Hello all,

swissnex San Francisco with the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and various key partners, chief among which the good folks at VOLUME, are proud to present a very rare West Coast appearance by the Zurich-based label and electronic sound arts platform domizil, along with their research partners at the ICST Zurich (the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technologies, part of the Zurich University for the Arts).

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swissnex and VOLUME have put together three densely packed evenings of performances, taking place at the San Francisco Art Institute for two nights in a row this coming weekend, and an L.A. date next week at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions).

In addition to presenting domizil performers Marcus Maeder, Bernd Schurer, Thomas Peter and Jasch, and the tape works of the ICST’s German Toro-Perez, Daniel Bisig, Philippe Kocher and Martin Neukom, these three evening also bring a great roaster of West Coast performers together, including Steve Roden, Mem1, Kadet Kuhne, Loren Chasse, Sutekh, and Overlap’s own Christopher Willits. Best of all: these shows are all FOR FREE

Our full program (check back for updates!) is available here:

http://swissnexsanfrancisco.org/activities/events/domizilandICSTZurichTour

Read more about the events at:

SFAI website

LACE website

VOLUME website

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swissnex is also planning a series of academic presentations and workshops around the work done at the ICST, in which domizil fully participates (in fact, the label also releases quite a bit of recorded research items from ICST – all available on CD or for free downloads under a Creative Commons license on the domizil website):

- one such session will take place at SFAI next Monday, September 28, at 8pm, and is open to sound students and researchers at SFAI and at all other institutes in the Bay Area. It’s free as well, please join if you can!

- swissnex is then organizing one sessions in its own space at 730 Montgomery Street in downtown SF, on Tuesday, September 29. This session (1pm to 5pm) is a great opportunity to get together and to discuss research and tools by the ICST, in domains such as ambisonics (Ambisonics externals for Max MSP and others) and Interactive Swarm Spaces while also broaching on historic perspectives about electronic music in Switzerland and beyond.

TO SIGN UP FOR THIS ONE, PLEASE SIMPLY EMAIL SWISSNEX (luc.meier@swissnexsanfrancisco.org) TO SAVE YOUR SEAT. We aim at getting a good, focused crowd with a minimum of knowledge in the topics at hand for this one, and participants will also get free entrance to the domizil “vecherinka” party event we will be holding the night of that day (regular admission price is $7.00). Hope to see you here!!

I will be playing a show with my friend Jeff Kaiser (as Maximus P) in Eugine OR on August 2nd, 2008.  It will take place at the DIVA Center.

110 W. BROADWAY – EUGENE, OREGON (541) 344-3482

Hope to see you there. We tend to be aggressive, and noisy.

Cost: $5

WITH Don Haugen’s group WARNING BROKEN MACHINE.

Originally from Show with Jeff Kaiser, Eugine OR, 08/02/08

Hi all, welcome to a new project which is a collaboration between Fabricatorz and Garage Biennale. Here are two levels of scale about the project:

“Art show in Guangzhou, China in September 2008 and then in San Francisco November 2008.”

And, a few more sentences…

“Garage Biennale and the Fabricatorz are bringing you Cantocore, a research project investigating contemporary art and culture between Canton (Guangdong) and cities around the world. The initial focus is a contemporary art exhibition with two versions of the same show in San Francisco and Guangzhou, China.”

There is a solid line-up of artists working on projects at present for both shows with the main concept being the ideas of import and export where projects in both locations are the same, but different versions.

Lu re-blogged the Cantocore Home Concert Preview we are doing next WED in SF, and so, I’m pushing out this post about the Cantocore project which is a contemporary art show that Lu, myself and Justin Hoover are pushing out this early September and November. The first instance of Cantocore is to generate some funds to help in production of the artwork. No one is getting paid from the raising of monies to support art production, so we are putting on a concert to preview the artwork for the show.

Lu wrote about here:

What it will take to make an art show. You will need three things: Artists, Space and Money! Sometimes these three things don’t come so easy, don’t they?

These are the things we are pushing right now for Cantocore exhibition, a show in both Guangzhou China and San Francisco this fall. There is a home concert preview party coming Wednesday 7/23 to fund the production of the shows. I am not a very good sales woman, but really want to make this one works!

Visit Cantocore site for information about the show, artists, and detail about the preview concert. Performing musicians for the the preview concert are Ma Jie and Christopher Willits.

And then there is a follow-up post on the Cantocore website:

Cantocore Home Concert Preview is coming up next Wednesday July 23rd, 7-9 PM in San Francisco. Right now our RSVP deadline for this event is extended to Monday, July 21st. And tickets are on sale right now for $50 USD! All money goes to the production of the Cantocore exhibition in Guangzhou and San Francisco. And, all contributions will be rewarded with praise, promotion in printed materials and on this website.

This event is a preview of the coming exhibitions, and also a home concert featuring Chinese traditional instrument musician Ma Jie and electronic musician Christopher Willits.

To reserve your tickets please do one of the following:

Call Justin at 415-425-1647
Email: jhoover.charles@gmail.com
Or use Paypal option

We are eager to raise some funds from those interested in the ideas which will gain both a plug on the http://cantocore.com website and then in our printed material. Feel free to ask questions here on this blog post publicly, or send us email about this.

Please participate in this project and if in SF, RSVP by next MONDAY, July 21 to come to the Cantocore Home Concert Preview.

Originally from Cantocore.com Launched and Cantocore Home Concert Preview

I’m bummed out! Due to my Creative Commons responsibilities next Wednesday, I can’t physically get to my wife’s art opening next Wednesday. So, I will try to drive as many people as possible to the show. Please do go if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area! Its free and will be great! I will get to the after-party as soon as I can physically drive back from Creative Commons “Future of CC” night event which several of you are going to attend.

Check out Lu’s big installation:

My latest project “Don’t Talk About Politic” is being installed in “We Remember the Sun” exhibition, a group show in the Walter & McBean Galleries. Opening is this coming Wednesday, exhibition on view through September.

“Don’t Talk about Politic” is a two channel video installation. Proposed plan is as image followed, as well as exhibition statement written by Mary Ellyn Johnson. I have been working on this in the past several weeks. And I found out that if you use NTSC video camera to shoot video in a lighted studio in a PAL country, then your video will be possibly have flickering all through it. What a lesson! Luckily I am able to eliminate this unexpected effect because it was shot in a blue screen studio. I am very excited to see when all is installed. And it should be an interesting show!

Some Video stills:

We Remember the Sun
Exhibition of Work by Fifteen Bay Area Artists
—Live Musical Performance at Opening Reception

Walter and McBean Galleries
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)

800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133

Opening reception:  Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Exhibition Dates:  19 June–13 September 2008
Images: High-resolution digital images available
Press Contact: Bob Gamboa, (415) 749-4507, bgamboa@sfai.edu
We Remember the Sun, an Exhibition by Fifteen California Artists,
Opens at  SFAI on 18 June 2008

Here are the directions to SFAI.

Originally from Go Check Out Lu Fang Art Show Next Wednesday at SFAI

The Plum in the Golden Vase video will be screening in a show curated by Pauline Doutreluingne in Cluster in Berlin. Here is the show information:

A performance of space
Wednesday June 25 at 9:30 pm
Curated by Pauline Doutreluingne

This screening shows works of artists who are questioning models of living, dealing with space, dreams, and desire. So more concretely they present a zooming into performances in different spaces: lost landscapes, desolate city border zones, and desolate city centers, spaces left by humans or fictional spaces filled by individuals. How humans infiltrate with the space around them and how spaces perform on their own, due to infiltration and intrusion by humans, action – reaction.

Some films show no direct view of infiltration by humans and the space seem to alter itself, almost naturally, like in a trance. Then in another video for example we get to see the specific story of the
demolition of artists studios in the outskirts of Beijing or the aggressive performance of a space totally ignored by people and how this affects nature. How positive and negative energy from different individuals or groups of people are interacting with their environment, and how this subtly influences our present landscape. 7 films who share an interest in the “none-spaces” of the places we
take for granted as being unspecified by virtue of them being where we are, as opposed to the quotidian like Alexander Platz or the Great Wall of China.

The Films:

Kim Su Theiler
SPY vs. SPY: JC-Beijing, 10min15, 2006

Deer Fang
The Plum in the golden vase, 15min, 2005

Feng Jiangzhou
Beijing loess slope, 4min30, 2006

Tadeu Jungle
Sempre tem mais, 9min36, 2001

Jiang Zhi
Postpause, 9min, 2004

Oliver Lyons
Passing Through, 5min, 2007

Amy Cheung & Aaron Ximm
Pillowhead, 2min40 2004

Where: CLUSTER, Osram HoÃàfe
Oudenarder Strasse 16-20
GebaÃàude E, Aufgang 23
13347 Berlin
U6 Haltestelle Seestr.U9 Haltestelle Nauener Platz Tram M13,
50 Haltestelle Osram HoÃàfe
www.cluster-berlin.de
Free admission
In the framework of the exhibition from Christina Woditschka, Berlin
Grossziethen – Stadgrenze Südost (June 18-28 2008)

Originally from Video Screening in Berlin

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