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Starlight Cinema at Memorial Union: Fredric March Play Circle, Madison, WI
Wisconsin Union Theater: 800 Langdon St Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-2201
8:00pm - 9:00pm

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the new season of starlight blasts off with a far-out live multimedia performance. masters of experimental 8-bit video and music, new york darlings CHiKA & bubblyfish come together to create striking audiovisual experiences. using lo-fi hardware, this duo has been charming the folks in the nyc music and art scene for several years. the music and video are abstract, colorful, and modern, but as endearing and accessible as your first video game.

CHiKA is a live computer visuals artist working within new york’s expanded cinema community and vj scene. her videos implement geometric minimalist patterns and original graphics in unique, repetitive combinations. she has performed at the museum of modern art, hammer museum, mutek, decibel festival, the mapping festival, the bushwick art project and more.

bubblyfish is a sound artist, composer, and audio engineer, exploring the territory of sounds in electronic music. she creates 8-bit and experimental sound works, and she has collaborated with many respected sound and visual artists. her work has been presented in art venues, clubs, festivals, and galleries internationally including the american museum of the moving image, pompidou center, kunsthalle wien, mutek, laboral, lincoln center walter reed theater, and the new museum.

RUDE year’s eve HEARTSREVOLUTION

Glasslands Gallery?
289 Kent Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11211 (718) 599-1450
Click here for Map

• HEARTSREVOLUTION(Live+DJ set)
• Nick Catchdubs
• Bubblyfish+CHiKA
• RUDE (DJ set)
• New Year’s Eve bash hosted by RUDE BEAR + special guests!!

• FREE COLT 45 FROM 9 TILL GONE!
• FREE CHAMPAGNE TOAST AT MIDNIGHT!
• AIRBRUSH BODY PAINTING!
• PARTY POLAROIDS ALL NIGHT LONG!
• FREE PARTY POLAROIDS ALL NIGHT LONG!
• TOYS, TREATS, BALLOONS AND MORE
• ONE SURPRISE AFTER ANOTHER!Hosted by RUDE BEAR and the RUDE CREW!
• $25 TICKETS ON SALE @ TICKETWEB CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS

THIS SHOW IS AGES 21 & UP. VALID ID IS REQUIRED!

NOW,THEN AND FOREVER AFTER
HARVESTWORKS 30TH ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT PARTY
Thursday October 16th 2008 8 pm
Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, BROOKLYN
$30 at the Door

OPEN Wine and Beer Bar 8 – 11 pm

Emcee: Ned Sublette

Performing Artists:
Glomag and Chika
Pamela Z
Fair Use Trio interprets LIQUID SKY
Dialed In: Benton-C Bainbridge and Bobby Previte
NOTEKILLERS with Special Guest Shelley Hirsch
Val-Inc

Special 30th Anniversary Video Montage featuring works by:
Charlie Ahearn, Jo Andres, Ericka Beckman, Rene Beekman, Zoe Beloff, Caterina Borelli, Bill Buchen, Phyllis Bulkin-Lehrer, Josely Carvalho, Shu Lea Cheang, Abigail Child, Jem Cohen, Justine Cooper, Blondell Cummings, Peter d’Agostino, Toni Dove, Michael Dwass, Angie Eng, Tirtza Even, Joshua Fried, Shalom Gorewitz, Alexander Hahn, Rohesia Hamilton, Dick Higgins, Kathy High, Ken Jacobs, Amy Jenkins, EBN: Brian Kane, Joshua Pearson, Gardner Post, George Lewis / Marina Rosenfeld, Laura Parnes, R.I.P. Hayman, Jonathon Rosen, Pamela Z
Curated by Kathy Brew and Clara Jo

Light sculptures by Derek Franz

Auction & Raffle:
iPhone, Max/MSP/Jitter Software Package, LEMUR Multi-Touch Controller, Max/MSP Class & Individual Training, 2 STEIM Crackle Boxes, iCube-X Starter Pack, and many other items!

Event Committee:
Toni Dove - Board Member, Harvestworks ?Stephanie Palmer - Chair, 2008 Benefit Committee?Carol Parkinson - Executive Director, Harvestworks ?Amanda Remus - Vice-Chair, 2008 Benefit Committee?Ken Shipp - Art & Design, 2008 Benefit Committee

Benefit Committee:
Robert Ashley, Ted Berger, Kathy Brew, Rashida Bumbray, Constance DeJong, Mimi Johnson, Jack Lindahl, Christian Marclay, Rashaad Newsome.

Friends Circle: Nancy and Joe Walker, Jeff McGovern, Stephen Kramarsky

Harvestworks - Founded as a not-for-profit organization by artists in 1977, Harvestworks has helped a generation of artists create new works using technology. Our mission is to support the creation and presentation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies. Our goals are to create an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media; to create a responsive public context for the appreciation of new work by presenting and disseminating the finished works; to advance the art community’s and the public’s “agenda” for the use of technology in art; and to bring together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts collaborating in the use of electronic media. We assist with commissions and residencies, production services, education and information programs, and the presentation and distribution of their work.

Galapagos Art Space — In DUMBO, Galapagos Art Space will be able to present the theater, dance, performance art, music, cinema, lectures / literary events, and the non profit fundraising that they believe is their core mission and the most important contribution they can make to their community and they will create New York City’s first LEED certified ‘green’ cultural venue.

Disassembler @ Pulsewave! from disassembler/microchipkinder on Vimeo.

The Tank
279 Church St. (btwn Franklin & White St.)

CHIPTUNE OPEN MIC
Chromix
Tristan Perich
Seed A.I

Following the epic devastation caused by the 2nd BLIP FESTIVAL, few dared to imagine a world where great lowbit artists could continue to execute at such a high level of baddassery. Well wonder no more, because Pulsewave is BACK!

On the first weekend of the year, come see Pulsewave rock THE TANK with a night of firsts:

Known Loud Object and 1BITSICIAN Tristan Perich rocks the night with the New York premiere of his piece “Interface” for string quartet and 4-channel 1-bit electronics. Following this, he will rock out withmore 1-bit music that will make the ass shake and the ears bleed.

A newcomer to Pulsewave, SEED AI is the electronic duo of Brett Marshall Lefferts on videogame consoles and Dan Gottesman on live drums, showing the evolutionary link between classic lofi blips, modern experimental composition, and rock n’ roll headiness.

And completing the lineup will be another newcomer to Pulsewave. CHROMIX is no stranger to the general music scene, with over ten years of composing, a hit web release, and a smash web comic, all before he even discovered chiptunes. Now he combines dance-orientated licks with megaman2-friendly bleeps to get you ready for the rock that follows. Definitely the best reason to show up early!

And of course you should get there even earlier for the stupendous retun of “Pulsewave Open Mic”. Sign up at the door on a first come, first serve basis, and get yourself a taste of the awesome power of live electronic performance. You aren’t limited to any one genre, but you will have a max of three mins, so keep your rock short, sweet and to the point. And who knows, you might get asked to play a Pulsewave show in the future!

CHiKA, a live computer visual artist working within New York’s expanded cinema community and VJ scene will be providing Visuals throughout the night. She has a long history with the New York chiptune scene, lending her talents for many events through the years. For some reason though, she has never played a Pulsewave! Restitution will be made tonight, with a set that will melt your eyes as surely as the squarewaves will cook your brains.

Special OptoSonic Tea event, fundraiser for Issue Project Room

Featuring:
Lady Firefly (live visuals) + Paul Amitai (live sound)
Chika (live visuals) + bubblyfish (live sound)
Marie-Helene Parant (live visuals) + Jim Bell (live sound) (Montreal, Canada)
David Linton (live visuals + sound)
Katherine Liberovskaya/Peter Shapiro (live visuals) + Hitoshi Kojo (live sound) (Japan/CH)
Ursula Scherrer (live visuals) + Kato Hideki (live sound)

Invited artist/respondent-moderator: Bruce Tovsky

OptoSonic Tea is a new regular series of meetings dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features two different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a set with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are followed by an informal discussion about the artists’ practices over a cup of green tea. A third artist, from previous generations of visualists or related fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as to create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide different perspectives on the present and the future.

Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer

Bruce Tovsky is a visual/sound artist based in in Brooklyn, New York. After earning his MFA degree in Multimedia from Rutgers University in 1979, Tovsky began showing his video work across the USA, as well as Europe and Japan.