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Exploding, Plastic and Inevitable redux
Thursday August 21, 2008, 7.30 pm
Admission: Free
Open Space, 510 Fort Street

Co-editors Randy Adams, Steve Gibson and Stefan Müller Arisona. With authour Ted Hiebert

Transdisciplinary Digital Art collects selected papers from the past two instances of Digital Art Weeks (Zurich, Switzerland) and Interactive Futures (Victoria, BC, Canada), two parallel festivals of digital media art. The work represented in Transdisciplinary Digital Art is a confirmation of the vitality and breadth of the digital arts. Collecting essays that broadly encompass the digital arts, Transdisciplinary Digital Art gives a clear overview of the ongoing strength of scientific, philosophical, aesthetic and artistic research that makes digital art perhaps the defining medium of the 21st Century.

Exploding, Plastic and Inevitable redux is a pop explosion of electronic music, hallucinogenic video and free improvisation featuring multiple screens of visual excess equally mashed with the adulterated beats of DJ robot_mixeur (Santa Barbara/Zurich), the robot electro-techno of Steve Gibson (Victoria) and the psychedelic manipulations of Randy Adams (Nanaimo). A digital aberration on the scale of it's 1960s namesake, this circus of light and sound presents itself for your explicit enjoyment. A glut of technology, an overload of the senses, an immersion in an audiovisualscape.

Program
7.30 pm Welcome and Introduction: "Why Transdisciplinary Digital Art" by Steve Gibson
7.45 pm    Excerpt from Transdisciplinary Digital Art – "Behind the Screen: Installations from the Interactive Future" by Ted Heibert
8.30 pm      Exploding, Plastic and Inevitable redux - DJ robot_mixeur (Stefan Müller Arisona), Steve Gibson, Randy Adams

BIOS
Stefan Muller Arisona is a Swiss artist currently residing in Santa Barbara, CA. In 2000 Stefan co-founded the Corebounce association, and its collaborative VJ project "Scheinwerfer." Since then, he has performed in clubs internationally, including London's Notting Hill Arts Club, Singapore's Centro360, Vancouver's Shine Club, and a residency at Zurich's Rohstofflager. Their visuals supported world-class acts like Jimi Tenor, Mouse on Mars, Miss Kittin, Derrick May, and Sven Vaeth. More recently, Stefan performed as a DJ under the alias "robot_mixeur" as part of The Exploding, Plastic & Inevitable.

Steve Gibson is a Canadian media artist, electronic musician and DJ/VJ. Influenced by a diverse body of art and popular movements his work fuses electronica, immersive art, montage and post-minimalism. His music performances are eclectic, merging different styles of electronic music including hard techno, progressive house, dub and experimental electronica. Steve has performed at major festivals including Ars Electronica, Digital Art Weeks, and the European Media Arts Festival.

Randy Adams is a Canadian media artist with a background in creative writing, journalism and the visual arts. He has worked online since 1998 as media artist and professional editor. From 2002 through 2006 he served as Associate Editor for the trAce Online Writing Centre, based at the Nottingham Trent University, UK. He has presented creative work online for 10 years using the nom de plume runran.

Ted Hiebert is a Canadian visual artist and theorist.  His artwork has been shown across Canada in public galleries and artist-run centres, and in group exhibitions internationally.  His published writings have appeared in journals such as CTheory, Performance Research, Technoetic Arts and The Psychoanalytic Review, among others.  Hiebert is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Victoria. www.tedhiebert.net