31DOWN radio theater
ASSEMBER DILATOR
PERFORMANCE:  Oct 16th 8PM FREE!
THE ONTOLOGICAL THEATER at ST MARK'S CHURCH
131 E. 10th St.  at 2nd Ave.

Presented by free103point9 Transmission Arts, in association with The Ontological-Hysteric INCUBATOR

31DOWN's ASSEMBER DILATOR
Starring Caitlin McDonough-Thayer
Featuring the work of Ryan Holsopple, Shannon Sindelar, Mirit Tal, Jon Luton, Andreea Mincic, TaraFawn Marek.

also performing

DJ DIZZY
JAPANTHER Poppy Dance Punk!
KILLER DREAMER Raw LA Punk.

SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED--ARRIVE EARLY!

DISTRIBUTION GRANT FOR NEW YORK STATE ARTISTS
DEADLINE:  December 31, 2008
www.free103point9.org ">free103point9

support for the distribution of new works in
film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation.
Appropriate for someo of the New Media works done here at DPI.   The  project consultant/mentor offer with the grant seems pretty intetesting as well, and I'm intriged to see what happens.

Distribution Application Seminars & Panel

New York City & Streamed at www.free103point9.org
November 13, 2008,
6:30 p.m.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
(212) 337-0680

DPI:

Where do you get content?
Found footage
Shoot it
Use live
3d or animation
Where do you find it?

Hal Eagar:

For my own designs I will tend to try and create it as much from scratch as possible; make it from whole pixels as it were.  That way it's less limited by what you can find, and it all matches a common visual style.  What that means 3D or 2D animation mostly, a lot of 3DS Max, VRML, and Flash.  The big problem with that approach is that it takes so much time that what you get limited by is your own time, but maybe that's always the case.  And sometimes it could be just 3D or vector art but often I use lots of photos, and they are 95% found materials as opposed to shot myself.   I also like to try and keep the animations procedural, and data driven.  Puppets really, that way you can make as much as you need on the spot.  

But again that's a lot of work.

I also like to work with live video, because you get to make it every night like the puppeteerd animation, and you can make as much as you need. 

Or I like someone else to be bringing in all the video and I put it together, then the design is in the where when how, not the what.  I really feel it's mostly their design then, particularly because they probably have an idea of where and when they want to see it.  But I still really enjoy that process.

DPI:
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Wow. Really happy to have found another home for this project. After several months of struggling with the piece I've recently fallen back madly in love with it. There is more background info on Alchemy of Light at Street Pictures. Very much looking forward to delving deeper at DPI. 

John Kelly & Dargelos The Escape Artist
PERFORMANCE: October 19th 10pm $20/$25
The Deluxe Tent, Pier 17, South Street Seaport

After years of globe traipsing Kelly returns to New York bringing with him Dargelos.
Dargelos: tragic beauty, narcissistic hero and a moniker for his music.
Dargelos: brother of Kelly’s alter ego Dagmar Onassis.
Dargelos: street hustler and altar boy; starred male dragged through some dark times.
An artist escaped, a weathered sage returned solid.

One discussion I often find myself getting into with people when I start talking about robotic actors is what exactly do you mean by robot. Does it just have to look like a robot, (and what is that) or does it have to meet some semantic
or technical definition of robot.

I really don't have an answer accept how I feel about it, which is that a robot is a mechanical object that take a series of tasks without direct human intervention.

I feel there are still problems with that definition, but it works for me, although I keep ending up in arguments about weather my coffee pot and washing machine are robots.
So here I have started exploring the idea as a mind map, which unfortunately does not seem to fit very well int he blog.