Eyebeam
540 West 21st Street, NY, USA
http://www.eyebeam.org/
Eyebeam is currently calling for applications for three-six month Residency opportunities. The application deadline is Aug. 21 at 12pm EST.
Artists, hackers, designers, engineers and creative technologists are invited to apply to be Residents at Eyebeam, to work for six months on projects or research of artistic endeavor or creative expression. The ideal Resident has experience working with and generating innovative technological art and/or creative technology projects and has a passion for interdisciplinary exchange.
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1) Sticking my finger up Sharif’s nose while wrestling in the bushes in front of the dorms. He has a bite mark on his chest but I take no responsibility for this as it has been obliterated from my memory by narcotics that shall remain nameless.
2) Climbing a tree to talk to a perspective college student on the second floor of the adjacent dormitories. No, I was not successful and yes, this is a felony as she is a senior in high school
3) Last but not least . . . spraying Josh Chambers in the face with a fire extinguisher. Admittedly there are thinly veiled homoerotic undertones to blowing my load on the visage my fellow Skidrow Alumnus. In point of fact, the gesture actually came (a-hem) out of jealousy as Mr. Chambers convinced the young lady from crime #2 to open the door and talk to us. She, unfortunately couldn’t come out to play as she was in her PJs and had just put in her retainer . . .
. . . sigh . . .
Esther Robinson of Creative Capital and theater artist/administrator Aaron Landsman have started a new organization called Art Home whose "mission is to help artists and their communities build assets and equity through financial literacy and home-ownership. "
It looks like it could be really great - check out the site at http://www.arthomeonline.org/ and see what they're up to.
Hey All Y'all -
Sorry not to be writing more. Things around culturebot central have been really busy. Among other things, Culturebot has been programming the P.S.122 Summer Season at Spiegeltent and it has been NUTS!
For those of you who don't know, The Spiegel Tent is "The World's Most Beautiful Traveling Venue" and it is a ton o' fun. Culturebot went to the Tent last summer in Edinburgh and had many a rousing and raucous evening of entertainment and libation.
I'm really excited about the Performance Space 122 Summer Season at Spiegel Tent - it is a bunch of Mondays, so it is for the real hardcore arts and entertainment crowd (i.e.: new yorkers). You can keep the weekend going just a little bit longer, enjoy some beer in the beer garden and see some awesome shows.
The final line-ups of some of the events are still being finalized, but here's the basic overview:
August 7th at 8PM – One Ring Zero, featuring writers Ned Vizzini, Mike Daisey & Clay McLeod Chapman (more writers TBC) as well as a special preview screening of the One Ring Zero documentary “As Smart As They Are”
August 14th at 10PM – Chicks & Giggles – fierce alternative all-women comedy variety show (line-up TBC)brought to you by Nichelle Stephens and Carolyn Castiglia. (Two of my favorite comedic blog-pals and both previous performers at The WYSIWYG Talent Show!)
August 21st at 8PM – An evening of Tango and Milonga with Leonardo Suarez Paz and Cuartetango String Quartet to benefit P.S.122's Buenos Aires in Translation Project. (this one's going to be hot!)
August 28th at 10PM – John Moran’s new music/installation performance Zenith 5.
"One of the most important (and underrated) figures in the avantgarde." - TimeOut NY
"Like so many modern choreographers - Merce Cunningham, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris - he is far and away his own best performer... engaging, sexy and scary." - The New York Times
'ZENITH 5' is Composed/Directed by John Moran. Featuring Katherine Brook, Joseph Keckler, and an ensemble-cast of animatronic figures. The audience is invited to enter and re-enter at will, into this constantly evolving work of environmental music/theater. Sit back, chat with friends, have a drink, and contemplate Moran's first feature length work since returning from Paris.
P.S.122 Summer Season at Spiegeltent is going to be great and I hope you will join us for one or all of these fantastic evenings!!
If you're looking for a good show to see this weekend, you should check out Orange Lemon Egg Canary, the new show by Rinne Groff, directed by Michael Sexton.
Actor/magician Steve Cuiffo (Major Bang) conjures Great, a rogue magician with a dangerous past and a promising future who seduces with sleight of hand. His juicy new assistant Trilby is hungry for the truth behind the illusion. In this mysterious love story brimming with top hats, disappearing coins, floating objects, and the infamous "chick-on-a stick," every player has a few tricks up his sleeve. Is it all smoke and mirrors? Only the lovely assistant knows for sure . . .
Read more in Paper Magazine or Playbill.
July 12-30
Wed-Fri 8:00 p.m.
Sat 5:00, 9:00 p.m.
July 14 performance
SOLD OUT
Additional Performance:
Sunday, July 30 5:00 p.m.
Tickets $18
($10 P.S. 122Members)
"Word of mouth has always been the ideal. But the Internet has provided a new and, some say, vastly improved set of tools to generate it: not just e-mail blasts but also Web sites, banner ads, search-engine pop-ups and blog coverage. In the last few years these tools have reshaped the way the theater reaches its audience."
an article by jesse green in the nytimes talks about how "Producers Use the Web to Romance Audience and Bring Them Back"
Hmph. I mean, really.
Your friendly neighborhood culturebot is available to consult for all your internet-related theatrical marketing concerns. Call now, operators are standing by.
"Sundown" by Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks,
at Issue
Project Room Brooklyn, employs the scenic vistas of the Gowanus Canal.
7-hour site performance with 7 dancers, 7 musicians and 7-foot cubes designed by Ralph Lee
WHERE AND WHEN:
* Saturday, July 29 and Sunday, July 30: 3:00 pm to 10:00
pm
* Issue Project Room, 400 Carroll Street (between Bond and Nevins),
Brooklyn
* Directions: F, G to Carroll Street (fourth stop in Brooklyn from
Manhattan). Exit at front of train. Walk 2.5 blocks from stop down Carroll.
*
$15 general admission; $10 senior/students. Reservations 718-330-0313 or by
email. Please indicate how many tickets, date, approximate time of your arrival,
and ticket type. Your tickets will be held at the gate.
* Info: http://www.yoshikochuma.org/
My Spanish language skills are about as good as my knowledge of professional sports. I know about five phrases in the world’s second most popular language, three of which involve taco . . . the other two involve your mother. However, this puts me squarely in line with the American Football (Soccer) Diaspora, as the majority of the U.S. doesn’t really know what they are looking at. This INCLUDES the American commentators. So even though Yo No Ablo I still choose Telemundo’s coverage of the games over the idiotic sportscasters on ABC. (There is a ton of fanatical outrage if one wants to Google for it . . . the most impressive being NOTE TO ABC/ESPN EXECS: YOUR WORLD CUP COMMENTATORS BLOW!)
Now I am aware this site is primarily for more artsy-fartsy purposes. In addition, Mr. Roboto is prolly sick of me using CultureSlut to babble on about this and that which is only tangential to 'Performance.' Although if we look at the broader notion of 'Kuhl-cha' there is no greater global common denominator than soccer. Hey, just be thankful I stopped writing about basketball.
Culturebot went to the super-duper-extra-glam opening extravarama for Banana Bag & Bodice's The Sewers last
night. We recommend the show highly. You can read a review of it on offoffonline.com
to
find out more.
Go. Check it out. This weekend. Really.
Banana Bag & Bodice's
"The Sewers"
playing at The
OntologicalTheatre
St.Marks Church, 131 East 10th St. @ 2nd Ave.
For Tix
go to
http://www.ontological.com/
or call
TheaterMania @ 212 352 3101
For a full schedule of shows and more info,
go to
http://www.bananabagandbodice.org/
all
shows at 8pm
Created by Jonathan Zalben
Installation: July 11 to 27, 2006.
Tuesdays/Wednesdays/Thursdays from 12-2 P.M. and 6-9 P.M.
Performances:
Wednesdays July 12, 19, and 26, from 8:30-9:00 P.M. with
reception to follow.
The piece is in two movements, one devoted to each tower that fell. Each movement is based on a piece from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. Recordings and transcripts of radio transmissions released by the FDNY on August 12, 2005 are layered into the original music score, consisting of strings and electronics.
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All events are free and open to the public. For more information including
photos, audio, and video please visit:
www.jonathanzalben.com
or www.lmcc.net.
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The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Sitelines Festival is excited to announce Aaron Rosenblum’s newest performance installation, New York Is Here!
New York Is Here! will be presented on July 6-8 and July 13-15 at 7:30pm at 32 Avenue of the Americas in Tribeca (at Walker Street, A/C/E to Canal Street Station, meet in the lobby). The performance is FREE. For reservations, please go to www.site-lines.org.
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PRODUCTION INTERN OPPORTUNITIES
http://www.spiegelworld.com/
August
3rd - 1st October 2006
Description of SPEIGEL TENT:
Since Marlene Dietrich first sang 'Falling in Love Again' on the Spiegel stage in the 1930‚s, these magic mirrors have reflected some of the world’s greatest performing artists and their enthralled public. The Spiegeltent is an opulent and spectacular venue of canvas, cut glass, teak, mirrors billowing velvet and brocade which is being brought to New York City by RV Entertainment.
Located at the iconic Fulton Fish Market site at South Street Pier and overlooked by the Brooklyn Bridge, this exceptional venue will generate massive interest as it has all around the world. For only nine weeks - between 3rd August and 1st October - it will be jam-packed with sultry, funky, cutting edge events swirling around our anchor show; the incomparable La Clique- 'must sees' of this season in NYC.
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