EPI has been confirmed for Interactive Futures in November here in Victoria, I’ll repost when a date is confirmed.

WE ARE EXPLODING
Exploding, Plastic & Inevitable redux
date and location TBA

Featuring robot_mixeur, aka Stefan Müller Arisona (Zurich,
Switzerland), babel, aka Chris Joseph (London, UK, Montreal) Jackson
2Bears (Victoria), Love&Olson (Victoria), Adam Tindale (Calgary), Randy
Adams (Nanaimo), Steve Gibson (Victoria)

An indulgent explosion of electronic music, visual phantasma and free improvisation comes to Interactive Futures 07. Featuring multiple screens of optical hysteria mastered by the sublime talents of Love&Olson, babel and Randy Adams. These pleasures will be equally mashed with the adulterated beats of robot_mixteur, the deep drum and bass of Jackson
2Bears, the laboratory approved electronica of Adam Tindale and the furious techno of Steve Gibson. A digital aberration on the scale of it’s 1960s namesake, this circus of light and sound presents itself for your explicit enjoyment for one night only.

Steve Gibson has uploaded a bunch of new photos and video to the EPI site from our gig in Zurich at Digital Art Weeks, you can check them out at http://www.telebody.ws/Exploding/

Above image copyright 2007 Ruedi Kuchen

 

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.

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…

After a week of tech glitches, if finally looks as though we’re ready for the show this Saturday, Exploding, Plastic & Inevitable. Justin has done a great job cutting up new content for the visuals, and I even had some time myself to create a few new animations (see below for a preview.) Among the tech issues we have covered this week; 1) the default settings that my mac book pro + bootcamp shipped with do not allow for dual screen mode in XP and changing those settings, while extremely easy, is not exactly clear when one looks at the video app supplied by ATI (see here http://www.embraced-dc.com/articles/1/ for the fix); 2) the midi keyboard loner that I arranged for broke so I finally bought my own – the axiom 25 – and it is very, very slick; and finally 3) while I really like freeframe plugins I don’t have a hope in hell of ever understanding them well enough to write my own. So much for my 4 years at university.

This is our Channel10 theme image for Saturday night: