Wired Women Salon 84: Darsha Hewitt + Gambletron + Blue Hawaii
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Doors : 6.30pm | 7pm to 10.30pm
4001, rue Berri (corner Duluth) suite 201
Metro Sherbrooke | Information: 514.845.7934
Free admission for Studio XX members | $5.00 for non-members | Hors d’œuvres and refreshments will be served.
Celebrating the end of 2010-11 season, Studio XX is proud to host Wired Women Salon 84 featuring the artists Darsha Hewitt & Gambletron followed with a musical performance by Blue Hawaii. The evening will begin with the launch of the latest issue of our online Journal, .dpi #21 presenting the theme Liberty : in Action, along with an overview by Editor-in-chief Deanna Radford. Come join us to celebrate the arrival of summer !
DARSHA HEWITT
"SOLID STATE RELAYS AND EXPERIMENTS WITH HOME MADE ELETRONICS"
Presentation by: Darsha Hewitt and workshop participants Sarah Choukah et Isabelle Melnick.
Handmade Electronics workshop participants present some of the ideas, electronic components are projects they worked on during this intensive hands-on introduction to the world of homemade electronics.
Darsha Hewitt is a Canadian artist based in Montreal Quebec. Her practice is concerned with how electricity is experienced and perceived in domestic environments. Her artwork consists of electro-mechanical sound installations as well as technical drawings and videos that playfully subvert the "how to" and "step by step" formats prevalent in do-it-yourself (DIY) electronics culture. She has presented her work and taught electronics workshops across Canada in Mexico and Europe. Darsha was recently awarded an international work stipend from The Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst in Oldenburg Germany.
http://www.darsha.org/
GAMBLETRON
GAMBLETRON is a sonic artist & lady sound architect based out of Montreal who does improv-electronics, experimental Karaoke, textural soundscapes with a slight reference to a Gothic industrial punk rock (and twinge of Beyonce?). Accompanied by beats (or no beats),lo-fi, circuit bent toys, found objects, home made mics, radios, bowed bike wheels, toy instruments, loops, reel2reels and other types of electronics. Having previously collaborated with Carla Bozulich, Gambletron is also a multi instrumentalist and can be found playing in other popular projects such as Scusi, Hrsta, Clues, Thundrah, Matana Roberts, Nive Nielsen and jenni-5 Reimer, just to name a few. Oh yeah, did we also mention she play weddings, bar mitzvahs and children’s parties?
http://gambletron-epk.blogspot.com/
BLUE HAWAII
Blue Hawaii tells the story of a lush paradise. The way begins ambient and uncertain, but beautiful white shell beaches and carefree sunshine parties await and nourish those travelers with love in their hearts; their peace thus raised above the arguments found along the rocky road. The duo consists of Raph and Agor; they use voice, guitars, synths, drum machines, and other electronics to create a kind of tropical-pop with love ache melodies and experimental club rhythms.
http://www.arbutusrecords.com/?page_id=34
http://www.myspace.com/bluebluehawaii
LAUNCH .DPI 21 | Freedom: In Action
Editor-in-Chief : Deanna Radford
.dpi #21 is the second issue in a three-part series focusing on the theme of liberty. Politics finds its meaning in freedom. The concept of politics comes from the desire for freedom of individuals, of communities, of a people. In practice, freedom is nothing without a policy-based framework. Freedom is the right to act, but why act? The philosopher Hannah Arendt said that to be true, the only freedom that matters is that which "is being able to do what we must want." Freedom is the ability to fulfill one's duty to help others, protecting their acts of freedom. What are the practices of media artists today as they participate in collective actions for freedom?
ARTICLES :
Mz Baltazar's Laboratory: Fostering Freedom Among Female Technologists
by Katharina Galla
Wendy Geller and the Uses of Confinement
by Tom Kohut
Le contrôle du temps avec It’s time : entre démocratie et liberté
Entretien avec Olga Kisselva
by Mariève Desjardins
Vous ne souffrirez plus et Transe cognitive exp. : le spectateur à la conquête d’une liberté mentale. Entretien avec Sarah Roshem
by Mariève Desjardins
ARTWORKS :
Border / No Border
by Olga Kisseleva
Circadian
by i8u
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