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Digital Showcase
Digital Showcase 48

Digital Showcase Flyer Front


Digital Showcase Flyer Back
Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Club DeVille (900 Red River)
9pm-2am
$8 general; $4 for members
18 and up


Musicians:

Laptop Battle
(Fourthcity)
Random
(8bitpeoples)
Heitor Alvelos, Anselmo Canha, Joćo Cruz
(FuturePlaces showcase + Crónica)
Pierce Warnecke
(Bee Records)
Daetron Vargas
(Construction Paper Records)

Visual Artists:

Bleep Labs
Depart
Eyeplug+Vidkidz
Gangpol and Mit
Genki Ito
Harvey Benschoter
Kultnation
Mato Atom
Michal Levy
Mirrorshade
Party Time! Hexcellent!
Takcom
Takuya Hosogane
Varelsen

Flyer Artist:

Jake Wagoner



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

Once again, AMODA will present a Laptop Battle as part of its March Digital Showcase. This event will feature eight of Texas' most skilled electronic musicians competing for the title of champion.

The battle revolves around contestants using their laptops to musically outperform one another in a tournament style event. 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.

CONTESTANTS:
Blixaboy (Dallas)
Caglioso (Austin)
The Mysterious H (Austin)
Cygnus (Dallas)
Dubbel Dutch (Austin)
Traducer (Austin)
Deejay Yayyay (Austin)
Ikipr (Austin)

JUDGES:
Phillip Walker (Laptop Deathmatch)
Thomas Fang (Artificial Music Machine)
Rachel Koper (Women and Their Work)
Eric Wallenstein (Backspin Records)
Aaron Mace (Church of the Friendly Ghost)

EMCEE:
Zeale (Austin)

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

																	Random
Random
8bitpeoples
Stockholm, Sweden

William Rickman started his chipmusic career in 2002 with the joke-band randomshitmotherburger, but quickly discovered that his interest in chip-style sounds was no joke. Branching off as Random, he started making music with the Nintendo Game Boy in 2004, quickly getting global recognition for his melodic and emotional compositions, expressed using minimal technical electronic gear. Since then, Random has performed live in thirteen countries across three continents, and he served as the co-organ... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Random
Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/randomi...

																	Heitor Alvelos, Anselmo Canha, Joćo Cruz
Heitor Alvelos, Anselmo Canha, Joćo Cruz
FuturePlaces showcase + Crónica
Portugal

These three artists will present a live selection of audiovisual footage from FuturePlaces, a digital media festival organized by The University of Porto (in Portugal) and the University of Texas at Austin. Their performance will include content generated at various FuturePlaces workshops, concerts, talks and events.

Heitor Alvelos has a PhD in media culture and serves as curator of the FuturePlaces festival. Alvelos has released multimedia work on the labels Touch (UK), Tapeworm (U... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Heitor Alvelos, Anselmo Canha, Joćo Cruz
Web Page: http://futureplaces.org/

																	Pierce Warnecke
Pierce Warnecke
Bee Records
France

Pierce Warnecke has been creating digital material since his studies at Berklee College of Music. Attracted equally to image and sound, he develops modules to forge his own audiovisual elements. He is inspired by the interactions between humans and machines, scientific research and complex data structures, and pushes to develop alternate ways of integrating sound, video, light and data into per- formance/installation contexts.

Warnecke has worked as a programmer for installations ... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Pierce Warnecke
Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/piercew...

																	Daetron Vargas
Daetron Vargas
Construction Paper Records
Austin, TX

Daetron Vargas has been DJing records for the last 9 years. He is also the owner and operater of Construction Paper Records. He has released music on his label as well as on other music projects and on film. He likes tacos, record shopping, and MadLibs.

AMODA Artist Page: Daetron Vargas
Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/aliaso


Visual Artists

																			Bleep Labs
Bleep Labs
Austin, TX


BleepLabs began as a solution to the world's ever increasing appetite for bleeps and bloops. After many months of feverish prototyping and testing, a device was created that had three major features: portability, it makes unusual sounds, and it looks like a small robot. It's also cuddly, in a robot kind of way. Now the world has a new friend to guide them through the sonic landscape of the 21st century.

These unusual sonic toys are created by Will Guy (graphic design) and John-... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Bleep Labs
Web Page: http://www.bleeplabs.com

																			Depart
Depart
Vienna, Austria


Kneedeep in the datastream DEPART flirts with the audio-video-text mčnages-‡-trois, produces jerked environments, hot-wired improvisation tools, distorted stories and a lot of noise. Studying MultiMediaArts in Salzburg brought them together and their flourishing artistic relationship is producing offspring in the fields of interactive narratives, audiovisual performances and installations as well as experimental poetry. Ideas and concepts are born, developed and departed on a textual level wh... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Depart
Web Page: http://depart.at/

																			Eyeplug+Vidkidz
Eyeplug+Vidkidz
NYC / Austin


EYEPLUG+VIDKIDZ is Zak, Melanie, and Michael, three nihilistic wannabe cyberpunks with undergraduate degrees in whatever. Their work explores the internet, drugs, and televangelism.

AMODA Artist Page: Eyeplug+Vidkidz

																			Gangpol and Mit
Gangpol and Mit
France


As a musical and graphical duet, Gangpol und Mit work in a peculiar world of deviant cartoons, inhabited by colorful and geometrical creatures: a bestiary that evolves in lysergic environments and takes part in apocalyptic stories.

AMODA Artist Page: Gangpol and Mit

																			Genki Ito
Genki Ito
Tokyo, Japan


Working as a Tokyo based digital artist, Genki Ito joined many music video productions at W+K TOKYO LAB. He officially signed to W+K TOKYO in 2008 and he is currently working as a motion designer and character animator in the advertising and music video world.

AMODA Artist Page: Genki Ito
Web Page: http://itogenki.com/

																			Harvey Benschoter
Harvey Benschoter
Philadelphia, PA


Grew up in Florida
College there too
Escaped up to Boston
Played in some bands
Made some films and animations
Moved to Ann Arbor, MI for a while
Made some more animations
Got out of there and moved to Philadelphia
Now producing a feature film

AMODA Artist Page: Harvey Benschoter
Web Page: http://www.vilehaus.org/

																			Kultnation
Kultnation
Mexico City, Mexico


Marco Vinicio under the alias of Kultnation is a Mexico based designer & animator; has a Graphic Design background, a VFS Digital Design Diploma and 3 years of commercial work experience as a freelance designer and animator. His abstract work driven by space and form gained him a reputation around global design communities. Some of the studios / agencies / clients he worked for include: Tronic Studio, MTV, Prologue Films, Transparency Studios, Speed Channel, TBWA, Once TV Networks, El Palacio d... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Kultnation
Web Page: http://cargocollective.com/kul...

																			Mato Atom
Mato Atom
New York, NY


A hobby astronomer without a telescope.

AMODA Artist Page: Mato Atom
Web Page: http://www.mat0.net/work/

																			Michal Levy
Michal Levy
Philadelphia, PA


Michal Levy was born and raised in Israel and currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she works as an art director for a major corporation. Since childhood, music, dance and painting have been an important part of her life and have contributed to her passion for exploring the visualization of sound.

AMODA Artist Page: Michal Levy
Web Page: http://michalevy.com/

																			Mirrorshade
Mirrorshade
London, UK


Mirrorshade is Mina Song, a director who produces music promos, broadcast spots, commercials, and short films. She is normally based in London, but also works in Asia, North America, and Europe.

Mina Song's main interest lies in animation and mixed media. Her work is often described as 'digital craft' because she loves carefully crafted digital design/animation. She also believes in storytelling in abstract forms and intense primary colors.

AMODA Artist Page: Mirrorshade
Web Page: http://mirrorshade.tv/

																			Party Time! Hexcellent!
Party Time! Hexcellent!
Austin, TX


Party Time! Hexcellent! is the alias of a local Austin programmer who creates live custom visual software for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Controlling the 8-bit game console with a series of joysticks and gamepads, PT!H! seeks to create a landscape of bright, blocky graphics that dance along to the beat of the music.

Her current program, Chiptune TV, is meant to evoke fond memories of days when the CRT television was king, video games were on plastic cartridges, and MTV still ... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Party Time! Hexcellent!
Web Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/...

																			Takcom
Takcom
Tokyo, Japan


Born in Tokyo,Japan,1979. Graduated from Nihon University of art department of cinema in 2002. Lives and Works in Tokyo. His field is mainly making single channel video art , Live Video Performances, Collaborated A/V Performances and some prints. Takafumi Tsuchiya is using the best technique in each work mixing recorded sources and handmade animation with generated material. In his videos, takafumi is interested in mixing up boundaries between contradicting (ambivalent) matters such as f... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Takcom
Web Page: http://www.takafumitsuchiya.co...

																			Takuya Hosogane
Takuya Hosogane
Tokyo, Japan


Takuya Hosogane is a Tokyo-based VJ and motion graphics artist working with BOW (http://b-o-w.jp) and visual performance unit Bonsajo (http://bonsajo.org).

After getting his start with Flash, Hosogane now creates most of his work using Adobe After Effects and Cinema4D. His visuals focus on the interplay and synchronicity of sound and picture.

Hosogane is the winner of the Cut&Paste 2009 Global Digital Design Tournament in the motion graphics division. He also has a wea... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Takuya Hosogane
Web Page: http://www.hsgn.tk/

																			Varelsen
Varelsen
Malmo, Sweden


Varelsen is a studio of creatives based in Malmo, Sweden. They develop and produce motion graphics, moving pictures, print and web, as well as develop design concepts and solutions.

Kristofer Strom is a primary member of Varelsen and the director of many of its animation pieces. He has always loved to doodle and create strange little creatures. His multi-faceted life as an illustrator, animator, flash programmer and musician in Malmo, Sweden was one day given another direction w... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Varelsen
Web Page: http://varelsen.com/


Flyer Artist

Digital Showcase Flyer
Jake Wagoner
Seattle, WA
Artifakt


AMODA Artist Page: Jake Wagoner
Web Page: http://www.artifaktart.org/



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

Visit our Archive page for a Showcase-by-Showcase catalog of artist info, photos, video, audio recordings, and related Features.
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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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