Event Archive for November, 2012
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Dark Matter 3
Thursday, November 29th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, November 29th 8pm FREE SPECULATIVE presents a screening on Dark Matter, a schizophrenic mix of video art and other experiments. This evening will offer glimpses of Dark Matter through the anonymous materials, inexplicable behaviors and intangible networks found in the work of this eclectic selection of artists: Ryan Trecartin Pascual Sisto Claudia Salamanca Ian [...]
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The Pleasure Industry, or 10,080 Hours Aboard Cruise Ships
Friday, November 23rd, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, November 23rd 8pm FREE James Klopfleisch is an experimental composer and performer. He has also spent approximately 15 months as a musician aboard cruise ships. The Pleasure Industry is a non-sequential series of stories, anecdotes, and observations about cruise ship life (all true and totally accurate). Ranging from memories of Longyearbyen (the world’s northernmost [...]
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Climate Variations
Sunday, November 18th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 18th 8pm FREE An evening of works which utilize extreme temperature differences as a means of sound production by Liam Mooney and Todd Lerew. The Quartz Cantabile is a new musical instrument that applies a method known to thermoacousticians for converting heat into sound. A ceramic honeycomb material called the stack is placed [...]
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A Poetry Reading by CAConrad
Friday, November 16th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, November 16th 8pm FREE Machine Project’s poet-in-residence for the week is CAConrad, who will be reading from his latest collection of (Soma)tic Poetry entitled A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON. (Soma)tic Poetics are instructional exercises meant to provoke an inspired interaction with the world, or, in CAConrad’s own words: “Experiences that are unorthodox steps in the [...]
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Resources and Services for Artists presentation
Monday, November 12th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Monday, November 12th 8pm FREE with RSVP Artists in all disciplines looking for jobs, opportunities, grants and professional development are invited to attend a presentation about the free and low-cost national services and resources that Artspire and the New York Foundation for the Arts offer to them. Courtney Harge, Program Officer for Fiscal Sponsorship from [...]
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The Great Calculation
Saturday, November 10th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 10th 8pm FREE Calculators are silent, ubiquitous, boring, and utterly reliable- to the point where you don’t even question the answers that you get. In the early 1960’s they were big, heavy, noisy, smelly objects. They had unique interfaces and needed constant maintenance for reliability. Calculation was a visceral process that shook the [...]
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The Lost Calculator
Friday, November 9th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, November 9th 8pm FREE In 1840 Thomas Fowler, an inventor and a self-taught engineer, built a calculating machine made entirely out of wood. Neither the machine nor drawings survived. Mechanical engineer Mark Glusker, working with a team of historians in England, built a reconstruction to prove that it worked. Fowler was a contemporary of [...]
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Dark Matter 2
Friday, November 2nd, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, November 2nd 8pm FREE Our exploration of Dark Matter will continue this week, with nine artists, researchers, writers and ethnographers approaching the theme of dark matter in nine eclectic, short-form talks. Modeled after the Pecha Kucha presentation style, each presenter will show 20 slides for 20 seconds each, totaling six minutes. The slides progress [...]