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Subtitles III

3rd Fridays - , 6:30-8:30PM,    March 18, 2011

Hosted by ThreeWalls

119 N Peoria St # 2D
Chicago, IL 60607

Participating Artists: Max Alexander, Zach Dodson, Natalie Edwards, Justyn Harkin, and Eric Powell

Max Alexander, performance

Subtitles II promises a wild ride.

The evening begins at 6:30 with a sound experience by Max Alexander.We are very excited to announce the Literary participants for the night: Zach Dodson, Natalie Edwards and Justyn Harkin.

Readings begin approximately 7:00 and are followed by a live improvisational performance by Max Alexander and Eric Powell.

Max Alexander h has been shown around the world, from Takaka Hill, New Zealand, to Regina, Saskatchewan.  Also known as Matt Griffin, he runs the experimental music record label Electricity is Magic. Matt is a Canadian sound artist and composer living and working in Chicago.  He holds a BFA in Music from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and an MFA in Sound from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  He has curated programs for the Experimental Sound Studio, The West Coast Composers Symposium, the Two Can Play at That Game Festival (Chicago).

Zach Dodson’s hybrid typo/graphic novel, boring boring boring boring boring boring boring, came out last year under the nom de plume Zach Plague. He hosts The Show N’ Tell Show. His writing has appeared in The2ndHand, ACM, Take the Handle, and Proximity Magazine. Zach Dodson is the creative mind behind featherproof books, bleached whale design studio, and the Show 'n Tell Design Show.

Natalie Edwards once worked at an Australian indoor theme park, but now writes about art. You can find her fiction in the Chicago Reader, theRumpus.net, Mcsweeney’s Internet Tendency, and on TripleQuick Fiction. What to expect on Friday night: one piece is going to be about fruit and bassoons, and one is going to be about dub music and sound poetry, kind of animal remixes. Reading: “Animal Remix”

Justyn Harkin lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter. His work has appeared in Word Riot, Thieves Jargon, and The Angler. He also has a cat, Frida, who knows you just might meet her on Friday.

Eric Powell is a multidisciplinary artist working with the interrelationship between space, place and sound. This work has found him integrating immersive soundscapes, live musical composition, theatre and dance. In addition to multi-channel electroacoustic compositions, he has created sound and music for several theatrical productions and gallery installations, including Emily Pearlman/Critical Distance's 2007 and 2008 Fringe show Free Range, and Minneapolis artist Margaret Pezalla-Granlund's 2005 installation Sub-Theory: Iceberg Sculptures.

In May of 2008, Eric installed sound.garden.scape: Gastown, an interactive short-range FM piece mapping Vancouver's Gastown area into the VIVO Media Arts Centre using portable FM radios. In August of 2007, with Nigel Taylor, he presented sound canoe, a late-night floating concert under a bridge on Regina's Wascana Creek. In August of 2006 Eric presented a lo-fi cassette tape loop entitled Tides: The World Within, as a part of Crossfiring 2006, at the Claybank Brick Factory in Southwest Saskatchewan. Eric recently completed his MFA in Contemporary Art (Electroacousitic Composition) from Simon Fraser University. His research has been made possible through the generous support of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Vancouver New Music, VIVO Media Arts Centre, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

LIVEBOX HAS AN OPEN CALL FOR SUBTITLES THROUGH SEPT 12011.

We are interested in all creative approaches; surprise us with innovative applications of the lens, sound, and word.