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> From: locone-admin@mail.location1.org
> Date: February 3, 2004 3:26:36 PM EST
> To: locone@location1.org
> Subject: Alexei Shulgin at Location One
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> Location One is proud to present
>
> ALEXEI SHULGIN
>
> 386 DX
> WIMP
>
> February 13, 2004
> 8pm
> Admission: $15, members free
> No advanced ticket sales;
> Doors open at 7:30 pm
>
> Location One
> 26 Greene Street NYC 10013
> Subway: Canal Street - N, R, Q, W, 6, A, C, E
> www.location1.org
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> Alexei Shulgin created Cyberpunk six years ago. At last, he's bringing
> his bizarrely affecting techno-pop musical art to New York, for a
> single performance on February 13th at Location One.
>
> Shulgin's Cyberpunk "band", 386 DX, consists of an archaic computer
> that plays MIDI tunes with speech-synthesis "vocals" accompanied by
> Shulgin who "operates" the machine through a computer keyboard slung
> over his shoulder with a guitar strap. Their music spans 30 years of
> pop music (from The Mamas and The Papas to Nirvana), and is by turns
> satirical, sentimental, innovative and just plain weird - -
> accompanied, as always, by Shulgin's irreverent insight into net art,
> techno, and the contemporary entertainment scene.
>
> Shulgin has performed concerts extensively throughout Europe and
> America, most notably through a chain-link fence from the American
> side of the US/Mexican border at Las Playas de Tijuana while his
> computerized counterpart was free to perform on the Mexican side of
> the border. The computer has performed as a solo act as well, singing
> pop songs to crowds on the streets of Graz, Austria and receiving tips
> for its musicianship.
>
> WIMP (Windows Interface Manipulation Program or Windows, Icons, Menus
> and Pointing device - the prehistorical GUI of the 1970's) is a
> program for creating full- screen visual animations synchronized with
> sound in real time. WIMP utilizes the graphical user interface (GUI)
> of the Windows operating system as its only visual source of
> inspiration. Standard interface elements from the desktop such as
> applications, windows, icons, images, pop-up menus and text are
> manipulated and transformed through the use of VJ effects. These
> animations are generated by simple 2- and 3-D effects and filters and
> their superimpositions. The versatile nature of WIMP allows it to be
> used as a VJ tool, a screensaver, a cool grafix generator or as a
> piece of conceptual art.
>
> WIMP was created by Shulgin in collaboration with Victor Laskin and
> had its world premiere in October of 2003 at Dorkbot Rotterdam
> (http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotrotterdam/). It is downloadable as freeware
> at http://www.wimp.ru.
>
> Alexei Shulgin is a Moscow-based artist, musician, curator, activist
> and professor. Shulgin has participated in numerous exhibitions and
> symposiums on photography, contemporary art and new media. He is the
> author and curator of several Internet projects including Form Art,
> which first introduced this new art form based on the aesthetics of a
> computer interface to the internet community in 1997. He also
> collaborated on the development of Runme.org, launched in January 2003
> as an open database for people around the world to showcase their
> examples of software art. Since the creation of 386 DX in 1998,
> Shulgin has released two albums with the band including The Best of
> and Legend of Russian Rock.
>
> An on-going archive of Shulgin's projects, including 386 DX and WIMP,
> can be found on his website, Easylife.org (http://www.easylife.org).
>
> ABOUT LOCATION ONE
>
> Location One is a not-for profit art center whose mission is to foster
> the convergence of classic and new media for the development and
> presentation of new work. Emerging and established artists in all
> mediums from all over the world are invited to collaborate and
> experiment with advanced technological tools and delivery
> systems. Location One presents visual arts, performing arts and online
> programming. It maintains on its premises an International Residency
> Program that is open to artists from different fields of expression at
> all levels of experience in technology.
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