DARMSTADT presents A/V GEEKS, LOVID, FOUND FOOTAGE FEST, DEWANATRON and MIGHTY ROBOT at SPIEGELTENT!

DARMSTADT and IGNIV OMOUS present an evening of kitschy found footage along with a psychedelic audiovisual freakout at the SPIEGELTENT in south street seaport on monday evening, SEPTEMBER 18.

AV GEEKS presents "School-a-delic," a collection of 16mm educational films from the late 60s and early 70s that aren't specifically about hallucinogenic drugs, but were certainly influenced by them. Trippy titles include: 200, Toes Tell, Toothache of a Clown, Fantasy of Feet, Malakapalakadoo Skip Two, Replay, The Eyes Have.. Or Do They? and more!

http://www.avgeeks.com/
http//www.avgeeks.com/bestof/press2002.pdf

FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL is a hilarious showcase of 80s and 90s era videotapes that were found at garage sales, thrift stores, warehouses and trash bins throughout the USA. Highlights from the show include: a Midwestern insurance advert with brutally graphic reenactments of on-the-job accidents, an adult-oriented travel doc for Rio's Carnival featuring a young and frisky Arnold Schwarzenegger, and scatalogical outtakes from an industrial about RVs.

http://www.foundfootagefestival.com

LOVID build and perform on their own audiovisual synthesizers with "television signal scrambler" technology, using electronic sound to interrupt video signals and filter the feed into swirling, hyper-kinetic animations.

http://www.ignivomous.org/projects/lovid/index.htm

DEWANATRON with visuals by MIGHTY ROBOT
the Dewans are two cousins, inventors of unique and original analog synthesizers, and performers of populist musique concrete. The Dewantatrons are their original creations and the instruments on which they will be so excellently performing.

Mighty Robot are Brooklyn's legendary visuals squad, implementing the techniques of the 60s Psychedelic Lightshow as well as a deconstruction of found footage, evoking the spirit of 60s-era expanded cinema to dizzying effect.

http://www.dewanatron.com
http://secretprojectrobot.org/

Darmstadt "Classics of the Avant Garde," the Brooklyn-based contemporary music outfit lead by Zach Layton and Nick Hallett, presents a special series of concerts for the Speigeltent. Internationally acclaimed chamber ensembles
play contemporary music by young composers and classic 20th Century works by Cage and Xenakis. Major figures from New York's leading experimental new media community present live real-time improvisatory electronic audio-visual performances. Homemade synthesizers, oddball educational films and psychedelic visuals round out the series. A downtown premiere series sure to be unlike anything you've ever seen at the South Street Seaport.

Darmstadt reviewed in the New York Times, not once, but twice:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/arts/music/30ice.html?\_r=1&oref=slogin

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/23/arts/music/23spieg.htmlex57688000&enOe995b257a85ad6&eiP70

event info:
DARMSTADT and INIV OMOUS present
AV GEEKS, FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL, LOVID, and DEWANATRON with visuals by MIGHTY ROBOT
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
10 PM - 1 AM
TICKET PRICE: $10
ALL AGES
SPIEGELTENT AT FULTON FISH MARKET
SOUTH STREET UNDER THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
(2, 3, 4, 5, J, Z, or M to Fulton Street; A and C to Broadway-Nassau)
Ticketing services provided by Ticket Central, 212 279-4200, Noon to
8pm Daily.
Book online at http://www.spiegelworld.com