[spectre] criticalartware @ BUSKER on FRI 2006.03.10!

[jonCates]

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"NOW SHOWING @ CRITICALARTWARE: DAN SANDIN!"
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Dan Sandin interview by criticalartware
   ++ a BLIT:SCREEN demo + introduction!

@ BUSKER
         on FRI 2006.03.10
                          @ 8 PM

1087 N HERMITAGE AVE CHICAGO IL 60622

FREE + OPEN

join us as criticalartware screens our interview with Dan Sandin!  
this interview will be followed by a demo of + introduction to  
BLIT:SCREEN, a new decentralized media distribution system developed  
by jake elliott, a criticalartware core developer + running on the  
criticalartware [application/platform].

nfo ABOUT criticalartware's DAN SANDIN interview, criticalartware,  
BLIT:SCREEN + BUSKER follows below.

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ABOUT criticalartware's DAN SANDIN interview:
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since the late 1960's Dan Sandin has developed artware systems  
integrating digitial + analog computers, customized circuits, home 
{brewed|built}-hardware, video games + virtualReality.

Sandin, a professor @ the University of Illinois at Chicago, founded  
the Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL), created the Sandin Image  
Processor (I.P.), developed the CAVE virtual reality (VR) system +  
various other [artware systems/technologies/projects/pieces]. Dan  
Sandin's Image Processor (built from 1971 - 1973) offered artists  
unprecedented abilities to [create/control/affect/transform] video +  
audio data, enabling live audio video performances that literally set  
the stage for current realtime audio video art praxis. to facilitate  
the open release of the plans for the Image Processor as an [artware/ 
system/toolset], Sandin + Phil Morton created the Distribution  
Religion. as a predecessor to the open source movement in the  
tradition of free software, this approach allowed artists to engage  
with these hardware systems + continues to [interest/inspire]  
[artisits/developers]. in order to honor the innovative {recent  
futures|parallel hystories} of the Image Processor + the Distribution  
Religion, criticalartware has converted the deadTree Distribution  
Religion into a single PDF file + a web-based version, for release to  
the {criticalartware} community.

criticalartware interviews Dan Sandin, [discussing/illuminating] the  
community + development of the early moments of video art in Chicago,  
artware, performing live audio video, virtual reality, open source,  
righteous NTSC outputs, the video revolution + the changes +  
similarities that [bridge/differentiate] then && now.

http://criticalartware.net/int/dS

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ABOUT criticalartware:
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criticalartware is an [application/platform/concern] compiled at the  
turn of the century to address the hystories of new media, [software- 
as-art/art-as-software] and [connections/ruptures/dislocations]  
between early moments of artware and Video Art. criticalartware seeks  
to [map/portscan/realize] the as-yet-unfulfilled promises of  
technology first proposed by entities such as Vannevar Bush, Gene  
Youngblood, Ted Nelson, Buckminster Fuller, and the publication  
"Radical Software."

By drawing [parallels/paths] between the [concepts/discourses] of the  
early video art movement and the current [artware/newmedia] moment,  
criticalartware hopes to [re]connect the current context to its  
rightful past: a multitude of [personal/subjective] hyperthreaded  
[her/hi/hy]stories.

http://criticalartware.net

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ABOUT BLIT:SCREEN:
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BLIT:SCREEN is a [webApp|system|artware] running on the  
criticalartware platform.  localized groups (collectives, clans,  
classes, cabals etc.) sign up, register a mailing address + media  
playback capabilities + then receive media from randomized sources  
throughout the WWWorld. once a month, the BLIT:SCREEN system sends  
each group an email with the mailing address of another group to  
which to mail media. as a result, every group who participates in  
this physical exchange receives a DVD-R or CD-R or VHS or VinylRecord  
or any other media type delivered in any other appropriate format  
from 01 other participating group every month. likewise every group  
sends 01 instance of BLIT:SCREEN out to 01 group (whom BLIT:SCREEN  
has suggested), thereby creating a deeply distributed + dynamic 01 to  
01 network.

BLIT:SCREEN is both a distribution system + a distributed archive. in  
this way the system is grid distribution + grid archiving. nothing is  
prescribed about participating groups; a group might be a hacker  
collective living in a squat, an experimental television station [+/  
or] a professor collecting + distributing student work.  media  
distributed through BLIT:SCREEN could include completed projects,  
artworks, raw materials for production+remix, critical txts,  
unearthed archives, shared cultural resources, &c&c. the BLIT:SCREEN  
system assumes no prescriptions [+/or] standards as to what  
participants do with the material they receive, however,  screening 
+discussion+archiving are encouraged. BLIT:SCREEN draws connections  
from the hystories + technologies of bicycling physical video tapes  
during the early video art moment, {sneaker|floppy|walk}-nets +  
onLine {communication|development} [channels/paths] in demoscenes +  
BBS culture as well as {highlighting|suggesting} contemporary  
possibilities for the role of decentralized distribution modalities +  
resource sharing.

http://blitscreen.criticalartware.net

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ABOUT BUSKER:
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Busker is a flexible, alternative, noncommercial, artist-run gallery  
space in the East Village of Chicago commited to audio and visual  
art. The purpose of Busker is to provide a venue optimized for sound,  
moving images, and other new media arts for young and emerging  
artists in the Chicago area. It is our goal to be able to provide  
artists with a suitible space to show films or videos, as well as  
perform live music, or sound pieces. We aim to reach out to the  
growing art community in Chicago that is compelled by new media arts  
and the implications that the hold in the contemporary art world.  
Busker wants to accommodate to all those interested about this  
artwork, as well as house projects and events corresponding to any  
aspects of these mediums. In trying to establish a network of artists  
and enthusiasts, Busker strives to connect artists with one another  
in a common social environment.

http://www.buskerchicago.com