Media Experiment #1: “RMX,” Group Show @ Rx Gallery
Title: Media Experiment #1 “RMX”
Date: Thursday, December 1, 7-10 PM
Location: Rx Gallery (map)
Media:
- Flier Design [ high quality ] [ Indesign 4-up ]
- Alt. Flier Design [ Sabreteeth Remix ]
- RMX Program
Original Announcement
Media Experiment #1: "RMX" Thursday, December 1, 7-10 PM RMX: Media Experiment #1 KEYWORDS: 15 SF-based artists, remix, sound, net culture, rx gallery Rx Gallery (www.rxgallery.com) 132 Eddy Street @ Mason San Francisco, CA 94102 Thursday, December 1, 2005, 7-10 PM *FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC* Fifteen San Francisco-based artists present their work around the concepts of contemporary net culture, sound and remix this Thursday, December 1, 2005 from 7-10 PM at the Rx Gallery (www.rxgallery.com). The show, which features installations, projections, and performances, is a quick one night remix of the pre-existing work in the space and the participating artists in this "media experiment #1," the first in a series of on-going media experiments over the next year. The night begins promptly at 7 PM with four experimental video shorts such as Ashanti's "Meditative Pulse in Flux" explores through montage, examples of general rhythms from South-East Asia to San Francisco. "Intertitle" by Todd Daniel Fiore re-examines the film Nosferatu with contemporary audio-visual layering and folding while Jose-Luis Mejia's work collages visual features of people of different ethnicities in a sonic urban landscape. Sound performances during the night include "The Big Beat" by Darby Kaighin-Shields and Rafael Canedo. This work presents live sound cut-ups, experimental mixing with multiple turntables, and live fabrication of wax LPs. "Diamond Scratch" by Mike Daddona is a group performance that amplifies various found objects not normally considered musical or aural. Both of these projects are open to participation by people attending the event. Installed in the space is Deer Fang's "The Unique Dancer" that projects pre-recorded individual dancing and encourages people to contribute their own to the mix. Josh Pavlick's "Selectron The Arbitrator" collects audio inside one three foot clear latex helium balloon. This is then transmitted to the primary sound mixer for the night, Jacob Sperber, who is doing a "RMX of RMX" using audio output from the participating artists and the sounds in the space to create an audio atmosphere. This partial list of projects serves to contextualize all work in the show as "Media Experiments" of differing diverse viewpoints through multiple media remixed in the Rx Gallery, a cozy lounge complete with wine and sake bar. The artists presenting work are Ashanti, Rafael Canedo, Darby D, Kanako Shibata, Deer Fang, Todd Daniel, Jen Rabon, Jose-Luis Mejia, Sarah Williams, Han Choi, Jsun McCarty, It Lives, Jacob Sperber, Josh Pavlick, Dax Henderson and Mike Daddona (Sabreteeth). The show is produced by Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org).


