(A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest @ ENEMY 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd FL CHI IL .US 60622 2006.01.21 FREE + OPEN DOORS @ 8:00 PM VIDEO STREAMS @ 8:30 PM SHARED PLAYLISTS @ 9:00 PM APPROACHING RANDOMNESS + SUBJECT TO SEARCH are always ON / * SHARED PLAYLISTS, APPROACHING RANDOMNESS, VIDEO STREAMS ++ SUBJECT TO SEARCH */ on JAN 21 aka 2006.01.21 Chicago's new ENEMY gallery will host (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest. this instance of (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest focuses on shared playlists, reiterations, projects approaching randomness, video streams, searches, databases + complex overlapping digital, analog + humanistic systems. / * SHARED PLAYLISTS */ the following 4 collaborative groups will perform a shared playlist of 7 short realtime audio video pieces reconceived as covers from a mutually determined shared playlist: Mark Solotroff ++ Mike Nourse http://bloodlust.blogspot.com http://www.chicagoartdepartment.org experimental musician Mark Solotroff of BLOODYMINDED! (CHI IL .US) ++ artist Mike Nourse of the Chicago Art Department (CHI IL .US) join forces to sample, synthesize, deconstruct + reassemble linguistic structures. Insect Deli ++ Madame Chao http://www.insectdeli.com http://www.madamechao.com Insect Deli (CHI IL .US) commingles her signature {cute|creepy}-[noise/electronics] with video artist Madame Chao's (NYC NY .US) datastream. Wetcat ++ Taeyoon Kim http://www.wetcat.org http://conpact.com solo artist Wetcat (CHI IL .US) on the local CONPACT label ++ video artist Taeyoon Kim (Seoul .KR) connect + create networks of remixed meaning. fAULTY mAJICK (The Faultless ++ Majick Missile) http://www.thefaultless.info http://magicmissile.us The Faultless ++ Majick Missile collaborate to cast sum broken spells + spin sum randomized webs of computer witchery. this shared playlist will be performed in a round. all artists [+/or] collaborative groups will play the complete set as this searchable database repeats + reiterates in each unique variation created in this realtime human feedback system. this shared playlist includes covers of the following 7 songs in the following order: 00. "Night Shift" - Siouxsie and the Banshees 01. "Chopsticks" - Traditional 02. "I Am The Sun" - Swans 03. "Janitor" - Suburban Lawns 04. "White Rabbit" - Jefferson Airplane 05. "A Human Certainty" - Saccharine Trust 06. "WAT" - Laibach intentional + coincidental connections, overlaps + exchanges will flow through out the space during this event. / * APPROACHING RANDOMNESS */ Random Screen by Aram Bartholl: http://www.datenform.de/rscreeneng.html Aram Bartholl's Random Screen installation travels from the .DE to the .US for this 2006.01.21 r4WB1t5 micro.Fest, appearing for the first time in the .US! this physical installation piece is a nonelectric "mechanical thermo dynamic display" built fro modified components + arranged in an ever expanding modular arrangement of pixel units powered by tee candle lights. Random Screen approaches randomness while literalizing physical computing + playing w/the rhetorics of New Media art discourse. / * VIDEO STREAMS */ Flickr.mov by jonathan coulton: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/video/Flickr.mov Brett Levin: http://blevin.org/cat Alok Saldanha: http://www.infinitecat.com/movies the 2006.01.21 r4WB1t5 @ ENEMY will also feature screen based video works of artists who visualize online databases such as Flickr ++ The Infinite Cat Project. jonathan coulton's Flickr.mov pulls previously disconnected images from Flickr only to reimagine them as an unbroken narrative stream. Brett Levin + Alok Saldanha have both created their own journeys through the ever expanding universe that is The Infinite Cat Project. these 3 video streams visualize online databases not as reductionist graphical abstractions that aim for purity but rather as expansive remixes + hallucinatory reconstructions. / * SUBJECT TO SEARCH */ the web based new media aspect of this (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest features projects organized around the theme "SUBJECT TO SEARCH". SUBJECT TO SEARCH includes: Waiting by Horit Herman Peled: http://www.horit.com/machsomwatch.htm Horit Herman Peled (Tel Aviv .IL) opens a port to a network of West Bank checkpoints where women wait to be searched, her work with Machsom Watch + her own email account. Google Talk by Douwe Osinga: http://douweosinga.com/projects/googletalk Douwe Osinga's (Zurich .CH) Google Talk script generates chunks of automagical text, speaking [to/from] Google searches of keywords that users provide to the seed search illogics. foofoofoo by ALKU/IMBECIL: http://openserver.cccb.org/~foofoofoo/index.html http://personal.ilimit.es/principio/ http://imbecil.net/ ALKU ++ IMBECIL's (interweb ++ .ES) collaborative foofoofoo artware {project|system} creates algorithmic mashups from the preferences defined by user's iTunes libraries. popautomate by Talk-over: http://www.noweb.org/guest/popautomate Talk-over's (Paris .FR) popautomate project concatenates customized poststructuralist music from user determined phrases + promiscuous pop song samples. Flexicon by robb drinkwater: http://www.splintergroup.com/rdrink/dislexicon/generators/flexicon robb drinkwater's (CHI IL .US) Flexicon database works from a DaDaist impulse to digitally create a nonsensical language + user submitted definitions to build a dynamic Dislexicon. thistext by jake elliott: http://www.livejournal.com/users/thistext jake elliott's (CHI IL .US) thistext codework pipes the a datastream of consciousness from the most recent LiveJournal posts into a custom filter set. all of these web based new media projects approach searching, databasing + outputting results from searches + databases as artistic methods, readymades + raw materials. these projects variously approach the SUBJECT TO SEARCH from politicized, systematic, secretive + widely accessible positions. /* TXT */ The Promise of a Post-Copyright World by Karl Fogel http://copyrightmyths.org Karl Fogel's The Promise of a Post-Copyright World text + the CopyrightMyths.org project question misinformed assumptions + myths about the hystories of + reasons for copyright in relation to the promoting creativity. (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest organizers are happy to provide physical copies of this electronic text to encourage discussions + debates on open cultures, free exchanges + digital arts. /* ABOUT */ this (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest is organized by jonCates, jon.satrom + Jason Soliday. Jason Soliday (director of ENEMY gallery) joins jon.satrom + jonCates (previous r4WB1t5 organizers) in developing this most recent instantiation of the open + copyable (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest format. (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest is a new platform or framework for (A)narchistic forms of decentralized mini or micro festivals to self-organize around themes + theorypractices of raw bits of digital art + dirty new media. (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest is itself a decentralized + open platform for playing realtime systems + exchanging New Media projects in conversational contexts. (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest extends out of + feeds back into DaDaist, Situationist, Fluxist, punk, digital art + New Media theorypractices, hystories, posibilities + positionalities. (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest is an [open project/conceptual {platform|framework}] available to anyOne interested in self-organized DIY digital arts + dirty new media. http://r4wb1t5.org/2006.01.21 http://cranksatori.net/enemy /* NOW ORG (A) r4WB1t5 micro.Fest! */ the r4WB1t5 project is an open + decentralized format for you to instantiate! contact us: r4wb1t5 AT gmail DOT com to conspire, collaborate [+/or] coordinate! http://r4wb1t5.org