Chicago TARDIS 2007: Field Report!

Chicago TARDIS 2007
The Field Report!

this weekend was another reminder of why i really need to get a digital camera, if only so i could have taken a picture of nicholas briggs playing with a remote control dalek in the dealer's room. it was a beautiful sight, truly. especially when it wasn't working correctly and he tried shaking the control about with some amount of violence. but in the absence of .imgs i can impart .infos.

sos i shall!

actually, while nick briggs was playing (or attempting to play) with the dalek and getting it to shout EXTERMINATE! (it was rather noisy in the dealer's room) i asked him if he was playing with a toy of his own voice and he said,"No, these are from the movies. These are the daleks that I try to be as good as." one more reason that i need to see those, apart from peter cushing's moustache.

SO:

2007.11.23 (friday):
( 'This toast is dedicated to your amazing hair, and its ever increasing girth.' )

2007.11.24 (saturday)
( topics included: the doctor as an alternative to mainstream masculinity; torchwood; why doctor who has so many gay fans; torchwood; torchwood: it's a bit gay; and, the doctor and the master: they're a bit gay (for each other). )

2007.11.25 (sunday)
( Yes, there should be a little bit of quality. )

it was a good weekend.

HARDcoded

for those who are in the chicago area, or are interested in what stuffs i am getting up to, here is a show that i will be a part of the weekend after next:


HARDcoded :: Digital Punk Magicians

SAT Dec 08 2007
3 PM - 11 PM (// estimate)
@ EN3MY
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd Fl. Chicago, IL 60622

HARDcoded (// or HARDCODED) is an ongoing collaboration between newMedia artists in Chicago and Mexico City, that explore the cross-over between digital noise, punk, and magic. HARDcoded is a wordplay between embedded/immutable data sets in software development and the xXxHARDCORExXx ethic of Punk culture. Our approach to reconstruct/disrupt the controlled environment of proprietary software tools and commercial applications of/for digital technology will be enabled by breaking these devices with wizardry. HARDcoded seeks to create a space where ruptures in our digital playing field (glitch, noise, or otherwise hacked material) can take precedence over the norms of our contemporary static digital landscape. The collaboration borrows from a Punk ethics/ethos that can inform the necessity for a sustainable break away from the normative practices of commercial platforms by providing/facilitating a DIY/DIT network. To attempt to create such a network to digital approaches, HARDcoded employs tools of "magic" origin. This "magic," which serves as ironic term with a critical bent, can break the spell of traditional methods of cultural communication and sharing. In attempting to approach this task, HARDcoded wishes to provide a social platform of workshops, talks, and performances to enable these fissures to break through the veil of our "closed-source" expectations and reliance.

The Program consists of workshops/talks by ::

Alex Ignlizian + Mark Beasley (Hardware Hacking/Building)
Jake Elliott (Reprogramming Computer Literacy)
Free Geek Chicago (Free Software and Hacktivism)
Temporary Services (Hacktivism)
criticalartware (Lecture on Hypertreaded History)

And Nightly Performances/screening by ::

CHHO (The Chicago Hacked Hardware Orchestra, Performance from participants in Workshop)
Valerie Brewer (Machinima Art)
professor pangaea (Machinima Art)
criticalartware (Hyperyarn, Realtime artware Development performance)
I <3 Presets (Live Audio/Video performance)



i'm going to try and be there for the day, and also hopefully for a few days afterwards, for hanging out and art-making purposes. depends on various things. <3<3<3