SLAB 2:
VOTES FOR SLEEPWALKERS
Oct 2, 7 pm: Opening Reception
Oct 4, 7pm: Remington Performance
Oct 7, 7pm: Q & A with artists
Exhibition open: Oct 2-11, Tue-Sat 12-6 pm

VOTES FOR SLEEPWALKERS is the second SLAB exhibition produced at VIVO, involving seven artists and seven media installations:
David Grove - Spectral Arrangement
Brady Marks – Pointing
Ricarda McDonald – Inadvertent Interaction
Alex Muir – Tiny Cinema
Wynne Palmer – Alpha Bravo
Anju Singh – The Remington
Irezicle – Motorhead.6

The exhibit is a sonic sensory environment with typewriters, hair driers, spy codes, water waves, shifting lights, tiny cinemas, and a gallery plinth that can see you. While the installations differ widely in regard to their theme and the mode of expression, together they address a set of shared formal concerns that point back to their making: the method, the language, and the inherent meaning of the technology used. There are 7 Sleepwalks for you to explore and find the answers for:

• Can you feel the gaze of technological sight? – Pointing
• Can you see the change of light? – Spectral Arrangement 1
• Can you crack the code? – Alpha Bravo
• Can you play the Remington? – The Remington
• Are you sure you are in control? – Motorhead.6
• What are the consequences of your actions? – Inadvertent Interaction
• Where do things begin and end and how would you splice them together? – Tiny Cinema

The SLAB is a Studio LAB and a community of practice for electronic media artists and technology enthusiasts. We foster experimentation and provide artists with the means and motivation to develop their art unconstrained by new media conventions and assumed ways of using technology. SLAB offers workshops and facilitates collaborative projects, providing artists with mentorship and technical assistance. The projects conclude in public exhibitions and events. SLAB art doesn’t attempt to gloss over the rough edges of its creation, but instead exposes the processes of its production. Blurring the lines between experimentation, creation and public presentation, SLAB events are risk-sharing experiences between the artists and the audience.

SLAB programmer and project coordinator is Dinka Pignon, together with SLAB instructors, mentors and supporters: Brady Marks, David Grove, Rob Symmers and Emma Hendrix of VIVO.