rob ray

Greetings!

The Winter 2009 issue of Ausgang is out! And I'm in it! Yay! The topics for this issue are family and space. A letter I wrote to DARPA regarding some of my recent research appears in the Space section.

There is also a lot of great stuff up there! Here's the full list of contributors.

Alberto Aguilar, Brianna Bakke, Jennifer Bastian, Mary Walling Blackburn, Jen Blair, Janina Ciezadlo, Lindsay Chastain, Salem Collo-Julin, Anthony Elms, Angeline Evans, Marc Fischer, Melinda Fries,  Lawrence Gatt, Dan Gleason, Justin Goh, Camilla Ha, Kevin Hamilton, Matt Hanner, Mary Hughes, Lem Huntington, Julie Jewelz, John King, Andrea Merkz,  Nicholas O'Brien, Rob Ray, Ivan Riascos, Zena Sakowski, Deborah Stratman, Melissa Sullivan, Luke Tauber, Jessica Westbrook

In the absence of flying today, I made a mix!

Fretting the Hyperbolic Plane - 74 mins 192kbps 103mb
("Right Click, Save As..." to download)

------ Tracklist -----
Oxia - Sun Step
Steve Bug - Swallowed Too Much Bass feat Paris The Black Fu (Joris Voorn Remix)
MyMy - Everybody's Talkin
John Tejada - Torque
Todd Bodine, Daniel.fx - 7 Eleven
Gideon - Traffic Jam
Andy Book - Nemesis
Gideon - You Will be Judged
Aldo Cadiz - Indigenous
Mild Bang - Evolet (Alex Young Remix)
Paco Osuna - Looking for V2
Steve Lawler - Hocus Pocus (Radio Slave's Mole People Mix)
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Dr. Bootygrabber (Samuel L. Session Remix)
Rave Brothers - Samim (Audio Junkies Remix)
Baldo - Between Lines
Dantron Eeprom - Face Control
Obando - Bounty Bass
DJ Sodeyama - Stay To Gether
Pilas - Night Is
Dataworx - Control

Enjoy! It is a bit wonky in places. But... So am I.

Fretting the Hyperbolic Plane - 74 mins 192kbps 103mb
("Right Click, Save As..." to download)

Some great pics of Florida from the late 1800's (sorry it's a pdf.). I lived in Florida for 8 years and after leaving I've found there is something about it that is really hard to shake loose of.

Florida is filled with real-estate and family entertainment tycoons always trying to make it out as some whitewashed hellhole it isn't. It's actually a really damn spooky place! I think that's what I like about it so much. It's also still a place you could actually be killed in your own backyard. Some coral snake, black bear, or aligator you've been screwing over with your septic tank runoff could decide "Today's the day I'm going to bite that asshole."

A pretty awesome cartoon from 1953 called "A is for Atom" over on archive.org

"It was little wonder the first thought was a weapon!"

Woop! The other day I found a Flavorpill review of Ahbyezyana - an installation I created with Deborah Stratman and shown at VONZWECK Gallery in Chicago.

Hey all! I'm psyched to announce I'll be kicking off the new season of Moles Not Molar with a presentation of my neo-benshi of The Conqueror (1956) Starring John Wayne and Susan Hayword - directed by Dick Powell.

Moles Not Molar is a great series of artist presentations curated Emily Abendroth and Justin Audia since 2004. I'll be presenting along side Rachel Levitsky, a poet from NYC and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan a fiction writer from Philadelphia.

If you're near the Philadelphia area it would be rad to see you!

Moles Not Molar - Friday Oct 16 2009 - 7:30PM

GRAY AREA at The Crane Arts Building
400 N. American St. [map]
(two blocks north of Girard Ave. between 2nd & 3rd streets)

Woop! I'm preparing my "Into the Wild! - Electronic Art and the Great Outdoors" presentation for the art.tech festival at The Lab in San Francisco!

Topics will include.

• Construction of my Bucky's Animal Spirit ATM
• Selecting Sustainable Power Sources
• Electronic Experiences as Culture Jamming Opportunities

I'm presenting at 3:30 on Sunday Sept 6th. So come on out!

The LAB
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 [google map]
p: 415.864.8855

I'm psyched to announce my ATM Bucky's Animal Spirit is headed to the art.tech festival at The Lab in San Francisco.

Those of you in the Bay area probably already know The Lab, but just in case.

The LAB
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA [map]
p: 415.864.8855

The festival runs Friday, September 4 - Sunday, September 6, 2009 and the line-up is looking pretty awesome! Come on out!

Woop! I'll be giving my "Into the Wild: Electronic Art and the Great Outdoors" Presentation at the Chicago Dorkbot this August!

The August Chicago Dorkbot meeting is held on August 27th at 7PM

Location: Enemy Sound
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd Fl. [map]
Chicago, IL 60622

http://www.enemysound.com

"Into the Wild: Electronic Art and the Great Outdoors."

Electronic artist and art installation consultant Rob Ray has spent the last five summers integrating and maintaining alternative energy technologies for electronic artworks in the extreme climate of the militarized salt flats of Wendover, Utah. His projects have included the circuitry and power generation of a radio tower designed and built by Deborah Stratman, a push-button system for film projection and viewing, and interpretive audio kiosks for the Center for Land Use Interpretation, in addition to his own artworks. For the first time, Rob will present his experiences and research from these projects. Rob will also explore the technical, fiscal, and creative implications of alternative energy technologies on sound, video, and interactive artworks. This presentation will be particularly useful if you are an artist looking to integrate alternative energy technologies into your practice - or even your home!

Keith just passed along an amazing movie "If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?"

"The unlikely collaboration of two of the least inspiring men of their respective trades: the Rev. Estus W. Pirkle, a Mississippi preacher who had a minor following thanks to mail order sales of audiotaped sermons, and Alan Ormond, a Grade Z filmmaker who gave the world such nonsense as “The Monster and the Stripper” and “The Girl from Tobacco Road.”"