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From: misha neininger <misha at 911media.org>
Date: Nov 14, 2007 5:22 PM
Subject: [dorkbotsea-overlords] mediaphile
To: misha at 911media.org


  *mediaphile*
November 14th, 2007

*Big Bang

*If you've been to 911 Media Arts Center, one of the few low lying buildings
left in the growing canyons of South Lake Union, you've been in our reactor.

Haven't you?

If you stand in the intersection of hallways (now temporarily filled with *
Clover*, a four-monitor intersection installation by Gary Hill), you can
experience the collision of ideas, expertise, art, and potential. It's been
an amazing 20-plus years of expression issuing out of the people who've
harnessed the power of our community, and in the next few weeks this
anti-containment space and all of our supporters will take a big step
forward in our evolution.

Until that time, the fuel rods that ignite new forms of expression and
invention are plunging into the reactor pool this month. Lean over the
railing and see the upcoming On Screen Magazine Short Film Contest
conclusion (with screenings at SIFF Cinema coming up soon), the Anne Focke
Awards and 911 Fundraiser coming to life, the glowing life forms (sparks
optional) of the upcoming PDSTWE show, a stunning VJ night with Control Room
Console Master DJ Scobot, Open Screening that shows new (video) life forms,
and many more interacting pools of potential with our many Media Events.

And we haven't even reached the elemental expertise that shapes your
inquiring minds, with lab-coated experts like John De Graaf leading you
through producing a documentary. Or our Scholarship Recipients that are
about to put their hands on the controls and learn how to manipulate media
tools to shape their visions.

Big changes are afoot here at 911, and we invite you to come down and
experience what happens when you creating the safe setting for happy
collisions of art and ideas.

It's your reactor. Do touch the dials.



*Arts & Events at 911

*

*The NEXT STEP
911 Media Arts Center Fundraising Event*
Featuring The Anne Focke Awards
Awarded to Richard Andrews of The Henry Gallery
*Sunday Evening December 9th, 2007*
At Western Bridge
3412 5th AVe. South
6:00pm Doors open
7:15pm Dinner by the Great Northwest Catering Company



Join us for an evening of awards, fine cuisine, and experiential
entertainment as we bestow the Anne Focke Award to Richard Andrews of The
Henry Gallery. The award is named after Anne Focke, whose rich career
includes the founding and collaboration in the creation of new organizations
and programs, including 911's predecessor *and/or*.

The combination of unusual activities (including performance artist Martha
Wilson), sumptuous cuisine by the Great Northwest Catering Company, and the
intriguing setting of Western Bridge makes this worth getting a seat or
sponsoring a table before they are all gone. Get your Brown Paper Tickets
here, and read about the background of the awards and how to sponsor a table
of your friends or business colleagues here.



*The Travels of Mariko Horo
*By Tamiko Thiel
911 Media Arts Gallery
*Runs through Tuesday, November 20th
*Gallery Hours
Monday through Friday 12:00 pm to 6:00pm
Saturday 1:00pm to 6:00pm *new hours

*If you haven't experienced the interactive installation by Tamiko Thiel you
should glide down to our Media Arts gallery and partake.

This rich interactive experience allows *you* to control your gliding
journey through an inverse Marco Polo journey from the perspective of a
time-traveling Japanese woman who constructs an exotic and rich external
world from her imagination.

911 Media Arts Center is partnering with the Seattle Art Museum to exhibit
this contemporary example of the Japanese Namban genre to complement the
opening of "Japan Envisions the West:16th-19th Century Japanese Art from
Kobe City Museum", a Namban Art at the Seattle Art Museum at the Seattle Art
Museum.

While the truly interactive 3-D-VR installation only runs through November
20th here at 911 Media Arts, Seattle Art Museum is exhibiting the Japanese
Art from Kobe City Museum in two parts. Part I ends November 25th, but if
you buy tickets SAM Tickets Online to Part I, bring in your ticket stub from
Part I receive 50% off admission to Part II, which opens on December 1,
2008.



*Dorkbot's Strange Things
*Opening Soon
911 Media Arts Gallery
Opening Party Saturday December 8th
7:00pm

The Seattle chapter of Dorkbot opens a new juried art exhibit"People Doing
Strange Things With Electricity " with opening night party on Saturday
December 8, 2007.

*People Doing Strange Things with Electricity *showcases innovative trends
in modern art by bringing together established and emerging artists who work
with electricity in a significant way either in their art, or in its
creation.

Mark your calendars for December 8th, as the opening party promises to be as
electrifying as the art. Insulated drink holders may be necessary as you
weave around the installations, if the previous show at Coca is any
indication.



*Open Screening: BIGGER*
911 Media Arts Theater Monday November 12th
8:00pm
$2.00 Dollar Suggested Donation

Sure you've got a big screen, but our screen is bigger. Our *70+ seat* Media
Arts Theater has a big projector with plenty of space for you to view (your
latest work, short, or clip, or video) to a group of (your friends, work
colleagues, the band, fellow Open Screeners).

Not only do you have the Big Factor, you have an incomparable host, Big *Greg
Gould*, who guides the evening viewing with wit and style, acting as an MC
for this open mic night for amateur to professional filmmakers and media
artists.

So unless you have a 70+ theater with the right equipment and a talented
video -open-mic-host (egad), you need to take advantage of this monthly
event that occurs on Monday, November 12th for the paltry sum of $2.00
suggested donation. Read a bit more *here*, then come down to the growing
canyons of South Lake Union for your own Big Media Experience.

Find the directions to forward to your friends here.



*VJ Night "Hands On"
*Thursday November 15th
8:00pm
911 Media Arts Theater
Admission: $5.00

If you've wanted to lay hands and FEEL the power of VJ night, the Good Man
VJ Scobot is welcoming you up on stage to revel in the glory of mixed
visuals, beats, and the power of the VJ processor pulpit.

Instead of watching, you can *get your hands on one of three VJ stations *and
make the electrons dance to the beats in your head.

Three VJ stations at one time! *Station ONE:* Laptop station Laptop running
Arkaos VJ software (VJ scobot's actual performance rig) Midi keyboard
controller. *Station TWO: *Mixer station Edirol V-4 video mixer DVD player +
video feeds from laptop & effects stations main output to screen. *Station
THREE:* Enjoy pulling 5 G's on $5k's worth of equipment (special thanks to
Punch Drunk Productions and Edirol): the Edirol CG-8 Video synthesizer
effects station and the KORG KPE-1 Entrancer.

It's been one year since VJ night started, so here's a big shout of congrats
to Scobot, the Man Connected with a Higher VJ Power!

*911 Media Literacy Scholarship Recipients

*Our recently initiated Media Literacy Scholarship Program gives people a
chance to utilize the tools and expertise that infuses the hallways of 911
Media Arts. The recipients are:

*Alex Stonehill: Executive Director for the Common Language Project
*The Common Language Project supports independent media outlets by providing
original international reporting in depth multi-media coverage and
conducting medial literacy workshops. CLP will use the grant to take some of
our Web classes and Documentary classes.

*Elizabeth Augustine Buschmann*
Elizabeth is a recent graduate of UW in ceramics. Her interest lies in
exploring the role of computers and technology with her recent body of work,
which combines sound and physical materials. She looks forward to being a
part of the exciting community of 911.

*Margot Quan Knight Margot*
Margot Quan Knight Margot is a practicing, Seattle based artist, with roots
in photography. She began to develop an interest in video during her tenure
as a 911 intern. Her work examines the relationship between still and moving
images, and you can see her work on her site. Margot plans take Final Cut
Pro and Animation classes as well as rent equipment to continue her work.


*911 Classes and Workshops

*YES. The answer to "Can I bring my vision to life? "

*Producing a Documentary Workshop
*Everything you wanted to know*
Saturday December 15th
10:00am - 4:00pm
Member cost - $95
Non-member cost - $ 115

You've got the documentary bug, and the idea is bubbling around in your
brain. Or, perhaps you've started to shoot and attempt to put your vision
together.

Wouldn't you like to sit down with an expert in the documentary world,
someone who has been producing and directing documentaries for 25+ years?
For a mere $95 dollars* for 911 members?

If you want to learn the documentary work flow process, refined through
years of experience, and save lots of time in YOUR process, come take
Producing a Documentary with instructor John de Graaf.

>From finding funding to identifying your audience, John de Graaf gives you
the tools and knowledge needed to get your documentary out of your head and
moving forward. John's will share his deep base of knowledge gathered from
years as as a documentary producer, director, and writer, producing such
works AFFLUENZA and the THE MOTHERHOOD MANIFESTO, and many PBS specials.

This is a rare opportunity to learn from a master, so go here and scroll to
the bottom to sign up with a better rate for 911 members. And if you're not
a member, now would be a good time.

While you're at it, check out the rest of our classes. Yes, Martha, there is
a Media Arts Center near you.


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MISHA NEININGER
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

911 MEDIA ARTS CENTER
402 9th AVE N.
SEATTLE, WA 98109 USA

T +206 682 6552 Ext. 17
E  misha at 911media.org

www.911media.org



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