The Salon Series
An ongoing series of mid-week salons featuring artists working in all disciplines and designed to inspire provocative dialogue in unusual contexts.

Los Cybrids: La Raza Techno-CrÌtica present:
High Sweat Tech Shop
A Panel Discussion with Nancy Mirabel, Jesse Drew, and Raj Sayadev/DeBug
Wednesday, October 10, 8 PM
$5-$10 sliding scale admission
High Sweat Tech Shop uncovers the contradictions of digital labor's divide, where assembly line workers from Santa Clara are as disposable as those in Guadalajara or Jakarta. Have tech laborers been swept up, or swept under the rug by this e-conomy? Los Cybrids will probe the allegedly revolutionary digi-tech industries via large video projections, smarty-pants panelists, performance, and loud-ass audio.
Los Cybrids: La Raza Techno-Critica is a poly-ethnic cyber critical junta of Rene Garcia, John Leaños and Praba Pilar. You can download their ideological bacteria at: www.cybrids.com. High Sweat Tech Shop is funded by the Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, a program administered by New Langton Arts. Support has also been provided by the Creative Work Fund, GalerÌa de la Raza, and The LAB Gallery.

Miya Masaoka
Randy Nordschow
In The Brains of Plants, The Brains of Us
Wednesday, October 17, 8 PM
$5-$10 sliding scale admission
composer/performance artist Miya Masaoka separately monitors the electrical feedback of plants and human brain activity as the plant and person respond to the audience in the space of the LAB. The audience will be invited to interact with the plant and the human being, eat leafy greens and meat on a nearby snack table, and contemplate the relationship of plants and human beings while listening to the sounds they generate. Vegetarians may choose to eat only greens.
Randy Nordschow will present Fishnets in the Year 2000, a work for mixed ensemble based on I, a text by John Cage. In the spirit of Cage, this piece involves indeterminate elements such as instrumentation, and performance length. Nordschow and other invited instrumentalists will perform as an ensemble acting independently from each other. The music is a direct translation of I from Cage's Norton Lectures I-VI, delivered at Harvard University over thirteen years ago.

Rethinking Live Art: Collaborative Processes and Improvisational Strategies
Tuesday, October 23rd, 8 PM
$5-$10 sliding scale admission
This performative panel discussion will explore the processes of collaboration and improvisation that contemporary interdisciplinary artists employ to create new work. Interdisciplinary art is a continuously evolving genre; new technologies and cultural contexts have generated new conceptual processes and methods of collaboration. An inspired group of experimental artists will discuss these and other issues and tweak the panel format with unexpected modes of presentation, including a live performance jam. Presenters include: interdisciplinary artists Ansuman Biswas, Alex Ketley & Christian Burns of The Foundry, Zoey Kroll, Margaret Tedesco, and cultural strategist e-mael. The panel will be moderated by writer, visual artist, performer, and organizer of socio-discursive projects Scott McLeod.