[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] March 15 – March 20, 2006

Eyedrum events March 15 – March 20, 2006


Regular Gallery Hours are Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 12:00pm – 5:00pm


March’s Podcast is now available!
This month's show features music from King Bomba, Paul Mercer duo, recompas, Music From The Belly of the Cosmos, Garbage Island, Public Buildings, Trevor Dunn, Erik Hinds and Immigrant Sons. If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed . If not, you can also just download the February or March show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.


March 15 Wednesday

Language Harm
Literature
8:00pm
$4

This event will be a celebration of that which has come to be known as "mormelit pugsleed".
There is no need to bring gifts, unless they be balsa wood and lentils.
The APG and others (possibly) will guide you through "MP's" tumultuous history as well as its fears, dreams, and cosmetic rituals. Given what is at stake, how could you pass this up?
LANGUAGE HARM is curated by the Atlanta Poets Group.


March 16 Thursday

MEART – The Semi Living Artist
Art
6:00pm – 10:00pm
$TBA


Guy Ben-Ary
Artist in Residence
SymbioticA - the Art & Science Collaborative Research Lab
School of Anatomy & Human Biology

University of Western Australia


MEART - The Semi Living Artist is a geographically detached, bio- cybernetic research and development project exploring aspects of creativity and artistry in the age of new biological technologies.

It is an installation distributed between two (or more) locations in the world. Its ‘brain’ consists of cultured nerve cells that grow and live in a neuro-engineering lab, in Atlanta (Dr. Steve Potter’s lab). Its ‘body’ is a robotic drawing arm that is capable of producing two- dimensional drawings. The ‘brain’ and the ‘body’ will communicate in real time with each other for the duration of the festival.

MEART is assembled from:

‘Wetware’ - neurons from embryonic rat cortex grown over a Multi Electrode Array.
‘Hardware’ - the robotic drawing arm
‘Software’ - that interfaces between the wetware and the hardware.
The Internet is used to mediate between its components and overcome its geographical detachment.

For more detailed information, check our website.


March 17 Friday

Eric Baus
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Noah Eli Gordon
Literature
8:00pm
$4

Three poets on a quick southern tour will make their eyedrum stop on Friday March 17th.



Eric Baus was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The winner of the 2002 Verse Prize, selected by Forrest Gander, his publications include The To Sound and the chapbooks The Space Between Magnets (Diaeresis, 2001) and A Swarm In The Aperture (Margin to Margin), Something Else The Music Was (Braincase Press) and the forthcoming Tuned Droves (Katalanche). He has published poems in Verse, Hambone, First Intensity, Colorado Review, and other journals. He currently lives in western Massachusetts.

 http://www.wavepoetry.com/wave/authors/33

Joshua Marie Wilkinson was born and raised in Seattle's Haller Lake neighborhood. He earned degrees in English & Secondary Education (BA-- Western Washington University), Poetry (MFA--University of Arizona), and Film (MA--University College Dublin). His first film--a tour documentary about the band Califone entitled Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape and co-directed with Solan Jensen--will be released later this year by Thrill Jockey Records. He is also the author of two book-length poems: Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms (Pinball Publishing, 2005) and Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk (University of Iowa Press, 2006). New Michigan Press recently released a chapbook entitled A Ghost as King of the Rabbits. Presently he makes his home in Denver, Colorado, where he is at work on a new book of prose poems, an anthology, and is completing a doctorate in English and creative writing.


http://eyelashfire.blogspot.com/

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of The Frequencies (Tougher Disguises, 2003), The Area of Sound Called the Subtone (Ahsahta Press, 2004), and the forthcoming A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow (New Issues, 2007) as well as numerous chapbooks, reviews, collaborations & other itinerant writings. Currently teaching at the University of Colorado at Denver, his most recent publication is That We Come To A Consensus, a chapbook written in collaboration with Sara Veglahn and published by Ugly Duckling Presse.


http://humanverb.blogspot.com/


March 19 Sunday

An evening of film, video and sound with
TONY CONRAD
Music
9:00pm
$10

Tony Conrad is a giant in the American soundscape. Since the early 1960s, he has utilized intense amplification, long duration and precise pitch to forge an aggressively mesmerizing "Dream Music." Conrad articulated the Big Bang of "minimalism" and played a pivotal role in the formation of the Velvet Underground. Conrad continues to exert a primal influence over succeeding generations with his ecstatic oscillations and hypnotic drones.

BIO:
Tony Conrad, a/k/a Anthony S. Conrad, (b.1940) is an avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer.

Along with John Cale, Angus MacLise, La Monte Young, and Marian Zazeela Conrad was a co-founder of the Theater of Eternal Music, which utilized non-Western musical forms and sustained sound to produce what they called dream music. Their collective work Day of Niagara (1965) is one of the earliest examples of the work of the new minimal composers/performers. The Flicker (1966) is considered a key early work of the structural film movement. It consists of only completely black and completely white images, thus producing the title's flicker when projected. When the film was shown some viewers in the audience became physically ill (flickers can produce epileptic attacks in a tiny percentage of people). Conrad began working in video and performance in the 1970s while teaching at Antioch College in Ohio and the Center for Media Studies, State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) at Buffalo.

A graduate of Harvard University (A.B., 1962, major Mathematics) and recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, Conrad's work has been shown at many museums including the Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1 in New York City. In 1991 he had a video retrospective at The Kitchen an artist-run organization in New York City. His film The Flicker was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibition, The American Century.

Recently he has composed more than a dozen audio works with special scales and tuning for solo amplified violin with amplified strings. Recent releases include "Early Minimalism Volume 1," a four-CD set, and "Slapping Pythagoras." He has also issued two archival CDs featuring the work of late New York filmmaker Jack Smith. Support for Conrad's work has come from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the State University of New York, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Conrad continues to teach at the Department of Media Study at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo.

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brought to you by:
TIGHT BROS NETWORK



March 20 Monday

Jonathan Kane
San Agustin
Music
9:00pm
$10

JONATHAN KANE is a Downtown NYC legend -- as co-founder of the no- wave behemoth Swans and the rhythmic thunder behind the massed-guitar armies of Rhys Chatham and the rock excursions of La Monte Young -- and one of the hardest-hitting drummers on the planet. In his own work, Kane summons Swans' concussive wallop, Chatham's dense guitar strata, and the perpetual propulsion of 70s krautrockers Neu, then steers it all head-on into... the blues. In Kane's high-decibel swagger you'll hear the mind-blowing reinvention of both minimalism and the blues: guitar-driven minimalism propelled into the blues, and the blues exploding into guitar-driven harmonic maximalism.

JONATHAN KANE'S FEBRUARY(Table of the Elements) features rock legend ERNIE BROOKS (MODERN LOVERS, RHYS CHATHAM) on bass; DAVID DANIELL (RHYS CHATHAM, SAN AGUSTIN), DAVID BICKNELL, JON CRIDER and PAUL DUNCAN on guitars; and of course JONATHAN (LA MONTE YOUNG, RHYS CHATHAM, SWANS) on drums.

Georgia improvising trio SAN AGUSTIN works in suspended slow-motion patterns and simple resonating phrases. By turns meditative and discursive, they call to mind the chilling moments of Sonic Youth's first album and the avant blues of Loren Connors, while evoking a tattered sense of Americana filled with rural, dream-like desperation.

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brought to you by:
TIGHT BROS NETWORK


In the galleries:

Front Gallery:

Eyedrum Submission Series – Paintings

Eyedrum presents the first installment of it's
"submission series" a bi-yearly effort to showcase
some of the talented artist's who've submitted thier
work to Eyedrum, but for whatever reason didn't fit
into our regular schedule of more specifically
"themed" shows. this first-of-it's-kind (@ Eyedrum
anyways) event specifically focuses on painters, these
artist's include; Samantha Barnum, Laurel Hausler,
Tindel Michi and Michael Thrush.
Through April 15th.

Small Gallery:

Angus Galloway & Paul Rodecker

Featuring the correspondence art of Paul Rodecker & Angus Galloway
See more pictures at angusgalloway.com.
Through March 25th.

Back gallery:

Juul Sadee

A Song for Atlanta:
the first United States exhibition by
Dutch artist Juul Sadee.
In the Eyedrum space will be built a work which includes a large number of small audio speakers, a sound-generating, hanging and turning object, and contact microphones. In the Eyedrum space will be built a work which includes a large number of small audio speakers, a sound-generating, hanging and turning object, and contact microphones. All over the space you will hear sounds, creating an "audio wave."
Through April 15th.

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