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SA#96 - Photo LA - Nash Editions 46 minutes - 21mb | |
A trip to Nash Editions in Manhattan Beach, CA and a conversation with the rock star and his former tour manager
who've spent the last two decades at the forefront of fine art digital imaging. Lost negatives. What's an
ink jet print? Magic. War crimes. Body bags. Vietnam & Iraq. Beams of energy. Synaesthesia. Playing rock; getting girls.
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SA#95 - Photo LA - Lisa Sette Gallery 32 minutes - 14mb | |
On the occasion of Photo LA in Santa Monica we drop into the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for a conversation
with Scottsdale, Arizona gallerist Lisa Sette. Crossing a continent because of a book you read. Photography in the
19th century. Photography in the 21st century. The children of art collectors. Tactileness.
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SA#85 - The Dresden Dolls - Yes Virginia 47 minutes - 45mb | |
From center-stage at The Orpheum in Los Angeles, a door not many steps away leads to an alley and a small parking lot where
Amanda Palmer & Brian Viglione's favorite driver somehow managed to park their endlessly long tour-bus.
We set up in the kitchen / living room and recorded this interview a few hours before their LA concert.
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SA#78a - The Quest for Consciousness - Christof Koch & Constanze Hofstoetter 43 minutes - 21mb | |
A trip to the 9th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC9) and a conversation with
neurobiologists Christof Koch and
Constanze Hofstoetter. Big computers and big magnets (fMRI); materialism and dualism; the phenomenal realm and the causally
closed universe; Macintosh and Windows; rock climbing and being a bum.
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SA#77 - Le Fil - Camille 55 minutes - 26mb | |
On the occasion of the U.S. release of her record Le Fil, and a performance at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood,
we visit with French vocal sensation Camille. Lines, colors, minimalism, pointillism,
multitracking, love songs, drones, beatboxing, ballet, farting: these are a few of her favorite things.
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SA#76 - Corporeal Reality - Aimee Bender & David Wilson 60 minutes - 28mb | |
A visit to the Museum of Jurassic Technology Tea Room and a conversation with MJT
founder David Wilson and Los Angeles author Aimee Bender. The first in
Strange Angels' new cross-disciplinary arts conversations. Today the curator and the author talk about wakefulness,
deep investigation as a way of life, inspiration, email withdrawal, truth, their favorite centuries, how to visit a
museum, and sneaking pencils out of the bathtub.
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SA#75a - Festival of Books - Karen Finley 40 minutes - 19mb | |
A visit to the LA Times Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with performance artist
Karen Finley. Having your art denounced on the floor of the United States senate; being declared the artist of the decade;
the virgin Mary is pro-choice. Capitalism, Capitalism, Capitalism. Copyright and feminism in the 21st century. Flesh cell phones.
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SA#75b - Festival of Books - Meghan Daum 23 minutes - 11mb | |
A visit to the LA Times Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with author
Meghan Daum. Barren aunts; breeders; childless by choice. Creating creative non-fiction. On-line dating not as postmodern detachment,
but as a Victorian experience. Trying to be an outside insider.
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SA#73 - Finding Your Inner Me - Spanking Machine, Psycho Girlfriend, Poubelle Twins 76 minutes - 37mb | |
A full house at KBCH hanging out with industrial-trance-gothic-metal-electronica band
Spanking Machine, wearable art designers Kasey McMahon & Vanessa Bonet of
Psycho Girlfriend, and French maids & Mexican wrestlers Fifi & Bibi
Poubelle. Live performances by Spanking Machine and Bibi Poubelle of Suki Tawdry.
The answer to Why black? Bathtubs, bananas, and so much more!
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SA#72 - Altered States of Artmaking - Christopher Miles 39 minutes - 18mb | |
A visit with art critic Christopher Miles and a conversation on Altered States
of artmaking. The Mind of the Artist vis-a-vis The Mind of the Audience. van Gogh, Dali, El Greco, Close, Monet, de Kooning, Pollock, and
Basquiat. Maybe even a little Vision Questers of Lascaux, Oracle at Delphi, and Stephen Hawking for good measure.
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SA#69c - Xtreme Fashion III - Maggie Orth & Elise Co 31 minutes - 15mb | |
A visit with designers Maggie Orth of International Fashion Machines and Elise Co of
Minty Monkey. An exploration of computation as an artform, textile dimmers, emissive
raincoats, and embedded technology. Also a whirl through the heyday of the MIT Media Lab: working with John Maeda, Tod Machover,
Neil Gershenfeld, et al.
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SA#69a - Xtreme Fashion I - Bethany Shorb 21 minutes - 10mb | |
Bethany Shorb of Cyberoptics brings us along on one of her late-nite
capers in the dark, dank, to-be-demolished-24-hours-later, underbelly of Detroit. We'll find the most amazing
"fabric," elude the authorities "borrowing" it, stand on scissors to cut it, break 23 industrial needles
sewing it, and finally wear it down the runway at America's premiere computer graphics cyberfashion show.
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SA#65 - Not A Cornfield - Lauren Bon & Mara 55 minutes - 26mb | |
A rainy Friday trip to artist Lauren Bon's Not A Cornfield 32-acre art installation in the
heart of Downtown Los Angeles. A fireside visit in the yurt at the edge of the cornfield and a conversation with Lauren Bon and live music
from Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Mara.
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SA#59a - Festival of Books - Aimee Bender 39 minutes - 18mb | |
A trip to the L.A. Times Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with Aimee Bender,
author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, and Willful Creatures.
Beautiful gestures that harden into compulsions. Superstitions, numbers, religion, knocking. Ritualistic behavior.
Contemporary fairy tales. Flannery O'Connor. Strange rituals. Noble gases.
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SA#59b - Festival of Books - Rachel Resnick 63 minutes - 30mb | |
A trip to the L.A. Times Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with Rachel Resnick,
author of Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick. Jerusalem, Alabama, Yale, Los Angeles, India. Beauty pageants and being choked unconscious;
bullfighting and boxing. Flannery O'Connor - George Plimpton - Nikki S. Lee. The shadow of death; triumph in despair.
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SA#56 - Photo LA! - Mona Kuhn & Tracy Spuehler 69 minutes - 36mb | |
A visit to Photo LA and conversations with photographer Mona Kuhnand singer-songwriter Tracy Spuehler. We'll do some photography in French "nature" colonies and cut Hollywood deals for film & TV music. Americans and their bodies. Finding the nerve to call yourself an artist. Great curators. | |
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SA#54 - Fashion LA! - Jose Angel, Uriel Saenz, Gayle Day 66 minutes - 33mb | |
A conversation on Fashion in Los Angeles in the 21st Century with designers Jose Angel and
Uriel Saenz, and singer-songwriters Gayle Day and
Rich Jacques. Moving to NYC on September 10th, 2001; manufacturing in Hong Kong; independent designers taking on Wal-Mart;
Los Angeles taking on the world.
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SA#53 - The Quest for Consciousness - Christof Koch & Francis Crick 65 minutes - 37mb | |
A conversation on Consciousness with neurobiologist Francis
Crick of the Salk Institute and neurobiologist Christof Koch from Caltech.
Hard parts & easy parts; my smart cats and your not so smart dogs; the fallacy of the Turing
Test; complexity; integrating reductionist biology and Roman Catholicism. Things that don't "escape our notice."
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SA#50a - Erotica L.A. - Nina Hartlely 39 minutes - 18mb | |
A trip to Erotica L.A. and a conversation with adult film actor Nina Hartley.
20 years. 500 videos. Pornography & feminism & culture. Religious ecstasy & sexual ecstasy.
Spirituality & belonging. Pair bonding & monogamy. Joy. Friction. The deep deep deep unspoken unknown shame
and pain about sexuality. Jocelyn Elders was right.
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SA#49 - Truth - Mary Woronov 79 minutes - 38mb | |
A conversation with actor, artist, and author Mary Woronov. Being born in a Florida
hotel with a tail! Hanging out in Warhol's Factory. Watching Salvador Dali bomb his screen test. Voyeurism. Filming
Chelsea Girls, Rock 'n Roll High School and Eating Raoul. Surgeons telling you you're not gonna last.
Writing books. Ending life.
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SA#48 - Origami Universe - Andrew Glassner 59 minutes - Streaming at PRX | |
A trip to the annual Siggraph computer graphics confab and a conversation with Writer/Director/Computer Scientist
Andrew Glassner. Controlling your 14 tails with something more intuitive
than a pop-up window. Complex software that becomes massive hardware
that becomes a five-dollar chip you pull off-the-shelf and do amazing things with - Holy Cow!
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SA#45a - Festival of Books - Iris Chang 33 minutes - 15mb | |
A trip to the LA Times Festival of Books at UCLA and a visit with Iris Chang,
author of Thread of the Silkworm, The Rape of Nanking, and The Chinese in America. Money, power, corruption,
war crimes, heroes, cowards, and forgiveness. What to do with that flicker of time we call life.
See an Artboy portrait of Iris.
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SA#44y - Yet Another Monica - Melissa Lawson & Kara Revel 53 minutes - 13mb | |
With the distance of time, we look back at Linda Tripp's infamous recordings of her conversations with
her friend Monica Lewinsky. Yes, the definition of sex is here, but so are sharing a hamburger,
getting your hair done, losing weight, getting out of ruts and wrapping hot dogs.
Performed by Melissa Lawson and
Kara Revel.
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SA#43 - Matmos - Drew Daniel & M.C. Schmidt 80 minutes - 37mb | |
A conversation with Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt of Matmos.
Stomping rhythmically with Bruce Nauman, polyglot producing with Britney Spears, and touring the world
with Bjork. A holler in the field, the authoritarian orchestra, when punk grows old,
midnight swims with the Icelandic women's choir, and screaming like Michael Jackson when you get a
"Germs Burn."
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SA#16a - The Museum of Jurassic Technology - David Wilson 33 minutes - 15mb | |
A visit with Museum of Jurassic Technology founder and director
David Wilson. Building a bridge across Iguazu Falls. Theories of forgetting and the problem of memory.
The dark and curious. Wondercabinets. Polymaths. Winning the McArthur award.
See an Artboy portrait of David.
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