IMAGIMA

A Sculpture Composed of Simultaneous, Web-Connected Dance Parties
All this for $5. Come to both the Chez Bushwick and DANCEPOD events for just $10! That’s like seeing the early show for FREE! (Regular DANCEPOD admission is $10).

3rd Ward

195 Morgan Ave. Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY 11206 718.715.4961

DANCEPOD 2006: On September 9th at 11pm in Portland, 12 am in Guadalajara, 2am in New York City, 3am in Mexico City and 7am in Berlin, dancepod will present an entirely new kind of sculpture. A sculpture composed of simultaneous, web-connected dance parties. The parties, coordinated and developed in conjunction with artists and presenters from each city, will utilize identical dancepod installations. The installations will become the core of a shared physical and virtual experience, supporting streaming video and music as well as live DJ’s, VJ’s, and surprising guest artists. Moving bodies of dancing participants will complete the sculpture.

As part of the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s (PICA) Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival, in conjunction with PS122, Scene Downtown (Earl Dax), Harkness A/V (Nick Hallett), and technical directors Kraft + Purver, these 4 DANCEPOD sites will be linked by live video starting at 2:00 AM Eastern Standard Time.

NYC DANCEPOD features an eclectic array of New York artists. Join DJs Kevin Graves (Brite Bar) and Van Scott (Patricia Field’s Party at element) and dance to visuals artists assembled by Nick Hallett and Harkness A/V, including CHiKA and Boris. Live performances by John Moran and Saori Tsukada, Sxip Shirey, and Glenn Marla.

Chez Bushwick will be hosting “The Changing of the Garde” starting at 8:00 PM on Saturday. Come early for DANCEPOD and enjoy performances by:

Wanjiru Kamuyu
Spiral
Jim Staley
Solo Trombone
Bruce Nauman - Abstracting A Shoe (1966)
Video Art
David Vaughan
Michael Cole
Jonah Bokaer
A John Cage Birthday Reading
Elke Rindfleisch - Untitled

Also… TECHNOPIA Interviews Carla Peterson, Newly-Appointed Artistic Director of DTW.

EUROPA :: 98-104 Meserole Ave. (corner of Manhattan Ave.) G train to Nassau

MONKEY TOWN HOLIDAY PARTY
A Benefit for Monkey Town

LIVE,
in his only New York appearance for 2006,
MY ROBOT FRIEND

the “crackpot genius” of
DYNASTY HANDBAG

just added, special guest…
GOLAN LEVIN

NO ORDINARY MONKEY DJs

Lightshow by LUKE DUBOIS, ADAM KENDALL, RAY SWEETEN among others

emceed by NICKLCAT

Monkey Town t-shirts and gift cards will be on sale. “We want to thank our patrons for your incredible support over the past few months by throwing the kind of party you would only expect from Monkey Town. Earlier this autumn, we were threatened with the real possibility of having to close our doors, but the efforts of the New York artists community have kept us afloat. We are not out of the red yet. With winter’s dawning, we envision a prosperous future at Monkey Town, and want to celebrate it with you.”–Monkey Town HQ

MY ROBOT FRIEND
My Robot Friend is the over-the-top project of Howard Robot, whose live performances mesmerize with quirky technopop, computer animations, general “new media” topsy-turveydom, and his legendary costume, an interactive suit of blinking and whirring L.E.D. lights and electroluminescent wire. A musical homage to new wave acts like Devo, his records have charted in Germany, he has been short-listed in Rolling Stone magazine, and his song “We’re the Pet Shop Boys” was
actually covered by the Pet Shop Boys (and more recently/absurdly, Robbie Williams!). Playing out social stereotypes of robots, My Robot Friend humorously enables his audience to consider how technology interacts with human emotion as evoked in popular song: alienation, angst, and most importantly, love.

GOLAN LEVIN
Golan Levin is an artist and inventor of technologies that push the boundaries of expression in new media, fully exploring the synesthetic potential of time based art to unleash his audience’s imagination.

DYNASTY HANDBAG
The one-woman tour-de-force performance of Jibz Cameron, who takes the most absurd banalities of life and exaggerates them into a side-splitting philosophic rant involving music, video, as well as an aerobics routine or two…

NO ORDINARY MONKEY
Phil South, Anton Esteban and friends are known for their extraordinary disco speakeasys in the Financial District, sunday tea parties along the East River, and a mindblowing set at PS1’s Warm Uplast summer.

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GALAPAGOS ART SPACE :: 70 North 6th Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn :: $5

Brooklyn - A video-festival about Brooklyn as a place and Video as an artform. As Brooklyn’s development hits critical-mass, the vBrooklyn video-festival documents the borough’s evolving cityscape through contemporary video-art. Video-artists will present live video-performances and screenings, helping to build a dynamic historic record of Brooklyn through personal interpretation and literal documentation.

6:30pm - Doors Open

7:00pm - Video Screenings

(+) Benton-C Bainbridge & Evidence - ‘(a)Bridge’
(+) Elle Burchill - ‘Demolition (Brooklyn Style)’
(+) Christopher Curtin - ‘Giving Up the Ghost’
(+) Andy Graydon - ‘Conductant’
(+) Giles Hendrix - ‘Transit’
(+) Janene Higgins - ‘Tunnel Vision’
(+) Chris Jordan - ’step b’
(+) Leif Krinkle & Karl Channell - ‘B61 Scan: Redhook to Greenpoint’
(+) David Last - ‘Coney II (for SEQ3 and SEIN)’
(+) Zach Layton - ‘Greenpoint Warehouse Fire’
(+) Elizabeth Smolarz - ‘Lucie / Jan’

8:15pm - Live Video Performances

(+) Naval Cassidy - ‘Twice a Rat’
(+) Madeleine Gallagher - ‘FBF RFG/MMG’
(+) Adam Kendall with Brian Moran - ‘Negative City’

9:30pm - Live Video Performances

(+) Luke DuBois - (title TBD)
(+) Chika Iijima with Zach Layton - ‘Chronos IV’
(+) Bruce Tovsky - ‘Underpass | Section One’

vBrooklyn is supported by Forward Motion Theater, The Independence Community Foundation, and The Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds program, which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and mediaThe Foundation.

MONKEYTOWN ::

A night of misunderstood fragmentary dreams, and languid subterranean worlds of sound and light, curated by 2& from San Francisco. Featuring works by Luke Dubois, Zach Layton + Chika Iijima, Shimpei Takeda + Melissa Clarke, Randy Nordschow, and 2&. Misinterpretations A/V is an event focused on fabricated worlds of visual texture which bump and grind against noise and fluid sound. In the reverse panopticon style of Monkey Town (audience seated in the middle surrounded by giant video screens) these artists will take us all to strange new places.

2&
Randy Nordschow
Shimpei Takeda
Zach Layton
Luke Dubois

Hudson Opera House :: 327 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534 518 822-1438

Holly Daggers/FMT
Adam Kendall + Bradford Reed
CHiKA
Urban Wash Dance
VJ Velchrome
DJ ActivePhaze

A Multi-Arts Center
Welcome to one of the region™s cultural jewels! The Hudson Opera House offers a year-round schedule of arts and cultural programming, community events, classes, exhibitions, and more. All in an historic building that is being restored to its 19th century glory.

Hudson Opera House, Inc., founded in 1991 by Hudson and Columbia County residents, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the community by restoring the historic and architecturally significant Old City Hallâ”long known as the Hudson Opera House—as a cultural and civic center for Hudson and the surrounding region. Since opening in December of 1997, HOH Inc. has restored five rooms on the first floor, and presented more than 2000 cultural and educational programs.

The Hudson Opera House provides free or low-cost cultural offerings every week of the year. Ongoing programs include concerts, readings, lectures, exhibitions, theatre and dance presentations, after-school programs, workshops, classes, and community arts events like the annual Winter Walk on Warren Street.