Marc Nimoy presents
Constellation
and
Autumn

Marc Nimoy is a Composition-Experimental Sound Practices MFA graduate from CalArts and received his B.A. in Music Performance from UCLA. He is a working musician, teacher, and programmer and likes building things like electronic instruments and clean-looking software interfaces. He performs regularly in the Los Angeles area as a laptop rockstar, but most frequently in the Los Angeles Electric 8, an electric guitar octet.

Constellation and most of Nimoy's current works stem from his ever-present contemplations of existence and inquiries into the meaning of the self.

and

John Stuart Fishback presents
Vines to Faraway Places

John Stuart Fishback practices Landscape Architecture in Los Angeles. Previously living in Chicago, he worked as a lighting designer and set builder. He still enjoys making site-specific objects.

Endurance Van

Dark Side of the Sea: Tales of the Teleosts and the Dark Light White
Feb. 8th at 8PM

No ocular nerves will be harmed however this experiment may induce an excessive release of melatonin and dopamine. Simultaneity through overlap, this night will meld works of poetry, music, film, video and theater that question the paradigm of
light---from matches to magnesium flares or flashlights to lite-brites.

Artists Include:

Ori Barrel
presents Fluorescent

Ori Barel earned a B.A. in Music Composition at UCLA where he studied under Paul Chihara and is currently working towards his Masters degree at Calarts under the direction of Mike Fink.

His concert works have been performed by the Ear Unit, New Century Players, The Formalist Quartet and the Berlin-based Cornucopia Ensemble.

Barel has composed music and worked collaboratively with artists such as Adam Berg and Gil Omry. Many of these compositions have been featured at museums and galleries throughout the world and have included the Tel Aviv Museum, Haifa Museum, the Artists House Jerusalem and Overtones Gallery. Barel is also featured as the main composer in a rescent art book by Charta about Adam Berg's works.

In addition he has composed music for full lenghth films including "Silhouete City", directed by Michael Wilson. In 2006 he wrote music for "Three Towers" directed by Yoni Bentovim and written by Etgar Keret. The film won the Raindance award and was released on DVD by Raindance.

Aaron Drake is a composer  based in Los Angeles, California  and a recent graduate of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). At CalArts, with the aid of Mark Trayle, Michael Pisaro, and David Rosenboom (et al), Drake experimented with sociological principles and their application in his compositional/artistic strategies. His works for radio as well as those for performers have been featured at many festivals and institutions such as ProvFlux, the International Computer Music Conference, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, SoundWalk, ZKM, Orange County Museum of Art, and the Andrew Kreps Gallery (NYC). Currently, Drake is working with a group of artists on Norman Klein's interactive novella and installation "The Imaginary 20th Century" which is touring internationally.

Night Vision draws together infrared images of Army troops on night missions at Fort Irwin with infrared images of anonymous male nudes.

Nicholas Grider is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles.

D. Jean Hester is an artist and curator working in Los Angeles, CA. She received her MFA in Art and Integrated Media in 2006 from the California Institute of the Arts, and her BFA in Cinema/Filmic Writing from the University of Southern California. Her work has been exhibited and screened at numerous venues across the United States, and been profiled in RES magazine.

Hester's practice in installation, video, performance, drawing and computer-based projects explores the territory of communication and interaction - the simultaneous frailty of language and our repeated efforts to connect despite language's inefficiency and tendency toward failure.
http://www.divestudio.org

Nattan Hollander is an Israeli-born artist and recent graduate of the Fine Arts Program at CalArts. His work explores the common ground between spiritual and art practices and is informed by his years of training as a Zen student. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Eric Lindley is slowly running out of time to make things!

An ideal schedule in the near term: Mondays are spent reading. Tuesdays farming and conversing on the rhetoric of social movements. Wednesdays comprise visiting with artists and analyzing work. Thursdays are spent making things. Fridays are half teaching(learning) and half making. Saturdays should be devoted to making. Sundays at the market and then eating.

Phillip Stearns is a hungry and thoroughly confused little hairless monkey. Something inside him makes him think that he thinks and that what he thinks is absolutely reasonable. Perhaps this is the beginning of his confusion, in particular about what to eat. He thinks that what he eats is not what it appears to be, and that it is in fact derived in a large part from petroleum (either primarily or by some means of "organic" processing). To a monkey, this all seems horribly silly, and so through thinking and reason, this monkey, Phillip, finds that the only way to get away from eating all that petroleum, which looks like food, is to use that energy to unlock those foods for plants that petroleum has somehow managed to replace. That is, to rub stones together until they are nothing more than dust.

Choreographer/performer Meg Wolfe is the founder & curator of the Anatomy Riot performance series, co-editor of "itch" journal, and organizer of the nomadic DANCEbank classes. In July 2008, she will premiere her new work "The Lady Has No Name" as part of the Unknown Theater's 2008 Dance Series. Past work has been presented at Highways Performance Space, REDCAT, the Sylvan Ampitheater at Eagle Rock; The East/West Coast Performance Festival (San Diego); and Performance Works NorthWest (Portland, OR); she was a resident at the Djerassi Resident Artist's Program in 2005 and 2007. Wolfe was active in New York City's downtown dance scene from 1990-2004, performing and presenting her own work as well as dancing in the works of Vicky Shick, Yoshiko Chuma, Molissa Fenley, Sam Kim, Clarinda Mac Low, and Susan Rethorst.

http://www.myspace.com/dancemegwolfe