VATICA DAHLIA: RITES

VATICA DAHLIA : RITES // San Francisco, CA // January 14th 2014 from Vatica Dahlia on Vimeo.

Vatica Dahlia - Rites 
Opening August 30th, 7-11pm. Doors 7:00pm | Performances 7:30pm [SOLD OUT] & 9:30pm

"Ritual is the primary method of programming the human organism."

- Sam Webster

Much like creating a piece of software, a ritual is crafted procedurally and when compiled correctly, there are results based upon what constituted the contents of the procedure. Vatica Dahlia's Rites is a custom time-based system designed to port, compress, and obfuscate the Knowledge that has been handed down throughout the ages by the mages, sages, shamans, and initiates. Structured into ten distinct Chapters, each element utilizes a combination of networked performance, spatial sound, projection-mapped architecture, fashion, and ceremonial magic as a vehicle for transmutation and transmission. 

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Vatica Dahlia is artist, environmental systems designer, and a Magister of Ceremony. His work focuses largely on the various uses of ritual in reprogramming the human psyche. Vatica Dahlia's performances utilize signal processing, immersive media, Hermetic techne, and algorithmic design principles as a means of probing low-level aspects of the human constitution.

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Project Team:
Cullen Miller - Project Lead, Audio
Gabriel Dunne - Sculpture Design, Fabrication, Projection
Stephanie Sherriff - Production, Fabrication, Installation, Secret Weapon
Lara Grant - Fashion Design
Ryan Alexander - Table Design

Special thanks to:
Barry Threw
Mary Franck
Keith Pasko
Daniel Screen

Nicole Aptekar - Expanded Taxonomy

Opening: Friday, April 27th 7:00-11:00pm. On view thru May 18th, 2012.

Expanded Taxonomy

Expanded Taxonomy is a 15-piece collection of laser cut sculptures built out of composite images. Depth emerges from Aptekar’s subtractive process to reveal abstract forms. Expanded Taxonomy utilizes negative space to uncover nuanced structures. The sculptures that populate this exhibit imply time by iteration; the subtle changes of each layer uncover new images, the sum of which give birth to Aptekar's sculptures. The modifications of each tier form the paper skeleton that is the framework of her 3D designs.

This series explores elegance and articulation. Aptekar makes adept use of her own laser to achieve a clean precision. Her expertise in designing complex structures and executing them in a decisive manner is not new to Aptekar's work, but in Expanded Taxonomy Aptekar showcases yet another evolution of her process. The technical achievements become transparent as beauty of the work entices the observer's attention.

Aptekar has collaborated with Mary Franck of Obscura Digital on another work that uses projection mapping on a large cardboard piece. Expanded Taxonomy also includes a collaboration with Ian Baker of Ardent Heavy Industries that utilizes intersections of vinyl that begin inside of the frame but branch outside of it.

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Algorithmic Unconscious

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Babycastles presents DADAMACHINIMA

Curated by Walter Langelaar of WORM (Rotterdam)

DADAMACHINIMA explores tactics of emergent gameplay, disrupted modes of interactivity, and brute-force hacks of contemporary (video)game interfaces and environments.

In Aram Bartholl's project 'First Person Shooter' a now iconic screen-element, adapted from the videogame Counter-Strike, is transferred into physical space. Players can cut and glue parts from a do-it-yourself kit together and receive a pair of glasses bearing the protagonist's arm with the weapon.
http://datenform.de/fpseng.html

JODI, or jodi.org, are unanimously considered pioneers of new media art. Their work 'Composite Club' is a conceptual hack of the popular "Eyetoy" device involving Playstation's camera-based games being triggered by prerecorded video clips.
http://compositeclub.cc

'Mary Mack 5000' by Kaho Abe & Lina Fenequito is a fast-paced, competitive, technologically enhanced rocker-twist on the classic schoolyard hand clapping game that challenges your rhythm, speed and timing.
http://www.kahoabe.net/MaryMack5000

In 'Video Terraform Dance Party' director Jeremy Bailey plays an enthusiastic nerd channeling Bob Ross as he dons a forehead-mounted VR controller to demonstrate new modeling software that will allow him to bop his head around and 'plan the ideal landscape.
http://jeremybailey.net/vtdp.html

Opening 7pm on Friday, February 4th. On view until Sunday, March 7th 2011. WORKS: FPS [first peron shooter] by Aram Bartholl | Mary Mack 5000C by Kaho Abe & Lina Fenequito |Composite Club by JODI | Levelhead by Julian Oliver | Video Terraform Dance Party by Jeremy Bailey

Opening Night Performances: Lovid, Radio Shock, Casperelectronics, DUBKNOWDUB, Dan Friel LoVid will also debut a performance of 'Catchy' 

Mary Mack 5000 Intro Movie from Kaho A on Vimeo.

AIRtime@Devotion Exhibition Series

Transmission art exhibition series

Bike box from Bill Brown on Vimeo.

Technology behind Bike Box created by Aris Games at University of Wisconsin’s Games, Learning and Society research group.

free103point9 is pleased to present AIRtime@Devotion, an exhibition series taking place July 2nd though August 16th at Devotion Gallery in Williamsburg, as part of the free103point9 AIRtime Fellowship Program.  The series consists of solo exhibitions by Zach Poff (Radio Silence), Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown (Bike Box), and Brett Balogh (Noospherium), which span the contemporary genre of Transmission Art.  The Transmission Art genre is informed by works which employ an intentional use of space -- often the airwaves -- and manifests in participatory live art or time-based art, including radio, video, light, installation, and performance.

AIRtime@Devotion exhibitions open throughout the month of July:  AIRtime@Devotion: Radio Silence opens at 6:00 p.m. on July 2nd, 2010;  AIRtime@Devotion: Bike Box opens at 6:00 p.m. on July 16th, 2010;  AIRtime@Devotion: Noospherium opens at 6:00 p.m. on July 30th, 2010.  All openings and exhibition-related events take place at Devotion Gallery (54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206). 

Admission is free and open to the public.

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