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Digital Showcase
Digital Showcase 43

Digital Showcase Flyer Front


Digital Showcase Flyer Back
Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Club DeVille (900 Red River)
9pm-2am
$7 general; $4 for members
Free w/ SXSW Interactive badge
18 and up


Musicians:

Laptop Battle
(Fourthcity)
New Berlin
(Teleportdoor)
Richard.Gear

Visual Artists:

CassettePlaya
Dan Winckler
Fatal Farm
Josh Knowles
Shana Moulton
SYNKEN
Zach Layton

Flyer Artist:

Phil Dunne



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

																	Laptop Battle
Laptop Battle
Fourthcity
Seattle, WA

For the 3rd year in a row, AMODA presents a Laptop Battle for it's March Digital Showcase. This event will feature sixteen of Texas' most skilled electronic musicians competing for the title of champion.

The battle revolves around contestants using their laptops to musically outperform each other in a series of elimination rounds. Each performance must be 3 minutes or less and the only equipment permitted is a laptop and one external controller. Judged by a panel of music and art experts, the outcome of each match is decided based on a combination of emotional impact, originality, stage performance, live manipulation, and crowd response.

The Laptop Battle concept originated in Seattle several years ago (from Fourthcity Records), and has since been held in cities all over the world. The winner of this battle will receive a free trip to compete in the National Laptop Battle Championships in Atlanta later this year.

CONTESTANTS:
Cygnus (Dallas)
Gramophone (Austin)
The Mysterious H (Austin)
DJ Sexcidillionaire (Dallas)
Bangalore (Austin)
Disco Hospital (Austin)
Sudrok Inalak (Austin)
The Wild Bull (Dallas)
DJ YAYYAY (Austin)
Class President (Dallas)
Traducer (Austin)
Kidko (Dallas)
Madison Effect (Austin)
Otic Angst (San Antonio)
Disco Nihilist (Austin)
tunneldigger (Austin)

JUDGES:
Peter Kirn (CreateDigitalMusic.com)
Richard Bailey (aka Proem)
Jennifer Wijangco (strataTX)
DJ Manny (DJ Dojo)
Dan Burton (Artificial Music Machine)

EMCEES:
Phranchyze (Austin)
Zeale 32 (Austin)

AMODA Artist Page: Laptop Battle
Web Page: http://www.laptopbattle.com/

																	New Berlin
New Berlin
Teleportdoor
Los Angeles, CA

This former Austinite and DJ got his moniker from the very city that inspires his playlists. As a nod to the current wave of ex-patriot artists and dj's who have arrived in recent years, New Berlin (Anthony Mauzy) spins his own blend 80's new wave, indie rock, and electro-house -- strictly using a laptop and an audio interface.

While working on his graduate degree in new media, he soon began promoting his own local experimental electronic shows under the guise Teleportdoor. These sh... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: New Berlin
Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/newberl...

																	Richard.Gear
Richard.Gear
Austin, TX

RiCHARD.GEAR is a born an bred Austinite. Growing up in the Hill Country, Mr. GEAR was fed a steady diet of classic rock, funk and disco from his early years through high school, where the Austin rave scene picked up and has since carried him to where he is now.

Performing at such infamous clubs as Pulse, Asylum, Club M and Velvet, the majority of RiCHARD.GEAR's DJ outings were held "back in the day," and under a variety of aliases. Returning to the scene with new skills, ne... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Richard.Gear
Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/richard...


Visual Artists

																			CassettePlaya
CassettePlaya
London, UK


Cassette Playa is 26 year old British fashion designer Carri Mundane. She has worked with M.I.A, and New Rave banner wavers the Klaxons. Both have been dressed by and had videos styled by Carri. She is also Contributing Fashion Editor of SuperSuper, i-D stylist / contributor and recently collaborated with Nicola Formichetti for Dazed & Confused.

Cassette Playa's Spring/Summer 2007 collection is described as "a toxicolour uniform for hard boys battling real and virtual worlds". Imag... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: CassettePlaya
Web Page: http://www.cassetteplaya.com/

																			Dan Winckler
Dan Winckler
New York, NY


live video performance

Dan Winckler is a visual designer, performing artist, programmer and educator in the fields of new media interaction and performance, improvisational theater, and networked collaboration. As a visualist and projection designer, he has performed at New York venues such as Eyebeam, SubTonic, {R}ake, EyeWash, and the Tank, and elsewhere, including the Austin Museum of Digital Art (at South by Southwest 2008), the MenschMeerMedien Festival 2007 in Bremen, Germany, and the International Symposium... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Dan Winckler
Web Page: http://danwinckler.com

																			Fatal Farm
Fatal Farm
Los Angeles, CA


digital animation

Fatal Farm is a Los Angeles-base production company or something. But it's mainly just Jeffrey Max and Zachary Johnson screwing around on the Internet. Occasionally, someone gives them money to do some commercial work, but that doesn't mean they're sellouts. They don't answer to anybody.

According to Jeffrey and Zachary, "Actually, we're kind of trying to be sellouts. So if you're a power player, get in touch. Let's do lanch (sp?)."

AMODA Artist Page: Fatal Farm
Web Page: http://www.fatalfarm.com

																			Josh Knowles
Josh Knowles
New York, NY


Josh Knowles is a recent graduate of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he concentrated in social software design, game design, and other ways of creating group collaboration. His thesis project, PhonePlay, is a platform for allowing groups of people to come together for playful, game-like art experiences using their mobile phones as controllers. One simply calls the number on the screen and pushes the buttons on the phone the way one might a Nintendo controller. Games bui... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Josh Knowles
Web Page: http://www.auscillate.com/

																			Shana Moulton
Shana Moulton
New York, NY


Shana Moulton creates evocatively oblique narratives in her video and performance works. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Moulton plays a character whose interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny.
... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Shana Moulton
Web Page: http://www.eai.org/eai/artist....

																			SYNKEN
SYNKEN
Berlin, Germany


SYNKEN is a collaborative audio/visual DVD and live performance created by Transforma (video) and O.S.T. (audio). With a mix of abstract images, graphic animation, digital image effects and complex film sequences, SYNKEN creates a fantastically spaced out, darkly romantic image-world. Forests filled with distorted organic forms are contrasted against an architectural abyss, as strange and fantastic characters try to make sense of their surroundings. A mysterious vagabond works as a medium betwe... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: SYNKEN
Web Page: http://www.synken.com

																			Zach Layton
Zach Layton
New York, NY


digital video

Zach Layton is a composer, curator, improviser and new media artist based in Brooklyn with an interest in biofeedback, generative algorithms, experimental culture and architecture. His work investigates complex relationships and topologies created through the interaction of simple core elements like sine waves, minimal surfaces and kinetic visual patterns.

zach's work has been performed by the Cleveland chamber symphony and he has performed and exhibited at the kitchen, roulette, a... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Zach Layton
Web Page: http://www.zachlaytonindustrie...


Flyer Artist

																			Phil Dunne
Digital Showcase Flyer
Phil Dunne
Dublin, Ireland


Phil Dunne is an illustrator, artist and designer based in Dublin, Ireland. Since graduating college, Phil has built up a strong portfolio of diverse projects and clients. His previous work experience ranges from character design, children's books, illustrations for window displays, fashion shows and advertisements.

His work is mainly a fusion of traditional, hand drawn elements and digital manipulation and colouring. In November 2006, Phil was announced as the winner of a public design co... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Phil Dunne
Web Page: http://www.lovetherobot.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.

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