Save the dates for the RE/Search Pranksfest on Thurs. April 3rd 2008 at 9pm.
Screenings of SRL videos, the Mark Pauline Pranks! segment, QA with SRL crew members.
Admission is $10 benefitting Todd Blair
Todd is much loved, if you missed the other benefits as seen on the Todd Blair Recovery Blog or would like to attend another event of Todd friends and family, please come to a special , limited seating screening of Electrum and LA <3 SRL on March 5th 2008 at the McBean Theater at the Exploratorium.
More details here.
This special ATC event is a benefit for the continued
recovery of Todd Blair who was injured in Amsterdam
after an SRL show. Suggested donation at the door is
$10-100. toddblair.wordpress.com
The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
of the Berkeley Center for New Media announces:
Attention Depiction Disorders
Naut Humon, Recombinant Media Labs, SF
V. Vale, REsearch Publications, SF
Monday, Feb 25, 7:30-9:00pm
** Note Special Location: Berkeley Art Museum Theater
** Enter on 2621 Durrant Ave (access via sculpture garden)
** http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/visit/visitor
ATC Lectures are free and open to the public
Seating is limited and not guaranteed.
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Bay Area legends Naut Humon and V. Vale will present
an oral optical conversation using a variety of media
forms. Topics will include ADD, information overload,
experiential engineering, catastrophism, shuffle-culture,
artificial simulations, panorama, spatial media synthesis,
transcoding, cinesonics, meta-language, disembodied
temporality, Frankenstein polyphonies and errant edge
blending histories. Special guest artist Perry Hoberman
will perform live real time requisite visual distractions
in accordance with the ADD theme. The dialogue will
conclude with rare, unseen footage of the Survival Research
Labs private show at Berkeley Art Museum in 2004.
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V. Vale has been an independent, non-grant-funded,
San Francisco publisher of counterculture magazines and
books since 1977. His books include Modern Primitives,
Angry Women, Incredibly Strange Music, Incredibly Strange
Films, Search and Destroy, Pranks, Industrial Culture
Handbook, four books on U.K. visionary author J.G. Ballard,
and a book on William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and
Throbbing Gristle. researchpubs.com
Naut Humon has been the director of international
operations for RML, Asphodel Records, and AV curator for
select portions of the annual ARS Electronica Festival in
Austria. Recombinant Media Labs cultivates radical
methodologies and performative processes that expand
aesthetic and technological boundaries of immersive
installation and surround cinema. Naut performed with
the experimental music group “Rhythm & Noise” and is about
to debut a new cross-media collective known as “Careen
Ajar”. For several decades, he’s experimented with a wide
range of audience mobilization and extreme environments to
build bridges between audio and visual experiences.
The Recombinant Media Labs concept has emerged out beyond
these frames and is ready to take it to the streets.
asphodel.com
Perry Hoberman is an installation artist who has worked
extensively with machines and media. His career has
included stints with Laurie Anderson and currently the
USC Interactive Media Division in LA. He has exhibited
internationally, with major shows throughout the USA and
Europe. His work is currently on view in the “Future Cinema”
exhibition at the ZKM Center for New Media in Karlsruhe.
Hoberman has been the recipient of numerous grants and
awards, and is both a 2002 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
and a 2002 Rockefeller Foundation Media Art Fellow.
perryhoberman.com
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ATC Primary Sponsors: Berkeley Center for New
Media (BCNM), Center for Information Technology in the
Interest of Society (CITRIS), College of Engineering
Interdisciplinary Studies Program (IDS), and the
Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.
Additional Sponsors: Intel Research, BAM/PFA, Townsend
Center for the Humanities, and the Berkeley Consortium
for the Arts.
Ken Goldberg, ATC Director
Greg Niemeyer, ATC Associate Director
Irene Chien, ATC Graduate Associate
Curated with ATC Advisory Board
For updated information, please visit:
or contact: goldberg at berkeley.edu or (510) 642-0635.
As you all may know, crew member Todd Blair suffered major head injury in Amsterdam in September. His communities have joined forces to help raise funds for his ongoing medical and living expenses by presenting an evening of entertainment, holiday shopping bazaar, and an art as well as talent and collectibles auction. This is your chance to purchase art at a bargain, including your very own Sneaky Soldier! Please join us this Saturday at SOMArts for the Blue and Green Ball!
More information at srl.org/shows/events/todd
Track Todd’s progress on Todd’s recovery update blog here
On December 1, SRL along with other Todd Blair communities is putting on the Blue + Green Ball a benefit for Todd’s continuing medical, living, and rehabilitation expenses.
Aside from entertainment, food, shopping bazaar, cash bar, kinetic sculpture, fire art, and more, there will also be an art auction of art from artists such as Stelarc, Lynn Hershman, Eduardo Kac and many others… One of the items up for auction is Chester Arthur one of the Sneaky Soldiers that suffered battle scars in two performances to date: the Dangerous Curve show and the Fish Boy’s Dream. This is the first time that a SRL ‘cast-member’ will be sold. It is valued at $25,000 but the bidding starts at $2500!
Check the Blue+Green Ball site for the rest of the line up and other things up for auction or sale and we hope to see you all there!
We also need YOUR help for the ball! If you would like to donate crafts or electronics or other unique items to sell, we’d love to have it in our bazaar! Please contact Judy Garvey – bigmonster (at) pon [.] net. If you have a skill or unusual collectible you’d like to sell/auction off, please contact Karen Marcelo – karen at this here website dot org, and if you’d like to volunteer please contact Jill Miller – jill [at] jillmiller (.) net
Mark, Amy, and Jake Eddie are moving and their wonderful Brisbane home is for sale. The house was designed by Mark and Amy, built by Neal Pauline, and note that metal work (pictured here) was designed and created by Mark Pauline!
Great opportunity to own a piece of machine art history!
For more information check http://www.rondavis.com/300visit/
A good background on Todd’s involvment and numerous contributions to SRL from Mark Pauline, from the special dorkbotSF fundraiser for Todd Blair. Video taken by James Young:
Todd continues to make good progress and is out of ICU! But recovering from head injury is a long process. There are a few fundraisers in the works including a dinner on November 9th and a big Blue and Green Ball on December 1st. More details and updates here
Many thanks to those who came out in support for the dorkbotSF event, especially to donors boingboing, Make:, Kyle Minor Design, Eric Paulos, Karen Marcelo, David Calkins and Simone Davalos, TCho, John Law, Liisa Pine, Kal Spelletich, Greg Leyh, Alan and Ellen Anzalone, GX Jupitter-Larsen / Haters, RE/Search, Foodhacking.com, Doug Sutton, Clint Cleveland, Kimric Smythe and Shannon O’Hare, Ralf Burgert, Joe Grand, Melanie Miguel, Nathan Parrish, Bobby 089, Jonathan Foote, Michele Pred, Charlie Gadeken, Meredith Scheff, and Jon Sarriguarte.
The previous post was premature, Todd did seem to be waking up but doctors had to sedate him until a re-occuring fever subsides. He remains in a stable holding pattern and his father has arrived in Amsterdam, while Mark, Amy, and Jake Eddie return to San Francisco.
There are several events planned for the coming months to address the very real and serious medical and financial condition Todd and partner Alexandria find themselves in.
Thanks to SRL crew member and event host Kyle Minor October 10th will be a special dorkbot in honor of Todd’s recovery. SRL member Eric Paulos, long-time SRL friend Ken Goldberg, and others will be giving presentations. There will be an auction where people can bid on souveniers from RE/Search, SRL members and valuable services from John Law, SRL crew members, Seemen and more! 100% of all proceeds will go toward Todd’s fund.
Images from the Amsterdam show are being processed but some of them are posted already. Please keep checking as there are lots more!
Image of Hindenbaby from John Mathieu
Todd’s progress can be tracked on this blog. If you cannont attend Todd Blair events, we would still very much appreciate any amount you care to donate.
A PayPal account for Todd and Alex has been set up by their good friend Susie Maunu. Please click on the link below if you would like to donate something. Thanks!
From Mark Pauline:
“Good news. Todd is with Alex and Amy and is responding to Alex’s
voice with hand pressure. Eyes open a bit. Resting again now. See the
blog for details!“
Photo of Todd from John Behrens
Thanks everyone for the prayers, healing and loving thoughts! Keep them going toward Mr. Todd! But Alex and Todd still need our help, please check here for what you can do.
A PayPal account for Todd and Alex has been set up by their good friend Susie Maunu. Please click on the link below if you would like to donate something. Thanks!
Also, images and video clips from the show are trickling in. Keep checking the A Complete Mastery of Sinister Forces page for post-show info.
In a freak accident veteran crew member Todd Blair was knocked to the ground sustaining critical head injuries after the show on Saturday. The doctors in Amsterdam are keeping him in an induced coma and won’t have a complete prognosis for awhile. In deference to Todd, Alex (Todd’s girlfriend) and the families we had been keeping the information about this tragic occurence within the family. Amy Critchett and Eric Paulos were with Todd during his surgery and now Alex has arrived and he seems to be responding well to her presence.
Many people have been concerned and asking for details so while it is too early to determine what the outcome is, the news as of this morning is that his condition has stabilized and we will know more shortly.
Keep the love, prayers, and healing thoughts for Todd coming, it definately makes a difference!
Image from John Mathieu
In the meantime, for those who want to show their support checks can be made out to
Alexandra Ismerio
and sent to
Susan Maunu
3828 Alzada Road
Altadena, CA 91001
Progress of Todd’s recovery can be tracked here. It will be regularly updated by Alex and Susie from his bedside.
UPDATE
The container is finally loaded, there are still other things to do to wrapup a production of this magnitude but Mark found a moment to update us on Todd. Posted originally to Todd’s blog:
All,
My silence has been a product of all of the indescribable minutia, the necessary mountains to move and complete and absolute disbelief that something of this magnitude could and did happen to Todd.
Saw Todd this afternoon, and I can say to all who were there in the first days, he has made a lot of progress. Small but important parts of him are coming back, breathing on his own, bruises and swelling going down. The nurse remarked that when she shined a light into his eyes, the pupils contracted. He is really starting to look like Todd again. Enjoyed talking to him for a bit, and making a couple of wisecracks. Regardless of ones opinion of the medical establishment, its amazing to see first hand what can be done by way of mechanical repair to broken bodies at a first rate facility like the AMC.
Somehow, in the midst of all this, we were able to continue packing all that crap but it sure didn’t feel very good on the ground at NDSM this week. I am awed by Alex and her ability to manage as she does through this time. I am grateful to my wife, Amy who is supporting Alex the best she can. Without their tireless and reassuring efforts, I don’t know how the SRL crew would have made it through the past week.
Ill be thinking about what SRL will do as a group to help this next week in Amsterdam. SRL crew, please send your suggestions.
MP
SRL show images and video are also forthcoming, to stay on top of that keep checking the Official SRL @ Robodock Page