If I may build on the "For those of you in the Bay Area", the performances currently scheduled are:

- a collaboration with techno DJ Sean Ocean as part of Other Cinema's Optronica program this Saturday (2 Mar) in San Francisco's Mission District. Guaranteed to be a lively evening.

- a collaboration with Unpopular Electronics (Gino Robair & Tom Djll) as part of the West Oakland Sound Series this Sunday (3 Mar) at the Paul Dresher Ensemble Studio this Sunday. We're paired with a hard-to-categorize set of vocal works (John Cage, Morton Feldman, Henri Pousseur, Elliott Carter, troubadours, trouveres & minnesingers) that'll be performed by Ann Callaway (who I don't know) and Richard Mix (who is remarkable).

- much yet TBD for the 54th Salon at The MilkBar in Richmond, CA, the evening of 5 Apr.

I have hours of documentation footage to edit but you're welcome to view some early tests of my Salesforce Tower project in this Vimeo showcase. I'll continue to upload edited final versions there. An article about artists Jim Campbell & Emma Strebel, who run the Tower project, appeared on SFGate yesterday.

I am hoping to perform for the first time in the Pacific Northwest (NACIS if not sooner), Southern California, & Salt Lake City (State of the Map) this year, and to return to the Midwest & East Coast in the autumn. I don't wish to spam MAPS-L with details of each as they emerge but my (underused) mailing list & Instagram feed are the best ways to stay informed about these projects.

Thank you!

Eric


On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 6:18 PM Niles Dorn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi all, 

 

For those of you in the Bay Area, please share if you can. Or better yet, join us for this event!

 

Eight Stories High, Comically Lo-Res, Visible for Twenty Miles: Spiraling Maps Atop Salesforce Tower

 

Since its Lisbon premiere in April 2022, Eric Theise has given thirty-some performances of A Synesthete's Atlas–during which he manipulates projected digital maps in collaboration with improvising musicians–across North America. His Carto-OSC began life as a rapid prototyping tool for designing web maps but morphed into the platform he uses for real time cartography and video creation. February finds his single-channel work, If Map #5, appearing on the eight story high display that crowns San Francisco's Salesforce Tower, the second tallest building west of the Mississippi River. A series of performances within and beyond the Tower's viewshed are planned for February through April.

 

Theise will talk about his influences, the crowdsourced data and open source technologies he uses, the challenges of designing for a determinedly low resolution yet enormous, wraparound display, and the joys of collaborating with musicians/sound designers using a wide variety of instrumentation.

 

Eric Theise (he/him) is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through video and real-time performance tools he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, the Light and Space movement, and visual poetry as new possibilities in the realm of digital cartography. his concerns include perceptual pleasure and fatigue, geographies of the natural and built environment, and subverting the presumed objectivity and authority of maps. His holds a Ph.D in Operations Research from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University.

 

Thursday, February 29, 2024
3:15pm to 5pm PT

 

Green Library, Bing Wing, David Rumsey Map Center
459 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

 

More info / register here:https://events.stanford.edu/event/eight_stories_high_comically_lo-res_visible_for_twenty_miles_spiraling_maps_atop_salesforce_tower

 

Best,


Niles Dorn
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