Sara Roberts leads a participatory event centered around pieces from the Fluxus movement.

Milan Knizak - Snowstorm #1

Milan Knizak - Confrontation #1

Bengt af Klintberg - Lettuce Music for Sten Hanson

Bengt af Klintberg - Orange Event #3

Steve Craig presents I feel so empowered
2008
mannequin bust with metal, wires, video screen, and sound
29" x 37 1/2"


This work addresses how we have become plugged in consumers. We carry with us cell phones, iPods, cameras and computers, and all the batteries and wires that go with them. These devices offer us convenience and the ability to easily connect, but, at the same time, cause us to be a bit more disconnected and isolated. We talk to a machine and the machine has become an extension of us. By trying to simplify our lives, we have made them more complicated. These advancements are not necessarily a bad thing, but it is interesting to note how our new inventions and tools have become such a huge part of us and our lives.

Candice Lin presents Swamp
2008
Fiberglass, Enamel, Wax, Metal, Resin, Pump
11" x 20" x 8"

Steve Craig
Steve Craig is an artist based in Santa Monica. His favorite materials are found paper, photos, wood, metal, sound, and video. His work addresses how technology has become such a part of who we are. It has made our lives easier and more complicated at the same time. He is also interested in work that looks at what we discard. His work is ultimately about our technological advancement, the absurdity that goes with it, and the beauty in all of it.

J. Frede
Since 1996 j.frede has been touring the United States and Europe exploring field recordings and using them as his primary sound source in live performances. His recent european tour, the a/v tour 2004, presented j.fredeÕs video series, Repetitions: a series of live performances that marked departure from his previous focus on music. The Repetitions series is a repetitive motion video and film series that began in 2002. These works concentrate on the slight inconsistencies in repetition from changes of light to subjects entering view challenging your understanding of what the source may or may not be. Composed as abstract shots, the videos inspect human perception of visual information and the hypnotic qualities of repetition. j.frede organized and performed an abundant amount of live performances including the Denver Atonal Festival, The Telluride Experimental Film Festival (Live Performances portion), Emerging Artists Performance Series (BMOCA), MNML series (MCA Denver), OpenLate Series (MCA Denver), and the Visual Soundings Series (MCA Denver). Since \moving to Los Angeles in 2002 j.frede has presented compositions and surround sound performances with myriad events, such as the Beyond Music Festival (Beyond Baroque), A Day of Attention Festival (lowercase), LA Sounds (Goethe Institute), FREEEARS (Highways Performance Space), Field Effects #17 (SF, CA), and SOUNDWALK (FLOOD) and was featured as a speaker on the Microsound Music panel discussion, organized by Rhizome, LA

Candice Lin
Candice Lin is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes drawings, animations, and sculptures. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004 and her BA from Brown University in 2001. She has exhibited throughout the United States, including the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Lisa Dent Gallery (SF), Armory Center for the Arts (LA), the New York Underground Film Festival, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery (LA), Hall Gallery (Portland, OR), and Vera List Art Gallery (Providence, RI). She has also exhibited internationally at Milliken Gallery (Stockholm, Sweden), Valenzuela Y Klenner Arte Contemporaneo (Bogota, Columbia), Kino Lab at the Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw, Poland), Struts Gallery (New Brunswick, Canada), and was an artist in residence at CESTA (Tabor, Czech Republic).

Sara Roberts
Sara Roberts teaches at CalArts as part of the faculty in Experimental Sound Practices and the Center for Integrated Media. Her current interests include group dynamics and group participation, game and text scores, interdisciplinary education, and new models for critique and criticism. Throughout the 80Õs and 90Õs she simulated various aspects of human behavior with computers. More recently sheÕs been developing performative strategies and building simple devices for exploring human dynamics with people.