IRIS is a multimedia theatre movement work, premiering in Spring 2010. It is
an experiment, an evening-length piece being developed through residencies
and work in progress showings; equipment borrowed from Digital Performance
Institute is being used to explore the visuals.

The character IRIS, her predicament and her inner world are developing
through improvisation, which started with a black wig, a colored tie, and
then movement. How to relate the content of the movement to the content of
the visuals is a continual question. What do I want to say. How do I say it?

In the first of four sections, there is at various times the sounds of birds
and dogs barking. A window, which had always been part of the piece in my
mind, soon appears on the back wall, and moving branches come and go. The
props in IRIS¹s bedroom include large purple bras and high heels, as she is
exploring her feminity, sexuality, power. I have experimented with various
types of imagery. This includes images of a Victoria Secret catalogue which,
through the program Isadora, enlarge & reduce areas of the images through a
fisheye lens ... to a large bra, surrounded in color, in which one layer of
the bra expands and contracts with the movements of the performer ... to a
single bra tumbling out of a light, turning and expanding until it overtakes
the screen and disappears.

The character¹s projected shadow is something I am very interested to
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THE JESTER OF TONGA

PS122

Nov 13-23
Wed-Sat 8pm
Sun 6:30pm
$20, $15, $10

Silovsky and his robot Stanley tell the very true and complex story
of Jesse Bogdonoff, the sensational modern-day Court Jester to the
Tongan Royal Court. Twenty suitcases packed full with island lore spill
their secrets, scandals and adventures onto the stage.

Joe is a quintessential brilliant and quirky mad scientist type; who is constantly derailed from his story telling by the technology and his own exuberant interest in absolutely everything.  But the digressions are the fabulously interesting, and he's got Stanley the robot to keep him on track and tell you all about the woes cased by the last big financial bump on Wall Street.

I imaging there will be a few pore sole will be run out of town in the dead of night due to this financial crisis.  But I very much doubt they'll have as odd a story as Mr. Bogdonoff or as entertaining a chronicler as Mr. Silovsky.

T-Minus 2008 - time-art festival
Galapagos Art Space
Nov 25th
7PM 11PM $7

T-Minus is an annual screening of media art that focuses on the manipulation of time. 

What slows down when everything speeds up? Why do things that move fast demonstrate a unique inner peace when viewed from a different speed? What are the defining patterns in the world of motion? T-Minus is a film festival that gathers together audio and video pieces that address these questions.

What does that mean, probably really cool time-lapse and Slow Motion footage, both of which have always been extremely intriguing twist on ways of seeing things that I can't normally see.

I urge you to check out the Map Fund Grant oportunity.

November 3rd, 2008:
Guidelines available and online application open

January 20th, 2009:
MAP FUND DEADLINE

http://www.mapfund.org/apply.html

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

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.