The Screen Mile: ITP Big Screens 2009, Tonight 12/4

What can you do with 6 million pixels? Why...make amazing visual and interactive art of course.

To see some of the amazing work of my peers on 120 feet of video screens, come to the IAC Building tonight for Big Screens! These are the students' final project presentations and will seriously blow your mind. Here's a review of the 2008 event and a taste of what you will see this year.

Friday, December 4, 2009
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

RSVP: itp.rsvp@nyu.edu
COST: FREE!
IAC Building,
555 W. 18th St.
New York, NY

See you there!

Totally Flaming-Play With Fire Video & Interactive Art Festival, Today!

Brace yourself for an explosion of visuals and video art at the Play With Fire art festival that opens today.

Celebrating the breadth and depth of video possibilities through art. A plethora of live video editors, electronic and interactive artists, video and installation artists who use the moving image outside the "box" will be showing their work.

Date: Saturday, November 7th - Saturday, November 21st
Time: Saturday 4:00pm - 8:00pm & Sunday 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: 1717 Troutman St., Brooklyn NY
Floor 2
Take the L Train to Jefferson
Cost: Free

For two weeks and in two different locations the festival hosts an array of projects. Projects include, Katja Loher's video planets, a 3⁄4 ton 'ice-stallation' by Raphael DiLuzio, a demonstration by Berlin based Modul8 software representative and performer, Ilan Katin and a night of performance featuring video artist and collaborator, Alison Childs, the Spanish AV (Audio/Video) perfomer, *Rafaël*."

Plus the show boasts works by two of my favorite ITP alum, Gabe Barcia-Colombo & Jeremy Rotsztain!

This weekend is the opening reception, but the festival also includes live performances, demos, workshops and panel discussions over the next two weeks. Full schedule and info can be found here.

Grad School Musical ITPalooza Concerts 9/9-9/11!

The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, which was recently deemed "The Center for the Recently Possible" has some of the coolest and talented people on the planet so it's no surprise these geniuses have whipped up a music festival to kick off the beginning of the school year.

Each night will feature an amazing lineup of past and present ITP musicians and visualists, so come out and see old friends, make new ones, and be blown away by the diversity and talent.

ITPalooza kicks off early on Wednesday 9/9, with a 6:30 happy hour with $2 beers and glasses of wine. Music starts at 7:30pm. Thursday & Friday, the shows will start at 9pm. The shows aren't free, but they are dirt cheap, just 5 or 10 bucks and totally worth it.

Artists Featured at the Festival Include:

Josh Berry
Milena Mepris
Source of Yellow
LS & JC
Balún
NO CARRIER
Noise Floor Music
current_working_directory
Cassettenova
Crudlabs
Lori Napoleon
And Um Yeah
Nullsleep

When: Wednesday 9/9, Thursday 9/10, Friday 9/11
Where: The Tank,
354 West 45th Street
Manhattan
(Take the 1/2/3 Train to 42nd Street and Walk West)
Cost: $5-$10
More Info: http://www.noisefloormusic.org/itpalooza.html

Tech it out! Handmade Music Night at 3rd Ward, 7/16

So this month's handmade music extravaganza is special because it features the work of some of my fellow ITPers! The handmade party returns this Thursday with a science-fair-style showcase of new creations in music making.

Along with free PBR while it lasts, 3rd Ward will showcase the latest high-tech inventions for musicians, complete with demos, an open lab to meet the creators, and live musical performances...Believe me, you won't want to miss this.

Sequence everything: CRUDBOX / STEVEN LITT

The CrudBox is an original hardware step sequencer in a briefcase, which plugs into and sequences everything from cassette decks to power tools and turns them into musical patterns.

Looping hardware: LOOOP-R / RUI PEREIRA

Looop-R is a musical, visual, hardware, software instrument.

Shake the beats: EGGBEATER / TED HAYES

This wireless, egg-shaped controller lets you mash loops, control filters, and play music using live gestures.

Ableton hacking: AKAI APC40, HACKED / MICHAEL HATSIS

Live laptop fans, take note: the commercially-available Akai APC40 Ableton Live controller warped to make new musical performances possible.

Handmade Music Night

Thursday 7/16

7:30-10:30pm

FREE

3rd Ward is located at 195 Morgan Ave., in East Williamsburg, near the Grand, Montrose, and Morgan stops on the L train

Tank it to the Limit! Birthday Bash Friday 5/29

This is going to be an aweseomely fun event so I hope you can join. Even some animations I worked on will be featured during the event!

In honor of making it to their sixth year, The Tank is throwing a huge birthday bash. $10 will get you in and your first drink is free-- $20, and your bar tab's on them (and Six Point Craft Ales who were kind enough to donate a keg for the bash!).

Featuring:
*Comedy by Princess Sunshine

*Music by DJ Gabe BC

*Original video animations (think Saturday morning cartoons gone horribly right)

*Light-painting photo booth by MRILight Painters

*Birthday cake, a piñata, caricature drawings, and party games!

Friday, May 29th
8pm
at The Tank
354 W. 45th Street
(btwn 8th & 9th Avenues)

Catch of the Day! The ITP Spring Show, May 10-11

Come join some big fish in a big pond at the ITP Spring Show 2009, a two-day festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from
the student artists and innovators at ITP. This event is of course FREE and open to the public.

An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs, rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP -- the Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun house a creative home not only to its 220 students, but also to an extended network of the technology industry's most daring and prolific practitioners.

Some of the coolest projects I've seen include Controlling the Computer in the Mud, Painting Robots, An Alarm Clock that needs a hug and the most beautiful display of lights controlled by wind. Everything there should be pretty amazing though. Hope you can join!

When: Sunday, May 10 from 2 to 6pm &
Monday, May 11 from 5 to 9pm
Where: Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor, South Elevators
New York NY 10003
Cost: FREE

My Interactive Buddies are cooler than yours...ITP Winter Show 12.17-12.18!

Hey No-Trust-Funders! My apologies for falling off the Map recently, but I just started my first semester of grad school at NYU.

Life has been a little crazy and I haven't had a chance to post, but now I've got a new taste of FREE-DOM and I'm ready to let loose.

Please join me at the coolest Free Art/Technology show on the planet this Wednesday & Thursday at the ITP Winter Show at NYU.

We've got a Piano that makes cocktails, a Wii that lets you create your own Pollock, and some amazing installations made for the big screen!

You won't want to miss this stuff, it's seriously amazing.

Wednesday & Thursday 12/17 + 12/18

5-9pm

721 Broadway, 4th Fl
at Waverly Place
South Side Elevators
New York, NY 10003

See you there!!