CONTACT:
Kate Seekings
Curator
dorkbotsea/People Doing Strange Things With Electricity II
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dorkbotsea AT dorkbot (dot) org
OR
Greg Gartrell
Interim Managing Director
CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art)
greg AT cocaseattle (dot) org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 18th 2005
SECOND DORKBOT-SEA 'PEOPLE DOING STRANGE THINGS WITH ELECTRICITY
II' EXHIBITION OPENS AT CoCA; FIRST DORKBOT COMPILATION CD -
'PEOPLE DOING STRANGE THINGS WITH ELECTRICITY TOO' - IS RELEASED
dorkbot-sea, the Seattle-based branch of the dorkbot
family of grassroots technical arts organizations, opens its
second annual exhibition, People Doing Strange Things With
Electricity II, at Center On Contemporary Art (CoCA) on
Saturday, January 22nd. Featuring the work of thirty-one new,
emerging and established local and national artists from Seattle
to Baton Rouge, Boston and New York City, each exhibit uses
electricity as a major component of its creation and/or its
display. The exhibition will run through March 3rd, 2005.
Exhibiting artists reflect the diversity and inclusiveness
of the global dorkbot community, encompassing established artists
broadening their creative horizons, emerging artists working
with new technologies and new artists with technical backgrounds
exploring the artistic possibilities of their field of expertise.
Exhibitors' ages range from high school junior to retired University
professor, and they express themselves in media and disciplines
as diverse as ferrofluids, surveillance technology, kinetic
sculpture, sound and video installations, blown glass, living
grass, patchwork, weaving, lasers and LEDs. A People's Choice
Award of one thousand dollars will be given to the artist
whose work receives the most votes during the course of the
exhibition.
A two-volume online and CD release featuring twenty-five local,
national and international sound artists, composers and experimental
musicians accompanies the exhibit. Entitled People Doing
Strange Things With Electricity Too, a special preview edition
will be released at the opening event, and, simultaneously,
made available for download via Net Label Comfort Stand Recordings
under a revolutionary Creative Commons licensing agreement,
which enables artists to permit unlimited non-commercial sampling
and re-use of their original recordings.
TechGnosis, the opening celebration and CD launch event,
begins at CoCA with a VIP and press reception from 6-8
pm, giving reviewers direct access to the exhibiting visual
and CD artists. From 8 pm to midnight, DJs, live visual performers/VJs
from Seattle and Canada and one-night-only light-themed installations
by local artists will create a dynamic environment that celebrates
technology's role in making art - and in helping us have a jolly
good time.
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Featured Artists:
Exhibition
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Featured Artists:
CD
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Featured Artists:
TechGnosis
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Iole Alessandrini
John Bain
Mark Bain
William J. Beaty
Doug Bell
Michele Boland
Scott Gasparian
S. Lyn Goeringer
Ronald Lambert
Seth Lewis
Line Up Collective
LoVid
m.
Laura MacCary
Lawrence MacCary
Donald Martin
Eric McNeill
Christopher O'Dowd
OdescO
Toby Paddock
Quasi-Cause
Peter Reiquam
Olivia Robinson
Ginny Ruffner
Andrew Sempere
SID Inc
Matt Stiger
Edward Tang
W. Scott Trimble
Ryan Wolfe
Ellen Ziegler
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Tamara Albaitis
Marcus Alessi Bittencourt
The Apartment
Chenard Walcker
Christ2oootm
Christopher DeLaurenti
Ffej
Filastine
Jason Freeman
Roger Hayes
Joshua Herrala
inBOIL
Carl Juarez
Lucas Kuzma
Carl Lierman
Brion Kinne
Lullabelle
Martin McCavitt
Mutant Data Orchestra
Ninnie
Yann Novak
Syphilis Sauna
Toby Paddock
Shaun Wilson
Jeremy Winters
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Ben Bogart
DJML
DJMB
DJ Venus
Ffej
Gaspo
Carlos Miguel
novaTRON vs. AtoMikDoG
Prograta
Rattlesnake Dick
VJ FoxFireFX
VJ Scobot
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Reviewers are invited to visit CoCA during the installation
of the exhibit from 1/20 - 1/22 to see set-up in progress: contact
Kate Seekings or Greg Gartrell to arrange a preview.
dorkbot-sea is the Seattle-based spin-off
of dorkbot-nyc, a monthly meeting of artists of all stripes,
designers, engineers, students and other interested parties
who are involved in the creation of electronic art in the broadest
sense of the term. The purpose of dorkbot is to give artists
and technologists an opportunity for informal peer review, establish
a forum for the presentation of new artworks and technologies,
help build relationships and foster collaboration between people
with various backgrounds and interests, and give us all a chance
to see the cool things that our neighbors are working on.
CoCA serves the Pacific Northwest as a catalyst and forum
for the advancement, development, and understanding of contemporary
art. CoCA provides opportunities for the art audience in this
region to view new and experimental artwork firsthand in exhibitions
which show the work of international, national and local artists.
Comfort Stand Recordings is a community-driven label
where all releases are free with artwork and liner notes. Comfort
Stand strives to bring to the public recordings that they find
interesting, compelling and downright enjoyable. Everybody needs
free music.
Resources:
dorkbot: http://dorkbot.org
dorkbotsea: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea
Exhibit events: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea/events.shtml
CoCA: http://cocaseattle.org
Comfort Stand Records: http://comfortstand.com
Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org
2003 exhibition: http://cocaseattle.org/archives/2003/coca_2003.html