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<div><b>LEMUR News at a Glance</b></div>
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<div>*<b> ReSiDeNt Show this Friday</b>, March 28, 8-11 pm at LEMUR,
461 3rd Ave, Brooklyn</div>
<div>*<b> LEMUR shows at Issue Project Room, Monkeytown,
Schenectady,</b> GamelaTron debut</div>
<div>*<b> Robotics for Artists Class</b> March 29 & 30, still
time to sign up</div>
<div>*<b> Marketing and Other Interns Wanted</b></div>
<div>*<b> April ReSiDeNtS Announced</b>: Dafna Naphtali and Andrew
Schneider</div>
<div>*<b> ReSiDeNt Submissions Open for June</b> through May
15th</div>
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<div><b>Third ReSiDeNt Show Friday</b></div>
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<div><b>LEMUR's ReSiDeNt</b> series continues this Friday, March 28th
with new performances by Luke DuBois and Lesley Flanigan + Hannah
Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi + Jay Zimmerman</div>
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<div>LEMUR is decked out with video screens and flying drum sets for
this month's show. The March ReSiDeNtS have been working hard to bring
you a diverse set, including music, video, dance, robots and more.
ReSiDeNt shows take place at LEMUR on the last Friday of each
month.</div>
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<div><b>ReSiDeNt @ LEMUR: New Works, New Instruments, New
Artists</b></div>
<div><b>461 Third Avenue between 9th & 10th Sts.,
Brooklyn</b></div>
<div><b>Friday March 28th</b></div>
<div><b>8 pm - 12 pm</b></div>
<div><b>$5 at the door</b></div>
<div><b>http://lemurbots.org</b></div>
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<div><b>R. Luke DuBois</b> is a composer, performer, video artist, and
programmer who has worked with Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd
Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang on
a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks, LEMUR, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra
and Freight Elevator Quartet. He is a co-author of Cycling'74 Jitter,
his music is available on Caipirinha/Sire, Cycling'74, and Cantaloupe
music, and his artwork is represented by bitforms gallery.<b> Lesley
Flanigan</b> is a sculptor, vocalist, curator, and sound artist in New
York City. Her diverse range of work explores relationships
between people and their inventions using metaphors of sound,
communication, and mechanics. Luke and Lesley's performance involves
voice, transducer-driven cymbals, robots and more.</div>
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<div><b>Hannah Perner-Wilson</b> indulges in breaking technologies
down to a basic level from which she is able to develop her own
interaction solutions and scenarios. She is fascinated by details and
interested in exploring alternative and seemingly bizarre human
computer relations. She is attracted to the idea of soft electronics,
and her recent work deals with wearable technologies, viewing them
from social, wearable and functional perspectives.
http://www.plusea.at</div>
<div><b>Mika Satomi</b> received an education in Graphic Design and
Media Art in Japan and is currently based in Linz/Austria researching
and practicing Media Art and Media Studies. Her recent projects
explores the concept of body extension in the realm of wearable
technology as an experiment on our plastic nature. Hannah and Mika
have created wearable technology and crafted a dance work with LEMUR
robots, to be performed by dancer<b> Micaela Schedlbauer</b>.</div>
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<div><b>Jay Alan Zimmerman</b> is an experimental multimedia composer
whose works for dance, aerialists, film, and theater have been shown
in hundreds of venues including art galleries, Lincoln Center, the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Pompidou in Paris, the Zipper Factory
Theater and the Sunlight Zone. With both classical music training and
a BFA in Film from Tisch/NYU, he stretches boundaries by working with
diverse collaborators including instrumentalists, Broadway singers,
aerial performers, visual artists, drag queens and now robots. Despite
having become deaf to most sound, Jay has created an audio-visual
robotic symphony during his residency.</div>
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<div><b>Upcoming LEMUR Shows</b></div>
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<div>LEMUR presents debut collaborations with two of our favorite
artists at the Dangerous Music festival at<b> Proctor's Theater</b>
in<b> Schenectady, NY</b> on Saturday, April 5th. Bass clarinetist<b>
Michael Lowenstern</b> and Mutantrumpet inventor and player<b> Ben
Neill</b> split the evening, each performing their new works with the
robots. (http://www.proctors.org), 7:30, $16</div>
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<div>LEMUR storms<b> Issue Project Room</b> on Thursday, April 10th,
with a night of special collaborations. Best of ReSiDeNt: The First
Two Months showcases performances by January/February LEMUR ReSiDeNtS
Taylor Kuffner debuting the GamelaTron robotic gamelan and Holland
Hopson playing his customized MIDI banjo in an Appalachia-meets-robots
performance. Then, Ben Neill presents the NYC premiere of new works
for Mutantrumpet and LEMUR robots. (http://benneill.com) Issue Project
Room @ The Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd Street @ 3rd Avenue,
Brooklyn (http://issueprojectroom.org), 8 pm, $10</div>
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<div>The next day, we drag the bots across town to<b> Monkeytown</b>
to present "LEMUR performs<b> Man with a Movie Camera</b>,"
a visionary silent documentary by Russian director Dziga Vertov. The
film presents a gestalt portrait of life in Odessa in 1929: day
breaks, the citizens file into factories, machines machinate, and the
wheel of life spins, with all stops detailed and deconstructed by the
omnipresent cameraman. Six composers - Zemi17, Leif Krinkle, Luke
DuBois, Zach Layton, DJ Olive and Jim Coleman - have created original
scores for LEMUR robots to accompany the film. Monkeytown, 58 N. 3rd
St. between Kent and Wythe, Brooklyn (http://www.monkeytownhq.com),
7:30 and 10:00, $10</div>
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<div><b>Electromechanical Systems and Robotics for Artists</b></div>
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<div>Sat-Sun 3/29, 3/30, 12:30-5:00 pm<br>
Instructor: Douglas Repetto<br>
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<div>A starter course for artists interested in using
electromechanical elements in their work. We will cover basic devices
and technologies (motors, solenoids, switches, relays), computer and
electronic control options (Arduino, MidiTron), and ways of connecting
elements together to make larger systems (linkages, belts and
pulleys). We will also take apart consumer electromechanical systems
(like inkjet printers) to see what's inside, how they're made, and
what can be reused.</div>
<div>Visit http://lemurbots.org/classes.html to sign up. For related
classes in software and fabrication, please visit our Art/Tech
Educational Alliance partners Harvestworks (http://harvestworks.org)
and 3rd Ward (http://3rdward.com)</div>
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<div><b>Marketing and Other Interns Wanted</b></div>
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<div>LEMUR is looking for marketing and administrative interns. Tasks
may include design and implementation of marketing campaigns; online
promotion and campaign design; scheduling events and classes;
preparation of visual and online materials; fundraising and grant
identification and writing; PR coordination; museum promotion design
and outreach; and more.</div>
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<div>In addition, we have a continuing tech intern program. Details
are at http://lemurbots.org/getinvolved.html.</div>
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<div>If you are interested in interning in any capacity, contact us by
replying to this email.</div>
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<div><b>April ReSiDeNts Announced</b></div>
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<div><b>Dafna Naphtali</b> is a sound-artist and improviser-composer
from an eclectic musical background. As
singer/guitarist/electronic-musician she performs and composes using
custom sound processing of voice and other instruments. Besides her
composing and improvised projects, she co-leads the digital chamber
punk ensemble<i> What is it Like to be a Bat?</i> with Kitty Brazelton
(<a href="http://www.whatbat.org/">http://www.whatbat.org</a>) and has
collaborated/performed with Lukas Ligeti, David First, Joshua Fried,
Ras Moshe, Alexander Waterman, Kathleen Supové and Hans Tammen,
among others and done sound design and programming for Jin Hi Kim,
Shelley Hirsch, Pamela Z, Phoebe Legere, Fred Frith, Jim Staley, Henry
Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Chico Freeman and others. Dafna can be
heard with<i> Mechanique(s)</i> on a forthcoming release on In-situ,
and was featured vocalist on José Halac's CD 'Dance of 1000
Heads' (Tellus), as well as on her acclaimed release with<i> What is
it Like to be a Bat?</i> on Tzadik/Oracles.</div>
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<div>Dafna's residency will involve dynamically controlled algorithmic
improvisation and live audio processing, using vocal cues and controls
to trigger and manipulate LEMUR robots.</div>
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<div><b>Andrew Schneider</b> is a multimedia designer and performer
whose work investigates human/technological interdependence. He is the
co-founder and Associate Artistic Director of the Chicago-based
theatre company, BigPictureGroup. His solo performance work has been
seen at P.S.122, Monkeytown, The Prelude Festival, and The Tank. His
multimedia devices have been featured in Art Review, Wired, TimeOut
NY, Maker Faire, SIGGRAPH, Dorkbot, the Telfair Art Museum, and at the
Center Pompidou in Paris. His Solar Bikini has been featured
internationally and is slated to be featured in the next Sports
Illustrated swimsuit edition. His latest projects include Experimental
Devices for Performance (.com) and Acting Stranger (.com). Andrew
Holds a Masters Degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. He
is currently working with The Wooster Group.
(http://andrewjs.com)</div>
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<div>Doing musical theatre with robots used to be Andrew's standard
joke answer to the question "So what do you want to do with your
life?" Finally, a life-long dream comes true. He plans to start
with a dance number, interfacing his movements with the robots via
custom-built wearable controllers.</div>
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<div><i>Artists from all performing and installation disciplines are
encouraged to apply to ReSiDeNt, including musicians, composers,
dancers, choreographers, video artists, interactive installation
artists, performance artists, multimedia artists and others. To learn
about applying to ReSiDeNt, visit http://lemurbots.org/resident.html.
Deadlines are rolling, and decisions are made shortly after the 15th
of each month for the following month's residencies. Note: ReSiDeNt
takes a break in May, returning again in June. Applications for June
and beyond are accepted through May 15th.</i></div>
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