In the performance of “John Henry Von Neumann,” Chandler B. McWilliams will compete against a computer to complete a drawing in an eight-hour workday.

A slide talk by Trinie Dalton on mirrors in art history, focusing on witchcraft and magic, and a discussion of Giallo horror film stills, with a screening of short animations by various artists.

This event, presented by Garnet Hertz, Tim Durfee, and Norman Klein of Dorkbot SoCal, will explore how cultural objects shift over time, with each presenter exploring a single term related to patterns of cultural change.

Second monthly meeting of SoCal Max/MSP/Jitter Users Group (S.M.U.G.).

A talk by Jason Torchinsky about mechanical televisions, to be followed by a countdown to the demise of analog TV.

A talk (with audio examples) by Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom, presenting the pop dialectics of the computer as a means of cultural technology in capitalist society.

A Tar and Setar.performance by musician Sahba Motallebi.

Announcing the inaugural meeting of SMUG — the SoCal Max/MSP/Jitter Users Group. All are welcome.

Including John Arroyo, Jeremy Douglass, and OPEN DORK.

Truly independent films are made from the gut.

Vocalist Gautam Tejas Ganeshan frees carnatic vocal virtuosity to access its angular outer reaches, and mridangist Anantha R. Krishnan contributes an unflinching, intelligent intensity on the mridangam,

Admit it. Something’s missing from your life.
That’s why you need to build your very own STAND-UP VIDEO ARCADE MACHINE!

“Where’s the Party At?” went from a simple looper to a multi-timbral, multi-bank, MIDI-enabled, 1-to-8 bit sampler with multiple clock sources, tons of selectable “errors” to introduce into the signal path, and any number of bad hip-hop jokes in the silkscreen.

Seven performers revive the art of benshi – the live narration of silent films – by muting the sound of scenes from feature films and telling their own interpretation.

A newly rebooted monthly reading and discussion group, based around books that straddle the line between the popular and scientific

Friend and forest enthusiast Joshua Beckman reads woodland-themed poems for the closing night of the Forest

To kick off the last week of Christy McCaffrey and Sara Newey’s Forest, Amar Ravva will read, then musical fairies/furies Heather Lockie, Shawn Lockie and Laura Steenberge will perform among the trees.

Ann Hadlock and Jordan Biren lead a small group in a birdsong identification tour of the Forest.

$3 short stacks from the Kwong Dynasty Pancake Cart, maple syrup, and nature films about bears.