::.on exhibit in Stuttering...
........closing reception April 26

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PARAPALOOZA 2008: Paragon
april 14 monday, 6–8pm

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Paragon is part one of a new installment of Parapalooza, an annual event of drawings, videos and performances by Parapainting students at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Parapainting is a class offered at the Maryland Institute College of Art that focuses on engaging minds to think about procedure as a medium to create work. This class pushes students to explore the boundaries of the performative tradition and asks them to interpret life through this realm of expression. Questioning how and what defines the role of an actor, audience, and object is one aspect this class seeks to decipher. Come see what students have concocted during the semester when defining their own lines between the act of life and life itself, and be tested by gauging what your role as a viewer might mean to the whole shabang. Part two of Paragon will be presented at the Copycat building May 9th.

group and individual performances by: Nathan Hauenstein, Ryan Whitcomb, Amelia Thomley, Julia Arredondo, Spencer Compton, Jay Peyton, James Wilson, Maire O'Neill, Liz Dyla, Cun Shi, Rin Lack, Claire Cochran, Jeremy Hughes, Murphey Wilkins, and William Downs

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POST-IT PROJECT
A Public View Into Our Private, Mundane Journeys.
Instigated By Nick Karvounis
March 28 - April 11

Opening Reception March 28, 2008 7-10pm, music provided by Lance Spicer

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As technology connects it equally disconnects. These relatively large-scale reminders, posted communally, radically shift the paradigm between our public and private spaces. The increasing necessity to remind one's self of rudimentary tasks is constantly accelerating, thus creating a friction within our individually maverick and obtuse self. Essentially these notes focus our attention to the price of our removal.

Participating Artists: Christine Bailey, Miles Bumbray, Ingrid Burrington, Ashley Butler, Monique Crabb, Dolphin Press, Justyna Gluch, Leah Koltko, Alex Kondner, Jed Money, Christiane Moore,Alexis Morgan, Katherine Nammacher, Beth Pakradooni, Jed Money, James Rieck, Madeline Scott, Andrew Shenker, Bret Stokes, Christopher Whittey and Stephanie Williford

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May 17, Saturday, 8:30pm $7

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Microkingdom's Abstract Balloon
(featuring John Dierker, Mike Formanek and Dave Ballou)

The Dead Science
(Constellation Records / Seattle)

Nick Podgurski / Sam Garret / Ami Dang / Anup Kishore Pradhan

The Ruined Fame

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Outdoor Lounge Satellite
curated by Michael Benevento
July 11 - August 10

Friday, July 11
6pm An Aikido Public Practice, lecture by Ivan Hernandez Quintela
7-10pm Reception

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Outdoor Lounge Satellite is a platform for experimental designs of public seating, shelters, and gathering spaces. A resource for the furnishings along Mount Royal Ave, and additional alternate designs are featured in this offsite extension of Artscape's Outdoor Lounge, hosted at Current Gallery.

Jordan Bernier, John Bohl, Alex Ebstein, Sara Seidman, Steve Santillan & Elie Sollins ~ Susie Brandt & Liz Ensz ~ Andy Eklund ~ Jim Gallucci ~ Jaclyn Lewis ~ Adrian Lohmüller ~ Adam Montegut ~ Thao Nguyen & Barry Febos ~ Audrey Lea Collins Petrich ~ Ivan Hernandez Quintela ~ Jessie Reid ~ Michelle Rosenberg ~ Jeremy Rountree ~ Hermonie Williams

Outdoor Lounge Satellite has been partially funded by the Maryland State Arts Council, Mayor Sheila Dixon and the Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts.

Audrey Lea Collins Petrich
Character Study: Noah John Rondeau, Mayor Cold River City

::.on exhibit in Outdoor Lounge Satellite...
........opening reception July 11

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An Aikido Public Practice
July 11 6pm, lecture by Ivan Hernandez Quintela
followed by the Outdoor Lounge Satellite opening reception

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Using the force of your enemy, you can produce your own strength. These projects (presented by the artist) invade the public space by working with its existing conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics and attempt to twist, manipulate, or distort them in order to make public space more participatory.

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The new american folk hero summer tour
August 11, 2008 ~ Bands start at 8pm $

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Andy Abelow

Anup Kishore Pradhan

mike tamburo

tusk lord

hunted creatures

chris niels

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BURN YOUR NUCLEAR SERVER
September 12, Friday 7-10 pm

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To celebrate the end of the show, Current presents a night of invited performances and interactions related to the theme.

BRENDAN SULLIVAN - BURN YOUR LIVEJOURNAL 2
ROBYN HAUEISEN - NUCLEAR WINTER
KARI ALTMANN - DEDICATED SERVER

+ possible surprises

no age limit
$1-3 donation requested at the door
each performance will be approximately 30 minutes with brief intermissions in between
over by 10 pm
refreshments provided

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http://netmaresnetdreams.net

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NETMARES/NETDREAMS
Instigated by Kari Altmann and Mark Brown
AUGUST 22 - SEPTEMBER 19

Reception August 22, 7pm-10pm

BURN YOUR NUCLEAR SERVER
September 12, Friday 7-10 pm

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Through a combination of online platforms, the international participants in this show have pulled together their own creations, found material, screen grabs, and more that can somehow be described as a "Netmare" or "Netdream".

What started out as a collaborative blog, eventually grew to other platforms (like Vimeo and Flickr) where it became an addiction to tag uploaded material at one end or another of the continuum between these two polar titles. In some cases things were tagged at both ends, in an ambiguous middle ground, or in a dimension beyond the reach of the spectrum itself.

As the amount of material grew, so did the definition for each term and the realization that it gave internet users relief to be able to classify the experiences they're inundated with online as "scary" or "lustworthy", both of which imply a level of intimacy and intimidation. Since post-structuralism the binary hierarchy has continued to be challenged, but in an online culture it can provide a highly accessible control among the struggle between technolust and technophobia, a duality reinforced by the media itself. Netmares/Netdreams aims to celebrate this continuum, mock it, test it, and ultimately transcend it.

While some participants have submitted their own artwork that already deals with these ideas, others are using it as a chance to exhibit detritus from their own net experiences.

The resulting array of cross-platform portals exposes uncanny valleys, peaks, plateaus, and crater holes.

Participants include:
Kari Altmann, Yannick Antoine, Kevin Bewersdorf, Laura Brothers, Mark Charles Brown, Petra Cortright, Nathan Hauenstein, Martijn Hendriks, Guthrie Lonergan, Emily Shinada, Hayley Silverman, Pascual Sisto, and James Whipple

www.netmaresnetdreams.net

Programming at Current Gallery has been partially funded by the Maryland State Arts Council, Mayor Sheila Dixon and the Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts.

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Stories From The Woods
curated by Alex Ebstein
October 3 - October 31

Reception October 3, 7pm-10pm

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Stories From The Woods investigates a fascination with the natural world. The showcased artists explore a contemporary reinterpretation of nature, while simultaneously drawing from past folklore and classic painting. Through stylized, representational, sculpture, narrative paintings, and whimsical installation pieces by a group of invited, regional artists, "Stories from the Woods" seeks to transform the space into a platform for these fantastical narratives.

Artists: Bonner Sale, Christine Buckton Tillman, Emily Nachison, Emily Slaughter, John Bohl, Annie Gray and more

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Agenda
Curated by Jamillah James
November 14 - December 5

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AGENDA is interested in how queer subjectivity informs—and is mediated by—evolving technology, the media, and our present state of collective (un)consciousness. The artists involved in AGENDA use, abuse, and critique popular media, and create autonomous spaces for play, discourse, and protest. Mining the formal and narrative conventions of television, internet memes, printed matter, radio airwaves, and so forth, they operate within an illusory architecture where both identities and histories are fluid. Themes of marginalized desires, conceptions of celebrity, genesis and reinvention, reconciling the self through community, and the quandaries of visibility and voyeurism are all explored here as the symptoms of immediacy precipitated by our digital age. By refitting the lens through which popular culture and media are viewed and re-calibrating the gaze, AGENDA presents new models of activism and representation, and seeks to document a unique moment in history when the collapse of public and private is expected and surveillance spells opportunity.

Artists: Edie Fake, PILOT (Dylan Mira, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Latham Zearfoss, Emily Forman), Christopher Schulz, Kalup Linzy, Victor Van Bramer, K8 Hardy, others

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Wednesday October 8th, doors at 8pm, $6

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Elder Statesman
IfihadaHIFI
White, Wrench, Conservatory
The Same Damn Thing

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HCON2008: The Human Conduct Musical Spectrum
Saturday, November 8, 7pm $

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The Convocation
The New Flesh
Microkingdom
Wax & Wane
Hollywood
The Ruined Frame
Small Sur
Gaybomb (D.C.)
Fun Hot Dog Guts (Philly)
Jim Swill (x-Realicide)
Gene Gregorits
Beans
and more

-showing of short film "Mall Crawlers" scored by Human Host
-sound installation by Krista Faist
-local label table feat. MT6, Terra Firma, Firecracker Firecracker, Spleen Coffin, Defective Bat, more
+ more

www.hcon2008.blogspot.com

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Open Studio Tour
Saturday, October 18, 12 – 5pm

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Current Studio Members
Hermoine Williams
Andrew Liang
Jordan Kasey
Ryan Jedlicka
Leah Vogely
Tony Weber
Sarah Underhill
Rebecca Nagle
Kandis Williams
David Jacober

About Open Studio Tour
Baltimore’s visual artists—they’re brilliant, inspired, and dazzling. Now this fall, you’ll have the rare chance to step into their studios and their worlds, during School 33 Art Center’s Annual Open Studio Tour, October 18.

Through this free, self-guided two-day tour, you can experience simply the best of Baltimore’s diverse art culture. Encounter fresh works in painting, sculpture, photography, installations, clay, mixed media, and more right where they’re made—and often, literally in the making. And, as any art lover will tell you, the Annual Open Studio Tour is the greatest way to connect personally with local artists in a relaxed atmosphere, ask questions, and of course, purchase original artwork.

Block party kick off event Friday, Oct. 17th 5-8pm at School 33 Art Center 1401 Light Street Baltimore, MD 21230.

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Saturday, Oct 18, 8pm $

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Wye Oak

The Owls Go

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HCON2008: The Human Conduct Musical Spectrum
Saturday, November 8, 7pm $

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The Convocation
Formed by driving force/ co-founder George France, Tonie Joy (formerly of Moss Icon, Universal Order of Armageddon, Born Against...) and original bassist Guy Blakeslee (now Entrance/ The Entrance Band) 2007/2008- Playing again after another hiatus, now with Jason Stevens on bass. ".......epitomizes the union of ancient and futuristic urges"
myspace.com/theconvocation

The New Flesh
On hiatus since late 2007. This will be their only show of the year. New CD-R compilation will be available at the festival. "That menacing kind of rusty and gray and hazily oppressive feeling that is hard to shake off" -Terminal Boredom
myspace.com/thenewflesh

Microkingdom
Basically: guitarist Marc Miller (Oxes) & percussionist/composer Will Redman. Usually Baltimore reeds legend John Dierker (New Volcanoes). Sometimes other intense musicians. Through slightly less-than-judicious use of skills and non-skills, and noise and non-noise, beats and non-beats, Microkingdom's music becomes imperceptibly complex noise Jazz of zone variances of extra-cognitive spiritual magnetism. Ears on fire, mind full of water and a skull in between.
"A hyperactively burrowing noise excavation which displays a squally belligerence before slowing to a crawl...." -The Wire
microkingdom.com

Wax & Wane
A collaboration of several musicians spread out all over the world. They have many different iterations, but are always centered around one unified theme: personal songs about humans - relationships, nature, time, life & death. Began with Danny Costa and Ari Schenck (members of the Organ Donors) & eventually spawned into the collective of writers that currently includes Sine Jensen & Justin Kwash.
myspace.com/waxandwane

Hollywood
Super swaggering mid tempo dirt mongrels riffing at the altar of garage and grunge, as amusing as Looney Tunes and sonically sound as the Pretty Things.... Perform miserable rotten rock numbers like "Big Mouth" and "Toucher". Fronted by Hollywood Slim, with ex members of Flowers in the Attic: Stonewall Jack, K.B., & Big Mang Ken, lineup completed by Riggy "The Rod" Rito (Dactyl).
myspace.com/theehollywoods

The Ruined Frame
The Ruined Frame's constant is singer/songwriter Rick Weaver (Human Host, New Flesh). The variables have included Tracy Conway (Clancy 6), Kevin Bernsten (Triac), Ari Schenck (Wax&Wane), Brian Litz, & Nick Podgurski (Extra Life, Yukon). "Angular, cerebral, and vaguely menacing" - cinematic folk/rock vocal/instrumental surreal/real.
myspace.com/theruinedframe

Small Sur
Whether paying homage to the pastoral, lucid rhythms of summers in South Dakota or times spent with friends on the beaches and cliffs of the Pacific, their music is deeply personal -- bathed in seas and sunsets, reservoirs and rivers, forests and fields. Singer/songwriter Bob Keal, now 26 and residing in Baltimore, Maryland, has spent the past couple of years teaching kindergarten by day and sharing his songs by night alongside a rotating cast of friends, including current co-conspirators Andy Abelow (Saxophone/Banjo), Scott Dennison (Bass), Julianne Nelson (Vocals), and Austin Stahl (Percussion)
“A quiet force to be reckoned with…this is one of the best live bands in Baltimore right now.” -SĒN Baltimore Magazine
smallsur.com

Fun Dogs & Hot Guts (Philly)
"The best way I can describe the Fun Dogs...is an auditory cock-block" -Pitchfork
A rare and special meeting of two psychedelic experimental rock bands from Philadelphia. Competent, proficient, and fetching, these guys will most likely deliver one of the heaviest sets of the night. Multiple drums, handful of guitarists, assload of pedals. These two bands put out a mean split cassette recently worth checking out. Fun Dogs demonstrated their ability to write repetitive, infectious, and noxious tunes. Hot Guts delivered an eclectic unpredictable side which ended in cold synthetic loops.
fundogs.biz
myspace.com/hotguts

Gaybomb
Gaybomb is the solo product of Andrew Barranca, film maker, visual artist, teacher, founder of Isle of Man records, former member of/collaborator with Pukeattack!, Wake Up Snake, Occasional Detroit, and Half Japanese. He's just moved to the D.C. area from Charleston, SC where he threw wonderfully wild house shows. His solo sets are cosmic thick milky and spiked.
myspace.com/isleofman

Jim Swill
Swill is/was a vital organ of the noise punk/contemporary hardcore collective Realicide (RRR), a collaborator with surreal hip-hop artist Evolve (Heresee), and a member of the Get Born crew (an outlet for the various creative endeavors of young local poets in the city of St.Louis). His mediums are of collage, xerox, self published zines, and his voice.
myspace.com/jimswill

Beans
Beans is Sine Jensen's (Wax & Wane) solo guitar/vocal/violin/glockenspiel music which involves the Jensen sisters, Liz and Tasha, as well as occasional contributions from Woody, Lauren, and Clayton. Beans is playful, gentle, intimate, and melodious. AS light and airy late 60s Beach Boys without the psychotic tendencies.
myspace.com/sinebean

Gene Gregorits
Gene Gregorits is the author of the comprehensive Midnight Mavericks (interviews with John Waters, Lydia Lunch, Abel Ferrara, Andrew W.K., etc.), editor of the culture zine Sex & Guts, and a columnist for Brutarian Quarterly.
Midnight Mavericks review: "A rallying call for the world's outcasts courtesy of Gene Gregorits. His sheer evangelical zeal for all that is good and right in the world had me speaking in tongues by the end of the first page alone." --Bizarre magazine
"In my opinion, Mr. Gregorits is severely delusional. The subject believes that he is a published writer, claiming repeatedly to have written 3 books. His replies were incoherent, often completely unrelated to my questions. He frequently became irate and used foul language." - Detroit P.D. psychiatrist, 2004.

more TBA

plus
-viewing of short film "Mall Crawlers" filmed by N.O. Smith scored by Human Host
-sound installation of terrifying cut-ups by Krista Faist
-local label table feat. MT6, Terra Firma, Firecracker Firecracker, Spleen Coffin, Defective Bat, Isle of Man, Media False Death Fun, Megaphone, Ehse, more
-live remote performances in New Brunswick, NJ from Be Blank Consort (performance poetry group) & the Post Neo-Absurdist Anti-Collective
+more

www.hcon2008.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/humanconduct

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Stories From The Woods
curated by Alex Ebstein
October 3 - October 31

Reception October 3, 7pm-10pm

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Stories From The Woods investigates a fascination with the natural world. The showcased artists explore a contemporary reinterpretation of nature, while simultaneously drawing from past folklore and classic painting. Through stylized, representational, sculpture, narrative paintings, and whimsical installation pieces by a group of invited, regional artists, "Stories from the Woods" seeks to transform the space into a platform for these fantastical narratives.

Artists: Bonner Sale, Christine Buckton Tillman, Emily Nachison, Emily Slaughter, John Bohl, Annie Gray Robrecht and more

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::.Emily Nachison on exhibit in
.....Stories From The Woods opening October 3

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AGENDA: QUEERING POPULAR MEDIA
curated by Jamillah James for Frontier Projects
November 14 - December 5

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AGENDA is interested in how queer subjectivity informs, and is mediated by, evolving technology, the media, and our present state of collective (un)consciousness; the use, abuse, and critique of popular media; and the creation of autonomous spaces for play, discourse, and protest. Mining the formal and narrative conventions of film and television, as well as the experimental opportunities afforded by new media, printed matter, and so forth, an illusory architecture emerges where both identities and histories are fluid. Themes of marginalized desires, conceptions of celebrity, genesis and reinvention, reconciling the self through community, and the quandaries of visibility and voyeurism will be explored as the symptoms of immediacy precipitated by our digital age. By refitting the lens through which popular culture and media are viewed and re-calibrating the gaze, AGENDA will present new models of activism and representation, and seeks to document a unique moment in history when the collapse of public and private is expected, and surveillance spells opportunity.

Davey Ball and Levi Barringer, Owen Brightman, Alan Calpe, Dynasty Handbag (Jibz Cameron), Edie Fake, Michael Farley, Kristen Galvin, K8 Hardy & Wynne Greenwood, Michael Lent, Rebecca Nagle, Sarah McKiel, Dylan Mira, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, PILOT TV, Liz Rosenfeld, Christopher Schulz, Chris Shivers, Xavier Schipani, Ryan Trecartin, Victor Van Bramer, Lex Young, Latham Zearfoss, others.

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HCON2008: The Human Conduct Musical Spectrum
Saturday, November 8, 7pm $5

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The Convocation
Formed by driving force/ co-founder George France, Tonie Joy (formerly of Moss Icon, Universal Order of Armageddon, Born Against...) and original bassist Guy Blakeslee (now Entrance/ The Entrance Band) 2007/2008- Playing again after another hiatus, now with Jason Stevens on bass. ".......epitomizes the union of ancient and futuristic urges"
myspace.com/theconvocation

The New Flesh
On hiatus since late 2007. This will be their only show of the year. New CD-R compilation will be available at the festival. "That menacing kind of rusty and gray and hazily oppressive feeling that is hard to shake off" -Terminal Boredom
myspace.com/thenewflesh

Microkingdom
Basically: guitarist Marc Miller (Oxes) & percussionist/composer Will Redman. Usually Baltimore reeds legend John Dierker (New Volcanoes). Sometimes other intense musicians. Through slightly less-than-judicious use of skills and non-skills, and noise and non-noise, beats and non-beats, Microkingdom's music becomes imperceptibly complex noise Jazz of zone variances of extra-cognitive spiritual magnetism. Ears on fire, mind full of water and a skull in between.
"A hyperactively burrowing noise excavation which displays a squally belligerence before slowing to a crawl...." -The Wire
microkingdom.com

Wax & Wane
A collaboration of several musicians spread out all over the world. They have many different iterations, but are always centered around one unified theme: personal songs about humans - relationships, nature, time, life & death. Began with Danny Costa and Ari Schenck (members of the Organ Donors) & eventually spawned into the collective of writers that currently includes Sine Jensen & Justin Kwash.
myspace.com/waxandwane

The Ruined Frame
The Ruined Frame's constant is singer/songwriter Rick Weaver (Human Host, New Flesh). The variables have included Tracy Conway (Clancy 6), Kevin Bernsten (Triac), Ari Schenck (Wax&Wane), Brian Litz, & Nick Podgurski (Extra Life, Yukon). "Angular, cerebral, and vaguely menacing" - cinematic folk/rock vocal/instrumental surreal/real.
myspace.com/theruinedframe

Small Sur
Whether paying homage to the pastoral, lucid rhythms of summers in South Dakota or times spent with friends on the beaches and cliffs of the Pacific, their music is deeply personal -- bathed in seas and sunsets, reservoirs and rivers, forests and fields. Singer/songwriter Bob Keal, now 26 and residing in Baltimore, Maryland, has spent the past couple of years teaching kindergarten by day and sharing his songs by night alongside a rotating cast of friends, including current co-conspirators Andy Abelow (Saxophone/Banjo), Scott Dennison (Bass), Julianne Nelson (Vocals), and Austin Stahl (Percussion)
“A quiet force to be reckoned with…this is one of the best live bands in Baltimore right now.” -SĒN Baltimore Magazine
smallsur.com

Fun Dogs & Hot Guts (Philly)
"The best way I can describe the Fun Dogs...is an auditory cock-block" -Pitchfork
A rare and special meeting of two psychedelic experimental rock bands from Philadelphia. Competent, proficient, and fetching, these guys will most likely deliver one of the heaviest sets of the night. Multiple drums, handful of guitarists, assload of pedals. These two bands put out a mean split cassette recently worth checking out. Fun Dogs demonstrated their ability to write repetitive, infectious, and noxious tunes. Hot Guts delivered an eclectic unpredictable side which ended in cold synthetic loops.
fundogs.biz
myspace.com/hotguts

Gaybomb
Gaybomb is the solo product of Andrew Barranca, film maker, visual artist, teacher, founder of Isle of Man records, former member of/collaborator with Pukeattack!, Wake Up Snake, Occasional Detroit, and Half Japanese. He's just moved to the D.C. area from Charleston, SC where he threw wonderfully wild house shows. His solo sets are cosmic thick milky and spiked.
myspace.com/isleofman

Jim Swill
Swill is/was a vital organ of the noise punk/contemporary hardcore collective Realicide (RRR), a collaborator with surreal hip-hop artist Evolve (Heresee), and a member of the Get Born crew (an outlet for the various creative endeavors of young local poets in the city of St.Louis). His mediums are of collage, xerox, self published zines, and his voice.
myspace.com/jimswill

Beans
Beans is Sine Jensen's (Wax & Wane) solo guitar/vocal/violin/glockenspiel music which involves the Jensen sisters, Liz and Tasha, as well as occasional contributions from Woody, Lauren, and Clayton. Beans is playful, gentle, intimate, and melodious. AS light and airy late 60s Beach Boys without the psychotic tendencies.
myspace.com/sinebean

Gene Gregorits
Gene Gregorits is the author of the comprehensive Midnight Mavericks (interviews with John Waters, Lydia Lunch, Abel Ferrara, Andrew W.K., etc.), editor of the culture zine Sex & Guts, and a columnist for Brutarian Quarterly.
Midnight Mavericks review: "A rallying call for the world's outcasts courtesy of Gene Gregorits. His sheer evangelical zeal for all that is good and right in the world had me speaking in tongues by the end of the first page alone." --Bizarre magazine
"In my opinion, Mr. Gregorits is severely delusional. The subject believes that he is a published writer, claiming repeatedly to have written 3 books. His replies were incoherent, often completely unrelated to my questions. He frequently became irate and used foul language." - Detroit P.D. psychiatrist, 2004.

Andy Abelow
Andy Abelow is a solo multi-instrumentalist / painter / actor / comedian currently residing in Baltimore. Taking inspiration from various musical, visual and poetic styles, he mixes them into oft gradually thought-out and ever changing song forms. There is usually a heavy emphasis on theme, vocal melody and pleasant vibrations.

more TBA

plus
-viewing of short film "Mall Crawlers" filmed by N.O. Smith scored by Human Host
-sound installation of terrifying cut-ups by Krista Faist
-local label table feat. MT6, Terra Firma, Firecracker Firecracker, Spleen Coffin, Defective Bat, Isle of Man, Media False Death Fun, Megaphone, Ehse, more
-live remote performances in New Brunswick, NJ from Be Blank Consort (performance poetry group) & the Post Neo-Absurdist Anti-Collective
+more

www.hcon2008.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/humanconduct

above image: Dynasty Handbag, digital still from Break Up Day

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AGENDA: QUEERING POPULAR MEDIA
curated by Jamillah James for Frontier Projects
November 14 - December 12

Opening Reception: November 14, 7-10pm
performances by Owen Brightman, Rebecca Nagle, and Michael Farley with Dazzlestorm.

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AGENDA is interested in how queer subjectivity informs, and is mediated by, evolving technology, the media, and our present state of collective (un)consciousness; the use, abuse, and critique of popular media; and the creation of autonomous spaces for play, discourse, and protest. Mining the formal and narrative conventions of film and television, as well as the experimental opportunities afforded by new media, printed matter, and so forth, an illusory architecture emerges where both identities and histories are fluid. Themes of marginalized desires, conceptions of celebrity, genesis and reinvention, reconciling the self through community, and the quandaries of visibility and voyeurism will be explored as the symptoms of immediacy precipitated by our digital age. By refitting the lens through which popular culture and media are viewed and re-calibrating the gaze, AGENDA will present new models of activism and representation, and seeks to document a unique moment in history when the collapse of public and private is expected, and surveillance spells opportunity.

Participating artists include:
Rahne Alexander, Davey Ball & Levi Barringer, Owen Brightman, Alan Calpe, Dynasty Handbag, Edie Fake, Michael Farley, Kristen Galvin, K8 Hardy & Wynne Greenwood, Gabriel Held, Michael Lent, LTTR (K8 Hardy, Emily Roysdon, Ulrike Müller, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Lanka Tattersal), Sarah McKiel, Dylan Mira & Latham Zearfoss, Rebecca Nagle, PILOT TV, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Liz Rosenfeld, Mariadele Arcuri Rossoni, Christopher Schulz, Xavier Schipani, Emily Shinada, Hayley Silverman, Jeffrey Augustine Songco, Ryan Trecartin, Victor Van Bramer, Lex Young, Latham Zearfoss, and others.

Supplemental Screenings:
11/22, 7 pm PILOT TV, a 2004 Chicago (trans-)feminist experimental media conference

11/23, 7 pm Paris is Burning, the 1987 Jenny Livingstone documentary about drag balls held by African-American and Latino-American men in New York City

11/30, 7 pm I-BE AREA¬ (2007), the critically acclaimed 100-minute video by artist Ryan Trecartin

....Ryan Trecartin, digital still from I-BE AREA
::...on view in Agenda, opening Friday November 14, 7pm