And for those who don't know what an infinite loop is in programming, it is explained along with an example in the Microcodes primer at http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes/MCprimer.pdf
Pall On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:50 AM, info <[email protected]> wrote: > The Wheel of The Devil (aka the loop lecture) > > The infinite loop is the perfect form for expressing the reality of > contemporary existence. From the endless boom-bust cycle of capitalism > to the repeating right/left swings of American politics to the > misbehaving computer code frustrating our days, we are the society of > the loop. We're doomed to repeat history ad infinitum (not to mention ad > nauseum) with no progress nor resolve needed. These observations are > nothing new; how could they be? We've always been Sisyphus. > > while (history) { > history = true; > } > > > Come celebrate the horrific beauty of the infinite loop at "The Wheel of > The Devil," a one-night-only screening of historic and contemporary > loops at Over The Opening. Each loop screened until the audience votes > to move to the next. > > Artists (in no particular order): > JODI - Rick Silva - Brody Condon - Jon Rafman - Oliver Laric - Deidre > LaCarte - Michael Sarff - MTAA - Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris > Coy - Michael Bell-Smith - jimpunk - and more... JODI - Rick Silva - > Brody Condon - Jon Rafman - Oliver Laric - Deidre LaCarte - Michael > Sarff - MTAA - Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris Coy - Michael > Bell-Smith - jimpunk - and more... JODI - Rick Silva - Brody Condon - > Jon Rafman - Oliver Laric - Deidre LaCarte - Michael Sarff - MTAA - > Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris Coy - Michael Bell-Smith – > jimpunk - and more... > > curated by MTAA with Ed Halter > presented by T.Whid of MTAA > > where: > Over The Opening (OTO) > 60 N. 6th St. 2nd Flr (btw Wythe & Kent) > Brooklyn, NY, 11211 (map) > > when: > Friday May 29th, 2009 7-10PM (one night only) > Doors open at 7PM, the lecture starts looping at 8PM sharp! > free and open to the public > > Michael Sarff (M.River) and Tim Whidden (T.Whid) formed the > Brooklyn-based artist collaboration MTAA in 1996. MTAA has presented > artworks and performances at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, P.S.1 > Contemporary Art Center, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Postmasters > Gallery, Artists Space, and Light Industry all in New York City; The > Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; The Beall Center for Art and > Technology in Irvine, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San > Francisco, CA and at The Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA. International > exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival in Korea and > Videozone2 - The 2nd International Video Art Biennial in Israel. The > collaboration has earned grants and awards from the Creative Capital > Foundation, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam and New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. > > Ed Halter is a critic and curator living in New York City. His writing > has appeared in Artforum, Arthur, The Believer, Cinema Scope, > Kunstforum, Millennium Film Journal, Moving Image Source, Rhizome, the > Village Voice and elsewhere. From 1995 to 2005, he programmed and > oversaw the New York Underground Film Festival, and has organized > screenings and exhibitions for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, > Cinematexas, Eyebeam, the Flaherty Film Seminar, the Museum of Modern > Art, and San Francisco Cinematheque. He currently teaches in the Film > and Electronic Arts department at Bard College, and has lectured at > Harvard, NYU, Yale, and other schools as well as at Art in General, > Aurora Picture Show, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, the > Images Festival, the Impakt Festival, and Pacific Film Archive. His book > From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games was published by Thunder's > Mouth Press in 2006. With Andrea Grover, he is currently editing the > collection A Microcinema Primer: A Brief History of Small Cinemas. He is > a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and > electronic art in Brooklyn, New York. > > Over The Opening (OTO) - Once a month, the artist duo MTAA convert their > Brooklyn studio into a venue for the presentation of time-based art. The > ongoing project, begun in October 2007, has presented work ranging from > group tamale production to a LAN party involving a computerized version > of Guy Debord’s 1978 "Game of War." > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit ***************************** _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
