Human Jukebox

July 16, 2007

Human Jukebox
Monday, July 16, 2007
1-4pm and 6-9pm PST

The Royal Academy of Nuts + Bolts performs karaoke on demand, in person at the gallery or streamed live over the internet.

How it works:
1. Look at the song list.
2. Donate $5 per request via the PayPal link below.

What song do you want?

3. Songs will be performed in the order of receipt of request/ donation confirmation.
4. Watch performance here, on the Human Jukebox webpage, or at ustream.tv.

Please note:
* It can take up to 20 minutes for requests to be processed by PayPal.
* Songs requested before live broadcast will be performed when broadcast begins.
* Not all song files work: If the file you choose is corrupt, you will be asked to pick another song (no refunds)
* This is karaoke, not professional: The song will be performed with gusto, but possibly very little skill

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A|UM Suture.2

December 10, 2005 6:00 pm to January 7, 2006

Opening: Saturday, December 10, 2005 at 6pm
Exhibition dates: December 10 - January 7, 2006

From December 10, 2005 to January 7, 2006, a|Um STUDIO will be exhibiting a networked installation at two sites, two miles apart. From the TELIC Gallery in Chinatown, SUTURE.2 will begin to control certain aspects of SUTURE, which has been installed since November 18 at the downtown SCI-Arc Gallery (960 E 3rd St). At TELIC, visitors can remotely alter parameters in the programming environment of SUTURE, observe the results, and embed themselves as participants in the project, creating another channel of feedback by which the project becomes autonomously intelligent.

The concept of ‘suture’, a key term in film theory, is reconfigured in a|Um STUDIO’s installation to propose a new architectural body created through event, gesture and temporality. Informed by a contemporary reconsideration of cinematic and architectural affect, the installation uses digital video as a critical lens and interface to expose the relations between humans and their environment. The two-part SUTURE project creates new forms of sense and of agency through autonomous feedback loops within the media assemblage, embedding the visitor in an intricate relational structure of gestures, objects, events, materials, and urban infrastructures, allowing them to actively reshape space and event.

“Every image, in fact, is animated by an antinomic polarity: on the one hand, images are the reification and obliteration of a gesture…. on the other hand, they preserve the dynamis intact [as in Muybridge’s snapshots or in any sports photograph.] The former corresponds to the recollection seized by voluntary memory, while the latter corresponds to the image flashing in the epiphany of involuntary memory. And while the former lives in magical isolation, the latter always refers beyond itself to a whole of which it is a part… The gesture… opens the sphere of ethos as the more proper sphere of that which is human… [and] is communication of a communicability.”
Giorgio Agamben, Means Without End.

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Ed Coolidge - Machine Eye View

October 29, 2005 6:00 pm to December 2, 2005

In this work,  appliances and machines are altered, so that their intended uses are drained or bypassed.

Using video loops or feeds, these machines look back at themselves, monitoring, inspecting and displaying their own reasons for being.

Machine Eye View is the first solo exhibition for Ed Coolidge in Los Angeles. At Telic, he will present a new large-scale installation — made specifically to interact with the architecture of the gallery — along with two earlier pieces.

“Air Carrier Inspection” consists of approximately 200 feet of pneumatic PVC tube pieced together to form a loop that will transport a small video camera throughout. A live video feed from within this endless circuit is wirelessly conveyed to a video projection. In “Burning House” a stainless steel fire extinguisher has been modified to hold a small video screen and DVD player. The video playing is looped and cross-dissolved, so that a house inside burns endlessly. The third piece, “VCR Records Itself Recording” is installed in the project room. A small camera is placed inside a VCR, pointed right at the record head then connected into the VCR, which records the signal and sends it to a monitor, showing the VCR recording itself recording.

Edward Coolidge was born in Boston and lives and works in Los Angeles. After receiving BA in Literature from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, he moved to Los Angeles in 1998 and received a MFA from the Art Department at CalArts in 2001. In addition to three solo shows at CalArts, Ed has participated in several group shows in Los Angeles area.

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Natalie Jeremijenko - A Game Goose

September 11, 2004 at 6:00 pm

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An aquatic robotic goose allows you to approach and interact with actual non simulated geese in situ. These biological geese are fully unpredictable and capable of exceedingly rude, challenging and interesting behavior. You are invited to pilot the robotic goose, play with, follow, and attempt communication with the other geese. Try various goose calls and your own goose imitations for your mutual cultural enrichment. See if you can persuade the geese you are worth talking to. If you succeed in any meaningful interaction upload your interpretations.  See Video [http://xdesign.ucsd.edu/ooz/goosespeak/]

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