Open Call for Circuit Bending Artists/Performers

elektro80

Open Call for Circuit Bending Artists/Performers

spaceworks @ The Tank is currently accepting submissions for the BENT 2004 Circuit Bending Festival. The festival will take place from April 3-10th at our venue on 42nd street in New York City.

It is our hope that the festival will be as diverse in its programming as possible, with performances, installations, lectures, workshops, etc, and that it will represent as accurately as possible the interests and talents of the circuit bending community. This will be a large festival, with people coming from all over to check out the scene. Also a Headlining Performer to be announced shortly. So let us know if you should be on board, and feel free to forward this along.

This call falls into two categories:
Musicians/Performance Artists
Installation Artists

Musicians/Performance Artists:
We are seeking bands, musicians, and performance artists who somehow incorporate the tools, aesthetics, or ideas of circuit bending into their live performance. We are putting together three weekend nights of circuit bent performances and are interested in as diverse an array of performances as possible. Please send a brief description of your live show, and/or any links to mp3s/photos/websites etc. No attachments will be read or considered.

Installation Artists:
The venue for the festival includes a basement gallery space, and as such we are seeking 3-4 artists-in-residence who will each receive 15-20 hours of gallery/studio time and as many tools and resources as we can provide to complete a circuit bent installation during the festival. All studio hours in the gallery will be open to the public, and we are most interested in artists who don't mind chatting about what they are doing and explaining circuit bending to gallery visitors who wander through. Please keep in mind that this is a smallish gallery space and your work and your working attitude will have to co-exist with the other artists and their work. Be excited about interacting!
We will have a wide assortment of standard circuit bending tools/equipment (soldering irons, pots/wires/capacitors/resistors/etc/etc/etc) and as much random materials as we can pull together. The festival is being sponsored, so we will have a small budget for this sort of thing. We will also facilitate a trip to Materials for the Arts to help gather more supplies.
Please submit a written proposal of a circuit bent project that can reasonably be completed in the time allotted with a modest but flexible amount of supplies. See the floorplans of the gallery space at http://www.thetanknyc.com/spaceworks/floorplans.html

Submission Deadline Feb 23.
Send all submissions to:
spaceworks@thetanknyc.com
Or via mail at:
Spaceworks
C/O The Tank
450 W 42nd Street
NYC, NY 10036

http://www.thetanknyc.com
http://www.thetanknyc.com/spaceworks

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Hmm. Does it make me non-hip if I dont know what in the name of Poseidon "circuit bending" is? Because I want to know if I am, so when people are laughing at me, I can presume that it is for a good reason.

Cyx

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:42 am Post subject:

THis forum has at least one thread about CB. In essence it is using various circuitry for making noises.. but you use the gear in ways it was not designed for. I think Howard has a good report also encompassing Cb performances in his MOdular 2003 report. Check articles...?

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:43 am Post subject:

http://electro-music.com/article.php?t=473

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:45 am Post subject:

themoors · Joined: Dec 15, 2003 Posts: 148 Location: northern england

there was a nice article about it in sound on sound a few years back

here

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar00/articles/ghazula.htm

Wouldnt mind trying it myself

mosc · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 8:47 am Post subject:

http://electro-music.com/avis/joker.avi

Be sure to check this out.

egw · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 9:18 am Post subject:

The definitive site on circuit bending (by it's inventor Reed Ghazala):
http://www.anti-theory.com/

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:20 am Post subject:

Will any of you guys attend these performances? This might prove to be a CB extragavanza!?

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:42 am Post subject:

Carlo... pssst... check my previous posts.. Very Happy

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:50 am Post subject:

The fact that the mighty ALE showed up eventually in order to perfom a heroic rescue is of course a great thing.

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