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EVENT

Pixilerated: CONCERT PERFORMANCE II


Dates:
Mon Oct 06, 2008 00:00 - Mon Oct 06, 2008

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

SATURDAY October 11, 10pm:

PIXILERATED: Concert Performance II

Second in a two-part series of groundbreaking electronic and interactive performances. Tonight features Jon Christopher Nelson, Brian Knoth, Steven Kemper, Alessandro Cipriani, and Christopher Biggs.

LOCATION: URI Shepard Auditorium, 80 Washington Street (downtown Providence, RI)
FREE.

More about Pixilerations: http://www.pixilerations.org/index.html

Pixilerations [v.5] is a new media exhibition and festival in Providence,
Rhode Island. With over sixty artists exhibiting and performing, it offers a
rare opportunity to view work that incorporates non-traditional materials
such as sound, biotechnology, interactive games, holography, robotics, and
virtual environments. Pixilerations is curated by leading experts in the
field, and co-sponsored by RISD and Brown University.


EVENT

Pixilerated: CONCERT PERFORMANCE I


Dates:
Fri Oct 10, 2008 00:00 - Mon Oct 06, 2008

FRIDAY October 10, 10pm:

PIXILERATED: Concert Performance I

First in a two-part series of groundbreaking electronic and interactive performances. Tonight features Jacob Richman, Lucky Leone, Arvid Tomayko-Peters, Maggi Payne, Hugo Solis, Lyn Goeringer, and Butch Rovan.

LOCATION: URI Shepard Auditorium, 80 Washington Street (downtown Providence, RI)
FREE.

More about Pixilerations: http://www.pixilerations.org/index.html

Pixilerations [v.5] is a new media exhibition and festival in Providence,
Rhode Island. With over sixty artists exhibiting and performing, it offers a
rare opportunity to view work that incorporates non-traditional materials
such as sound, biotechnology, interactive games, holography, robotics, and
virtual environments. Pixilerations is curated by leading experts in the
field, and co-sponsored by RISD and Brown University.


EVENT

Pixilerated: VIDEO ART


Dates:
Wed Oct 08, 2008 00:00 - Mon Oct 06, 2008

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

Part of the Pixilerations [v.5] exhibition and festival.... http://www.pixilerations.org/index.html

WEDNESDAY, October 8th, 9:30pm:

PIXILERATED: Video Art
screening hosted by Magic Lantern, at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street, Providence, RI.
Suggested donation of $5.

23 videos range from the experimental photography of Andreas Zingerle’s Solargrafica to Brian Chin’s compact relationship study, This Close But Not Alone, and Blair Neal’s light-speed critique of consumer culture 10,000 Items or Less.

Also: Dave Griffiths, Michael Hersrud, Anton Hecht, Birkbeck & Duffy, Brian DeLevie and Isshaela Ingham, Chikashi Miyama, Daniel Foerste, Henry Gwiazda, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Kevin McConnell, Maggi Payne, Mike Hannon and Irene Buckley, Sandy Florian & Talan Memmott, Sarah Buckius, Susan Bowman, Conor O'Kelly-Lynch, and Paulina Sierra.

PRESS CONTACT: Maya Allison, mayaallison (at) earthlink (dot) net


EVENT

Pixilerated: The Acousmatic Concert


Dates:
Tue Oct 07, 2008 00:00 - Mon Oct 06, 2008

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

Tuesday, October 7, 8pm--

The ACOUSMATIC Concert

Part of the Pixilerations [v.5] festival of new media, the ACOUSMATIC concert features surround-sound computer music and visual experiments by Jeffery Hass, Stephen Travis Pope, Robert Dow, Pau de Nut, Jen-Kuang Chang, Eleazar Garzon, Arvid Tomayko-Peters, Freida Abtan, Aaron Acosta, and Mei-ling Lee.
--at the Grant Recital Hall (1 Young Orchard Av., on the Brown campus).
FREE

PRESS CONTACT: Maya Allison, mayaallison (at) earthlink (dot) net

More: http://www.pixilerations.org/

Pixilerations [v.5] is a new media exhibition and festival in Providence,
Rhode Island. With over sixty artists exhibiting and performing, it offers a
rare opportunity to view work that incorporates non-traditional materials
such as sound, biotechnology, interactive games, holography, robotics, and
virtual environments. Pixilerations is curated by leading experts in the
field, and co-sponsored by RISD and Brown University.


EVENT

Pixilerations [v.5]


Dates:
Thu Oct 02, 2008 00:00 - Thu Aug 28, 2008

Location:
United States of America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 28, 2008

PIXILERATIONS [v.5]: October 2-11
Presenting the work of More Than Sixty Artists

Providence, RI - Interactive gallery installations, surround-sound electronic media concerts, experimental nightclub jams, and video art will animate downtown Providence, Rhode Island, for Pixilerations [v.5]: fragments & (w)holes, part of the 2008 FirstWorks Festival. Pixilerations expands in its fifth year to host two special guest artists: Heidi Kumao, a video and machine artist, and Gail Wight, a conceptual artist who tests the limits of science. They will give a public talk on opening night, October 2nd.

Pixilerations [v.5] is a new media exhibition and festival in Providence, Rhode Island. It offers a rare opportunity to view work the work of more than sixty artists who use non-traditional materials such as sound, biotechnology, interactive games, holography, robotics, and virtual environments. Pixilerations is curated by leading experts in the field, and co-sponsored by RISD and Brown University.

About FirstWorks
FirstWorks was launched in 2004 as a vehicle to build community, reach underserved audiences, and present extraordinary arts programs. In four years FirstWorks has produced eight groundbreaking arts festivals, attracted 55,000 participants, and engaged more than 100 nonprofit community organizations and schools.

Pixilerations [v.5] Exhibition & Events

THURSDAY, October 2nd, 6-9pm: Opening night reception, Pixilerations [v.5] Exhibition. Opening in two galleries: Sol Koffler (169 Weybosset Street) and 191 Westminster St. Special guests artists Heidi Kumao and Gail Wight will speak about their work, in a public conversation at The 191 Westminster Gallery. FREE.

The Pixilerations [v.5] Exhibition is on view October 3-11, daily from 12-6pm in two galleries: Sol Koffler (169 Weybosset Street) and 191 Westminster St. Visitors will enter a virtual world created by Todd Winkler in Glint; follow anonymous romances from Craigslist.org in Cristobal Mendoza’s text sculpture Missed Connections; let Matthew Williamson’s Video Analyzer decide whether a DVD is boring; and play Balance, a physical “video game” by Danqing Shi, designer of an interactive installation for the Bird’s Nest stadium at the Beijing Olympics. Also: Abby Donovan, Andrew Ames, Ashley John Pigford, Lucky Leone, Martina Mrongovius, Yana Sakellion, Betsy Connors, Erik Conrad, Jamie Jewett, Pauline Sierra, and Robbie Byron. FREE.

Pixilerations Events
FRIDAY, October 3, 5:30pm: Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) at the RISD Auditorium. DBR fuses his classical music roots with soundscapes celebrating traditional Haitian music and rhythms. With house-shaking beats from DJ Scientific, it will be an evening, in DBR’s words, "about Paganini, but also about Prince.” Tickets: $18, Students $12.

FRIDAY, October 3rd, 10pm: PIXILERATED: Club Pixil at the tazza café (250 Westminster St.). This celebratory night of DJ innovation and experimental electronics features: Joshua Fried’s Radio Wonderland, turning live radio into recombinant funk; Alex Kotch’s Chopper Remix (of a remix of a remix); Tone wHoles (with Theremin on electronic guitar, and percussion by Jim Moses, Lyn Goeringer and Micheal DeQuattro); the MEME Ensemble; and Kevin Wilson’s Modeling Synthesis, Alternative Controllers, and Dynamic Harmonization. FREE.

TUESDAY, October 7th, 8pm: PIXILERATED: The Acousmatic Concert, at Grant Recital Hall, at the corner of Hope Street and Young Orchard Avenue (on the Brown campus). Surround-sound computer music and visual experiments by Jeffery Hass, Stephen Travis Pope, Robert Dow, Pau de Nut, Jen-Kuang Chang, Eleazar Garzon, Arvid Tomayko-Peters, Freida Abtan, Aaron Acosta, and Mei-ling Lee. FREE.

WEDNESDAY, October 8th, 9pm: PIXILERATED: Video Art, hosted by the Magic Lantern Cinema, at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street. 23 videos range from the experimental photography of Andreas Zingerle’s Solargrafica to Brian Chin’s compact relationship study, This Close But Not Alone, and Blair Neal’s light-speed critique of consumer culture 10,000 Items or Less. Also: Dave Griffiths, Michael Hersrud, Anton Hecht, Birkbeck & Duffy, Brian DeLevie and Isshaela Ingham, Chikashi Miyama, Daniel Foerste, Henry Gwiazda, Maggi Payne, Mike Hannon and Irene Buckley, Sarah Buckius, Susan Bowman, Conor O'Kelly-Lynch, and Pauline Sierra. Suggested donation of $5.

FRIDAY and SATURDAY October 10 - 11 at 10pm: PIXILERATED: Concert Performances I & II, in the URI Shepard Building Auditorium, 80 Washington Street (downtown). A two-part series of groundbreaking electronic and interactive performances. FRIDAY, October 10th: Jacob Richmond, Lucky Leone, Arvid Tomayko-Peters, Maggi Payne, Hugo Solis, Lyn Goeringer, and Butch Rovan. SATURDAY, October 11th: Jon Christopher Nelson, Brian Knoth, Steven Kemper, Alessandro Cipriani, and Christopher Biggs. FREE.

Produced by FirstWorks in collaboration with the City of Providence, Dept. of Art, Culture and Tourism, and made possible in part by Amica Mutual Insurance Company, Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Brown University Creative Arts Council, Carter Family Charitable Trust, The Felicia Fund, John and Happy White Foundation, Johnson & Wales University, LEF New England, National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Rhode Island Foundation, Rhode Island School of Design, State of Rhode Island, Textron Charitable Trust, and the June Rockwell Levy Foundation. Media sponsors: B101, Coast 93.3, 94HJY, Lamar, Motif, NBC10 WJAR, Poder 1110, Providence Phoenix, Providence En Español and Rhode Island Monthly.
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For more information:
Maya Allison
Pixilerations Exhibition Director
mayaallison@earthlink.net
(646) 351-9423

For schedule details: http://www.first-works.org