What a wild, wild week.

First the really big news – Grand Theft Bicycle has been accepted for a show at the Stride Gallery in Calgary. We don’t know when it will happen yet but I’d guess it will probably be within the next 6 months.

Then this morning I got an email telling me that this is box/this is machine has been accepted into the Bearded Child Film Festival (Minneapolis/Grand Rapids) and will play not just once but twice – how sweet is that?

And last but not least, Love&Olson are playing a semi-private gig next Tuesday Thursday evening at Discovery Coffee with our old friends i send data live. You can watch a blip from my preparations below or on Vimeo.

QC test from robotoverlord on Vimeo.

If you happen to be in Sydney, Australia on September 26 and happen to be near Sydney Olympic Park you should check out my short video work this is box/this is machine at the flEXiff film festival. If for some reason you can’t make it to the screening (ie. sickness, family emergency, you don’t live in Australia, etc.) you can watch it here. Thanks to Scott Amos and MediaNet for promoting the video.

 

5 screens, originally uploaded by robot.overlord.

The people of Zurich were visually manhandled by Scheinwerfer and Love&Olson, to the awesome sounds of Steve Gibson, robot_mixeur and Jackson 2bears.

 

the red room, originally uploaded by robot.overlord.

 

 

Not my favourite piece, but definitely my favourite image from documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. I wasn’t all that impressed with the show and I think this article in the Telegraph sums up my feelings on the whole.

www.documenta.de

Sarah and I are headed to Zurich this afternoon where Love&Olson are doing visuals at Digital Art Weeks this Saturday night in an encore of Exploding, Plastic & Inevitable. I’ll be posting pictures of the event sometime early next week. Auf Wiedersehen!

This Friday at 8pm Unpacked and Reheated opens at Open Space, 8pm. Steven Rayner and Brendan Fernandes’ work is interesting, you would like it. Really.

Also, plans for the Victoria Art Crawl have been finalized for March 23.

On a slightly more personal note my work on the Grand Theft Bicycle site is now complete. Browse away.

Despite two power failures in the same set, Eploding, Plastic & Inevitable was a giant nerd-killing success. We had a huge crowd at the show and pictures + video will be posted as soon as they’ve been proccessed. Thanks to everyone who made it to Open Space for the event.

For those of you who wonder what’s next, it’s happening this Friday. Channel10 will be performing visuals at the Alter Ego party in the Visual Arts building at UVic. I, of course, will be appearing in my brand new robotoverlord costume. It is mostly tape and cardboard but I assure you it is very, very awesome.

If you’re not up for a trek all the way to UVic then you should definitely see the Hank and Lily show at the Metro that same night. Our friend Scott Amos will be showing his magical movies along with the unmistakable, unrestrainable force of Hank and Lily.

If you like cyberpunk, then you must read this…

It may have been Isaac Asimov (though I first heard it via Howard Waldrop) who said there were three orders of science fiction, using the automobile as an example. Man invents the automobile and uses it to chase down the villain: adventure fiction. Man invents the automobile, and a few years later there are traffic jams: social problem fiction. In the third type, man invents the automobile, and another man invents moving pictures: fifty years later, people go to drive-in movies. It is this third order of fiction, social fabric fiction, that was at the heart of cyberpunk.
read the full article from slashdot…

Tonight at 7:30 the Bibli Ophelia hosts the launch of Erin Robinsong’s new book of poetry, Illegal Tender. It is said…

This collection is a speeding tunnel that connects the miniscule to the voluminous, where seeds hold entire cities, and whales have hearts the size of cars; where snowflakes are ice hotels and gravity is known to be the pull of a pearl at the centre of the world. As you vanish in and out of scenes, a fine silk thread spins out behind you, link-link-link.

It promises to be an interesting night of wine, cats and crackers.

This weekend is also a landmark one at the Metro Theatre (at least in my books), because Scott Thompson’s Scotastrophe is coming to town. Show starts at 8pm, tickets are $20 at Lyle’s Place.
Scottastrophe is basically a powerpoint presentation by Scott Thompson accompanied musically by Bob Wiseman and Magali Meagher. Like a good scientist, Scott steps back and investigates the unusual density of tragedy and surrealism to which he has been privy since ending The Kids in the Hall. Potential lawsuits about racism and sexual harassment on the set of Touched by an Angel, behind the scenes on The Larry Sanders Show and trying to play a straight man (or alien) on Star Trek. The firebombing of his Los Angeles home by inflamed supporters of Saddam Hussein. The near-death experience over Madagascar on an airplane probably populated by pedophiles. Insulting the Governer General of Ontario at the Griffin Poetry Awards by merely waving a very long, flexible prop. Naturally these things might be solved by finding the Hollow Earth Society, or else by giving a powerpoint presentation – you decide.