) http://evolution-control.com Wetcat (CHI IL .US) http://www.wetcat.org http://conpact.com Powerpadd (CHI IL .US) http://www.myspace.com/powerpadd http://conpact.com + MINI MINI MORE! ][]P3|\|.|=r@/\/\3.\/\/()r|<][ for this final Alterspace event r4WB1t5 plays w/the concepts and constructs of showing digital art w/in an exhibition called ][]P3|\|.|=r@/\/\3.\/\/()r|<][ (aka open frame work) of digital still art. the exhibtion is compiled from an open online call for work. anyone and everyone who uses the internet could be a part of this gallery show. every artist will receive equal wall time (length of event divided by number of participants) in the display of their digital art works. 5 PM - ON + open frame work digitalArt img space ~ ][]P3|\|.|=r@/\/\3.\/\/()r|<][ by various artists, featuring the work of: { brad brace } (interweb ++ .US) http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/12hr.html strepsata (CHI IL .US) http://noisydaughter.com michael beijer (Amsterdam .NL) http://michaelbeijer.tk rechen [roberto echen] (Rosario .AR) http://www.rechen.com dimitre (San Paulo .BR) http://dmtr.org/ + MINI MINI MORE! Realtime Audio Video Performances Teleseen (NYC NY .US) abstracts dub soundscapes into complexly layered electronics. this performance, Teleseen is joined by collaborator, artist and filmmaker Chris Bravo (CHI IL .US) who will contribute the visual component of this live audio video set. this collaboration promises deeply interwoven approaches to sound and moving image relationships. http://www.percepts.info Amanda GutiŽrrez, Ezara Hoffman and Jake Elliot (CHI IL .US) collaborate for the first time in an improvised set of experimental audio and video processing. these 3 artists take diverse approaches to radio frequencies (GutiŽrrez), realtime video (Hoffman) and live coding (Elliot). http://subaltern.org/amanda.htm http://structuredsound.net/ezara http://structuredsound.net/jake jonCates & jon.satrom (CHI IL .US) remix their "view.sys | sys.view" project, feeding this realtime audio video work back into itself again and again. http://systemsapproach.net/sys.view|view.sys http://selectall.org/---/projx/svvs Video installation and lecture Nate Harrison (LA CA .US) presents his Can I get an Amen? project as a [video installation/lecture] that analyzes histories of sampling, electronic musics, digital systems, democracy and copyright law. r4WB1t5 opens a portal to a previous gallery installation of this project by representing the work as it was formerly shown and adding yet another layer of copying to this process. 5 PM - ON + video installation/lecture ~ Can I get an Amen? by Nate Harrison (LA CA .US) http://nkhstudio.com ivan l—pez's (Mexico City .MX) "text" project is a digital zine criss crossing national and disciplinary borders. "text" will be available online as part of this (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest as well as being physically available @ the event. grab a download and discuss "text" @ this event! 5 PM - ON + physical distributions of new media projects including: ~ txt by ivan l—pez (Mexico City .MX) http://textzi.net/ r4WB1t5 features ceaselessly challenging web-based blog art and new media projects including: mez presents her "_[net]blog to log][ah!rhythm][_" blog art project. as mez states her "_[net]blog to log][ah!rhythm][_" project is a "reverse-engineered weblog - read: _bio_log_ as opposed 2 a standardized weblog" written in her own personal codespeak called "_mezangelle_". "_[net]blog to log][ah!rhythm][_" is an intermeshed net.work compiled in collaboration w/realtime_units aka readers who comment and extend this project. URI: http://www.livejournal.com/users/netwurker SCREENFULL by jimpunk and abe linkoln transforms the "blog" into the "screenfull stadium rock net.art" show. threatening to crash browsers and appropriating any and all references that connect to extend from this blog. SCREENFULL exists as a playful remix on blogging itself, looping feedback through networks and indicating the prolific possibilities for web-based new media projects. http://www.screenfull.net/stadium ALWAYS ON + interweb based blog art projects ~ _[net]blog to log][ah!rhythm][_ by mez (interweb + .AU) http://www.livejournal.com/users/netwurker ~ SCREENFULL by jimpunk and abe linkoln (interweb + .FR + .US) http://www.screenfull.net/stadium JOIN US @ Alterspace on 2005.08.27 for this (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest! 2430 N. Washtenaw #3N CHI IL, 60647 5 PM - 9 PM artware sandbox pizza party 5 PM - ON radio playback boombox music 5 PM - ON open frame work digital art exhibition 5 PM - ON installation & lecture 5 PM - ON new media project distributions 09:00 PM - 12:00 AM realtime audio video performances ALWAYS ON - Web-based new media projects http://r4wb1t5.org/2005.08.27 dirty new media + digital art boombox mash ups + remixes realtime audio video + web art install experimental musics + artware sandbox pizza party! NOW ORG (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest! http://r4wb1t5.org