Some of you may have seen the extraordinary work-in-progress extrav-o-rama preview of this at PRELUDE. If not, now’s your chance to be amazed and delighted by…..

CHAUTAUQUA! 

a theatrical-educational shmorgasbord of delectable performance tastiness and nutritional nuggets of fact and insight brought to you by the inimitable and frequently well-groomed National Theater of the United States of America…

NOW through Mar 15

Wednesday – Saturday 7:30pm

Sunday 5:30pm

JUST ADDED: EXTRA SHOW: Saturday March 15^th at 10.30PM!  Why? Because this show is selling out!

Winners of the 2007 Spalding Gray award honoring innovative theatrical vision, the National Theater of the United States of America explore the hotly debated relationship between High Culture and the Mass Entertainment. Channeling the form and style of the original Chautauqua Lectures through their own inimitable aesthetic, theatrical rhythms, and a fair amount of skin, NTUSA combines lecture, debate, scientific demonstration, and duels with jazzier entertainments such as song and dance, dramatic recitals, feats of strength, and joke telling. The company examines their own role as “entertainers” as well as “artists” and question whether or not the convergence of art and commerce is possible, sustainable, and/or beneficial.  And there’s beer!

Special Nightly Guests:

Fri 2/27: Robert Zukerman, Sat 2/28 Rollo Romig, Sun 3/1: Samantha Hunt

Wed, 3/4 The Spalding Gray Award with Vallejo Gantner and Kathleen Russo – this evening’s ticket includes post-performance celebrations and libations

Thu, 3/5 Robert Zukerman, Fri 3/6 Rollo Romig (+ Claudia La Rocco’s performance club will be in the house); Sat 3/7: Greta Byrum

Sun 3/8 NTUSA benefit; Wed, 3/11: Zoe Rosenfeld; Thurs 3/12 Greta Byrum; Fri, 3/13: Samantha Hunt; Sat 3/14: Juliana Francis Kelly

Sun 3/15: THE SECRET GUEST

Tickets: http://www.ps122.org/

Use code FF15 for $15 single tix and FF241 for two-for-one tickets – code based on limited supplies; blackout dates may apply. Cannot be applied toward past sales.

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>It’s cold outside!

We’re warm inside!

At PULSEWAVE We dance all sides!

ANAMANAGUCHI make us jump to the right!

CHIBI-TECH make us boogie boogie boogie!

SASKROTCH make us bump bump bump!

STARSCREAM make us swish to the left!

We face forward!

NOTENDO and VBLANK wow our eyes!

Meet us at THE TANK, February 28th at 9:00pm!

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Saturday, February 28th 2008 Doors at 9:00pm (First Act: 9:30pm)

The Tank 354 W. 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Aves)

BY SUBWAY A, C, E, N, Q, R, W, 1, 2, 3, B, D, F, V, S, or 7 to 42nd Street

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Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center presents:

TOBARON WAXMAN: BLOCK OF ICE + 1/60

+ THURS. MARCH 5, 3PM-10PM AS PART OF SOHO NIGHT – FREE

HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER

596 Broadway #602 
New York City (at Houston St)

Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince

Harvestworks is pleased to present, Block of Ice + 1/60, a new multimedia performance installation exploring issues of labor and water ecology by 2007 Van Lier Fellow, Tobaron Waxman. The work uses the artist’s own brainwave patterns, generated while he sleeps in the gallery space, to control a Max/MSP software patch, which will dynamically locate Web images pertaining to water in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The images are then manipulated and projected onto a block of ice using Jitter software. As the projection surface (i.e. the ice block) melts, it is filtered into bottles and made available for the gallery visitors to drink, in order that they may assimilate an aspect of the biofeedback loop into their own body. Each bottle is then made available as a unique artist’s multiple, with a label derived from the image projected while it was filled. Proceeds from sale of the multiple go to non-profit organizations addressing issues of labor and/or hydrology.

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I’m usually pretty leery of shows at Manhattan Theatre Source – and I haven’t seen this one – but I love the play from a historical perspective and I’ve heard good things about the production. Plus this interview with actor Jason Howard is interesting,  so I’m going to try and check this out before it closes.

Universal Robots

February 12 – March 7, 2009,

Manhattan Theatre Source, 177 MacDougal St.

Wed – Sat at 7:30 pm

Sat, Feb 28, at 2pm

The Great War has just ended. Czechoslovakia is a republic with an elected president and a thriving artistic community that includes celebrated playwright Karel Capek. But history cracks wide open when a young woman walks into Karel’s life with a strange mannequin in a wheelchair… a mannequin that gets up and moves all by itself.

A science fiction thriller, love story, political allegory, redemptive tragedy and fast-paced entertainment, Universal Robots offers a compelling, alternate history of the Twentieth Century, starting with the invention of the robot in 1921 and chronicling the extraordinary consequences of that invention, which changes the world forever.

Mac Rogers freely adapted Czech playwright Karel Capek’s seminal 1921 play R.U.R., which introduced the word “robot” to the world. Universal Robots departs significantly from Capek’s script, offering a meaty and riveting story of war, love, faith, technology and the power of art to change the world, for both good and ill.

Tickets: $18 at www.theatermania.com or (212) 352-3101.

Director: Rosemary Andress

Starring: Esther Barlow, Jason Howard, David Ian Lee, Michelle O’Connor, Ridley Parson, Nancy Sirianni, Tarantino Smith, Ben Sulzbach & Jennifer Gordon Thomas

Production Mgr: Saundra Yaklin

Set Designer: Raul Abrego

Lighting Designer: Kia Rogers

Sound Designer: Andrew Bellware

more information at:  www.universalrobots.net

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τRξΔSVRΞ RθθM

Presented by Loshadka

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 7:30pm

220 36th Street, 5th Floor

Brooklyn, New York

“Then they disinterred the chieftain and gave him new clothes. In his grave, he received intoxicating drinks, fruits and a stringed instrument. The chieftain was put into his bed with all his weapons and grave offerings around him. Then they had two horses run themselves sweaty, cut them to pieces, and threw the meat into the ship. Finally, they sacrificed a hen and a cock.”

Formed in May 2007, Loshadka is an online collective of interdisciplinary artists scattered across the East Coast. They make magic happen at loshadka.org via sharing original, found, and altered media on a group blog.

Along with Nasty Nets, Spirit Surfers and Double Happiness, Loshadka wasidentified as one of the key practitioners of “group blogging as a form of artistic practice” by Marcin Ramocki in his influential 2008 text “Surfing Clubs: organized notes and comments.” “From the art practice point of view,” Ramocki observes, “a post is a hybrid act involving both curatorial research and conceptual art gesture.”

While most of the efforts are based online, the group also shows in person, attempting to reconcile the virtual work with the physical.

They (currently) are: Justin Clark, Petra Cortright, Thomas Galloway, Eric Mack, Ilia Ovechkin, Jay Peyton, Billy Rennekamp, Ken Seeno, Hayley Silverman, Will Simpson, Travess Smalley, and Dan Wickerham.

 At Light Industry, Loshadka will screen a series of videos, individual efforts of the artists involved in the project, derived from a collective ”toolbox” of items-custom-made tools, files, techniques and ideas.

http://www.loshadka.org

Tickets – $7, available at door.

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Video of FLUXCONCERT 20090220-21 Now Online! For those who missed it or those who want to relive it, video documentation from FLUXCONCERT 20090220-21 is now online! FLUXCONCERT 20090220-21 was a two evening performance of event scores written by Fluxus pioneer George Brecht.

The house was packed, the energy was high, and the scores sung!

Time-lapse video:

 http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=57852861923

Full length video:

 http://vimeo.com/3380253

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Buy Tickets. Say Andy sent you.

Banana Bag & Bodice

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THE BEOWULF BENEFIT!

Saturday, March 14, 2009

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Please join us for an evening of 

Entertainment and Joyous Fund-raising !

WITH OUR FAMOUS FAMOUS HOST………………………….NATHAN PHILLIPS

 A special BEOWULF CABARET musical set 

…and a chance to meet the famous cast of actors and musicians IN PERSON!!

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AND ALSO

!!!!!!!    RAFFLE FUN PRIZES    !!!!!!!

- prizes include -

A special dinner prepared by BBB in their home in the Sandwich bodice costumes !

A unique song written for you by composer David Malloy !

 Various unique works of art ! 

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So I woke up this morning to WNYC as I always do, was listening to BBC World Service as I headed out the door and heard an interview with Baroness Susan Greenfield about her research that internet use and networked gaming, all of this time spent in the online environment, is, in fact, changing young people’s minds, their experience of the world and their modes of cognition. And here’s an article in the Chicago Tribune about her research. And here’s an article in the NY TIMES.

 I have been talking about this on this site for awhile and in offline conversations for a long time (listen to my spoken word piece from 1994!). In the past few years I have been asking if the rise in A.D.D. and ADHD is less of an illness and more of a fundamental change in the way people are processing information. I have been talking about the profound change we are experiencing:

…within the past ten years we have hurtled headlong into an information age where the cut-and-paste aesthetic of early modernism has become the lingua franca of everyday experience. We live in a state of de-contextualization, mash-up, sampling, cognitive dissonance and juxtaposition – both intentional and accidental. We are moving from text-based culture to visual culture; an interactive, hybrid, multimedia world which is rapidly and continually evolving, emerging and morphing.

THE SHIFT FROM TEXT-BASED TO VISUAL CULTURE is as profound as electric light erasing the barrier between night and day; highways, cars and telephones changing our experience of distance; television, film and recorded media changing our sense of place and narrative.

I have used this same paragraph in numerous essays recently (okay, I’m lazy) but this is the point – we HAVE to acknowledge this and understand it and guide this development in a conscious, deliberate way. We cannot move forward haphazardly and lose continuity between past and future. Didn’t anybody else read Childhood’s End?

This is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. This isn’t some hippie-dippy b.s. about the harmonic convergence, nor is it End Times Eschatology – this is a fundamental biological shift in modes of human cognition. The nature of attention that is developed by reading, by one-on-one interaction with written text, is changing. What are we going to do about it???

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How I Learned That Everyone is Against Me

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Have you noticed that, with the exception of Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal and Michael Steel, all the Republicans (and radio show/tv hosts) who are so opposed to the president and his policies are all old, angry, entitled white guys? Mostly baby boomers? They’re like whiny babies who are angry because nobody wants to pay attention to their hideous, horrible, annoying, self-indulgent whining.

Reject Geezers Opposing Progress!!!

And remember – when we talk about “changing the culture” in Washington or anywhere else… that starts, in many ways, with people who create Culture and Art. We have a responsibility as well, to rise to the occasion and make art that envisions the future and rises above pettiness and self-interest.

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