Film Festivals and Facebook
January 27th, 2010Happy 2010, everyone! Lots of new projects are in the works for this year and we look forward to unveiling them as they start to materialize. In the meantime, we have some quick news for you!
S T R E T C H, Arturo and Sarah’s recent music video project, is playing at the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival in early March! The festival takes place from the 4th though the 7th. We’ll post the date, time and location as soon as the schedule is up.
S T R E T C H has also just won the Rising Star Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2010 Canada International Film Festival in Vancouver!!
On another note, we have just launched our official fan page on Facebook:
UPDATE! Josh Harris will also be present at Thursday’s Talkback!
October 13th, 2009Josh Harris, the mad, brilliant, visionary subject of “We Live in Public” is confirmed to be here for the screening and Q&A! Josh created live chat for Prodigy and was also the first person to run a live-streaming web studio in the 90s and put live video and chat side by side. All of this (and creating the first internet market research company) left him with millions upon millions of dollars which he decided to spend on grand-scale social engineering experiments like housing 100 people in an art installation underground for 30 days under constant surveillance and living in public with his girlfriend (24 hour livestreaming) until she left and he went mad. And for this…WE SALUTE HIM! Come meet him this Thursday and hear about his upcoming project, The Wired City.
Talkback with Ondi and Josh streams live on our web channel at 9 PM CST.
See ya Thursday!
We Live In Public
October 9th, 2009Ondi Timoner talks about the outrageous and visionary internet pioneer, Josh Harris and the unique process behind her Sundance-winning doc about his life and projects, “We Live in Public” (screening at i^3 on Thursday, October 15th @ 7:30 PM.) Get tickets here!
Timoner will be present for a talk-back after the screening! (Streaming live on our counter-broadcast @ 9PM CST)
Ondi on documentary filmmaking (also really good):
P.S. Sorry about the long silence over here. We have been keeping very busy and mostly listing current info on our front webcast page. We plan to post more content, news and media here soon! And there is LOTS of it, so come back! 
B-17 at the European Media Arts Festival and More!
April 22nd, 2009
B-17: A Mini-Epic will be screening in Germany for the first time this Friday (4/24) at the 22nd European Media Art Festival (click the British flag for English) in Osnabruek. It is headlining a program called “Femmes Totales”, described as “A look behind the scenes of female multitasking or all you need to know about mothers, divas and tough girls.” This festival seems to be a perfect venue for our very ambitious art project, which has mostly screened in film settings until now:
“Productions by internationally renowned media artists and the innovative works of new masters from the academies will be presented at the 22nd European Media Art Festival. The EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, gallery owners and an audience of specialists, the festival has a great impact on the topic and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of new experimental films, performances, lectures, an exhibition and the Media Campus. Around 250 current contributions will be selected this year for the festival from a total of 2400 submitted works, offering a comprehensive insight into the latest tendencies in Media Art.” -EMAF
B-17 Excerpt:
B-17 will also be headlining a “Crazy Ass Experimental Movie Freakout!” 3 days later in Beijing!!
4/27 @ Club Obiwan:
“5PM - The New Beijing International Movie Week receives hundreds of submissions, and frankly, some of them just can’t be categorized. Experimental, crazy, budgetless, avant-garde, ETC. But some movies have more heart than production value, and deserve to find their own special audience. On this evening, we present the best of the rest!
5 Hours hard-core independent films for those who don’t like living in the box all the time.”
As always - report back if you catch a screening of one of our projects around the world!
Happy spring and watch out for new work and events from i^3!
“The perfect art film for people who’ve got a hard-on for finance.”
November 25th, 2008
B-17: A Mini-Epic (The Wacky Adventures of a 17-Year-Old Sex Slave!) will also be screening at the festival as part of the SongZhuang Challenge, which aims to preserve the spirit the of back-alley video viewing rooms, impromptu gallery spaces and ghetto theaters which are slowly dying out in China in the modern age.
An excerpt of “Greater Than Less Than” screened on 12/17/08 as part of the Infoporn* program (more info below) at Monkey Town in Brooklyn. This place looks AWESOME - some kind of experimental eatery/screening venue with four screens and surround sound.
The premier of the finished piece was Saturday, Dec 13th, at Reversible Eye in Chicago.
*Infoporn is a DVD compiliation that was released as part of Select Media Festival 7 (limited edition). It includes an excerpt of the movie.
From the Select Media Site:
Nothing could be more postmodern than viewing the world as information, information as a huge totalizing concept. Reading and knowledge can be broken into discrete positive chunks, apart from any transcendent qualities like truth and beauty. Lacan says that the unconscious is structured like a language, and the reverse seems like an equally valid claim. These information chunks, these hot magnets of desire, operate by their own alien logic, and form our minds in their image. In doing so, power is exerted and exchanged, and pleasures are invented and directed, in the name of abject debasement. Information is reality stripped of its fine garments. It is cold, inhuman, and absolute. It is porn.
Our First Live-Streaming Event!
October 20th, 2008
We have now launched our webcast page, where you can view a playback broadcast of our event on the 18th. Please share your thoughts in the live chat room! More recaps and videos of what happened will be on the events page soon. Thanks SO MUCH to the tiny handful of you who came out and also to the much larger handful who followed on the web and particpated in the live discussion. To quote Harry Merry, “It was magical”. And to all of you official Goodiepal students, PLEASE keep in touch and send us the Snappidagg of your finished score.
P.S. This is only the beginning!!!
The Future of Music is NOW!!!
October 17th, 2008
We are sooo excited about our event on Saturday, and we hope you can make it out!! Scroll down for details.
Also, Liz Armstrong wrote an awesome article about Goodiepal and his education program for the Reader this week, but it somehow didn’t make it in, so she posted it here instead. Even better!
“CHICAGO - DANISH MAD PROFESSOR ON THE LOOSE IN THE INTERNET”
So go read it now! One of our favorite lines is “He keeps a swarm of inside jokes with himself and hides them in wild parenthesis, so that anyone trying to explain even one facet of his work gets helplessly lost. Here, I’m going to do it; watch what happens.” We know the feeling. But with any true interstitial artist’s work, words are not enough - you have to experience it to understand it, so that is what this event is all about!! Listening to his own Walk-Through of the program is a good place to start if you want to do your homework. Sit back and let this man scramble (and ultimately expand) your mind - you won’t be disappointed.
Also, we are so excited to have Lord of the Yum-Yum back after his awe-inspiring interactive performance (click and scroll down one entry to watch) at the Interstitial Festival. People who were here that night are still talking about it 8 months later!
And we can hardly believe that the one and only Harry Merry will actually be here in person!! We screened his “Stevie Storm” music video at the festival and imagine that his live show is something you wouldn’t want to miss. Come support Harry on his U.S. tour from Holland!
Doors at 6:30. Goodiepal’s lecture begins at 7 Sharp, Followed by Lord of the Yum-Yum around 9 and Harry Merry at 10. (We really don’t know how long the “Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra” course will last and neither does Goodiepal, so these are all estimates). There is a $10 suggested donation at the door. If you are an official Radical Computer Music Student, you will get in free and there are some extra perks (it’s not too late to sign up!)
See you there!!! Our address and phone number can be found at the bottom of you screen. We are right off the Grand Red Line stop. Any questions?? Contact us.
“We have the means to carry out the next devastating blows against the stupidity of computer music.”
September 5th, 2008
***NEW!!! THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THE COMPLETE OFFICIAL “MORT AUX VACHES EKSTRA” WALK-THROUGH + A COLLECTION OF ALL OF THE EXISTING SNAPPIDAGGS ARE NOW EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD THROUGH i^3. 100% FREE!
On October 18th at 7:00 sharp, we will be hosting a live Netcast Radical Computer Music Course with the one and only Gaeoudjiparl Van Den Dobbelsteen (aka Goodiepal aka Mainpal Inv. aka Kristian Vester), a renknowed yet decidedly unclassifiable Scandinavian electronic composer who has done sound work for clients such as Nokia, Carlsberg, Warner Bros, Statoil, Hitachi, Dolby Surround, Bang & Olufsen, Chupa Chups, Panasonic, Lego Mindstorms, DR, and “hacked it all to an extent where I guess I will never get to work for them again.”
***Check out Goodiepal’s sound work on a hypermedia installation entitled “The Max Gum Tree“.
His new education program, which we will be presenting at the event, is part of a war against the “stupidity of modern computer music” and the music education system’s current teaching methods. We are still seeking a core group of students to participate in this event, each of which will in turn become co-composers of Gaeoudjparl’s magnum work, “Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra”. These ‘core students’ will need to obtain Parl’s new education book (available here), which is more of a toolset, a multi-media “compositional game” that will allow them to create a new kind of graphic score. The resulting work will be a collaboration between Goodiepal and the individual participant. To sign up for a slot at this very special event, contact us here. It will also be open to the general public, who are welcome to sit in and participate in the lecture even if they don’t have a book.
Gaeoudjiparl’s course will be followed by live performances from 2 other musical visionaries (who have nothing to do with computers). Harry Merry will pay us a visit on his U.S. tour from Holland:
“Harry Merry is a solo musician out of the Netherlands who performs bizarro Europop that is instantly horrifying yet altogether fascinating. There’s no point of reference to compare music like this but if you ever played “Barney’s Greatest Hits” backwards and took a lot of LSD as a kid you’re in for a treat.”
- LA UNDERGROUND
More on Harry later but we are indeed honored to have him.
Lord of the Yum Yum, who thoroughly impressed us at the interstitial festival with the premiere of his original one-man interactive operetta, “Sock” (A man wakes up to find one of his socks missing, follows its thread to an alternate dimension, and has to dupe its keeper into returning it) will also make a special appearance.
See you there!!!
$€><: Level 2 Launch!
August 1st, 2008
“><: Level 2“, the hyper-cinema project we have been working on since last September, is now live on YouTube! A new episode will be uploaded every week from here on out. Visit the “><” home page to find out more about this dark and glittery piece of ‘adult edutainment’. Episodes are already available for dowload here.
Interstitial Festival Blog is Up!!
July 7th, 2008Now you can experience the first i^3 festival whether or not you were able to make it in person! We will now be posting full videos, recaps and performance clips on our festival page every few days, so check back often! Not sure what the interstitial festival is? Find out more here or click here to see a full program.