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Dead Man’s Shuttle @ Road Concert on Sunset

This Sunday (9/18), I will be participating in the LA Road Concert on Sunset Blvd, with a new project, Dead Man’s Shuttle. The LA Road Concert on Sunset Blvd is a series of site specific works by over 100 artists along the 24 mile stretch that is Sunset Blvd.

Dead Man’s Shuttle, is a small shuttle that takes riders along the deadly curve located at Sunset Boulevard and N. Whittier Drive, known as “Dead Man’s Curve.” Riders will be given a brief history on the curve and its influence upon Hollywood celebrities, Los Angeles, and popular culture, before they climb into Dead Man’s Shuttle and ride along the deadly curve. Throwing caution to the wind with each ride and playing the odds with the hope that the fury of Sunset Boulevard’s Dead Man’s Curve will not strike.

Date & Time: 9/18 from 3-5pm (approximately every 10-15 minutes)

Location: 900 Block of N. Whittier Drive just north of the Sunset Blvd & N. Whittier intersection. Look for the Black Toyota Yaris.
For more info on the, LA Road Concert on Sunset Blvd, please visit http://www.laroadconcerts.co.cc/

Follow Dead Man’s Shuttle on Twitter @DeadManShuttle

Have You Seen My Privacy?

The Neighborhood Network Watch Keyword Analysis Application v3.5f (NNWKAA) will be part of the Have You Seen My Privacyshow at the 18th Street Art Center, curated by Richard Newton.  Have You Seen My Privacy, will involve multiple presentations of video, ephemera, and correspondence accompanied by public dialogues with artists active in Southern California from 1960 onwards.  The NNWKAA will be on view starting on March 3rd and an accompanying talk will take place on March 10th, NNWKAA: Making Terrorism Out Of Your Emails. Details are available below and for more information please visit http://18thstreet.org/projects/in-the-privacy-richard-newton

Have You Seen My Privacy Opening
Date: February 19, 2011
Time: 6-9PM

NNWKAA: Making Terrorism Out Of Your Emails
Date: March 10, 2011
Time: 8:00PM (reception at 7:30PM)

Location:
18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Neighborhood Network Watch @ Collective Show: LA

The Neighborhood Network Watch: Wardriving on Washington Blvd, will be screening as part of  Collective Show: LA that is ongoing. In addition I will be doing a short performance as J.R. Jones, a member of the Los Angeles Chapter’s Network Identification and Collection Division (NICD). Event info is after the jump.

Location: 995 N. Hill Street, 1st Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Time: 7pm

“EULA For A _____” Artist Talk @ Electrofringe 2010

“EULA For A _____” Artist Talk @ Electrofringe 2010 from Emery Martin on Vimeo.
Documentation of the artist talk I gave about, “EULA For A _____” for the Electrofringe new media festival, October 1, 2010 @ Process Space, in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Please read the EULA For A Talk before proceeding with watching this video reproduction.

EULA For A Talk
By attending this talk and or listening to or watching any reproduction of this talk, you as the viewer and or participant agree to the following conditions and terms of experience. This talk does not advocate nor discourage the active and or passive defacement of public, private, and presently unclassified and or ambiguous property. The presenter of this talk may or may not convey the opinions and views associated with this talk. There is no guarantee given to the effectiveness of said presenter in his/her ability to convey the opinions and views of said talk nor his/her own opinions and views that may invariably be but not necessarily be expressed during the duration of this talk. The duration of this talk may or may not run for the designated period of time. This talk reserves the right to end or lengthen said period of time at its own discretion. This talk may not be reproduced or rebroadcasted in any form at any site, physical or otherwise, without the express written consent of the governing body of this talk which may or may not include the current presenter/s.

Neighborhood Network Watch & EULA For A ______ @ Electrofringe

I am currently in Australia for the Electrofringe new media festival. I will be giving artist talks about the Neighborhood Network Watch and a new project EULA For A _____. I will also get to stage EULA For A _____ in the city of New Castle as part of the festival.  Details on the date and times of the events are below.

EULA For A _____ Talk
10/01/2010 @ 12:30pm
Project Space
401 Hunter St
Newcastle NSW 2300

Neighborhood Network Watch Talk
10/03/2010 @ 2:30pm
Project Space
401 Hunter St
Newcastle NSW 2300

*nix Genealogy at “1969″ Show


A new programming/performance, tentatively called *nix Genealogy, was part of the “1969″ show curated by Vincent Ramos, on  December 5, 2009, at Dan Graham.  “’1969′ is a show of performance-based works that respond to the key events of 1969 and/or uses them as a catalyst for commenting on our current state of affairs in this country and abroad.”

*nix Genealogy, is a performance by a Dell Mini 9 “hackintosh” laptop computer, that recites the genealogy of the operating system it is currently running, using language typically of Old Testament Biblical genealogies.  It starts in 1969, with UNICS, from AT&T Bell Labs, and traces it all the way to Mac OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard, which the machine is running.  The script is written and fed into a program written in Processing that is then translated into speech using the RiTA text to speech library, Java TTS, and Mac TTS.  This is the first iteration of the project. Below is short clip of the performance.

The “1969″ show was done in tandem with “The Sharon Show,” which consisted of object based work, “…that give an aesthetic nod to that period while still remaining firmly fixed in today’s society.” Below is the roster of the artists that participated in both shows.

“1969″ Artists

Danielle Adair
Audrey Chan
Jason Kunke
Elana Mann
Emery Martin
Women Vs Children

“The Sharon Show” Artists

Jeff Brady
Chris Ellis
Kelly Kleinschrodt
LauraLee Pope
Tracy Powell
Carly Steward
David Weldzius
Rosha Yaghmai

ETERNAL TELETHON Performance

I took part in the recent ETERNAL TELETHON, with Audrey J. Chan, on November 1st, 2009. We did a performance roughly called,War and Peace. We went back and forth in a percussive dialog, with Audrey tap dancing as Peace and me playing a parred down drum kit as War.  Documentation will be coming soon.

The ETERNAL TELETHON is a series of webcasts dedicated to raising money for the Eternal Convalescent Home for Retired Artists (E.C.H.R.A.), a sanctuary for fatigued creatives that will be located on the Salton Sea.  The ETERNAL TELETHON series is run by John Burtle, Akina Cox, and Niko Solorio. For more information on the ETERNAL TELETHON please visithttp://www.eternaltelethon.com/

Neighborhood Network Watch Participates in “A Day in LA: Washington Blvd”

The Neighborhood Network Watch got back into action, when it participated in “A Day in LA: Washington Blvd Art Concert” that took place on October 11th, 2009.  “A Day in LA” consisted of art works, interventions, and performances by artists along the 27 mile stretch of Washington Blvd that runs from Whittier to Venice.  The Neighborhood Network Watch’s Los Angeles Network Identification and Collection Division (NICD) performed a warwalk in the suburbs surrounding the First Fundamental Bible Church (FFBC) in Whittier.  The performers included, Audrey J. Chan (documentation), Emery C. Martin aka J.R. Jones (group leader), and Matthew Muro (local NICD member). In addition a wardrive was also conducted from Whittier to Mid-City.

To see some of the early documentation please visit: http://washblvd.blogspot.com/2009/10/nnw-la-network-identification-and.html and http://washblvd.blogspot.com/2009/10/neighborhood-network-watch-wardriving.html

For more information on “A Day in LA” please visit http://washblvd.tk/

NNWKAA Included in “Programming From A to Z”

The Neighborhood Network Watch Keyword Analysis Application (NNWKAA) has been included in the book “Programming From A to Z” by the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.  The book takes a look at work that uses procedural analysis for the generation of text that does not rely on gallery spaces, screens, and venues to be experienced.  The book includes work from Adam Parish, Vikram Tank, Ben Leduc-Mills, Zannah Marsh, Tim Szetela, Maria Mendez, Armin A. Cooper, Fred Benenson, Emery Martin, and Anderson Miller.  You can view the pages on the NNWKAA as a PDF here.