A/V PLAY! by N_DREW (aka Andrew Bucksbarg): A handheld, mobile audio-improvisual, participatory extravaganza… :: August 4 - August 26 :: Reception and Performances August 4, 2007 7-10 PM :: Sea and Space Explorations, 4755 York Blvd, LA, CA :: Gallery is open Saturdays 1-5 PM and by appointment :: 323-445-4015 ::info[at]seaandspace.org.

A/V PLAY! explores sights and sounds with handheld electronic audio-visual objects and digital cinematic installations centering on works that require participation for their activation. A/V PLAY! investigates the frontier of play through process, concept and use. A/V PLAY! delves into the artist’s practice … from hacked and custom electronics, circuit bending, audio-visual noise and rhythms, and VJing to mobile performance using iPod Shuffles, as well as other interactive cinematic work.

Shufflesition: Interactive IPod Shuffle performance (to be played by gallery visitors): A Shufflesition is a mobile system for movement and dance. We use the random playback feature on Apple iPod Shuffles to direct the movement of Shufflers (participants). A Shufflesition can take the form of a game, a dance, a musical performance, or a social experiment. We’re very interested in having a variety of people from different backgrounds write their own Shufflesitions, adding to the possibilities.

N_DREW (aka Andrew Bucksbarg) is a media artist, experimental interaction designer, audio-visual performer and professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University. N_DREW ’s work and interests reverberate in the space of new technology/media practices and theory. As an experimental interaction artist, N_DREW concerns himself with technologies and social systems that support tactics of ambiguous, autonomous social creativity and exchange. N_DREW received an M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts in New Media and Integrated Media in 1999. n_drew[at]organicode.net