DEADLINE: 1 May

ArtBots : 2008 Call for Works

I think I'm going to miss it once again.

ReSiDeNt @ LEMUR: New Works, New Instruments, New Artists
PERFORMANCE: May 2nd 8PM $5

Robots and theater make us all excited here!
And we hear that this show will include plenty of mechanical thespians from Andrew Schneider, Dafna Naphtali, and Simon Morris.

Simon Morris SensorSkate, a skateboard custom-wired with sensors and
programmed to control the LEMUR robots.
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http://www.makenyc2.org/
April 30, 2008 - 7PM
71-69 46 Ave (meeting hosted by Big Apple Hobbies)

oops I didn't hear about this untill today, a bit late but I'll try and make it.

http://3leggeddog.org/mt/
PERFORMANCE: April 11 - May 3
3LD
80 Greenwich St

Sadly the descriptions give me no idea what in particular it is they are up to, but from what I saw during development it's a very impressive installation/theater piece. That ought to wow. I can't wait to get my fill of the spectacle.

EVENT: May 3 $15
Ontological Theatre 131 E. 10th st NYC

$5 off admission with a letter of rejection.

We love the incubator, and would never want to reject them. But to commensurate on our own rejections at a barbecue, that we want to do.

Bring a letter or your own to be posted on a wall of rejections for a $5 discount, and find someone who really loves you, or at least a whole gaggle of folks to drink beer and feel bitter bout it with ;)

Sample Press Photos from the productions of:
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www.chocolatefactorytheater.org

PERFORMANCE: April 24-26 2008 8PM $15

The Chocolate Factory

5-49 49th Avenue, LIC, NYC

Its a beautiful composition, written by Aaron Siegel, performed by the FLUX Quartet, Ryan Dahoney, Kate Soper, and Brian Markovitz. And a host of other folks creating visual narratives that go along with the music, including Learning Worlds Jeff Gray

http://www.bentfestival.org/
EVENTS:

Concert: Apr 24 6PM
Concert: Apr 25 7PM
Workshop:
Apr 26 11 AM - 4PM
Concert: Apr 26 7PM

$10 or Festival Pass $25

Get the festival stated festively with a nightly free Singha Beer happy half hour 7-7:30PM
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http://imnotlost.net/COPY/

Fake Puppet Science Fair
benefit party for IMNOTLOST's production of Do You Copy.

PERFORMANCE: April 27 2008 4PM -7PM
$10 - $20 suggested (or more)
the new One Arm Red: 10 Jay st DUMBO
9th floor
F train to York St.
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http://www.zachpoff.com/site/software/software.html

I just saw this posted on the Make blog, Zach Poff has generously taken the time to package up his work and give it away to the world, source code and all. Praise be Open Source!
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After consulting with Hal, I have begun work with the matrox- a device which is aptly named since the 'i' in matrix is stretched to an 'o' just as the device creates a stretched display of 2400x800 , allowing me to serve all the video from one stage in Isadora and develop the show on my laptop.
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We are in the process of assembling points of view from as many digital performance practitioners as we can. We thought it only fair that DPI's Director, Hal Eagar, be the first answer the questions he drafted.

The questions:
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http://www.jayscheib.com/mars/index.html

Untitled Mars (This Title May Change)
PERFORMANCE:  April 8 - 27 2008  8PM
PS 122 $10 - $20

Can't make ends meet on Earth? Consider a one-way ticket to Mars! 

The proposed one-way mission to colonize Mars continues to gain
momentum, since its suggestion by the legendary Joe Gavin, former
director of the Apollo Lunar Module Program.
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