From early afternoon till early morning, there will be a choice of events from electronic music to interactive theater to the "bandwidth stand" to night culture in the local clubs. Some highlights:

Ryoji Ikeda, C⁴I and commissioned North American premiere

C⁴I is both a concert and a film that uses data as its material and theme, highlighting the ways in which data shapes our understanding of the world. Video images of landscapes are progressively abstracted into a language of data. Facts, figures and diagrams are used in a montage with dazzling graphic impact. The text excerpts elegantly punctuate the on-screen projections. Blurring the lines between nature, science and philosophy, the work subtly and hypnotically suggests the convergence of the real and the virtual. The soundtrack synchronises perfectly with the graphical and video images to create a piece of undeniable power and beauty.

Monday, August 7, 8:00 pm
California Theater

Builders Association, Super Vision

"The Builders Association is itself an innovator in multimedia theatre, using video, animation, sampled sounds and god-knows-what sorts of computerized gizmos to produce gorgeous illusions." — Village Voice

The Obie Award-winning performance company The Builders Association (Alladeen) and digital design studio dbox reveal a society in which "dataveillance" goes beyond anything Orwell ever imagined. Dive into this fresh, funny, and often disturbing combination of cutting-edge computer-generated animation, new video techniques, electronic music, and live performance. Super Vision probes three absorbing, intertwining, and all too-close-to-home stories drawn from the datasphere that explore the dangerous minefield of lives reduced to data.

Thurs-Fri, August 10-11, 7:30 pm
Sat., August 12, 3:00 pm
California Theater

Troika Ranch, 16(R)evolutions

"The primary effect is vivid abstract images, black through every shade of gray to white - broken stripes, horizontal and vertical; calligraphic ribbons; thin-lined sketches of structures that look like futuristic architectural renderings. The dancers, on a large stage, perform on and in front of these projected patterns, sometimes casting black or white shadows; the stripes and lines on their bodies are so crisp that they look like flowing costumes. As they move, their bodies create fluxes in the field, strange and fascinating humanoid shapes mirroring their movements." - New York Times