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[Andrew]

A/V PLAY!
Sea and Space Explorations
4755 York Blvd, LA, CA 90042

N_DREW (aka Andrew Bucksbarg)
August 4th-August 26th, 2007
Opening on Saturday, August 4th, 7:00-10:00 PM

A/V PLAY!
N_DREW (aka Andrew Bucksbarg)
August 4th-August 26th, 2007
Opening on Saturday, August 4th, 7:00-10:00 PM

A handheld, mobile audio-improvisual, participatory extravaganza…

Sea and Space Explorations is pleased to announce A/V PLAY! a solo
show with new works and performances by N_DREW (aka Andrew
Bucksbarg), as well as collaborative work with Charlie Hoyt.

“People tend to forget that play is serious.”
-David Hockney

A/V PLAY! explores sights and sounds with handheld electronic audio-
visual objects and digital cinematic installations centering on works
that require participation for their activation.

A/V PLAY! Investigates the frontier of play through process, concept
and use.  Play is considered important part of a child’s physical,
psychological, social and emotional development and well-being and
extends well into adulthood in a myriad of ambiguous ways.  Play is
described by sociologist David Reisman as a quality, as opposed to an
activity.  A/V PLAY! seeks to explore these qualities through audio-
visual activities that focus on live, improvised and interactive
projects.

A/V PLAY! delves into the artist’s practice as play in an era of
digital media and technology, from hacked and custom electronics,
circuit bending, audio-visual noise and rhythms, and VJing to mobile
performance games using iPod Shuffles, as well as other interactive
cinematic work.

N_DREW (aka Andrew Bucksbarg) is a media artist, experimental
interaction designer, audio-visual performer and professor in the
Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University.  N_DREW ’s
work and interests reverberate in the space of new technology/media
practices and theory.  As an experimental interaction artist, N_DREW
concerns himself with technologies and social systems that support
tactics of ambiguous, autonomous social creativity and exchange.
N_DREW received an M.F.A.
from California Institute of the Arts in New Media and Integrated
Media in 1999.  organicode.net – n_drew at organicode.net

A/V PLAY! will be on view at: Sea and Space Explorations
4755 York Blvd, LA, CA 90042
http://www.seaandspace.org
Gallery is open Saturdays 1-5 PM and by appointment.
Tel.: 323-445-4015. email: info at seaandspace.org

DIRECTIONS from Los Angeles: From the 5, take the 2 north. Take the
Verdugo Road exit. Left onto Eagle Rock Boulevard. Right onto York
Boulevard (major cross street is Armadale Boulevard).