RHIZOME_RAW: Video Machete Benefit

Thought folks in Chicago might be interested.

–Christine
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NOVEMBER 21ST DOORS @ 8:30PM 21+ $10

Video Machete is hosting a benefit party Thursday November 21st at
Subterranean, 2011 W. North Ave. right under the Blue Line. VM has
gathered the best emerging electronic musicians and DJ's from Chicago and
beyond to provide a night of eclectic audiovisual entertainment and dancing.
Joins us in celebrating the spirit of independent media.

On the bill:
–Early–
Separate Ways (Kelly Jackson and Andrew Peterson) is improvisation in a
vocal and electronic manner.

–Later–
Teleseen (Gabriel Cyr) performs dub inflected intelligent dance music. His
grooves weave in and out of heavy distortion to create thick beats and
melodies.

–Later Still–
ITEL Media Project (Micheal P. Galbincea, Christine Hart and Art Jones) is a
live audio/visual collage incorporating multi-source video scratching &
mixing and experimental hip-hop heavy beats, breaks and intricate melodies.

–Latest–
A tag-team DJ set with Chicago drum and bass innovators, Kid Entropy and
Bio-booster.




–Artist Bios–
Gabriel Cyr is a cultural worker, working between New York, Chicago, and Los
Angeles. Inhabiting convergences of film, video, music, and literature, his
work as a curator and artist explores issues of sexual desire/identity, the
production of meaning, and language. He is a member of the Discount Cinema
collective, a nomadic curatorial collective, working in and out of Chicago,
bringing work from diverse countries and communities to various locations
around the Midwest. He received a BA from Occidental college in film theory
and philosophy, and recently received his MFA at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago in the Department of Film, Video and New Media. He also
works collaboratively as a member of various musical groups among them Plane
Thrower, Kinetoscope, and Consortium.

Michael P. Galbincea is a self-proclaimed pop culture junkie. He tends to
dwell in the space between art and pop cultures. Lately his work has been
short form
animation and music video production dealing with ideas and concepts of the
grey area that seemingly exists between these two cultures. Using the
techniques of comics,hip hop,punk, modern music video tropes, good ol '
lowbrow humor and a touch of media theory to deconstruct the same grey area
his works
seems to exist in, forcing a changing of ideas towards the same forms he is
working with.
He is currently in preparation for a busy 03, with several shows booked for
Itel Media, and several solo shows including Splat Boom Pow! The Influence
of
Comics in Contemporary Art, 1970-2000 Brown Foundation Gallery at the
Contemporary Art Museum Houston in April.

Christine Hart is a new media artist and musician with interests in how
popular media representations function in the fine art context and their
cultural ramifications. She has just recently completed an experimental
music video and is currently working on collaborative projects and
performances with ITEL Media Project. She recently performed with ITEL at
the World New Media Blender sponsored by Rhizome.org and Arts International
in New York City, at the DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn and with Anti-Pop
Consortium in Chicago. Upcoming this year, she will be screening as part of
digital BIEDERMEIR: re/producing the private presented by [d]vision and WUK
Vienna, in Vienna Austria, several live performances and screenings.

Art Jones is an image/sound manipulator working with film, digital video,
animation, interactive CD-ROM, and live media. He was a member of the Not
Channel Zero television collective in New York in the early 1990's, and is a
member of the ITEL Media group, founded in 2001. His films/videos, cd-rom's,
live audio/videomixes, and installations are regularly seen in festivals,
museums, bars, galleries, and living rooms internationally. As a VJ he has
performed with a variety of musicians and artists including Soundlab, DJ
Spooky That Subliminal Kid, DJ T-Ina, Amiri Baraka, DJ Singe and MC Verb,
Femmes with Fatal Breaks, Anti-Pop Consortium, and Alec Empire and Phillip
Virus. He performs at various locations in the U.S. and internationally. He
is from the Bronx, New York, and lives and works in New York City and
Chicago . Work is distributed by Video Data Bank, & Third World Newsreel.

Bio-booster - Responsible for bringing many major UK drum and bass acts to
Chicago for years, Hiroko's connections have loaded her record bags with
hundreds of exclusive and unreleased tunes. Her DJ sets lean more towards
the jazzier side of the genre with an emphasis on smooth transitions and
deep, contemplative funk. She has held residencies at Red Dog, Big Wig,
and other clubs around the Chicago area.

Kid Entropy - Entro has drawn praise from magazines such as the Wire, Urb,
and Spin magazine for thinking outside the box when it comes to traditional
drum and bass. With an extensive hip hop and soul background, he marries
his groove laden productions with a twisted experimental ethic. He has
also crossed the boundary as a dance dj and producer by performing
audiowork at galleries such as Betty Rymer and Dead tech.


–About Video Machete–
VIDEO MACHETE is a Chicago-based, inter-generational, collective of cultural
workers. We are activists, students, media artists- both youth and adult-
who are all committed to cultivatng images, ideas, and words that transform
our communities, raise consciousness, and generate collective analysis and
action. We use multi-media, video production, and alternative press to
explore and document the stories and perspectives of communities that are
erased and distorted by mainstream media. Video Machete is committed to
producing cultural work that addresses real change in our communities and
society.