Image by Takeshi Murata
James and I are on the Honorary Committee for Rhizome‘s benefit this year. Join us to raise some money for this important organization dedicated to new media art!
Rhizome presents a Benefit Concert
Featuring Gang Gang Dance, Professor Murder and YACHT
April 16, 2007
At the Hiro Ballroom in the Maritime Hotel, 371 West 16th Street
A,C,E,L,1,2,3,9 to 14th Street
Doors at 8pm / VIP admission 7:30pm
Tickets: $25 – Rhizome Member/ $35 – General public/ $75 – VIP
To purchase tickets: rhizome.org/benefit
Rhizome, a 10-year old organization whose mission is to serve contemporary art that utilizes emerging technology, presents a Benefit Concert featuring three genre-bending bands: Gang Gang Dance, Professor Murder and YACHT. Each band integrates a wide range of musical influences and instrumentation to create innovative sounds and style. This line-up of new music will celebrate RhizomeÂ’s commitment to emerging forms of art, across sound, video and digital technologies. The evening will be introduced and mc-ed by computer artist Cory Arcangel, and will also include a silent auction with work by artists, such as Kristin Lucas and Alex Galloway, who work with the Internet.
ABOUT THE BANDS:
Melding rock with 80s electronics, Gang Gang Dance have been described as “a musical vehicle without brakes, constantly innovating and dropping material out the rear” (Fusetron). The quartet, composed of Brian DeGraw, Liz Bougatsos, Josh Diamond and Tim Dewitt, alchemizes stylistic elements of Asian, Middle Eastern, Ethiopian, hip-hop, rock, experimental & electronic music into a new kind of msuic, that is empowered by their improvisational and powerful live performances.
Professor Murder produce a rhythm-heavy dance sound inflected by hip-hop, reggae and funk. Comprised of Brooklyn artists Jesse Cohen, Michael Bell-Smith, Andy Craven and Tony Plunkett, the bandÂ’s goal is to create a sound that distills the different soundtracks to their lives in New York.
Powered by Portland musician Jona Bechtolt (also of the Blow) and a rotating cast of collaborators and friends, YACHT self-describes as “an amalgamation of self-taught dance moves and anthemic electro-power jams all played backwards and covered in cherry cola.” On tour now with his new album “I Believe Your Magic is Real,” YACHT will open the evening with a danceable set that also includes video and Bechtolt’s own narration.
ABOUT THE MC:
Cory Arcangel is a computer artist, performer, and curator who lives and works in Brooklyn. His work centers on his love of personal computers and the Internet. His work has shown recently in the Whitney Biennial of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Team and Deitch Galleries in New York. Aside from being seen installed in galleries and museums, most of his projects can be downloaded with source code from his Internet Web log at www.beigerecords.com/cory/.
ABOUT RHIZOME:
Rhizome is leading new media art organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Our programs, including commissions, exhibitions, education and preservation, all serve to support contemporary art that engages new technologies in significant ways.
BENEFIT SPONSORED BY REFLEXIONES DATA AND WIRED MAGAZINE
