rob ray

"I Love Presets, the multimedia spaz-lab of Chicago artists Jon Satrom, Jason Soliday & Rob Ray, celebrates how technology can revolutionize video art, but, paradoxically, revels in how limited some of that technology is. Their live performances and YouTube videos capture a pixelated meltdown in which rather low-rent digital animation and imagery—including those animated GIFs that used to flicker across your Geocities page back in 1998—intersects with glitchy, static-ridden music. They even claim to incorporate computer viruses into the mix. Here, Satrom and Soliday (w/ Ray over the internet) will perform and also host a workshop, offering some clues as to what makes their gleefully destructive works tick."
--Starlight Cinema: Performance And Workshop By I Love Presets
A/V Club; The Onion: 2009.12.03
http://tinyurl.com/yauum5x

I created a new piece called The Space Between Two Lines for the Reanimation Library's "solo" show at Charles Goldman's GRIDSPACE in Brooklyn, NY.

I'm totally geeked to be included in a mighty roster of artists and writers asked by The Reanimation Library to respond to one of the most intriguing books in its collection: The Rand Corporation's 1955 classic, A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates.

Each response fills one of GRIDSPACE's cubicles, with one spot reserved for the book itself. The also show features work by Anita Allyn, Jen Bervin, Christian Hawkey, Jen Hofer, Denise Iris, Tom Jennings, Katarina Jerinic, and David Levine.

Here's some photos and a brief description of my new piece.

Come on out Sunday if you can!

Opening is Sunday Feb 28th, 2010 4-6PM
The show is on view through March 2010

GRIDSPACE [map]
112 Rogers Avenue.
Brooklyn, NY

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!