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INDEX Festival of Media and Culture

Aug 1, ’11 8:37 AM

The premiere installment of INDEX, a festival for media and culture, kicks off this week. Events will run all month at locations across NYC, full schedule here. I’m honored to be speaking on the opening night panel on August 3rd along with Malcolm Levy (New Forms Festival), Cornelia Lund (Fluctuating Images), Nathalie Bachand (Elektra Festival), moderated by festival organizers Victoria Keddie and Kristin Trethewey. The topic is “the festival” and we’ll be discussing a range of subjects – from logistics such as funding and support for media-focused festivals and audience building to larger questions, like problems with the classification of media art and the limitations of terminology. I’m planning to talk about recent examples of online curation and what they might have to offer to the festival format. Info below.

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Part 1: The Index Festival

DESCRIPTION
This is the first of a four part panel series. This discussion will celebrate the opening of the festival with international voices who represent the community of media festivals and a focus on technology and art. This panel begins a conversation about the landscape, process and preservation within contemporary digital culture.

WHERE
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway, #602
New York, NY 10012
http://www.harvestworks.org

WHEN
August 3, 2011 7:30PPM-8:30PM
DETAILS: http://www.harvestworks.org/

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Stream the Archive of the Ende Tymes Special

Jun 21, ’11 9:41 AM


East Village Radio put up an archive of last Sunday’s Ende Tymes show with Bob Bellerue, check it out here.

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Interview and Live Performance by Bob Bellerue, Organizer of the Ende Tymes Festival on Radio Heart, June 19th

Jun 17, ’11 12:11 PM


Tune into Radio Heart on June 19th from 4-6pm for an interview with Bob Bellerue, organizer of this year’s premiere Ende Tymes festival from June 24th-26th at Silent Barn and Outpost in Ridgewood. A noise festival which incorporates performance, installation, and video screenings, 30+ acts are scheduled over three days, including Work/Death, Damion Romero, Yellow Tears, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Phill Niblock, Sick Llama, MV Carbon, and many more. Bellerue will share some tracks from artists appearing at Ende Tymes, as well as perform a short live set as Diablo, his own solo project.

Note: Bob also appeared on Just Music on June 12th to talk about the
festival. To check an archive of that show, click here.

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On Land Festival Bootleg Show

Sep 15, ’10 3:27 PM

Grouper at On Land Festival
Grouper at On Land Festival

Last Sunday on Radio Heart, I devoted an entire show to bootlegs from the On Land Festival in San Francisco. Organized by the drone/experimental record label Root Strata, the festival took place from September 2nd through 5th at Cafe du Nord and the Swedish American Hall. Over the course of the show, I broadcast live recordings of performances by Golden Retriever, White Rainbow, Oneohtrix Point Never, Ilyas Ahmed, Bill Orcutt, Charalambides, and Grouper.

Listen to the show here.

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No Soul For Sale

May 12, ’10 6:36 AM

I am in London this week for No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents. Rhizome will have a space in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, along with 70 other alternative arts organizations and collectives from all over the world. We’re exhibiting Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern by David Horvitz, a project I curated. I plan to blog from the festival on Rhizome, so check over there for photos and updates!

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Fun at No Fun

May 19, ’08 7:08 AM


Tony Conrad and M.V. Carbon


Thurston Moore and Nancy Garcia


Skaters


Emeralds


Emeralds


Demons


Religious Knives


Cluster


Lee Ranaldo: Blind Piece #2

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SXSW Recap

Mar 17, ’08 3:49 PM

Back from Texas. This past week/end was a whirlwind. I felt like I spent most of my time dealing with show-related logistics while trying to locate and meet up with friends from all over. That said, I somehow managed to get a tan.

I was really, really excited to see Naked on the Vague Thursday night. They’re a Sydney-based band that remind me of Primitive Calculators with Huggy Bear overtones. Our show was a few doors down at practically the same time, so I had to rush after their set, and missed the rest of the Siltbreeze showcase.


Naked on the Vague

I also got the chance to hang out with my old roommate and bud from my 90s zinester days Russell Etchen. He moved to Austin from Houston a week ago to open a second location for the contemporary art bookstore and gallery he started Domy Books. I got to peek around the space- it’s huge! I am so amped to see them grow.

I made it out to the showcase for Fanatic Promotion and Nail Distribution on Friday as well, and saw Clipd Beaks and Health finally. Health definitely won gold stars in showmanship. My bandmate Marc and I counted the number of pedals they had during their set- a grand total of 24! Whoa.


Clipd Beaks


Health

We played in three separate locations on Saturday, and although the shuffle itself was a bit taxing, it was nice to get a full tour of Austin. One show was at the backyard of an unfinished restaurant, one was in this guy’s living room, and the other was at Spiderhouse, which is an immense bar/restaurant/venue. The Spiderhouse show was organized by New York Night Train, Cakeshop, and the Social Registry, so we were on the bill with a bunch of other Brooklyn bands, including Knyfe Hyts. I always considered them to be a somewhat silly party band, but then on Saturday they ended their set with “Smoke the Milk” which kind of blew everyone away.


S-S-S-Spectres at S-S-S-Spiderhouse

We spent the last night drinking Lone Stars from Austin’s drive through liquor store Party Barn at Russell’s house. It was fun to sit around, catch up and talk shop about music. Russell played me Josefus for the first time and there was a long discussion about Houston rap.

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