China Winter 2005:Release Event

General Information
RELEASE is a media arts “release party” for an Open Source Software, Open Clip Art Library(www.openclipart.org) by JON PHILLIPS (www.rejon.org); a new album INTELLECT by DJ ZHU JIANHUI AKA DOUBLE FISH (www.reconfiguration-records.com); and, an art project THE UNIQUE DANCER by DEER FANG (www.deerfang.org). For more information please see www.mediaexperiment.org. This is Media Experiment #3.

01/06/2006

9:30 PM DJ set by Double Fish at Tough Jeansmith (NO.44 102-104 Tian He Nan Yi Road, Guangzhou. Tel: 85515378)

10:00 PM - 2 AM ZINC CAFE BAR (84 Ti Yu Xi Heng Jie, Guangzhou. Tel: 85585597)

¥20 ticket（Ticket can exchange ¥20 drink and snack in ZINC）

RELEASE 是一次媒体艺术的发布活动. 此活动有三部分, 包括JON PHILLIPS (www.rejon.org) 的开放源软件“内容开放的计算机贴图图馆” (www.openclipart.org)；DJ 朱剑辉 AKA Double Fish (www.reconfiguration-records.com) 的新音乐专集 "Inter 叻“；方鹿 (www.deerfang.org) 的现场互动装置 “独特的舞者”. 更多的信息请参看www.mediaexperiment.org. 这是媒体实验之三.

2006/01/06

9:30PM Double Fish 现场DJ表演 Tough Jeansmith (广州天河南一路44号102－104，电话：85515378)

10:00PM - 2 AM ZINC CAFE BAR (广州体育西横街85号， 电话：85585597)

¥20门票（凭票可换吧内¥20消费品）

Jon Phillips
Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org) is an open source developer, artist, writer, educator, lecturer, and curator with 12+ years of experience creating communities and working within computing culture. His involvements with mixing culture and software development have been shown internationally at the Desktop Developers Conference (2005), SFMoMA (2004), University of Tokyo (2004), Korea's KAIST (2004), UCLA Hammer Museum's Digital Storytelling Conference, UC-Berkeley's 040404 Conference (2004), USC Aim Festival IV (2003), and the ICA London (2002). He is a core Open Source developer advocate and developer on Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org), a scalable vector graphics editor and on the Open Clip Art Library (http://openclipart.org), and is writing/producing a book, "CVS: Concurrency, Versioning and Systems." Currently, he is visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu) in the Design+Technology department and is an Open Source developer for the Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org).

约翰 ‧ 菲利浦丝是开放源代码开发者，艺术家，作家，教师和策划人. 他有十二年建立与运作网络群体和计算机文化的经验，研究的范围包括合成文化和软件开发. 他被邀请出席的国际会议和展览有：桌面开发者论坛（2005），旧金山现代美术馆（2004），东京大学（2004），韩国高科技研究院（2004），加州洛杉矶大学汉莫美术馆的数字讲故事论坛，加州伯克莱大学的040404论坛（2004），南加州大学的第四届AIM节日（2003），和ICA伦敦（2002）. 他是INKSCAPE开放源的核心开发者（www.inkscape.org ）－－ INKSCAPE是一个矢量图形编辑软件；他设计了开放计算机图标图书馆（http://openclipart.org)；并正在编写他即将完成的书：《CVS: 共享，幻想和体制》. 现在他在旧金山艺术学院设计与科技系任教，同时也是“创作共用组织“（www.creativecommons.org) 的开放源开发者.

Zhu Jianhui aka Double Fish
Zhu Jianhui, aka Double Fish (http://doublefishxx.topcities.com/), is a Chinese artist and musician whose work circulates Internationally. His interest in contemporary global culture, hacker aesthetics, and art shapes his practice. In addition to his music, Double Fish founded the independent record label, Reconfiguration Records (www.reconfiguration-records.com) and released the label's first compilation, "The Sound of Silence Project, including artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Poland. In October 2005, electronic music label Bedzoo Records pressed Double Fish's first EP1 "inter net" while the Polish label, Audiotong, launched his EP2, "hackers." Other pieces are on the compilation "Shanshui Records Landscape 2" which contains the "Single Hackers (generation 2)." Similarly, the magazine "I Love Rock 'n Roll" enclosed his single, "z6," on volume 32 (2005) and "Experimental No. 1" on volume 15 (2004). Performances include "Improvisational Noiz Play" in Guangzhou, China (2005). More recently he performed "Mini MIDI" at the Beijing MIDI Festival and other solo material at the 3rd 2pi music festival in Hangzhou, China. Professionally, he is working with the director Caofei to compose music and sound effects for the "Pearl River Delta Hero" for the 2nd China Guangzhou Triennial (Nov 2005).

朱剑辉，AKA Double Fish (http://doublefishxx.topcities.com) 是一位作品在国际发表的中国艺术家和音乐人. 他关心当代全球文化，黑客美学. 他的创作成型于艺术中. 另外在音乐方面，Double Fish创办了唱片Reconfiguration Records (www.reconfiguration-records.com）并随即发布第一张CD合辑“The Sound of Silence Project”, 其中参与的艺人来自中国大陆，香港和波兰. 而在2005年10月，BEDZOO唱片出版了他的第一张EP “INTER 叻”，同时波兰的唱片AUDIOTONG推出了他的第二张EP “hackers”. 他的作品也可在其他地方听到，例如其单曲“Hackers(generation 2)"被“山水唱片”收录在Landscape 2的合辑里. 同样地，他的作品"z6" 和"Experimental No. 1"分别收录在有声杂志《我爱摇滚乐》32期(2005年)和15期(2004年).  他曾策划一个名为“即兴造音剧”的实验音乐现场(2005). 最近，他出现于各种演出的舞台上，例如2005年的北京迷笛音乐节“MINI MIDI”电子音乐专场，杭州第三届第二层皮音乐节.还与导演曹斐合作，参加广州3年展，为其舞台剧“珠三角枭雄传”创作音乐及现场音效.

Deer Fang
Deer Fang is an International performance video artist from southern China. Most recently her work has been shown at RX Gallery in San Francisco, The Rencontres Internationales Paris/ Berlin, Contemporary Artist Center's Juried Exhibition in Massachusetts and the Fringe Short Film Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden. She completed her BFA at School of Visual Arts in New York in 2005, and will complete her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 studying with Tony Labat and George Kuchar.

方鹿是一位中国南方出生的当代艺术家. 她最近参加的展览包括三藩市RX画廊的RMX媒体试验之一，The Rencontres 2004 法国／柏林， 美国麻省当代艺术家中心的评审展览，和瑞典Gothenburg的Fringe短片电影节. 她2005年i毕业于美国纽约视觉艺术学院艺术获学士学位，并将于2007年在美国三藩市艺术学院完成艺术硕士学位. 她的现任导师是Tony Labat 和George Kuchar.

What
RELEASE, a two day events in Guangzhou China - a talk and a party

Jon - software release

Double Fish - album release

Deer - art release

When
Thursday- Friday, January 5－6, 2005

Zinc Cafe Bar
广州体育西横街85号

85 Ti Yu Xi Heng Jie, Guangzhou. Tel: 85585597

Tough Jeansmith
广州天河南一路44号102－104

NO.44 102-104 Tian He Nan Yi Road, Guangzhou. Tel: 85515378

Why
To release projects publicly and to make connections in Guangzhou.

1 word summary
RELEASE

1 sentence Summary
RELEASE is a media arts launch party for an Open Source Software, Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) by Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org), a new music album by Double Fish (WEBSITE???), and an interactive installation, "The Unique Dancer" by Deer Fang (WEBSITE???).

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RELEASE is a media arts "release party" for an Open Source Software, Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) by Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org), a new music album, "Intellect" by Double Fish (http://www.reconfiguration-records.com), and an interactive installation, "The Unique Dancer" by Deer Fang (www.deerfang.org). For more information see www.mediaexperiment.org. This is Media Experiment #3.

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KEYWORDS: media, arts, release, software

www.mediaexperiment.org

ADDRESS GOES HERE

Friday, January 6, 2006, TIME???

Text for the release goes here...

"Software Release" by Jon Phillips

 * medium: performance
 * website: http://www.rejon.org
 * summary: The release of Open Clip Art Library version 0.19 is a public event that consists of sending a press release, submitting the packages of software for people to download, and a social event coordinated online via IRC chat channel #openclipart on irc.freenode.net.

"Intellect" by Double Fish

 * medium: performance
 * website: http://www.reconfiguration-records.com
 * summary: "Intellect" is the new music album released by Double Fish on Reconfiguration Records. During this release, Double Fish will perform selections from the album.

"The Unique Dancer" by Deer Fang

 * medium: performance & interactive video installation
 * website: http://www.deerfang.org
 * summary: "The Unique Dancer" is a live video installation that encourages people to dance individually while their unique dance is projected live in the space.

Tough Clothing Store
a warm up for events in Zinc Bar


 * Time: 9:30 - 10:00 pm
 * what: Double Fish live music performance

Zinc Bar

 * Time: 10:00pm - 2am
 * What

Design (Look and Feel)
Poster Design need to Proof read by Shirley from Zinc
 * Poster and Signs
 * what does this all look like?

Ideas
Any need for ideas...

Documentation

 * dvd footage
 * photos
 * audio recording

Equipment Needs

 * Provided by Tough
 * Provided by Zinc Bar
 * 1 projector
 * House Sound System (has buzzing)
 * Bar
 * Provided by local friends
 * DV camera 2 ?
 * projector?

Budget
No need for a budget.

Press Contacts

 * http://www.thatsgz.com/

Jon

 * Press Release / Information on poster
 * mailing list

Double Fish

 * promotion in Beijing
 * poster distribution

Deer

 * Poster design

Questions

 * can we get ourselves nice jackects or jeans in the clothing store? cold winter.

yep! They should sponce us some favourite clothing when we are releasing !