[dorkbotsea-blabber] Joe Colley @ Jack Straw; residency deadlines

[Kate Seekings]

Artist talk, Weds 8th November at Jack Straw; also deadline for applications
for residencies is Nov 17th.

 

K

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 24, 2007 

Jack Straw Productions ........

  

Press Release ..... 

 

 

Bay Area electronica makes run at Jack Straw New Media Gallery 

 

Lonely Microphone 

Joe Colley

 

Seattle, WA - November 9-December 29, 2006 

 

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105

http://www.jackstraw.org

 

Artist Talk: Composer Spotlight - Wednesday, November 8, 7:30pm

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 9, 7pm

 

 

The Jack Straw New Media Gallery opens Lonely Microphone, a new installation
by Bay Area artist Joe Colley, on Thursday, November 9, with a reception at
7pm. The artist will give a talk on the day before the opening, Wednesday,
November 8, at 7:30pm, as part of our monthly Composer Spotlight series.
Colley recently received the 2006 Award of Distinction in Digital Music from
the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, for his CD Psychic Stress
Soundtracks (Antifrost). Along with Colley, Bay Area electronic artists
David Kwan and Jim Haynes are set to open installations at the New Media
Gallery in February 2007 and August 2007, respectively. Seattle-based artist
Paul Rucker opens his installation in May 2007.

 

Joe Colley's Lonely Microphone is a room installation centered around the
pathetic sight and sound of a suspended rotating microphone as it traces an
endless circle on the floor. Vibration from audience footsteps trigger
momentary flickers of light that illuminate the scene and in turn change
tones in the room.

 

"Using the microphone to trace an endless circle is a way to focus attention
and to listen," says Colley," a metaphor for these cycles of life we take
for granted. By focusing attention on this circle in this room - hopefully
it will act as a kind of mantra. Microphone as solitary individual."

 

 

Joe Colley is a self taught artist investigating the conceptual
possibilities of sound through music production, installations, or
collaborations with video artists, dancers, and even prisoners. His earlier
works were also created under the moniker Crawl Unit. His latest
installations attempt to dissimulate the artist by concentrating on the
instigation of unstable situations unique to the composition of random
sound. 

His performances have been seen as part of festivals including Activating
The Medium (SFMOMA), Observatori (Valencia, Spain), Phonotaktik (Vienna,
Austria), Beyond Music (Venice, Ca.), Songlines (Mills College, Oakland),
CEAIT (CalArts, Valencia), and the 2006 San Francisco Electronic Music
Festival. His recordings have been released internationally on various
underground record labels such as Groundfault Records, Auscultare, and
23five. He currently resides in Oakland, CA.

 

For images and interview requests, please contact arts manager Van Diep.

 

About Jack Straw Productions 

Jack Straw Productions (JSP) is the Northwest's only non-profit
multidisciplinary audio arts center. A community-based resource since 1962,
we provide a production facility that is unlike any other in the region for
local artists who work creatively with sound. Jack Straw Productions exists
to foster the communication of arts, ideas, and information to diverse
audiences through audio media. We provide creation and production
opportunities in audio media, including radio, theater, film, video, music,
and literature. Our full-service recording studio is also available to the
community at large for a range of arts projects.

 

Website: http://www.jackstraw.org 

About Jack Straw Artist Residencies 

 

Jack Straw Productions focuses on annual artist residencies through our
Artist Support Program, our Writers Program, and New Media Gallery Residency
Program. These programs offer established and emerging artists an
opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional
atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in
our various presentation programs. Proposals are reviewed by an
interdisciplinary peer panel (Artist Support and New Media Gallery programs)
or Curator (Writers Program). Applications for the 2007 cycle of programs
are currently available. The application deadline is November 17, 2006.

 

Website: http://www.jackstraw.org/programs/asp/ASP_main.shtml  

 

Jack Straw Productions 

Van Diep

Arts Manager

 

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