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Digital Showcase
Digital Showcase 29

Digital Showcase Flyer Front


Digital Showcase Flyer Back
Thursday, September 9th, 2004

The ALLGO Tillery Street Theater (701 Tillery)
click here for map

9pm-2am
$7
18 and up


Musicians:

Prince Klassen
(diggindeepquartet)
Ice Cream Creatures
(Papergoose Records)
The White Light Society
(Kanaka House)
The Rip Off Artist
(Tigerbeat6, Mille Plateaux, Vertical Form)
Zom Zoms

Visual Artists:

Boris Tellegen
Chiaki Watanabe (w/ Giles Hendrix & Bit Shifter)
Elout de Kok
Hannah Gal
Jennifer Little
Scott Pagano (live video)
(Reline DVD)
Takeshi Murata
Yoshi Sodeoka
Young Min Kang

Flyer Artist:

Ben Aqua



About the Showcase

The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to engage the public and artists in the creation, understanding, and appreciation of digital art. The Digital Showcase is an event, featuring live electronic music and visual art, ranging from abstract to accessible, presented in a social setting.More >>


Artist Bios:

Musicians

																	Prince Klassen
Prince Klassen
diggindeepquartet
Austin, TX

Klassen, a straight edge vegan graffiti artist scratch wizard has honed his skills as resident DJ for the nationally recognized San Antonio Puro Poetry Slam and as a member of the infamous Supa Brotha Scientists whose members also include DJ Jester, Donnie-D, Scuba Steve, Gib, and Theory of Everything. Spinning everything from underground hip hop, glitch, obscure pop, electro, and drum & bass, Klassen has made a mark on the Texas DJ scene.

AMODA Artist Page: Prince Klassen

																	Ice Cream Creatures
Ice Cream Creatures
Papergoose Records
Austin, TX

Ice Cream Creatures is a trio of musicians who came together in 2001 through a series of peculiar incidents involving mainly, poison. ICC is an archaic blending of futuristic android music and swirled, swishy vocals that mate enthusiastically with live instruments, that breathe. This can include the guitar(!), the piano, the xylophone, and various computer programs one of them claims he found in an old shoebox in his dad's closet under a pile of old batteries and musty turnips. Since their inc... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Ice Cream Creatures
Web Page: http://www.papergoose.net/

																	The White Light Society
The White Light Society
Kanaka House
Austin, TX

The White Light Society consists of Kalani Kordus and Billy Hayes. The duo have been playing music together in various permutations since 1996. Their unique sound combines Musical influences ranging from Boards of Canada to Dr. Dre. Combining head-nod beats with richly layered melodies, they have refined the art of "the hook." While they have spent the last few years scoring several films and producing other artists, in 2004 all their energies have been directed toward their first full-length... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: The White Light Society
Web Page: http://thewhitelightsociety.co...

																	The Rip Off Artist
The Rip Off Artist
Tigerbeat6, Mille Plateaux, Vertical Form
Los Angeles, CA

The Rip-Off Artist is the name used by a loose collective of politically savvy musicians and performance artists dating back to the 1970's. Originally formed in Oakland, California in 1971 under the name "Richard Nixon is a Rip-Off Artist", the collective has evolved and broadened their art to reflect the changing times. While members have come and gone, the group as a whole remains firmly devoted to political satire through music, song and live theatre.

Bruce Maridale is widely cons... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: The Rip Off Artist
Web Page: http://www.ripoffartist.net

																	Zom Zoms
Zom Zoms
Austin, TX

Zom Philmapster and Zoms Frenchman have been living and making music together for the past 7 years. Zom, a retired encyclopedia salesman, met Zoms when he took a job as a pizza delivery driver. Obsessed with the similarity of their first names, the two became fast friends and soon discovered their common love for the musical arts. Moving in together was a logical choice and it allowed Zom and Zoms to dedicate themselves almost exclusively to music (and delivering pizza, which they now do freela... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Zom Zoms
Web Page: http://www.tubezomzoms.com


Visual Artists

Overgrowth
Boris Tellegen
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Overgrowth
DVD/shockwave by G.J. Mulder

Boris Tellegen, aka DELTA, is one of the most well respected old-school writers from Amsterdam. He studied Industrial Design Engineering and emerged with a unique painting style: his abstract lettering resembles isometric plans for high-tech vehicles or architecture from the future. He has influenced writers worldwide for decades with his 3D letter styles. He and Zedz have pushed their graffiti-inspired aesthetic into mediums such as graphic design, 3-D canvas, and architecture.

AMODA Artist Page: Boris Tellegen
Web Page: http://www.deltainc.nl

																			Chiaki Watanabe
8/4 vol.1
Chiaki Watanabe (w/ Giles Hendrix & Bit Shifter)
New York, NY

8/4 vol.1
Realtime Video/Audio mix

8/4 is a audiovisual live performance unit comprised of 2 visual artists and 2 musicians in New York. 8/4 stands for 8 bit, lo-fi, micro music & arts and 4 stands for four members. 8/4 is formed to explore lo-fi art and sound that transmit through vintage bitmapped art, video images, game consoles as instruments. The 8/4©ˆs a blend of four different performing methods/styles invoke a hybrid new form of electronic audiovisuals in 8-bit style. 8/4 celebrates and explores the increasingly prevalent 8-bit art style as it seeks to expose a wider audience this accessible artistic experimentation. The 8bit art is an aesthetic to create nostalgic and futuristic visual and aural landscapes.

8/4 vol.1 was featured at NY Video Festival (Synaesthesiologists: Global AudioVisuals Now) at Lincoln center, New York July 2004.

Artist Bio: Chiaki Watanabe is a media artist based in New York. With minimalist and abstract aesthetics, she works in multiple forms including video, motion graphics, installation and live video performance. Sound, form, color and movement are her primary sources of creative inspiration.

Her works have been presented internationally in various venues ranging from media art and video festivals such as the New York Video Festival, Microcinema International, European Media Art ... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Chiaki Watanabe
Web Page: http://www.vusik.net/

																			Elout de Kok
Virii
Elout de Kok
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Virii
Digital Snapshot

Elout de Kok lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His work can be described as Bauhaus/De Stijl/Constuctivism meets interactive digital architecture. His art is created by writing a code using various languages like Flash, Java and C++.

AMODA Artist Page: Elout de Kok
Web Page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~elout/

Hannah Gal
London, UK


Hannah Gal has been exhibiting extensively in London and abroad. She has been featured in a BBC artist profile and on Channel 4, ITV , MTV, Sky and Radio 4. Her credits include Beck's futures nomination, CNN’ art show, 291 Gallery, Whitechapel, and many other London and worldwide spaces.

Described by one critic as ‘disturbingly beautiful’, Breathe was commissioned by Adobe as an arty piece of art but ended up touching a nerve throughout, wining awards and showing extensively from... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Hannah Gal
Web Page: http://www.hannahgal.co.uk/

Jennifer Little
Austin, TX

Barriers and Conduits: Viewing the Contemporary Landscape
Photography

40" x 50" Ink Jet Prints

Jennifer Little is a graduate student in photography at the University of Texas at Austin. She explores the Austin region, searching for a unique way to view contemporary landscape. She is most drawn to the marginal landscapes surrounding Austin's extensive network of rivers, lakes and creeks: areas that ironically insert a narrow swath of nature within the much larger region of urban and industrial sprawl.

In her most recent body of work, "Barriers and Conduits: Viewing the Con... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Jennifer Little

Scott																			Pagano
Scott Pagano (live video)
Reline DVD
San Francisco, CA


Scott Pagano is a video artist obsessed with the graphic re-imagining of architectural spaces, byproducts of machine errors, and breakdowns in communication systems. Through precision image reworking and malfunction fetishism, his work attempts to break open urban structure, technological processes, and spatial interactions. Creating careful yet chaotic video works, Pagano focuses on developing an intense visual language that offers up an alternative perspective on the multitude of system... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Scott Pagano
Web Page: http://www.neither-field.com

																			Takeshi Murata
Unknown intentions
Takeshi Murata
Los Angeles, CA

Tarpit Still
Computer

Takeshi Murata lives in Los Angeles. He makes videos about the La Brea tar pits and their transmissions (mammoth tusk).

Takeshi Murata's work has recently been featured in "Reagan Babies : Born in the USA" curated by Ed Halter at the Eyebeam in NY. The show investigated the esthetics that arise "when ADD plus CNN is your generation’s LSD". Amoda is proud to present Takeshi's psychedelic eye-candies "Tarpit" and "Melter2".

AMODA Artist Page: Takeshi Murata
Web Page: http://takeshimurata.com/

Yoshi Sodeoka
New York, NY


Yoshi Sodeoka is an artist, designer and musician who has been producing both art and commercial projects for over a decade. His interactive digital artwork has been featured on numerous CD-ROMs and Web sites and in exhibitions at the San Francisco MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Design Museum, Germany and Art & Design Museum Brazil. In addition, Sodeoka has lectured on widely on the topic of digital design and has juried design awards for PDN magazine and the One Club and others. He cur... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Yoshi Sodeoka
Web Page: http://www.c404.tv/

																			Young Min Kang
Young Min Kang
Seoul / Austin


Young Min Kang was born in Seoul, Korea. He has studied as a graduate student in Studio Art program at UT Austin since 2001. His diverse approach has been shown not only in traditional genres but also in sculpture, video, and digital photography. He continuously plays with the relationship between human perception and media in our mediated world. His digital pieces not only demonstrate the use technology in art work, but at the same time, reveal its possibilities and limits by incorporating mor... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Young Min Kang


Flyer Artist

																			Ben Aqua
Digital Showcase Flyer
Ben Aqua
Austin, TX


Ben Aqua is a cuddly capricorn from Brooklyn, NY. He currently lives in Austin, TX, making loud noises under the name ASSACRE (www.assacre.com) and creating visual yummies (www.aquabotic.com). He hopes that his work will cause extreme laughter, fright, and tears of joy, and maybe even tears of sorrow.

AMODA Artist Page: Ben Aqua
Web Page: http://www.aquabotic.com/



About the Showcase

The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to engage the public and artists in the creation, understanding, and appreciation of digital art. The Digital Showcase is an event, featuring live electronic music and visual art, ranging from abstract to accessible, presented in a social setting.

The Digital Showcase Director is Todd Simmons. Please contact him with any comments or questions. If you wish to contribute visual art, music, or graphic art to a Showcase, please visit our Call for Art page for details.

Past Showcases

Digital Showcase 48:
Saturday, March 13th

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We are always looking for artists to present in the Digital Showcase, including musicians, visual artists, installation artists, and flyer artists. Please see our Call for Art for more information, or contact our Digital Showcase Director Todd Simmons.

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