//* begin PROGRAM_NFO.TXT ****************** *(A) r4WB1t5 fest* **PROGRAM_NFO.TXT* ****************** 2005.05.25 CHI IL .US (A) r4WB1t5 festival projects + artists listed in order of appearance ******** *ONLINE* ******** virlab - experiment viruses choreographies by NOBOX (GREGOIRE ZABE + JOSSELIN ROUX) http://www.nobox-lab.com/virlab/ ÒIt's above all a work of fiction. Altering and exploiting differently simulation, a tool which is meant for concrete applications, enable the artist to disrupt its traditional codes, to make his own an already connoted space, thus expressing a wish for cross-disciplines in order to disclose its machinery in a better way.Ó ********** *ONSCREEN* ********** Western by Mike Miles Mike Miles remixes, erases + recreates Western High Plains Drifter (1973) in his 2004 video Western. Western stops + starts reminiscing over samples held together by faint disappearances as cowboys ride across cultural vanishing points. shiny broken shards + hand processed scenes glint through this digital western wasteland like the steely gaze of an unseen hero. Untitled by Morgan Higby-Flowers digitally distressed instructional films, archival porn + silent cartoons mumble, collide + melt into one another in Morgan Higby-Flowers' untitled video works. these 3 pieces overlap + intermingle becoming an unstable mixture of volatile materials, oblique references to the function + suggestive silences. functional diagrams become exploded views into electromechanical sex slaves + BDSM hystories. 505.VIRI by jonCates in 505.viri jonCates remixes the rarely screened film The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord ++ the online video Video : War : Leverage (virus.mov) by john polizzi. both sources use appropriated or found footage as the basis of cultural critique ++ in this third mind re[mix/mapping] jonCates uses both sources to comment on 01 another as well as the accessibility of such viral new media memes as these. vopnospur by jon.satrom utilizing audio + video compression + frame by frame manipulations, jon.satrom creates vopnospur. in vopnospur sound + video move in tandem building + breaking bit by bit, sample by sample, frame by frame interrelations. pixels are pulled apart, glitches express linear corruption + compression tests signals. Cyber Dada Manifesto New Media Nightmare by Joshua Conro Joshua Conro analysis digital art culture through the filter of cyberpunk in his 2005 video Cyber Dada Manifesto New Media Nightmare. Conro remixes the text Cyber Dada Manifesto against well worn + freshly found footage from cyberpunk media moments, bringing a manic critique to this cutup video lecture. **************** * PERFORMANCES * **************** THE FAULTLESS http://www.thefaultless.info/ The Faultless grabs pixels in heaps, pounds samples into new shapes and punches out audio and video. Duck and cover, The Faultless is a one man digital-punk system crash. TOTAL GYM http://www.totalgymcru.com/ Get your workout on with Total Gym! A collaborative social network of artists who play with and transform environments, Total Gym promises a multi-tentacled gymboree for this r4WB1t5 festival. I LOVE PRESETS! http://ilovepresets.com/ I Love Presets combine the sound of a semi-truck falling off the sunset, a scratched up hip-hop album kissing an outlet and the sound of an angry life guard at the boom-box swimming-pool. Audio and video collide head on to open the timespace rift spewing forth sonic mirth and visual delight. Where else have you seen a 16 color rainbow explode? ******************* *(A) r4WB1t5 BEGIN* **(A)BOUT_PROC.TXT* ******************* small nimble viral broken infectious crash [mini/micro] festival messy desire multiple modular nodes microrevolutionary leakages rhizomes open organic fluid decentralized distributed network application platform process raw bits digital art dirty new media play realtime systems converse contexts discourse contact connect participate collaborate now organize r4WB1t5 micro festivals! // jonCates CHI IL .US 2005.05.25 ****************** *(A) r4WB1t5 FEST* **(A)BOUT_ORG.PPL* ****************** 2005.05.25 CHI IL .US (A) r4WB1t5 festival organizers: jon.satrom jonCates MINI THNX TO ALL! contact: r4WB1t5 AT gmail.com connect: http://r4WB1t5.org now org r4WB1t5 micro fests! //* end PROGRAM_NFO.TXT