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!!!

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.

***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“, 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.

Now 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.

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“>< Level 2 is an official selection that stands up well against all the other short narratives we’ve received, and is a good sight better than the soulless commercial crap that usually plays in mainstream Chinese theaters”, read our acceptance letter to the New Beijing International Movie Festival, running the first week of June. The first half of our new Hyper-Cinema piece is being translated to Chinese for the occasion.

(((Our new movie ><: Level 2 will screen April 19th as part of Version>08 DARK MATTER. 7:30 @ the Viaduct Theatre. More details soon….

Jenn Spain’s “Book of Knowledge” installation is currently up in our gallery. It is a wonderland of delicate and surprising imagery as well as a revealing study of information exchanged:

The project began three years ago, following the purchase of a set of children’s encyclopedias by the same name (printed in 1926). After studying the information within the text, Jenn began her “translations”, a vast reconstruction of the books that has brought forth dozens of pieces. The books themselves were once commonly used in classrooms and contain knowledge that, by today’s standards, would be considered archaic, severely inaccurate and often racist. The many parallels between current events and world history are deeply explored using personal perception of the past and how it applies to the modern experience. Paintings, collage, music, sculpture and live performance have all been inspired by Jenn’s interactions with these books, the entirety of which are on display though April 10th.

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Join us on March 23rd at 8 PM for an intimate evening of visual performance with Melinda Snyder and Jenn Spain.

“The Natural History of Human Error” will feature “In the Throes of Natural Consequence” by Melinda Snyder (with guest performer Morgan Flahive-Foro):
Come and watch in awe and horror as ‘Mother Nature’ gives birth to the biological state of the human consciousness! Performed inside the skirt of a 14-ft-tall interactive puppet.

Jenn Spain’s “The Tree of Knowledge” ponders the validity of the information that is exchanged among humans using found and natural objects, song, optical illusions and the 80-year-old text of a children’s encyclopedia.

Suggested donation: $8 (wine will be served with each performance).

Also, be sure to check out Jenn’s opening reception for her solo art show “The Tree of Knowledge“, just 5 days later. (March 28th, 8pm, in our studio.)

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3/6 Update: The interstitial festival was incredible! We will start posting clips, photos and recaps on the festival page this weekend. Submissions will re-open for next leap year’s festival soon : D

The (international | independent | interstitial) festival

schedule is up, complete with information about every piece and artist involved! The festival will take place in our studio February 29th though March 2nd. See you there!!!

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i^3 manifesto:

All communication is projection, all art is communication.

The projection of a message or thought creates in another person a space that is virtually real. The goal of creating such an effect, of sharing one’s reality with another, or of creating new realities together, is the essence of communication and art. To submit to the need or desire to communicate is to chase this goal.

Characterized as having three different types of perceptual, experiential, and response modes (imagination, interaction, and immersion), all communication/art can be mapped to a location within a cube.

Literature, for example, stimulates imagination, and can be located at the upper left corner of the cube. Computer games rely heavily on interaction, and can be located at the upper right. Film is generally thought of as an immersive experience, which would be located at the bottom corner. Of course, there are different quantities of each mode in any of these experiences - film would actually be mapped somewhere between the immersion and imagination vectors on the left plane of the cube.

The space within the cube is created by the apex where the imagination, interaction, and immersion vectors meet, and the point opposite this apex, where they are farthest away from each other. That farthest point would be the state of non-involvement, as between two people who know nothing of each other, or two entities which have never come into contact.

For anyone involved in technology based communication, it is the apex that is our holy grail: completely immersive, interactive experiences that incite the imagination.

As various methods of interactive and multi-disciplinary mediums move through their naissance, we find ourselves in various locations within the cube, moving ever closer to its apex as the segregated entertainment/art/communication complex collapses, and individual access to the entire cube expands.

User-directed content sites (like Youtube, Myspace, and other video hosting and networking sites), Hyper-Cinema, online interactive gaming, and the consumer-directed viral marketing and branded content trends in advertising are all examples of such a convergence. These trends push toward the grail as communication technology and methodology advances, creating new hybrids and forms of communication amplifying our collective ability to share realities.

The quest for this grail is i^3’s long term strategy. We are dedicated to pursuing, developing, and creating new types of visualization, creative and storytelling methods, procedures, structures, and philosophies that will move us as close to this grail as today’s technologies will permit.