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Digital Showcase
Digital Showcase 45

Digital Showcase Flyer Front


Digital Showcase Flyer Back
Friday, March 13th, 2009

The Mohawk (912 Red River)
9pm-2am
$9 General Admission
$5 for AMODA Members
Free w/ SXSW Interactive badge
18 and up


Musicians:

Laptop Battle
(Fourthcity)
Learning Secrets
Acid Abe

Visual Artists:

Catherine Ross
Dan Winckler
Daniel Swan
Guthrie Lonergan
James Johnson-Perkins
John Michael Boling & Javier Morales
Mac&Cheez + Mistah Le
Melanie Patiram
(Schematic)
Video Jams 2013
Zeitguised

Flyer Artist:

Shingo Shimizu



About the Showcase

The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to engage the public and artists in the creation, understanding, and appreciation of digital art. The Digital Showcase is an event, featuring live electronic music and visual art, ranging from abstract to accessible, presented in a social setting.More >>


Artist Bios:

Musicians

																	Laptop Battle
Laptop Battle
Fourthcity
Seattle, WA

For the 4th year in a row, AMODA will present a Laptop Battle as part of its March Digital Showcase. This event will feature sixteen of Texas' most skilled electronic musicians competing for the title of champion.

The battle revolves around contestants using their laptops to musically outperform one another in a series of elimination rounds. Each performance must be 3 minutes or less and the only equipment permitted is a laptop and one external controller. Judged by a panel of music and art experts, the outcome of each match is decided based on a combination of emotional impact, originality, stage performance, live manipulation, and crowd response.

The Laptop Battle concept originated in Seattle several years ago (from Fourthcity Records), and has since been held in cities all over the world. The winner of this battle will receive a free trip to compete in the National Laptop Battle Championships in Seattle later this year.

CONTESTANTS:
Blixaboy (Dallas)
The Mysterious H (Austin)
Deejay Yayyay (Austin)
Kidko (Austin)
QuantumEyes Ent. (Austin)
Bangalore (Austin)
Caglioso (Austin)
Disco Hospital (Austin)
Cygnus (Dallas)
Grassnose (Austin)
Skinnebrew the Destroyer (Austin)
Sudrok Inalak (Austin)
DXM (Austin)
Traducer (Austin)
Dubbel Dutch (Austin)
Majora (Austin)

JUDGES:
John Gomi (G on 5 / The Fifth Gallery)
Craig Negoescu (Naka Media / OpenLabs)
Amanda Butterfield (YellowTape)
Dave Gonzalez (DJ Starsign)
Jennifer Wijangco (strataTX)

EMCEES:
Phranchyze (Austin)
Zeale (Austin)

AMODA Artist Page: Laptop Battle
Web Page: http://www.laptopbattle.com/

																	Learning Secrets
Learning Secrets
Austin, TX

Learning Secrets is Austin's premier boutique PR/ Event Planning / Graphic Design /DJ Duo. Know in Austin for curating highly-attended events with artists such as Hercules & Love Affair, Moby, Tim Sweeney, JD Twitch from OPTIMO, Greco Roman Soundsystem/Hot Chip, Juan Maclean, Riton, Peaches, etc to handling publicity for the Grammy nominated Grupo Fantasma, Brownout!, Ocote Soul Sounds, Ume and The Antlers ( among others), the 5 year old firm has managed to create their own environment in Austin... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Learning Secrets
Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/learnin...

																	Acid Abe
Acid Abe
Austin, TX

Acid Abe is the DJ alias for Abraham Freeman, an avid record collector and visual artist. He frequently DJ's around Austin at art galleries, house parties, and other events. Based on his many years behind the turntables, Abe is influenced by a wide range of musical styles and movements. He strongly believes that DJing is one of the few disciplines where we can explore and experiment with a constantly revisionist view of how the past and the present connect.

AMODA Artist Page: Acid Abe
Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/certus


Visual Artists

																			Catherine Ross
Catherine Ross
New York, NY


appropriated, edited video

Catherine Ross works in video and photography, framing instances that often go unnoticed in their original context. Isolating the movements of humans and/or objects, her videos create new sequences that reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and sound. Here she finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humor that echoes our own vulnerabilities. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including venues in Brazil, Finland, France, Ireland, E... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Catherine Ross
Web Page: http://www.catherineross.net/

																			Dan Winckler
Dan Winckler
New York, NY


live video performance

Dan Winckler is a visual designer, performing artist, programmer and educator in the fields of new media interaction and performance, improvisational theater, and networked collaboration. As a visualist and projection designer, he has performed at New York venues such as Eyebeam, SubTonic, {R}ake, EyeWash, and the Tank, and elsewhere, including the Austin Museum of Digital Art (at South by Southwest 2008), the MenschMeerMedien Festival 2007 in Bremen, Germany, and the International Symposium... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Dan Winckler
Web Page: http://danwinckler.com

																			Daniel Swan
Daniel Swan
London, UK


video collage / animation

Daniel Swan is a 21 year old graphic design student currently living in Brixton, South London. He spends most of his time drawing, making videos for people, drumming and making zines. His video work is influenced by a lot of visionary architecture, early video synthesizer experiments and old sci-fi films, and frequently collages together computer animation with appropriated pictures and videos found on the internet.

AMODA Artist Page: Daniel Swan
Web Page: http://danielswan.co.uk/

																			Guthrie Lonergan
Guthrie Lonergan
Los Angeles, CA


digital video

Guthrie Lonergan is an artist/Internet surfer based in Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum and Artists Space in New York and the Sundance Film Festival, and written about in The Wall Street Journal and Rhizome.org. He is also a co-founder of the Nasty Nets Internet Surfing Club (nastynets.com).

Guthrie Lonergan's work confronts the new kind of home-made popular culture emerging on the Internet -- finding something simultaneously life-affirming and disturbing a... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Guthrie Lonergan
Web Page: http://www.theageofmammals.com...

																			James Johnson-Perkins
James Johnson-Perkins
Newcastle, UK


vector animation

James Johnson-Perkins is an international artist who has exhibited in major art spaces in the USA, Russia, Japan, Germany, Spain, Romania, Lithuania and the UK. Including the The IMAC Theatre, New York, Moscow Centre for Contemporary Arts, Russia, Toyota Museum of Modern Art, Toyota, Japan and Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow. He has recently had solo shows at Nospace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, The King's Lynn Art Centre, UK, Red Gallery, Hull, UK, Art Gene, Barrow-in-furnace, UK and ... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: James Johnson-Perkins
Web Page: http://www.johnson-perkins.co....

																			John Michael Boling & Javier Morales
John Michael Boling & Javier Morales
New York, NY


appropriated, edited video

John Michael Boling and Javier Morales draw their inspiration from found digital material. They appropriate, remix, and re-edit old videos, images, and sounds found mostly online. The result is work that incorporates elements of Pop art, conceptual art, music videos, and satirical nostalgia.

Some of Boling and Morales pieces simply involve juxtaposing multiple YouTube videos on the same page (simultaneously), in order to highlight their absurdity. Other pieces feature heavy editi... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: John Michael Boling & Javier Morales
Web Page: http://www.goooooooooooooooooo...

																			Mac&Cheez + Mistah Le
Mac&Cheez + Mistah Le
Austin, TX


motion graphics design

Stephen Hal Fishman, aka Mac&Cheez, is a filmmaker and animator based in Austin, TX. Known primarily for his commercial work, his narrative and experimental films have been shown in film festivals around the country.

MistahLe is a graphic designer specializing in motion graphics, based in Houston, TX.

AMODA Artist Page: Mac&Cheez + Mistah Le
Web Page: http://www.macandcheez.com/

																			Melanie Patiram
Melanie Patiram
Schematic
Miami, FL


abstract digital animation

Melanie Patiram has been working in the realm of digital media for 5 years. She did most of her abstract video pieces for the Schematic Music Company, an experimental music/art label in Miami, Florida. She has directed videos for Otto Von Shirach and Phoenecia, the proprietors of the label. Melanie has performed alongside Phoenecia as a visual accompanist and improviser for many live performances around the world and produced the visual material for their last three tours. Her last video ... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Melanie Patiram
Web Page: http://www.schematic.net/

																			Video Jams 2013
Video Jams 2013
Austin, TX


live video performance

Video Jams 2013 is born from the collaboration of Video Jamz 2012 with Denton DIY electronics brain, Lars Larsen (Undoing of David Wright). Tom Blackburn (Transexformers Crew) and Chad Allen (Low Red Center, Everything In Heaven is TV) squish analog video abstractions and processed clips into a prismatic pixel paste, projected to perfection. Chad's hacked, looped, and bent video hardware chews and regurgitates every carefully mutated clip fed to it by Tom's supercomputer. Lars Larsen will be on ... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Video Jams 2013
Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/zonkout

																			Zeitguised
Zeitguised
London, UK


3D computer graphics

Founded in 2001 in Germany and now based in London, Zeitguised is the brainchild of American sculpture and fashion grad Jamie Raap and German architectural engineer Henrik Mauler. Zeitguised's high gloss art school 3D punk blends complex geometries, surreal composite objects, artificial behaviors and the recycling of digital readymades into their distinct hallucinatory narrations.

Unspoiled by formal computer graphics training, Zeitguised have been pushing their own rules onto comp... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Zeitguised
Web Page: http://zeitguised.wordpress.co...


Flyer Artist

																			Shingo Shimizu
Digital Showcase Flyer
Shingo Shimizu
Toronto, Canada


SHINGO SHIMIZU is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design’s Communication and Design program. The Montreal-born, Toronto-bred designer was exposed to drawing at an early age through his father's graphic design work. After many successful years working as a full-time designer, Shimizu pursued to work independently, to follow his passion, Illustration. His vector-based style echoes visual cues derived from pop art to Manga to his latest obsessions.

Music is another driving... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Shingo Shimizu
Web Page: http://www.shingo.ca/



About the Showcase

The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to engage the public and artists in the creation, understanding, and appreciation of digital art. The Digital Showcase is an event, featuring live electronic music and visual art, ranging from abstract to accessible, presented in a social setting.

The Digital Showcase Director is Todd Simmons. Please contact him with any comments or questions. If you wish to contribute visual art, music, or graphic art to a Showcase, please visit our Call for Art page for details.

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