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Sunday, August 27
Admission: Free, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7:30pm
reservations
are recommended
The Geek Out Summit is an event where individuals
who are obsessively fascinated by specific areas of knowledge
share their passion with others. It provides a context for like
minded people to get together, network, invite coincidences, and
discuss the things they geek out about but may be otherwise shy
to openly discuss.
Tonight's event will utilize Monkey Town's unique space to explore:
Interactive Music Videos – Years ago, Gregg
Zinn landed a band on Apple's Quicktime homepage by creating an
Interactive Video. Gregg will talk about the technology, process
and why, with the emergence of YouTube and other video sharing
sites, interactive video may rise to be the next must do thing
on the net.
MAX/MSP - John Reading, who goes under the guise
of "Satellite Beach" and "The Reeds," will
walk us through building simple sound-generating patches using
MAX/MSP, the heavy hitter of experimental computer music. This
will be a high level discussion and a basic introduction to to
the environment. He’ll also be showing us some popular patches,
including reverse-engineered Authechre songs, as well as a few
clips of renowned artists discussing their work In MAX/MSP.
Video Game Modding – Jim Blackwelder introduces
us to the world of modding. He will explore this topic from the
home grown apps/authoring your own apps prospective and how that
ties into Microsoft’s XBox, Windows Media Center and forthcoming
Vista Operating System.
Gallerama.com
– This Summit's product spotlight will focus on
Gallerama.com. Aleksandar Kolundzjia and Sasha Krsulj will walk
us through their paradigm to digital photo management as well
as other thoughts about the emergence of remote storage of personal
digital collateral.
Dewanatron meets The Flathand
- Dewanatrons
are modern solid-state analog instruments that grow music live
in collaboration with the operators who guide them. The
Flathand is a universal controller that incorporates
both relative and infinite data input and can be used to control
any electronic device that can be controlled by a mouse, trackball
or even a keyboard. In tonight’s performance, Leon Dewan,
Zach Layton and Leif Krinkle will integrate the Flathand’s
video control capabilities with a Melody Gin/Swarmatron recital
to create a full-on manually controlled semi-automatic context-sensitive
multimedia extravaganza.
Intermittent background beats and audio ambience provided by DJ
Survivor.
Each presentation will be 15 minutes long and followed by an informal
10 minute Q&A discussion.
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