VIA Pittsburgh Audio Visual Arts Festival 2010

VIA 2010 is taking over Pittsburgh with non-stop light and sound October 01-03, 2010 at multiple locations around the city.

Equally showcasing musicians, DJs and producers blurring genres of electronic music, alongside visual artists working at the forefront of video, game design and live music visualization.

FRIDAY OCT 01 - WORKSHOPS/RELATED PROGRAMMING
free & open to the public

SATURDAY OCT 02 - A/V PERFORMANCES
2pm-4am, , Lawrenceville
*SATURDAY HAS MOVED TO 31ST STREET FILM STUDIOS UNDER THE 31ST STREET BRIDGE.


SUNDAY OCT 03 - A/V PERFORMANCES
6pm-2am, Lawrenceville Moose Lodge
This will be an 18+ event.


More Info / Tickets here.

Facebook link.


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Saturday, October 02 @ Iron City Brewery

Matthew Dear (http://www.matthewdear.com/)
Dam-Funk (http://www.stonesthrow.com/damfunk)
El-G / Zizek Club (http://www.zzkrecords.com/)
Frikstailers / Zizek Club (http://www.zzkrecords.com/)
Big Freedia (http://www.bigfreedia.com/)
TOKiMONSTA (http://www.tokimonsta.com/)
Egyptrixx (http://www.myspace.com/africaforyou)
Onra (http://www.myspace.com/onra)
Steve Moore (http://www.stevemoore2600.com/)
Oneohtrix Point Never (http://pointnever.com/)
Shawn Rudiman (http://www.myspace.com/shawncrudiman)
Ekofield (http://soundcloud.com/ekofield)
Gangwish (http://www.myspace.com/gangwishmusic)
Michael Johnsen (http://bit.ly/9aeVjR)
Margaret Cox (http://bit.ly/9Kp4uW)

Sunday, October 03 @ Lawrenceville Moose

!!! (http://www.chkchkchk.com/)
Fol Chen (http://www.myspace.com/folchen)
Expensive Shit (http://www.myspace.com/expensiveshitpgh)
Shindiggaz (www.shindiggaz.bandcamp.com)


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Kokoromi Collective (http://www.kokoromi.org/)
Mehmet Akten (http://www.msavisuals.com/)
Alison Childs (http://www.alisonchilds.com/)
Nate Boyce (http://www.nateboyce.net/)
Carrie Gates (http://www.youtube.com/user/CarrieGates)
Riley Harmon (http://vimeo.com/13657759)
Kyle McDonald (http://www.kylemcdonald.net/)
Blair Neal (http://www.vimeo.com/laserpilot)
Rui Pereira (http://vimeo.com/channels/splaf7)
Gretchen Neidert (http://vimeo.com/blissy)
Nitric Burn Studios (http://www.nitricburnstudios.com/)
Tom McConnell http://www.thomasmcconnell.org/)
Jen Inman (http://jeninman.wordpress.com/)


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The Pittsburgh Art Blog

The Pittsburgh Art Blog features selected pittsburgh artists and upcoming exhibits with photos from the artists and galleries. since the major press outlets do not go beyond a directory listing of exhibits, blogs are needed to promote pittsburgh artists and their work. the blog also calls attention to the inferiority complex of pittsburgh art and how it's perpetuated by the major players in town. Started on August 20, 2007.pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com.the blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and pittsburgh art advocate rick byerly, www.RickByerly.com.

Geek Art Green Innovators Festival GA/GI Friday April 2, 2010

There's a lot news over at the GA/GI blog here.



Update: The schedule is here.



GAGI (pronounced GAH-gee) Geek Art and Green Innovators-- The first art + technology festival in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. GA/GI was created as a platform to showcase current, unique and innovative projects, products and art created by the green and technoloy industries. Businesses and galleries along the nationally acclaimed Penn Avenue Arts District, will serve as hosts for the festival's many exhibitions and demos with kick-off activites leading up to the main event on Friday, April 2 during the "Unblurred" Art Crawl.



Events:

Special Geek Art/Green Innovators Presentations! GA/GI Day 10 am-noon (for Kids) and GA/GI Night! 5 pm-11 pm for everyone!

Tav announces Issue 2 Release at Encyclopedia Destructica Studios. Friday Sept 11 2009

(Pittsburgh, PA) – Tav announces Issue 2 Release at Encyclopedia Destructica Studios.

Tav is an open group of artists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians whose collective works are compiled and released several times each year in special themed issues. Tav’s second issue, out now on CD, contains over one hundred individual pieces of fiction, poetry, painting, drawing, video, and song from Pittsburgh natives and national contributors. A release event for Issue 2 featuring art and video from contributors will be held on Friday, September 11th, at Encyclopedia Destructica Studios.

In honor of the designation of 2009 as the International Year of Astrology, Tav chose an exploration of the mythology of space as its curatorial center. Complete with an introduction animation inspired by the midnight laser shows of the Carnegie Science Center, every element of Tav bears a direct or loose relation to this theme. Consistent in all works is a sense of isolation, an investigation of the inner world, the hidden world, the otherworld, and the unknown, and an attempt to capture and understand the singular mystique and insular nature of both the individual and the universe she creates.

With each release Tav selects a contributor whose works exemplify the aim of the issue, to feature in both the issue and on Tav’s website. Hooliganship, a two-person art and music group featuring the collective efforts of Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris, former Pittsburgh residents and graduates of Carnegie Mellon University, was selected as the featured contributor for Issue 2. Hooliganship’s Adventure and Gylden Load videos, as well as several music tracks and videos by solo artist Peter Burr can be found on Issue 2.

In addition to works by the featured contributor, Tav contains individual works of fiction and poetry from David C. Casey, Eric Delp, Svetoslav Ivanov, Adrien Jensen, Stephanie Luczajko and Jessica Smucker; new selections of Character Bank, a collaborative open-source charater project, by Sonja Crafts and J. Young; painting and drawing by Christopher Kardambikis, Luke Meeken, Ryan Murray, and James Weaver; a new installment of Harmolipi Twp., a comic by Andrew Negrey, accompanied by collectible Planet Cards; video by Bum Lee, Ryan Murray and Luke Meeken and Andrew Negrey (introduction); and over two dozen MP3 tracks including Adventures in Trenoland 2, the complete second album of the New York based 8-bit musician Action/Adventure, as well as music by Aoru Mora, The Magic Sound Machine, The Sleeping World, Tricycle Bicycle Cycle, and Voodoo Pharmacology.

The release event will be held at the Encyclopedia Destructica Studios, 156 41st Street, Pittsburgh on September 11, 2009 from 7– 11 pm. Artwork by Christopher Kardambikis, Luke Meeken, and Andrew Negrey will be on display, as well as video by Hooliganship, Peter Burr, and Ryan Murray. Admission to the release event is free and open to the public.

Tav is a nonexclusive and ever-changing association of creative individuals, originally forming in 2007 as a means to facilitate collaborative projects and orchestrate sympathetic artistic efforts among several relocated Pittsburgh residents. In 2009, Tav began organizing select collaborations and outside submissions into publication format.

Tav: Issue 2 will retail for $5. The publication will be available at www.tav.ind.in as well as various local bookstores, shops, and art festivals.

For additional information, please contact Sonja Crafts by phone at 717-341-8262, or by email at editors(AT)tav.ind.in.