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  • VAUDEVILLE FOLLIES: poetry, video, neo-benshi & flarf

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    Garden of Life

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    Tameiki no Odori

    Nada Gordon and Gary Sullivan lead an evening of poly-vocal poetics, neo-benshi film narration, and mangled imagery.

    Visiting the Bay Area live for one night only, the latter-day vaudeville team of Gordon and Sullivan will present their most recent poetry, performance and video work showcased last month (fresh!) at The Whitney Museum and Dixon Place in New York. Gordon and Sullivan are founding members of the notorious and irreverent Flarf Collective. They have been committed. To hilarious and unsettling entertainment. Throughout this millenium. Together, they authored the non-fiction e-pistolary techno-romantic novel Swoon.

    Local poet-provocateur Erika Staiti will perform her live film renarration of a short scene from “Woman Under the Influence,” which premiered last month in the Los Angeles underground venue, Machine Project.

    New York visual artist, montagist and poet Brandon Downing will premiere several disturbingly funny new video collages.

    Nada is the author of Folly, V. Imp., Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker Than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?,  and foreign bodie.

    Gary’s books include PPL in a Depot,  How to Proceed in the Arts, and Dead Man, as well as several comic books comprising his Elsewhere series.

  • Seeing Ohlones:

    6pm-8pm: live radio broadcast of “Voices of Native Nations” on kpoo radio, 89.5fm including Ohlone Leaders and their Organizations “Voices of San Francisco’s First Peoples”. Mary Jean Robertson, will host Ann Marie Sayers, Tribal Chair Person (Costanoan/Ohlone), Corina Guild, founder of Ohlone Shell Mound Peace Walk.
    8pm-930: Screening of Ruth Morgan’s photo portraits of Ohlone elders and Ben Wood’s film projection for Coit Tower, and clips from Catherine Herrera’s “Witness the Healing.

  • Archimedia MEDIA PRODUCTION FOR CELL PHONES AND SMALL DEVICES BOTH ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL

    Instructors are an internationally exhibited design/research team, Archimedia,(award winning filmmaker David Cox and media artist/writer Molly Hankwitz) offering an array of experimental workshops on the creative use of and exploration of mobile, portable and networked tools is being offered at ATA starting March 28th to June 20th. All courses run four hours, 1pm to 5pm and are held on Saturdays. Cost is $40.00 per workshop unless otherwise noted. Interested students are asked to bring their own equipment: laptop, cell phone, digital cameras and camcorders, gaming devices, electronic “toys”, power cords, batteries, etc. In the interests of appealing to those who do not own many gadgets but want to get started, some equipment may be provided or shared. All levels welcome! Bring tools you most want to work with. Wi fi enabled tools are encouraged and there is wi fi at ATA. Courses will be open until filled.

    Standard fees:
    $40 one class
    $60 two classes
    $80 three classes

    Registration is non refundable and is confirmed by advance payment in full by check or money order with a note or email stating your preferred classes and dates. Please include a list of what you intend to work with, and what you are interested in working on.

    Checks should be made out to: Molly Hankwitz/Archimedia and mailed to:
    3288 21st Street, #28, SF CA, 94110. Please no returned items.

    Questions? Drop an email with your information to archimedia.workshops@gmail.com. All classes are held at Artists Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, SF CA 94110. Confirm registration by email or check in mail to the above address. Note: ATA is not set up to take calls re: Archimedia workshops.

    Please contact us: archimedia.workshops@gmail.com
    or call at 415 401 5227, or 415 283 7757 (cells)

    Course dates may be subject to change.

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    UNTRAIN YOUR BRAIN – TAKE UP A TACTICAL MEDIA WORKSHOP!!!!

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    Saturday 3/28 and 5/16 — MEDIA PRODUCTION FOR CELL PHONES AND SMALL DEVICES BOTH ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL Learn to make mini movies using what you have – use old camcorders, old webcams, new phone cams, and other types of cameras to make films. Work around the limits of small screens, limited frame rates, limits of storage and battery time. Improvise tripods and other stabilization devices made from ordinary objects and learn production techniques for the small screen. Put your cell phone video into a form you can edit digitally. Bring your own tools or works in progress. $40 per student. Limited to 8 participants.

    Info: http://www.atasite.org/archimedia/