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I will be playing some of my music live (through a PA at any rate) on Wednesday, April 15 (tax day), with videos of animated GIFs.

It's at 9:00 pm, at Goodbye Blue Monday, in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.

I'm excited to be on the bill with the other musicians. Jon Williams and Poisson D'Avril (Christopher Weingarten) will also be playing in the electronic part of the evening. Our set is followed by an acoustic set by Kaylyn Marie.

The myspace page for Goodbye Blue Monday is here, with streaming video and such, but the calendar on the front page isn't loading correctly and appears to have someone else playing on the 15th. If you click through (and log in to MySpace) you see the correct calendar here.

The online flyer by Jon Williams is here (large file but great--let it load!).

The info is:

Poisson D'Avril
ex-Parts and Labor, local rock writer nuisance, @1000TimesYes

Tom Moody (♬)
art, music, Nasty Nets surf club member

Jon Williams
crazy visuals (Excepter, etc.)

Goodbye Blue Monday!
Tax Day, 15 April 2009, 9pm; $FREE
1087 Broadway (2 blocks from the Kosciusko St. stop on the J train)
Brooklyn, NY 11221
(718) 453-6343

I hope to see you Wednesday!

Update: gear pics

copied and pasted:

tie dye molotov cocktail with purple-blue-grey soft drink bleeding into fuse fabric
watercolorish rendering of climbing wall in landscape
collapsed pink-grey grid in gallery corner made of fabric and foam
photo of anti-coal protesters
concentric rings of biomorphic colored plastic (?) on gallery wall with stonehenge reference in title
white plastic sheet with impression of combination lock numbers, supposedly from Hong Kong building to contain spread of SARS
cut plexiglas mobile with nested circles and squares
capital letters and forward slashes on gallery-wall-sized grid form sentences and palindromes about war, revolt, etc
allover painting or digital abstraction of swirly marbling effects in hot orange, pink, and green
capital letters A - Z in white neon wrap two gallery walls
wall installation of paintings (?) that look like web graphics - gradient triangles, cartoon explosion, etc.
target's eye views of woman shooting rifle - a hit trips the shutter in carnival photobooth camera - photos span many years
dozens of narrow spotlight beams spray out from piano as seated musician plays
flags of fictional nations (grid of 18)
flags of fictional nations (animated GIF slide show)
illustration of proposed monument: cracked facade of retail storefront with flatscreen TVs, speakers in window
eleven mirrors, two pink things on floor of baroque church
installation with shelving, stackable containers, video monitors, pleasing color combinations (but not too tasteful)
abstract painting with large splashes at top tapering down into dense overlapping drip-networks
faux marble column ashtray with crushed out cigarette butts
post re: three years of vvork and tweet re: one year of vvork twitter
photo of oval mirror (supposedly), hung facing wall
photo of video camera filming cardboard box on top of bucket
collage: sun temple sacrificial altar, modified skylight in Loggia’s dome at Tate St Ives, Extreme Proxigean Spring Tide, etc
large conference table with splatter-painting top surrounded by chairs with modernist plaid webbing
visual pun: computer keyboard with small cemetery gravestones in lieu of keys
oil painting of ocean waves & clouds with raster-like lines of written text defining lights and darks
video still of ocean with small buoy or large boat on horizon
installation reworks traditional rice cultivation technique from SE Asia in "overly complexified, industrial, laboratory style way"
Experimental interactive environment builds internal representation of its occupants through network of autonomous but communicative sensors
modern and rustic jungle stilt houses described as "self-sustaining environment emerging from the artistic community"
artist brushes and combs hair and face while repeating the words "art must be beautiful" (YouTube)
1992 cloth banner re: English language dominance in art world
photo of rooftop flags with decreasing legibility: olive branches, UK flag with face, blue/red/orange pattern
flatscreen monitor with animated lens flares sweeping across it
oath of the horatii with overlaid translucent rectangle
books as art (again) - stacked and arranged in spectrum according to paper color and apparently collapsing
photo of river raft made of trash from previous exhibition
self-describing text in white picture frame with "turbo" sticker in description and also in frame
photo closeup of smiling mouth distorted by lens or water
graphite rubbing of manhole cover with birds, flowers
white stuccoed space with toolkit and lifesized cardboard cutout of Snoop Dogg

recommended: blog of semi-abstract sound and video by Rick Silva.

Video, still and sound objects arranged four or so to a page.

Self referential designs (e.g. mountainous ripples made with characteristic marching ants and faceted chains of photoshop outlining), moving 3D graphics (mountainscapes, again, are prevalent), complex polygonal shapes (some moving or vibrating, some not), and eerie, Alpine UFO sample-tones marred by pops and clicks (think Eno through a fried sound card) appear on full-frame pages, no text. What does it all mean? No wall labels, you're on your own. These are net art gems--enjoy while you can since this artist is constantly erasing his trail across the net.

Update: As expected, it went away not long after this post but then came back in January 2011.

... last night at the New Museum:

Guard watching banana peel on floor defeats the purpose of a banana peel

Guard watching sleeping woman to stop people tickling her defeats the purpose of sleeping people

Dude playing Mark Essen game simultaneously explained game and played expertly. For an appointment go to markessensfriend.com

Went into suspended animation during "Unmonumental" and came out to discover it was still up

AIDS-3d sculpture would be better if it said OMGWTFBBQ instead of just OMG

Cory Arcangel monumentally unmonumental photoshop gradient has flawless print surface

Long video of riot on bridge, flares going off at night (looks like blown up home movie - some kind of Zapruder footage as art - too long to watch at opening)

Cut up overstuffed chair recalled Jean Blackburn with not half bad Lynch-lite video and green prints on wall behind it

All wall labels referring to "construction of identity" should be burned

Saw Borna in stairwell

Owing to some confusion I missed Guthrie Lonergan's talk "We Did It Ourselves!" at Light Industry tonight and am bummed.
Light Industry the film series is hosted by Industry City Art Project--both have addresses in Sunset Park, Brooklyn but they are not the same address (as in, they are three blocks apart)--I went to the address on the website for Industry City, found an empty building with no signage and came home. (I didn't bring my cell phone because the website directions were quite clear, with a google map pinpointing the precise wrong location.)
Here is what Lonergan announced that he would be talking about, which sounds great:

"The success and failure (and illusion and depravity) of DIY in the era of Web 2.0 -- Little entries in The Big Database -- selections of new Internet art and Internet 'non-art' -- My Favorites! -- Something very real struggling beneath a heavy and ancient structure of corporate software defaults and cultural banality... What have we done? I will try very hard to offer insightful and enthusiastic annotation as I surf the net in public for you. I broke my laptop's keyboard but maybe I can borrow my girlfriend's. We will look at a vague Internet art movement (moment?) still growing -- critical of but subject to technology -- artists in relationship to The Big Database, collecting tiny home video thumbnails, or posting difficult metaphysical questions on Yahoo! Answers (a lot of Travis Hallenbeck and Joel Holmberg), etc. -- regular Internet users as artists -- artists using Google.com -- And with just-as-powerful pieces of online 'amateur content' -- an entire YouTube-based Fandom for fans of box-fans and washing machines, and 11 year-old kids sharing dull dreams as downloadable 3d models. A fully linked playlist will be released after the event... Please come!" - Guthrie