What isn’t a mash-up? Certainly, we are—made up of mostly off the shelf parts that
evolution stitched together and altered in ways that created critters who cooked
up everything from hybrid cars to baked Alaska—not to mention classical jazz and
chocolate covered bacon. DJs today are mash-up maestros, and we’ll have one on hand
-- Eduard Minobis of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) in Barcelona,
a performer at multiple venues. Currently visiting the USC Norman Lear Center, Eduard
is researching celebrity, music, fandom and social media. And yes, he’ll play.
Eduard will accompany Johanna Blakely , the managing director and director of research
at the Norman Lear Center, who will put her English PhD hat on to discuss mash-ups
as a form of “intertextuality” in literature, music and fashion. Her research on
fashion (which she’s shared in a popular TED talk) reveals it to be an industry especially
receptive to mash-ups because of its lax copyright regime. Her photo was generated
in a program called MacOSaiX and the source material for the mosaic was anything
tagged “mash-up” on Flickr)
Eating and breathing rocks? Not so strange when you realize that breathing is analogous
to running electrons through a wire to power an appliance. As it turns out, almost
anything that will provide an electron can be used as a food by some kind of life,
and almost anything that will take up an electron can be used for respiration. Ken
Nealson, a mash-up addict all his life, founded the geobiology program at USC, and
he’ll take us to that bizarre realm where the biosphere harvests energy from the
geosphere.
Time, hairstyling, spreadsheets, luminosity, robotics and code are all actors in
a show created by Emily White and Lisa Little, co-founders of Layer, an LA based
architecture practice rooted in rigorous material experimentation and a sensitivity
to the nuance of human perception. Their houses, interiors and installations, have
appeared in the LA Times and Interior Design as well the 2010 California Design Biennial.
Recent drawings examine “the relationship between lusciousness and control,” and
will be on display at Santa Monica Art Studios..
This program will take place at our usual home, Santa Monica Art Studios. Come at
6 for refreshments, music and wander the studios. Program begins at 6:30. We ask
for a $8 donation to cover expenses.
Please RSVP to 310-397-7449 info@santamonicaartstudios.com