SELECT MEDIA FESTIVAL 2 presents:

The Cultural Interference Show
Thursday Nov 20,2003
BuddY / High School / Heaven
1542-1550 N Milwaukee Ave 2nd/3rd floors
8pm FREE

You will enjoy complementary foods and drinks til 9 or 10pm.

EVENTS:
8:00 pm (HighSchool)
Screenings of Select #8 DVD Project:

10:00 pm(buddY)
Live Performance by Small Bathroom Fire

10:00pm (Heaven)
Live Performance Jonathan Chen band

11:30pm (Rodan 1530 N Milwaukee Ave.)
Cremaster Caroake by C.C Karoake Factory
Mathew Barney and you will not believe your eyes. Come sing with us.

The Galleries and spaces will feature work by Jason Archer, Paul Beck, Josh MacPhee, Michael Hernandez, Logan Bay, Rob Atkinson, Save America, Jose Alejandro Restrepo, Solow, and others.
(Gallery hours 6-10pm Nov 22 - Nov 26)

INSTALLATIONS:
Thursday nov 20 – Wednesday Nov 26

CREMASTER KAROAKE
C & C Karaoke Factory
Two words: Cremaster Caraoke. A set of DVDs was sent to us by the C & C Karaoke Factory using the Cremaster cycle as video backgrounds for Karaoke songs. The first set has 21 songs.
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CREAMASTER CARAOKE 4 DVD
Preview menu list 09/2003
Distributed by C+C Caraoke Factory, North America
1. BABA O’REILLY The Who
2. BORDERLINE Madonna
3. CELEBRATION Kool and the Gang
4. DESPERADO The Eagles
5. DIRTY WATER Standells
6. ENTER SANDMAN Metallica
7. I LOVE ROCK N’ ROLL Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
8. IGNITION (REMIX) R. Kelly
9. INDEPENDENT WOMEN Destiny’s Child
10. KISS FROM A ROSE Seal
11. (LAST NIGHT) I DIDN’T
GET TO SLEEP AT ALL The 5th Dimension
12. LET IT BLEED The Rolling Stones
13. LET’S GO CRAZY Prince
14. MAYBE I’M AMAZED Paul McCartney & Wings
15. MY BOYFRIEND’S BACK The Angels
16. MY HEART WILL GO ON Celine Dion
17. POUR SOME SUGAR
ON ME Def Leppard
18. ROCKET MAN Elton John
19. UNDER PRESSURE Queen & David Bowie
20. YOU CAN’T HURRY
LOVE The Supremes
21. YOU SPIN ME AROUND
(LIKE A RECORD) Dead or Alive

MEDIA SELF-MUTILATION
solow
media self-mutilation
Roman Bolks and Stel Valavanis of solow bring you the latest in interactive media damage. Using their special sonar sensors and a few TVs and radios, they build an environment that allows the visitor to choose and manipulate TV and radio audio with their movements. Four stations, each with a sound source and with a sonar or two control the sound for a speaker opposite the station. The sonars feed MIDI data to a computer that modifies the live sound. Four or more visitors can "perform" together creating sound experiments from the damaged media source.

ADOPT AN AMERICAN
The Save America Foundation
Many people in the world are worried about the state of Democracy in. Adopt an American is an email and web-based cultural exchange program in which Europeans or other citizens of the world may interact with an American citizen in order to open lines of communication. By initializing a cross-continental conversation and providing a nurturing contact overseas, it is the hope of the Save America Foundation that dialogue will further the development of democratic and peaceful practices in the United States.
More conversations and contact will only benefit the world in these of militarism, fear and war. Adopt an American will be a lifeline communication enabler that allows personal stories to be shared along with information about the state of American politics and culture.

ICONOMIA
Jose Alejandro Restrepo
Video installation of the well known Colombian artist Jose Alejandro Restrepo. There are two segments Iconoclastia (36) and Iconofilia (1:17) , both made mainly from stock footage. This work is a study between those who love "the image" and those who hate "the image". The image as an Icon, from religious figures to the meditated version of our world. Those who pose for the cameramen, those who attack them. The destruction of plaster virgins and the idolization of a bleeding dying christ. Pablo Escobar's brother speaks directly to God threw a live TV interview: "Threw this medium I want to tell God...."

translated thru babelfish.

LEARNING STALLS: MODULAR SYLLABI AND ORGANIC EXCHANGE
TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS+DARRIN
EDU Content is based on our research into diverse speculative fictions and reimagined educational practices. We will show physical and metaphoric bodies mining for the possibility of exisiting altenative therapies that have gone untapped and lie dormant within the body. i.e.psychic potential, improvisational communication with inorganic/organic props, pseudo testing methods_staged quasi therapy sessions, artists and other participants reenacting humorous and vigorous physio-dynamic interactions. Video that plays with gender and blurred intersexuality. Image combinations that use the body as a conduit or trigger for ambigious imagination



PAINTINGS, PHOTOS AND OTHER WORK

JASON ARCHER and PAUL BECK

LOGAN BAY
Out the Window on the Street is an on going project exploring the urban landscape and documenting its essence. A mythical magical fantasyland of cheap gas and cigarettes. Black Cat. Kool. Industrial Strip. Land of perverse pleasures: gambling, illegal fireworks, strip clubs. Black plumes of doom float over seasonal sand dunes populated by families escaping the heat. Sweet seduction and dusted Chevys. Front lawns of asphalt and grass that runs rusty in the rain.

POLITICAL STREET ARTS
Josh MacPhee

ROBERT ATKINSON

MICHAEL HERNANDEZ

INNER CITY LIGHT (Friends OF The Arts)

FUTURITY
Kelly Noah