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"NOW SHOWING @ CRITICALARTWARE: DAN SANDIN!"
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Dan Sandin interview by criticalartware
++ a BLIT:SCREEN demo + introduction!

@ BUSKER
on FRI 2006.03.10
@ 8 PM

1087 N HERMITAGE AVE CHICAGO IL 60622

FREE + OPEN

join us as criticalartware screens our interview with Dan Sandin! this interview will be followed by a demo of + introduction to BLIT:SCREEN, a new decentralized media distribution system developed by jake elliott, a criticalartware core developer + running on the criticalartware [application/platform].

nfo ABOUT criticalartware's DAN SANDIN interview, criticalartware, BLIT:SCREEN + BUSKER follows below.

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ABOUT criticalartware's DAN SANDIN interview:
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since the late 1960's Dan Sandin has developed artware systems integrating digitial + analog computers, customized circuits, home{brewed|built}-hardware, video games + virtualReality.

Sandin, a professor @ the University of Illinois at Chicago, founded the Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL), created the Sandin Image Processor (I.P.), developed the CAVE virtual reality (VR) system + various other [artware systems/technologies/projects/pieces]. Dan Sandin's Image Processor (built from 1971 - 1973) offered artists unprecedented abilities to [create/control/affect/transform] video + audio data, enabling live audio video performances that literally set the stage for current realtime audio video art praxis. to facilitate the open release of the plans for the Image Processor as an [artware/system/toolset], Sandin + Phil Morton created the Distribution Religion. as a predecessor to the open source movement in the tradition of free software, this approach allowed artists to engage with these hardware systems + continues to [interest/inspire] [artisits/developers]. in order to honor the innovative {recent futures|parallel hystories} of the Image Processor + the Distribution Religion, criticalartware has converted the deadTree Distribution Religion into a single PDF file + a web-based version, for release to the {criticalartware} community.

criticalartware interviews Dan Sandin, [discussing/illuminating] the community + development of the early moments of video art in Chicago, artware, performing live audio video, virtual reality, open source, righteous NTSC outputs, the video revolution + the changes + similarities that [bridge/differentiate] then && now.

http://criticalartware.net/int/dS

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ABOUT criticalartware:
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criticalartware is an [application/platform/concern] compiled at the turn of the century to address the hystories of new media, [software-as-art/art-as-software] and [connections/ruptures/dislocations] between early moments of artware and Video Art. criticalartware seeks to [map/portscan/realize] the as-yet-unfulfilled promises of technology first proposed by entities such as Vannevar Bush, Gene Youngblood, Ted Nelson, Buckminster Fuller, and the publication "Radical Software."

By drawing [parallels/paths] between the [concepts/discourses] of the early video art movement and the current [artware/newmedia] moment, criticalartware hopes to [re]connect the current context to its rightful past: a multitude of [personal/subjective] hyperthreaded [her/hi/hy]stories.

http://criticalartware.net

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ABOUT BLIT:SCREEN:
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BLIT:SCREEN is a [webApp|system|artware] running on the criticalartware platform. localized groups (collectives, clans, classes, cabals etc.) sign up, register a mailing address + media playback capabilities + then receive media from randomized sources throughout the WWWorld. once a month, the BLIT:SCREEN system sends each group an email with the mailing address of another group to which to mail media. as a result, every group who participates in this physical exchange receives a DVD-R or CD-R or VHS or VinylRecord or any other media type delivered in any other appropriate format from 01 other participating group every month. likewise every group sends 01 instance of BLIT:SCREEN out to 01 group (whom BLIT:SCREEN has suggested), thereby creating a deeply distributed + dynamic 01 to 01 network.

BLIT:SCREEN is both a distribution system + a distributed archive. in this way the system is grid distribution + grid archiving. nothing is prescribed about participating groups; a group might be a hacker collective living in a squat, an experimental television station [+/ or] a professor collecting + distributing student work. media distributed through BLIT:SCREEN could include completed projects, artworks, raw materials for production+remix, critical txts, unearthed archives, shared cultural resources, &c&c. the BLIT:SCREEN system assumes no prescriptions [+/or] standards as to what participants do with the material they receive, however, screening+discussion+archiving are encouraged. BLIT:SCREEN draws connections from the hystories + technologies of bicycling physical video tapes during the early video art moment, {sneaker|floppy|walk}-nets + onLine {communication|development} [channels/paths] in demoscenes + BBS culture as well as {highlighting|suggesting} contemporary possibilities for the role of decentralized distribution modalities + resource sharing.

http://blitscreen.criticalartware.net

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ABOUT BUSKER:
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Busker is a flexible, alternative, noncommercial, artist-run gallery space in the East Village of Chicago commited to audio and visual art. The purpose of Busker is to provide a venue optimized for sound, moving images, and other new media arts for young and emerging artists in the Chicago area. It is our goal to be able to provide artists with a suitible space to show films or videos, as well as perform live music, or sound pieces. We aim to reach out to the growing art community in Chicago that is compelled by new media arts and the implications that the hold in the contemporary art world. Busker wants to accommodate to all those interested about this artwork, as well as house projects and events corresponding to any aspects of these mediums. In trying to establish a network of artists and enthusiasts, Busker strives to connect artists with one another in a common social environment.

http://www.buskerchicago.com