this saturday Dec. 9 is La Superette, where you can get wonderful artist
made items and gifts. in addition to the merch there's a great free and
open to the public performance program I curated (thanks to ETC for
support) and workshops through this year's La Superette partner,
Eyebeam's Holiday Hackshop. all details are below in this message and on
line at lasuperette.org where you can also browse the catalog to think of
gift ideas. also, thursday night Dec. 7, LoVid will perform at Diapason
with Bill Etra. details for that event, Optosonic Tea, are included
below the La Superette announcement.

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LA SUPERETTE 2006
IN ASSOCIATION WITH EYEBEAM'S HOLIDAY HACKSHOP '06

SATURDAY DECEMBER 9th - 12:00 TO 10:00 PM
EYEBEAM - 540 WEST 21st STREET - NEW YORK, NY 10011

This year LA SUPERETTE comes to Chelsea, where artists will showcase
original, handmade gifts (ranging from $1-$100) including recycled
accessories, multifunctional stuffed animals, artist publications,
funky house wares, and homemade clothes, with a special focus on
"hacks," the custom configuration of pre-existing hardware or
software. LA SUPERETTE is an annual art market where professional and
amateur artists and craftsmen present and sell their creations to a
wide range of visitors. LA SUPERETTE is a collaborative project
seeking to enhance the dialog between artists and their audience,
placing art in the middle of daily life. This year LA SUPERETTE joins
EYEBEAM in conjunction with HOLIDAY HACKSHOP '06, a DIY tech-workshop
featuring activities from circuit-bending to laser-cutting in a festive
atmosphere.

LA SUPERETTE is conceived and organized as a place for artists to meet
and collaborate on a specific project. A catalog zine is published,
which distributes contact information of all participating artists, a
web catalog is hosted at WWW.LASUPERETTE.ORG, and a video catalog is
produced and screened at the event. LA SUPERETTE 2005 included more
than 100 artists and attracted thousands of visitors and shoppers.

DIY merchandise has been a part of the music world for years through
micro labels and zine culture. Today's proliferation of
interdisciplinary artists and multi-media collectives is concomitant
with an increase of visual artists producing merchandise and multiples.
Many of these artists act as cultural hackers, re-appropriating
history, media, science, and other elements of contemporary life for
their work. They share a growing need to reconnect and to distribute,
so they make t-shirts that look like their paintings or web sites, join
a knitting circle in Brooklyn to rediscover craft, or paint elaborate
packaging for their self-recorded albums. With an emphasis on the
handmade, homemade, and loved, these pursuits help modulate a digitally
reproducible society and give an alternative to mainstream standards.

LA SUPERETTE 2006 will feature an installation by Jake Borndal and Kate
Scherer and in addition to the sale there will be live video, music and
puppet performances, organized by Kyle Lapidus, by a range of artists
utilizing unique moving image techniques and a low-tech hacking
methodology. Employing everything from hacked tape decks and custom
light synthesizers to modified walkie talkies and biofeedback
microcontrollers, performances include 1/3 v. 2 [c.h.i.a.k.i (Chiaki
Watanabe) with Phillip Schulze + Sylvia Mincewicz], Gunung Sari
(Stanley Ruiz + Nick Lesley), NoteNdo (Jeff Donaldson) with Taigaa!,
Jason Zeh, Daniel Vatsky, Chris Jordan, Ben Fino-Radin & Caroline
Charuk, Zach Layton, Neg-Fi, Eiliyas, Daniel Vatsky & DJ Rhizome.

In the spirit of this year's event, many of the artists use unique
moving image techniques and low-tech hacking methodology. Stick around
all day, and you will witness everything from hacked tape decks and
custom light synthesizers to modified walkie talkies and biofeedback
microcontrollers.
*Special thanks to Kyle Lapidus for his curatorial and organizational
prowess.

LA SUPERETTE 2006 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
** 12:30pm ** Daniel Vatsky & DJ Rhizome ** skyvat.net **
downunderground.org/dig
** 1:30pm ** NoteNdo with Taigaa! ** myspace.com/taigaa
** 2:30pm ** 1/3 v. 2 (c.h.i.a.k.i. Watanabe/Schulze/Mincewicz) **
nicknack.org
** 3:30pm ** Chris Jordan ** seej.net
** 4:30pm ** Ben Fino-Radin & Caroline Charuk ** benjaminter.net **
carolinecharuk.net
** 5:30pm ** Zach Layton ** zachlaytonindustries.com
** 6:30pm ** Gunung Sari ** gunungsari.blogspot.com
** 7:30pm ** Jason Zeh
** 8:30pm ** Eiliyas ** myspace.com/eiliyas
** 9:15pm ** Neg-Fi ** myspace.com/negfi

LA SUPERETTE was founded in 1998 in Paris, France by Tali Hinkis, Marie
Daubert and Tracy Rolling while in school at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
In 2001, Hinkis, a multidisciplinary artist, moved to New York City and
began producing the event here. In New York, LA SUPERETTE continues to
successfully distribute the work of many artists from Europe and North
America to a wide audience.

At HOLIDAY HACKSOP 2006, just in time for holiday gift-giving season,
EYEBEAM will be transformed into Santa's tech-workshop with a day full
of artist-led fabrication sessions followed by a holiday party at the
end of the day. At their little North Pole in Chelsea, participants
create their own fun, affordable, custom DIY gifts including Solar
Powered Noisemakers, LED Ornaments, laser cut stencils, and
personalized holiday songs and portraits.

EYEBEAM engages cultural dialogue at the intersection of the arts and
sciences. Its goal is to forge an understanding of the relatedness of
these practices, which are becoming increasingly significant engines of
cultural production.

* LA SUPERETTE is made possible with support from the FOUNDATION FOR
CONTEMPORARY ARTS' Emergency Grant and the EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION
CENTER'S (ETC) Presentation Fund. The EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER
(ETC) is supported by THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS (NYSCA)

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: WWW.LASUPERETTE.ORG and WWW.EYEBEAM.ORG

CONTACT TALI HINKIS (LA SUPERETTE): LASUPERETTE@GMAIL.COM
OR PERRY LOWE (EYEBEAM): PERRY@EYEBEAM.ORG

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Diapason, gallery for sound and intermedia presents…

Thursday December 7th
8:30pm

OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason

Live sets by:
- Bill Etra (live visuals) with James Herring (music)
- LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) visuals and music on handmade
audio/video synthesizers

Invited artist:
- Anton Marini

Suggested donation:
$ 7


OptoSonic Tea is a new regular series of meetings dedicated to the
convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual
component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore
different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide
projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways
they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features two
different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a set
with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are followed
by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of green
tea. A third artist, from previous generations of visualists or related
fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as to
create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide different
perspectives on the present and the future.

Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer


About the artists:

Bill Etra

Bill Etra is the co-inventor (with Steve Rutt) of the Rutt/Etra Video
Synthesizer (early seventies) and a Live Video pioneer. Bill is a founding
member of The Kitchen. Recent projects include work on "The New Machine", an
advanced digital video synthesizer that gives the artist "total plasticity
of image" in real time. Mr. Etra has held several patents, some include
developments for 3-D television and text-based (versus time-code based)
editing of video. Visit www.etra.com for more details.

James Herring (Planet Sounds)

Creating percussive soundscapes and musical compositions primarily using
custom built Kalimbas (African Thumb Piano), mixed with computer based
digital synthesized processing.

LoVid

LoVid is Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Using homemade electronic devices and
DIY sculptural instruments, LoVid overwhelms the senses with new media in
their performances, videos, objects, and installations. LoVid has toured
the US and Europe extensively performing, exhibiting, and lecturing at The
Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv, The Butler Institute of American Art ,
Evolution Festival, FACT, The Kitchen, Chicago Art Institute, Kansas City
Art Institute, University of Wisconsin, Futuresonic Festival, Upgrade OK,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY Underground Film Festival, The Happy
Lion, and Institute of Contemporary Art London among many others. LoVid is
currently artist in residence at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been
artist in residence at Eyebeam, Harvestworks, iEAR, and Alfred University,
has received grants and awards from Experimental TV Center, NYSCA, and
Greenwall Foundation, and is a free103Point9 transmission artist. In
February 2007 LoVid will be exhibiting a new installation at the Neuberger
Museum of Art.

Anton Marini

Anton Marini (Aka Vade) is a New York based video engineer and new
media programmer specializing in video and 3D systems for post
production, visual effects and realtime systems. His work explores
both designing software environments and systems for realtime
performance as well as aesthetics for abstract visual communication.
Anton Marini is a frequent collaborator at Share (http://share.dj),
and has participated in events such as Anyware, Share Montreal,
Eyewash, Rake, Share @ The Kitchen, as well as leading several
workshops in new media programming environments.

Diapason
1026 6th Avenue, 2S
New York NY 10018
(212) 719-4393
http://www.diapasongallery.org

Avenue of the Americas between 38th and 39th Streets,
two blocks south of Bryant Park.
Subways: 1, 2, 3, 9, B, D, F, Q, N, R, W to Times Square/42nd Street