Indi McCarthy
Since the beginning
Works in Altadena, California United States of America

BIO
Indi McCarthy was the Assistant Director for the Beall Center for Art and Technology from its inauguration October 2000 through 2005, coordinating all artistic programming and events exclusive to new media and emerging technologies. She has produced digital-theater projects (Reading Frankenstein, 2002 and 2003, and The Roman Forum Project, 2003), co-curated exhibitions featuring emerging artists (Life by Design: Everyday Digital Culture, 2003, ID/entity: Portraiture in the 21st Century, 2003), and curated the first retrospective exhibition of Norman Klein (Mapping the Unfindable), March 2004. She came to the Beall Center with a background in the performing arts, having worked in independent theater in New York and Philadelphia 1985-1989. She received her degree in Art History and Criticism from the University of California, San Diego, in 1994, having studied under David and Eleanor Antin, Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, Allan Kaprow, and Jerome Rothenberg. She is now working as an independent art + technology consultant in Los Angeles.
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EVENT

*JazzBot* with Kei Akagi + LEMUR


Dates:
Wed Mar 09, 2005 00:00 - Wed Feb 16, 2005

The Beall Center for Art and Technology
presents

*JazzBot *

A performance of jazz piano and robotic musical instruments
Featuring Kei Akagi, piano

Wednesday March 9, 6:00 PM - FREE

Beall Center for Art and Technology
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
University of California, Irvine

Jazz pianist Kei Akagi of the UCI Music Department will give a brief performance in live interaction with a collection of robotic musical instruments. The robotic instruments, designed by LEMUR (the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots), are currently installed as an exhibition in the Beall Center for Art and Technology. Mr. Akagi will provide a demonstration of realtime musical interaction between man and machines, using music composed by, and musically intelligent robotic behavior programmed by, UCI professor Christopher Dobrian.

The 20-minute performance will be followed by a question-and-answer session with professors Akagi and Dobrian and LEMUR founder Eric Singer.

Seating is limited; for reservations phone (949) 824-4339.

Kei Akagi is professor of Jazz Composition and Performance in the UCI Music Department. Christopher Dobrian is professor of Composition and Technology, and director of the Gassmann Electronic Music Studio and the Realtime Audio Research Laboratory. The LEMUR exhibition is ongoing at the Beall Center through March 19, 2005.

Mr. Akagi will perform on a Yamaha Disklavier grand piano, with generous support from the Yamaha Corporation of America, the Gassmann Electronic Music Studio of UCI, and the Beall Center for Art and Technology.

http://beallcenter.uci.edu


EVENT

Quasi-Cause // Live Performance


Dates:
Thu Feb 10, 2005 00:00 - Tue Feb 08, 2005

BOXED @ The Beall Center for Art + Technology

Thursday, February 10

6:00-7:00
DJ Augustus the Goose spinning live with the Dryertron 2000
7:00-9:00
Visual and audio performance by Quasi-Cause Heavy Media Industries

AND
featuring LEMUR
the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots

http://quasi-cause.com
http://www.lemurbots.org
http://beallcenter.uci.edu


EVENT

LEMUR at the Beall Center for Art and Technology


Dates:
Thu Jan 13, 2005 00:00 - Wed Dec 15, 2004

The Beall Center for Art and Technology

presents

LEMUR
League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots

Eric Singer
Jeff Feddersen
Milena Iossifova
Bill Bowen
Luke DuBois

Opening reception:
January 13, 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Exhibition Dates:
January 14 - March 19

In a site-specific interactive installation, the LEMUR orchestra makes its California debut with Guitarbot, TibetBot, ForestBot, and !rBot (pronounced "chick-r-bot"), and Modbots. Over 20 bots will be installed representing the largest LEMUR exhibition to date.

Opening reception features a live performance by the LEMUR Orchestra and their creators Eric Singer, Jeff Feddersen, Milena Iossifova, Bill Bowen and Luke DuBois.

LEMUR's growing ensemble consists of a wide variety of musical robots. GuitarBot, an electric stringed instrument, is comprised of four independently controllable stringed units which can pick and slide extremely rapidly. It is designed to extend not simply duplicate the capabilities of a human guitarist. !rBot (pronounced chick-r-bot) fuses traditional musical instruments with mechanical design. Inspired by the human mouth, its malleable cavity opens to expose and play a Peruvian goat-hoof rattle. TibetBot is a robotically controlled percussive instrument that creates atonal rhythms and tonal droning soundscapes. It is designed around three Tibetan singing bowls, which are struck by six robotic arms, producing a wide range of timbres. ForestBot displays a forest of 25 egg rattles sprouting from 10-foot rods that quiver and sway over onlookers. Rather than a single robot, it is a magnificently beautiful robotic installation. ModBots are miniature modular percussion robots in a variety of styles and functions, including singing bell bots and percussion "beater" bots.

LEMUR is supported in part by generous grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation and Arts International. LEMUR is also sponsored by Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.

Visit LEMUR's website at www.lemurbots.org

The Beall Center for Art & Technology, UC Irvine, California
Admission: Free. $5.00 for parking
Directions: http://beallcenter.uci.edu/contact/directions.php
Hours: Tuesday-Wednesday: 12-5 p.m. and Thurs.-Sat.: 12-8 p.m.
Information: 949 824-4339 or see http://beallcenter.uci.edu
Contact: Indi McCarthy at indi @ uci.edu


EVENT

Music, Robots, Pyrotechnics and Assorted Mayhem


Dates:
Wed Jan 12, 2005 00:00 - Mon Dec 13, 2004

Music, Robots, Pyrotechnics and Assorted Mayhem
A public lecture by Eric Singer of LEMUR
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 4:00 PM
Music and Media Building, Room 216
Realtime Experimental Audio Laboratory, UC Irvine, California

Music, Robots, Pyrotechnics and Assorted Mayhem - What do these topics have in common? They are all part of the work history of Eric Singer, engineer, artist and musician from Brooklyn, NY. Eric is the founder and director of LEMUR - League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots - a group of artists and technologists creating robotic musical instruments, and The Madagascar Institute, a Brooklyn guerilla performance and arts collective. Along the way, he has created numerous electronic and computer music and art projects in the areas of interactive performance systems, alternative musical instruments, integrated music/graphics systems, networked multimedia environments and computer-controlled pyrotechnics. Eric will present a history of his work in these areas, including a behind-the-scenes look at the technology behind LEMUR's upcoming exhibition at the Beall Center for Art and Technology.

http://beallcenter.uci.edu


EVENT

ALT+CTRL: Festival of Independent and Alternative Games


Dates:
Tue Oct 05, 2004 00:00 - Wed Sep 08, 2004

October 5 - November 24
Reception October 7, 6:00-9:00 p.m.

A festival celebrating the most passionate and experimentally minded game artists in the world and showcasing the most innovative new concepts in game genres, designs, methodologies, and game play. Over 20 works will be shown, including modded games, hot-rodded game machines, net-based games, and installlations. Special screening of machinima films made "on location" in various games highlight the sheer inventiveness with which game artists are expanding their field.

ALT + CTRL fills a vital niche in the nation's fastest-growing entertainment field by providing a juried venue outside the mainstream game industry to showcase the latest independent and alternative games.

Current participating artists:
Alexander Galloway, Aureia Harvey, Brody Condon, C-Level, collapsicon,
delire and pix, Eddo Stern, Eric Zimmerman, Friedrich Kirschner, gameLab, Geoffrey Thomas, Indie Game Jam, Maia Engeli and Nina Czegledy, Molleindustria, Nick Montfort, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Olaf Val Mignon, Pappy Boyington, Rebecca Cannon, THE JAB, Yumi-Co

Location: Beall Center for Art and Technology
Hours: Tuesday - Wednesday 12 - 5pm & Thursday - Saturday 12 - 8pm

Contact: (949)824-4339

Directions and additonal festival information:
http://beallcenter.uci.edu

ALT + CTRL is a joint project of the Game Culture & Technology Lab, The Beall Center for Art and Technology, and Cal-(IT)2, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, Irvine.

http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/gamelab/
http://www.calit2.net/