ON THE FLY: The Convergence of VJ & DEMO Culture

Dear friends,

Have you found yourself wondering, lately, just what do video art, dj
practice, and a 20-year-old form of artistic hacker-tagging have in
common..? Then this is the panel and/or party for you!

Hoping you can join us…
Marisa :)

Announcing the first in a series of ZeroOne HOTSPOTS events…

ON THE FLY: The Convergence of VJ & DEMO Culture
Thursday, March 18 | Panel Discussion: 7:30-8:30 | DEMO Party, 8:30-11pm
Rx GALLERY, 132 Eddy Street @ Mason Street, San Francisco

Admission: $5 benefits ZeroOne

Panelists: Mark Amerika, Matthew Biederman, Aviv Eyal, and Shirley Shor
Moderated by Marisa S. Olson, Zero:One Adjunct Curator

While both have distinctly different looks and cultures, the
practices of Video-Jockeying and DEMO'ing are frequently compared,
particularly as the two become increasingly popular in Europe. Both
involve the quick mixing and construction of sounds and images to
create low-memory, high-impact displays, yet one grows out of a
hacker history and the other is closely tied to the music scene.
VJ/artists Mark Amerika and Matthew Biederman will discuss VJ'ing in
relation to other media art genres and collaborators Shirley Shor and
Aviv Eyal will survey 20 years of the hottest DEMO's, from game hacks
to party pieces. The panel will be followed by a DEMO party,
featuring even more hot DEMO's, and the genre-bending VJ-remixing of
the DEMO's, by Biederman & Amerika.

Participant Bios:

Pioneering artist Mark Amerika, who has been named a "Time Magazine
100 Innovator" as part of their continuing series of features on the
most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers
into the 21st century, has had two large-scale retrospectives of his
digital art work, including the first-ever net art retrospective.
Amerika is a Professor at the University of Colorado.

Matthew Biederman's audio and video installations have been exhibited
in galleries and festivals, internationally. As a VJ, Beiderman
performs regularly, creating live, algorithmically-based, video
projection improvisations in addition to producing single-channel
videos and installations.

Aviv Eyal is a software entrepreneur who specializes in multimedia
and social networks. Aviv has developed multimedia software for
Microsoft and currently serves as a CTO of a Bay Area software
startup company. Shirley Shor is a San Francisco-based new media
artist. Her software art installations have been exhibited in the
United States and in Europe.
Aviv & Shirley are the authors of an important recent essay on the
last 20 years of DEMO'ing:
http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol4_No1_demo_shoreyal.htm

Moderator, Marisa S. Olson is ZeroOne's Adjunct Curator and Associate
Director of SF Camerawork. She has programmed at the ICA-London, the
Getty, White Columns, and elsewhere. She a board member & founding
zine-editor of SMAC! and she writes for Flash Art, Art on Paper,
Afterimage, Mute, Wired, and others, and has held numerous artist
residencies, including those at Goldsmiths, Banff, and the
Technical-University of Dresden.

ZeroOne HOTSPOTS is a nomadic series of discussions on hot topics in
art & technology, hosted by a range of unique venues through the Bay
Area. ZeroOne thanks Rx Gallery for hosting the first in this series
of events…