Here's what SEEMEN are up to these day

An article in Dinosaurs and Robots i am in:
http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2008/05/maria-mortati-power-of-prototype.html

A film in am in and did special "effects" in/with
ahhhh space, the final frontier:
http://fest08.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=55


http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=6214&catid=110&volume_id=317&issue_id=375&volume_num=42&issue_num=30
MOCK UP ON MU Mon/28, 9:15 p.m., Sundance Kabuki; April 30, 8:55 p.m., Pacific Film Archive.
gawd bless CRAIG BALDWIN!

CRAIG BALDWIN My "Mu-vie" is about how utopian visions of technology and space exploration became compromised by the military in the late 20th century. And [about] how the lives of [technological and space travel] pioneers afford a rich trace of California regional history after World War II: the complex crossing of alternative tech research, personal belief systems, lifestyles, artistic practices, newly organized and newly imported religions, and spiritual institutions.

SOME PICS. ON FLICKR:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/namlak/

The LAB’s 12th Annual Silent and Live Auction

Saturday, March 15, 2008, 6:30-9:30 PM
Live auction at 7:30 PM with Stephen Tourell of Toomey
Tourell Gallery
Silent auction sections close every 15 minutes from 8:30 - 9:30 PM
Admission $10-$25 sliding scale (includes snacks and
refreshments provided by Acme Bread Co., Firestone
Walker Brewing Company, Marin French Cheese Co.,
Semifreddi Bakery, Trumer Brauerei Berkeley, and Wine & Spirits Magazine)
Preview gallery hours: Thursday, March 13 and Friday, March 14, 1-6PM (free admission)
Sale continues: Sunday, March 16, 11am-7pm

PRESS:
http://www.cracked.com/article_15963_5-works-art-that-can-probably-kill-you.html

GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH~William F. Buckley (1926–2008)

The AP writes: "William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82."

I was so so honored a few years back to be singled out by Buckley's NATIONAL REVIEW!
tho they coudn't spell SEEMEN right!
see here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/weekend/art/art-seckora072900.shtml

He railed against any financial help for the poor (food stamps, education) yet he was born with a diamond encrusted golden spoon up his ass. His NATION REVIEW never was able to pay for itself and become solvent and was propped up with corporate money. Typical corporate welfare that his cronies' corporations got but wouldn't spare a dime for a single mother.

As discussed in Stephen Marshall's Wolves in Sheep's Clothing watch William F. Buckley employ the "why do you hate the troops?" argument and invoke "Nazism" while debating the Vietnam War. When Gore Vidal counters that Buckley's a "crypto-nazi," Buckley calls him a "queer" and offers to sock him in the face:
The AP on the National Review (which Buckley founded):

The National Review defended the Vietnam War, opposed civil rights legislation and once declared that "the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail." Buckley also had little use for the music of the counterculture, once calling the Beatles "so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music."

listen & see the fascist here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8

A SHOW I AM IN at the Headlands Center for the Arts: Opening Reception: February 3, 2-5PM.

http://www.headlands.org/event_detail.asp?key=20&eventkey=268 1/13-2/25/08 Close Calls: 2008
Date: 1/13/2008 - 2/25/2008 (Tuesday-Friday and Sunday)

Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Headlands Center for the Arts
Ticket Info: FREE

Pictures here of my piece:
http://www.monkeyview.net/id/4/group_shows/headlands/

I am thrilled and honored to have been interviewed by the enigmatic, lovely and smart as a whip Dorka Keehn, on her radio program
http://keehnonart.com/
http://keehnonart.com/_mp3/2007/Kal-Spelletich-2007-11-18.mp3
the only arts and culture radio show in the Bay Area, on AM 960 The Quake every Sunday @ noon.

12/7/07
www.santacruzmah.org
I am in a show at:
The Museum of Art and History
705 Front Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Main Line: (831) 429-1964
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A Mind reading Robot Opening

at the Exploratorium
THIS FRIDAY NIGHT Nov. 30
6-9 PM FREE!
http://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/directions.html

Password for entrance is:
Mind Reader

Exploratorium
at the Palace of Fine Arts
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
Directions to the Museum (recording): (415) 561-0399


See pics. here:
http://www.monkeyview.net/id/4/assorted_machines/biomorphic_input_machines/robot.jpg

Password for entrance is:
Mind Reader


Well, they said it couldn't be done, i tried for 8 years, and with the very generous help from the Exploratorium it is done, a MIND READING ROBOT. Ya know, I have never seen a robot run by the mind, never ever anywhere, really. This work is the outcome of my residency in conjunction with the Exploratorium's Mind exhibition. I have been working on this piece for several months. Come and see the results! Just come to the front door off of Marina Boulevard.

The robot is in the furthest back left hand corner of the museum, which is pretty far back !!

Don't forget, codeword for entrance is: Mind Reader

Major Props to Ray Gruenig Pataphysicist , Don Gray, Jon Foote, Diane Whitmore, Frank Masiarz, the Mind Team at the Exploratorium and the entire magical universe at the Explortorium, a truly amazing place to make art.



2nd show

The Todd Blair benefit Saturday night
http://srl.org/shows/events/todd/
Saturday, December 1, 2007
8:00 PM - 1:00 AM

SomArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan
San Francisco, California 94103





oh yeah, old SATAN heart himself, Dick Cheney, who is potentially under impeachment, http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/cheney had his evil shriveled black heart Tasered to keep him propped up, yeah, he gets subsidized health care from our government.

a video from Vienna exhibit ROBOEXOTICA:
http://www.videobomb.com/posts/show/5274

A collaborative art show
6-9PM Thursday, Oct. 4
Jack Hanley Gallery
389 Valencia St.
2 doors to the left of the main gallery


I am collaborating with a dear friend of mine, Chris Johanson, on a show at the
Jack Hanley Gallery right here in the lovely Mission district of San Francisco.
The Opening is 6-9PM on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007.
There will be BEEERRR and RAGI da lawyer will be DJing.
I have worked with jack for 20 years and chris for a good 10 years.
To see some Kal & Chris's collaborative projects go to:
http://www.monkeyview.net/kal@seemen.org/collaborate/index.vhtml


hope 2 see you there,
Kal

title:
"9th Ward Space Modulator"
date: 2007
materials: mixed


Reception Sat. 8th of Sept. 2007 at 10 PM at Project Artaud Theater located at 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. 

I have a machine in the lobby of the theater where this amazing experimental music festival is happening,
http://www.sfemf.org/


The festival Starts on Wednesday, the 4th and goes through Sunday the 9th. The installations will be running before show, at intermission and at the end of performances- and my understanding is that the gallery will be open to all.

There is a reception the evening of Sat. 8th after the concert, which of course you and any guests should come to! I think this will start around 10.

See Gyro here:
http://www.monkeyview.net/id/4/solo_shows/fringe_exhibi/
It has a foot switch to turn it on and off
i got the propellor from the 9th ward in new orleans this spring.


the gyro can be:
lifted up/down/left right to make it pivot, it is really nice when the propellor scrapes the sides!
move it around a bit, or a LOT to get the Gyroscope effect, the idea is to get people to do that!


happy trails,
kal

I am THRILLED and honored to have received an Artist in Residency at the supremely rockin Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco: the museum of science, art and human perception !!
The residency started in mid June 2007 and lasts until early Nov. 2007, I am building a ..........ROBOT! For the museum collection.
It has been amazing working at the museum with all of the extremely talented folks there and their very very well equipped shop. I will inform as progress is being made, and, progress........ is happening.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/

http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/2929497/
An interview by the wonderfull CultureCatch and Dusty Wright. Culture Catch | Vid and Podcasting On-Line Magazine. http://www.culturecatch.com/

Frinf Exhibitions show, June 2-30, 2007 photos:
thanks Magnus!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shifzr/531337729/in/set-72157600310492523/

A talk I gave in Vienna 12/06
,,,jetlagged no less, thanks to SHIFZ, ROBOEXOTICA AND MONOCHROM !
http://one.revver.com/watch/163039/flv/affiliate/25915

LA show
June 2, 2007 til June 30, 2007

Home Is Where The Wormhole Is
Toward A Home Of A Higher reality
Physical Speculations On A Future State


This is an installation that centers on a home in the Mission district of San Francisco where an incident happened.
A hole appeared in the living room. In the hole is a pulsing glowing light.
The light appears to respond via Frequency Following Response, sound, your movements and God knows what else, but it does appear be alive. It makes sounds that seem to be binaural-beat stimulation based.

AT
Fringe Exhibitions
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-613-0160
Sat. June 2, 2007 6-9 PM


THERE ARE:
Drawings and photos exploring this phenomena.
Video investigations
A diorama of the actual house.
A LARGE gyroscope, activated by touch. Audience members are encouraged to hold this mini universe so as to try and come to some sort of understanding what has transpired here.

Some theories of what is going on here are:
a passage way
a wormhole
biofeedback meditation hole
a sun
meteor
aliens
a blackhole
a universe
wood rot
a 4th dimensional loop
portal to the spiritual world
to ways of seeing the world on a deeper level
alchemy
metaphysics
dark matter
a paradigm shift
this is a "factual recreation of an unsolved mystery"

At the opening there will be BB-Qing on a mini diorama of the "incident" hole at the opening.

Fringe Exhibitions
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-613-0160
Sat. June 2, 2007 6-9 PM

SEEMEN are in an exhibit this upcoming Sat and Sunday May 19 & 20 2007.
In San Mateo Ca., at the FAIRGROUNDS!!
http://store.makezine.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=35
and don't forget! stop the war~

BONJOUR!
I am in an exhibit i helped brainstorm and curate with Malcom Morley and Michael Aaron. The 2nd Annual Lower Decatur St. Transformation and Enlightenment League Street Festival in New Orleans Louisiana.
On Decateur St. btwn. Ursilines and Govoner St. Nichols streets in the lovely Viex Carre French Quarter.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl&q=new%20orleans

Sat. April 14, 12 noon til midnight.
Lots and lots of bands, performance, video and art.
Among the performers and whatnot are:
Performance
Generic Art Solutions Scatterbrain (Cincinnati) Ezra, Adam, Josh Human Bowling
Video
Holly Streekstra Chicory Miles Ellen Ellis
Alternative Fashion Show
Rodneyna O’Connor Adrian Glim and Glam T-Shirts
Interactive Installation
Kal and Amazing Space Ship BB-Q
Music
Morning 40 Federation
Coco Roicheaux
Happy Talk Band
Dry Bones Trio
King James
R. Scully
Michael DJ’s 78s


On Wed. April 11 and Thurs.the 12th I am talking and meeting with students in the Fine Arts Department at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. La. life is amazing~


take care
and well, stop the war.


kal

Bonjour!


I am exhibiting some machines and robots at the Exploratorium this wed. along with some spectacular other artists, inventors and creators. Stop by and see the new Ramona the mobile yapping tele-robotic dog!

al the best kal



Liminality: Art on the Threshold
A New Exhibition
March 8 - June 3, 2007
March 8 Opening Party Features Additional Performances and Site-Specific
Installations for One Night Only, March 8, 7-11pm

Liminality: Art on the Threshold, a new exhibition at the Exploratorium, on view from March 8 - June 3, 2007, builds on a rich history of boundary-bending projects that play with the Exploratorium's home, the airplane-hangar-like Palace of Fine Arts interior. Liminality: Art on the Threshold experiments with the Exploratorium's public space using the metaphor of thresholds as a unifying theme. This exhibition will feature large-scale artworks that create an artistic drama and a heightened awareness of the architecture within the Exploratorium. Artists include Seattle's Lead Pencil Studio: Annie Han + Daniel Mihalyo, Erica Gangsei, Alex Clausen, Paul Andrew Hayes, and Seyed Alavi. Works include Erica Gangsei's architectural crocheting in the rafters of the Exploratorium. Alex Clausen will create stacked large-scale assemblages that seem to defy gravity. Paul Hayes' hanging large-scale aerial works use delicate materials like fine wire and crumpled paper to make a huge statement. Seyed Alavi sculpts "air space" using suspended light bulbs choreographed to go on and off. Lead Pencil Studio of Seattle will be in residence. Their outcome is to be determined.

A special, one-night-only event and celebration on Thursday, March 8th includes additional artists from a variety of disciplines, who will be invited to create site-specific performances and installations that animate the Exploratorium's cavernous space for that night only, from 7-11pm. Opening night installations and performances include members of Project Bandaloop, a leading aerial and dance company (and guests), performing excerpts from Portal and Loft; an array of the hugging, thumping, rolling robotic machines of Kal Spelletich; Ulrika Andersson's installation of 300 battery-powered blue LED's (with smoke); video performance by Joshua Kit Clayton; and Joe Mangrum's Exploratorium-specific mandala.

To make advance reservations for the opening night celebration, please visit www.ticketweb.com. Liminality is included in the price of admission to the Exploratorium.

Learn more about the exhibition here:

http://www.blog.myspace.com/7016938

March 8, 2007
07:00 PM - 11:00 PM


Venue Information
The Exploratorium
3601 Lyon St.
San Francisco, CA 94123


Additional Event Information
(415) 563-7337
http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/documents/07-3Liminality:.html

2/17/07

Howdy!
I am in a show with some new pieces at:
Brown Bag Contemporary
85 Franklin Street (Between Church and Broadway)
New York, NY 10013
646.2906519 Telephone
Wednesday, 21 February 2007 at 6 PM.


see here for some of the pieces:
http://www.monkeyview.net/kal@seemen.org/billboard_proposals/index.vhtml

I am very very happy with the results.
hope to see you all when i am in NYC!


all the best

kal ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª

There is a classic SEEMEN video from, ahem, Burning Man, when it was , well, different shall we say, with out all of the cops and tourists and rules, on this wonderful site
http://www.weirdamerica.com/
by the one and ONLY Chuck Sireno.
Chuck posted it due to recent litigious actions carried out by the owners of the affomentioned festival.
SEE HERE:
http://johnlawspeaks.wordpress.com/
leave no tracers....

1/21/07
i am off to Portland Oregon to Help my buddy Chris Johanson with his show at The Portland Museum, we are collaborating on an installation and planning the utter and total conquest of this and other galaxies, the opening is Sat. Jan. 27, 2007
http://web.pam.org/asp/special_exhibitions/exhibitions.asp?exhibitionID=73
and
http://www.monkeyview.net/kal@seemen.org/collaborate/index.vhtml

ghees, the stuff that shows up on youtube when u look, heres a video of me sleeping and snoring thru a pretty good symposium!>br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mXX_dzOlIY

ahhh, jet-lag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

an interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfolzQ0k-mM

thanks to
chazzsongs.com

A Caution Mike Video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vzXQJf-vEZ0

I am in a show in Leipzig Germany
PIEROGI LEIPZIG
SPINNEREISTR. 7, HALLE 10 04179 LEIPZIG, GERMANY
T.+49 (0)341 241 90 80
INFO@PIEROGILEIPZIG.COM
WWW.PIEROGI2000.COM

the show is called
EUPHORION
Art from San Francisco
with
TAUBA AUERBACH
ELAINE BUCKHOLTZ
CHRIS CORALES
HARRELL FLETCHER
JO JACKSON
XYLOR JANE
CHRIS JOHANSON
YOON LEE
ALICIA McCARTHY
BARRY McGEE
SHAUN O'DELL
CLARE ROJAS
KAL SPELLETICH



Vernissage: Samstag, 20. Januar, 2006 ab 11.00 Uhr bis 22:00 Uhr
Opening: Saturday, January 20th, 2006, 11 AM - 10 PM

Öffnungszeiten _ Hours: Di – Sa 12.00 – 18.00 und nach Vereinbarung
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12 – 6 PM, and by appointment

Ausstellungsdauer: 20. Januar – 21. April
Dates: January 20th through April 21th

"If you want to capture us, don't be so eager. In the end, we are just longing to embrace the form you so sweetly display"
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust Part II

Some videos from Roboexotica / Vienna, Austria 12/06:
vino viper + homage to h. nitsch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZORlWSf3xg
vino viper short: http://one.revver.com/watch/117872/flv/affiliate/25915
kal's message: http://one.revver.com/watch/119801/flv/affiliate/25915

AND 2005
http://one.revver.com/watch/84137/format/flv/affiliate/25915
http://shifzovision.blogspot.com/2006/10/roboexotica-2005-talk.html

http://shifz.blogspot.com
http://shifzovision.blogspot.com/2006/10/roboexotica-2005-talk.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pOV60rP_AY

vienna press release

I am in an exhibit in Vienna Austria this Dec.5-10, 2006 at a festival called Roboexotica, http://roboexotica.org

I was in the show last year and it is well worth the visit to Vienna. It is frosty cold there this time of year so you get the full effect of the winter holidays! The exhibit is free to the public with many many free cocktails served to you by machines and robots, i kid you not. AND, i will be Bar B-Qing and DJing every night, like last year, so there's free vienna sausages cooked by moi! (like only and ex-Iowan current Califonian can cook!). I am also hosting a symposium with all of the presenting artists.

There is a GREAT coffee shop and bakery called Demel I WILL take you to to, like nothing and nowhere else on the planet! http://www.demel.at/en/index_en_flash.htm

Here are some photos of my current piece i am bringing, the VINO VIPER and some photos from last years exhibit and all of the necessary links:
http://www.monkeyview.net/id/4/roboexotica/index.vhtml
http://roboexotica.org/en/mainentry.htm


and yeah, good work voting the crooks out of office, don't forget 2008!!

all the best,
kal

HAR HAR!!
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2030/368/1600/rick-santorum-sad-family.jpg

you lose!!

sweet mother mary vote this tuesday,
The signing of the pro-torture, pro-murder, anti-humanity, unconstitutional law called the Military Commissions Act is but the final direct, frontal assault on America by a tyrant and his misanthropic gang of criminals, and it is yet another act of treason, applauded and lauded. And just like with the Reichstag Fire Decree, it may well be the final wound that causes the fall of the American experiment. STOP THESE PSYCHOPATHS! and John Kerry was making a joke about King George, not the troops and he (bush & Co.) know it, Bush should be the one to apologise, apologise for
1. Failing to heed and act upon the many intelligence and threat reports during the summer of 2001 to either delay, prevent, or mitigate the attacks of 9/11.
2. Failing to act swiftly, competently, and decisively as Commander in Chief during the 9/11 attacks. 3. Failing to prevent and/or solve the Anthrax attacks of October 2001.
4. Failing to capture Osama Bin Laden.
5. Failing to maintain order and control in present-day Afghanistan.
6. Failing to hold any appointed or elected official accountable for their failure to delay, prevent, or mitigate the attacks of 9/11.
7. Failing to support the creation of a 9/11 Commission to make the nation safer.
8. Failing to cooperate with the investigation of the 9/11 Commission to make the nation safer.
9. Failing to enact the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission to make the nation safer.
10. Failing to be prepared with evacuation protocols, local and federal emergency response, etc. with regard to Hurricane Katrina.
11. Supporting the use of Torture in Abu Ghraib that has placed our troops and intelligence officials lives in danger and harmed the United States' reputation in the world.
12. Supporting the violation of Human Rights at Gitmo that has enabled al Qaeda to spread their own propaganda.
13. Supporting the circumvention of U.S. constitutional privacy rights by creating the Patriot Act and the NSA Surveillance Program without providing/wanting any evidence that such entities have prevented any attacks or saved even one life.
14. Failing to take responsibility for the 16 words in the State of the Union Address that misled the American public about WMD in Iraq.
15. Failing to take responsibility for Colin Powell's misleading statements to the U.N. regarding WMD in Iraq.
16. Failing to hold former DCI George Tenet accountable for his failure in providing accurate intelligence regarding the real threat posed by WMD in Iraq.
17. Making fun of the missing WMD during the foreign correspondents dinner in 2003 where you were videotaped walking around the Oval Office looking under the desk, behind the paintings etc asking: Are they over here? Are they there? Where are they? (Talk about a bad joke.)
18. Starting a pre-emptive war in Iraq-a nation that had nothing to do with 9/11.
19. Stating: "Mission Accomplished"
20. For the nearly 3000 U.S. soldiers who have died since you chose to start a war in Iraq that has made the terrorists more lethal and America more vulnerable.

c'mon by, you are on the guest list!!

Helloo unto you!

I have some shows in The Balkans/the former Yugoslavia in the next 2 weeks.

Sept. 27-Oct.20
Zagreb, Croatia
15 machines and robots along with a talk and gallery installation.
KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis
Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.kontejner.org


Oct 4-20
opening at Kapelica-gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The exhibit up for 2 weeks
Galerija Kapelica
Kersnikova 4
Ljubljana
http://www.culturalprofiles.org.uk/slovenia/Units/5454.html


Oct. 5-20
Belgrade, Serbia
O3ONE
Andri?ev Venac 18
Beograd
www.o3.co.yu
The exhibit up for 2 weeks


c'mon by, you are on the guest list!!


all the bestest
kal

http://seemen.org/

Lab show 8/06

Howdy,

We Have a show at the LAB gallery in San Francisco that opens August 4, 2006 6-9 PM. The title is, The Capp St. Aeronautical, Lighter Than Air and Space Program (Reaching Towards Heaven). There are lots of flying machines that are all interactive.
There are collaborative pieces with Jason Broemmel, Chris Johanson and Jericho Reese.
Come on down on opening night for we will be running special machines under special circumstances on the opening only!! And, have some BB-Q too.

My next shows are in Zagreb, Croatia and ljubljana, Slovenia and a couple of other cities over there that i don't have the names of yet...... in late sept.

yours
kal

The Lab
Opening Friday, August 4 –thru Saturday, August 19
2948 16th Street@ Capp San Francisco
415-864-8855
Performative Demonstration and installation opening: Friday, August 4, 6 – 9 PM
$7 - $15 admission no one turned away for lack of funds.
Demonstration and Artist Talk: Thursday, August 10, 7 – 9 PM
$7 - $15 admission
Kinetic Sculpture & Robotics Workshops: Saturday, August 19, 2 – 5 PM
(Call 415-864-8855 to register)
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1-6 PM

Here is a show i am in and curated

it is in two galleries:
Frankenstein Theory and Robotics: A survey of Frankenteinian Robotics,
Kinetic Art and New Media Art


Opening
Wednesday, June 14 6:00pm - 10:00pm


Location:
Rx Gallery
132 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
and BOCA Gallery
414 Jessie St. (off 5th. St. & Mission)
Gallery Phone:
415-474-7973 (RXSF)
http://www.sfboca.com/exh/frank_pr.html
Gallery hours:
WED - SAT 2:00pm - 6:00pm
bar opens at 5pm
FRI - SAT from 9:00pm
by appointment by calling (415) 756-8825
monika@rxgallery.com, will@rxgallery.com
http://rxgallery.com/


closes: July 14
ARTISTS:
DOYLE
Jonathan Foote
Justin Gray
Dan Grayber
Geo Homsy
Heather
Christian Ristow
Michael Shiloh
Kal Spelletich
Christina Sporrong
Shannon Wright
ZACH
and MORE

This exhibit explores the concepts of the Frankenstein theory, breathing life into inanimate things, the manmade "beast" turning on..... man.

Like the scientist mixing two chemicals in a test tube and observing a reaction, or the Golem, these artists are taking disparate found objects and making them come alive, move and react to you. This exhibit features highly elaborate machines and robots that are purposefully non- functional. They have turned on consumerism and capitalism. They are tweaking Asimov's theories for robots, are these artists now the Frankensteins? Dr. Frankenstein's original idea was probably altruistic, much like oh, EXON, Walmart, or the US government. How and or when do you realize that a system is broke? Is technology serving us or are we serving it? Does man ruin Frankenstein or is he (Frankenstein) inherently evil?

From “FRANKENSTEIN,” by Mary Shelley
It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

Three Laws of Robotics are a set of three laws written by Isaac Asimov.
1. A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.This exhibit explores the concepts of the Frankenstein theory, breathing life into inanimate things, the manmade "beast" turning on..... man.

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I have a drawing machine in an upcoming group exhibit at LINC gallery Opening reception this Thursday June 8th, 6 – 9 pm 1632 c MARKET STREET san francisco 94102 415-503-1981 www.lincart.com This machine is in the very large and public window of the gallery, behind Zuni cafe just off of Rose St. It interprets sounds from the street and movements; be that the rumble of a truck, the shriek of a sea gull, squeal of a tire, a voice, an earthquake, people walking by, vehicles passing, it turns those city sounds and movements into drawings. So, the city, or you, are creating unique drawings! I am very happy with it. I hope you come on by and help it make some markings.

4/27/06 Off to LA on Tuesday to help Chris Johanson with a show of his at http://jackhanley.com/id301.htm we are building a collaborative piece, and then some. The show opens may 13 at 945 Sun Mun Way, Chinatown. On the 6th of May i leave for London, then Namibia Africa to build robots for the BBC, back to London, LA, then home again, well, that's the plan at least. i'll let you all know, i need 3 of me right about now, only i couldn't afford to feed us.

off to NYC for a try out for a gig to build a robot south of the equator, something to do
I have a LOT of stuff pending for this year and into next,
weshallsee

I am hosting a garden party in SF on EASTER SUNDAY!

Jackhammer Garden Party 2006
Garden Party Art Exhibit in the Lovely Mission District of San Francisco

April 16, 2006
2-10 PM
$1.00-5.00 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Project Artaud
401 Alabama Street at 17th. St.
San Francisco


The residents of Project Artaud offer a public invitation to celebrate the history and future of this 35 year old non-profit, member-run arts organization. Project Artaud houses over 70 individual artists and several public arts organizations.
This spring we celebrate the legacy of Artaud with an exhibition of work from the oldest to the youngest members of Project Artaud including; visual arts, open mike, live music, sculpture, food, drinks and much more. This exhibit will be in our spectacular garden park. Come experience the splendor of this thriving arts community in the heart of the Mission District!
Project Artaud is alive and thriving due to years of committment to the arts and our city square block, standing tall on the corners of 17th/Alabama/Mariposa/Florida inviting artists, non-artists and all people of this planet to come celebrate!

Here are some of the artists who work and reside at Project Artaud:
http://artaud.org/499/members.html
Driving direction (map)
http://artaud.org/499/maps.html
more directions!
http://v1.soex.org/index.html


We hope to see you on Easter Sunday celebrating the beginning of our
35th anniversary year on April 16 from 2-10 PM!

I am interviewde by a sophisticated 5 year old, Kai!

3/20/06 Kai came over and conducted a very sophisticated interview, it is available as a podcast or right off their website: Robot power is live. Knowledge is Power - Robots Episode 04 25 minutes blogspot knowyourpower.blogspot.com/ RSS FEED (for podcast) feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/mPtk To subscribe copy the RSS link and paste into your player software. For iTunes, click on podcasts on the left, under the advanced menu go to the Subscribe menu and paste the url here. Kai and Troy produced at the hideout 2006 (a direct link to the 'enhanced podcast is here) vjtroy.tv/KIP_SERVER/KIP_04/KIP_04.m4a

3/2/06

I am in an art show that opens tomorrow, curated and devised by the wonderful Katherin McInnis:

katherinmcinnis.com

As Is, at Mission 17, focuses on Thrift Town, the venerable Mission institution, located in the same building as the gallery. The show features new video work about Thrift Town, as well as a mini-museum of great finds -- unique dolls, musical instruments, a hot-rod vacuum cleaner -- and interviews with their creative finders: Craig Baldwin, Bill Daniel, Jeanne Finley, Amy Harrison, Douglas Katelus, Jessica Lanyadoo, Rachel Manera, and Kal Spelletich. Plus an update from Stephen Parr on the whereabouts of the 17 Reasons sign!

Mission 17 Gallery
2111 Mission St., Ste. 401 (at 17th Street)
March 3rd - 31st, 2006
Opening: Friday, March 3rd, 6-9 pm

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12/7/05

I am collaborating on a piece with Chris Johanson at White Columns Gallery. Called:
“Negative Monument to Surveillance, Infiltration and the Quest for Neutralizing Through Violence and Psychological Warfare by the U.S. Government Against It’s Own Citizens” and Nice Store Monument.

C’mon over and have your lovely selves entered into our database! It opens Dec. 15 6 – 9pm
320 West 13th St.
NY, NY.
212.645.4764
(entrance on Horatio St. btwn. 8th. Ave & Hudson St.
GALLERY HOURS: TUESDAY - SATURDAY, 12 - 6 PM


http://www.whitecolumns.org/
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11/28/2005

Well, this is so hard to write and I have put it off for months, but my dear friend Randy “Biscuit” Turner passed away this past summer.

http://www.randybiscuitturner.com/
http://nine_99.tripod.com/rjturner.htm
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-08-19/music_feature.html

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God it was so fun going to his museum-like house, he would serve you twinkies and kool-aid and show off the latest of hundreds of new artworks and kitchy items he collected. He was the nicest, most charming, bigger than life sweetheart of a guy you could ever ever meet.

He would always meet me at some off the wall place when I revisted Austin. Always taking time out for me, going to my shows, inviting me over, a true gentleman and truly am inspiration to me.

As Biscuit said “what I've always tried to do: give 'em that tilt of the dog's head, that little 'Huh?'"

Biscuit, you changed and inspired me, hence you live on through me and the thousands you also inspired. I know you are crackin them up wherever you went!

I am in a show in Vienna this week, Wed.-Sun.
see http://www.roboexotica.org/en/main.htm
and, well, drop on by if you are in the neighborhood!


http://www.roboexotica.org/
http://www.roboexotica.org/en/map.htm
!PARTAY!
ta-ta
kal

woo hoo!
a doc on me by Mark Rinehart and Pele Eriksson is airing on this webpage, it is a very very good doc that i am quite happy with! This is a shortened version of a bigger thing.

http://current.tv/studio/media/612

9/12/2005

Good day!


We are off to Amsterdam where 15 machines and robots are to meet us via ship for a spectacular event called ROBODOCK! http://robodock.org/home_eng.html

Drop on by Sept. 21-24

I hope everyone realizes what a loss it is to lose New Orleans, how evil it was for our government to let tens of thousands of people to suffer and die there. What a permanent loss culturaly it will be to lose this spectacular melting pot of culture that is like no other in the world.
Our nation is taking a MASSIVE cultural hit here, it may never recoup from.
You can get information about Nawlins here: http://www.nola.com/.

As of today, Sept. 5, 20045 thousands of people are still being rescued and pulled out of attics and off of rooftops! unbelieveable, after one week. Do you think if tens of thousands of white people in Conneticut were stranded on roofs for a week the nation would sit back and do next to nothing? for shame on our society for letting these people sit and rot!

Give a call to the WHITEY HOUSE
202-456-1414 and let King George know what you think, and call your "elected" officials and let them know what a loss this is. AND, that we should rebuild this gem and allow every single person to move back to rebuilt homes and neighborhoods.

And, oh! look who is capitalizing first and the most off of this disaster:
http://halliburtonwatch.org/news/hurricane_katrina.html

8/27/05

off to santa fe for the weekend
after a great nyc trip this past week, listening to Lucinda Williams a lot. Spent a week in the Mendocino woods,
lookin forward to http://robodock.org/ in late sept., then a month to explore europa!

Off to NYC for an exhibit at the TECHFEST!
Aug. 19-21, www.longislandtechfest.com
http://www.longislandtechfest.com/robots-games-attractions.htm#kals
and then a couple of days to see friends and what not~

7/31/05
have been very busy, finished packing a shipping container, headed for europe with 15 machines and robots for shows there in sept. and Oct. 2005, teaching a sculpture class at the Academy of Art University, just finished an installation i am SO happy with, see here:
http://www.monkeyview.net/kal@seemen.org/for_slug/index.vhtml

and
off to Seattle for a talk at the museum of modern art there this tuesday
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea/dorkbotmtg21.shtml

Press release 2005 I am in 3 shows this week, all in San Francisco and on 2 TV shows.

# 1 is at Fort Mason, July 21-24. On the waterfront in the , ahh, err, marina district. It is a very large photo show, I have, a bunch of photos of my machines and robots and an installation with a couple of machines, a video taken while riding my motorcycle up highway 1, and a video projection of you when you walk into the room taken through a spinning time machine.
http://www.announceart.net/photosf/2005/welcome.html


#2 is at my studio warehouse at 3rd St. It is a big group show of a bunch of us from our building. Sat July 23, 7 PM-11 PM 3235 3rd. St.
I am showing a drawing machine controlled by your heartbeat.

#3 is at CELLSPACE Saturday in the lovely Mission. This is a fundraiser for trying to send me and my partner Jay Broemmel to Amsterdam to do a show at the illustrious ROBODOCK. http://www.cellspace.org/ Flaming Lotus/Seemen Fundraiser and Art Show Saturday, July 23rd
7pm-2am
CELL Space! 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco
$10-$Infinity!


TV shows I am on:
Discovery Channel July 20, 8 PM A show called One Step Beyond, Superhumans, I got some mysterious call that I was on this show, I have no idea what they are showing and I don’t have cable, someone tape it for me? whatever


Bay Area PBS ch 9 July 27 @ 7:30 PM & 7/29 @ 11:00 PM & 7/31 @ 11:30 PM, a show called SPARK.

medical fund:
http://seemen.org/donate.html

this week was one of the hardest weeks of my life,
my dog i co-parent with rudy rucker was taken horribly sick,
we made a website,
http://www.monkeybrains.net/~rudy/slug/
if anyone can donate to his medical fund it would help us so much

thanks, kal

I am in an art opening this Thursday April 14th
Project Artaud Spring Rebirth Show art opening Art Exhibit Opening April 14 6-? pm Spring Show: Re-birth @Project Artaud Theater Gallery 450 Florida St. in the Mission FREE Exhibit continues until April 17 Noon-5 PM Friday April 15, 6-11 PM Sat. & Sun.16 and 17. 12-7 Residents of Project Artaud offer a public invitation to celebrate the history and future of this 34 year old non-profit, member-run organization. Come see our newly refurbished spectacular Theater Artaud gallery, complete with 40 foot ceilings and floor to ceiling gothic windows. This room looks like a Midevel European church, right in the mission!! Project Artaud houses over 70 individual artists and several public arts organizations. This spring we celebrate the legacy of Artaud with an exhibition of work from the oldest to the youngest members of Project Artaud including; visual arts, theater, film/video, music, storytelling and much more. Come experience the splendor of this thriving arts community! The opening event will include live music, video and storytelling by a lineage of Artaud residents. Project Artaud is prospering due to of years of commitment to the arts and this building in San Francisco. Artaud has ridden the waves of economy and stands tall on the corners of 17th/Alabama/Mariposa/Florida inviting artists, non-artists, people of this city to come celebrate! http://artaud.org/theater/spring-rebirth.html

2 group shows i am in
at ATA 992 Valencia
Sat. nite April 2
and at CCA on April 7
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Presents "Monuments for the
USA," April 7–May 14, 2005
http://www.cca.edu/about/press/2005/monuments.php

SEEMEN and kal Spelletich are graciously supported by Project Artaud,
http://artaud.org/
http://artaud.org/499/history.html
A not for profit corporation, your contribution is greatly needed and appreciated. Tax-deductible donations can be made to Project Artaud, earmarked “Seismic/ADA 2002”. Tax documentation will be provided with our Thank You!

I am in a show in LA this week of January 27 - 30, 2005
Showing 8 machines, one a collaboration with Chris Johanson
show info:
THE NEW LOS ANGELES ART FAIR - FOR CONTEMPORARY AND NEW ART Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
1855 Main Street
www.artla.net,  and if you look at Brown Bag Contemporary…that’s me. 

We are featured this wed., Jan. 19, 2005 on KQED, PBS , channel 9 at 7:30 PM, a program called SPARK, the title is called shaken and stirred~

http://www.kqed.org/spark/episodes/#301

Friday, Jan 21, 2005 KQED Channel 9 Shaken and Stirred -- 11:00pm

Saturday, Jan 22, 2005

KQED Encore Shaken and Stirred -- 2:00am,  6:00am,  10:00am,  2:00pm,  6:00pm,  10:00pm

KQED Life Shaken and Stirred -- 2:00pm

Sunday, Jan 23, 2005 KQED Channel 9 Shaken and Stirred -- 11:30pm KQED Life Shaken and Stirred -- 11:30am

Monday, Jan 24, 2005 KQED Encore Shaken and Stirred -- 2:30am,  6:30am,  10:30am,  2:30pm,  6:30pm,  10:30pm

12/9/04

went to Austin, it was great, did a workshop, a lecture and built a piece for a group show of UT alumni. It was cool lecturing in the big hall where I went and heard so many talks when I went to school there, funny. Saw lots of good souls there.
In a local group show
Working on 2 tv shows of my own.
did a shoot for KQED PBS
and for discovery channel Australia


and nat. geo. AND Lonely planet TV

spoke at Matt Gonzlaez’s ART AND POLITICS CLASSS FOR A day at the ART INSTITUTE

Teaching several students here at my place

and
got a new home! At project Artaud

Cold winter ahead.

Hi, This is announcement for a show at Varnish Fine Art, 77 Natoma St.(@2nd St) , San Francisco, Ca.,  The exhibition runs from November 29 to January 8. The reception is on December 2  7-11PM . I have 5 sculptures in the show. I hope to see you there. kal

“Mothership Connection”
Art and Art History Department’s Alumni Show,
Work Selected from the Alumni Slide Registry at the
Creative Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin

-------------------------------------------------------------    RECEPTION : Friday, November 19, 6 - 9 pm
Return to the Mothership; Alumni artists teleported for the reception
from all over the galaxy.

EXHIBITION DATES: November 20, 2004 - January 15, 2005
GALLERY HOURS: 12-5 pm, Tues. - Sat.
During Christmas, please call first.
--------------------------------------------------------------- SATELITE EVENTS :
Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 5 p.m.
Kal Spelletich Public Lecture, Art Building, Room 1.120
Kal is a part of Seemen, a critically lauded robot art troop.
He comes to Austin to build scary things at the CRL and
teach kids how to build robots. http://seemen.org/

Friday, November 19, all day robot making workshop
At the Sculpture Lab, Dept. of Art. Open to all UT students.
Make sure to email me crlab@uts.cc.utexas.edu
to participate, space is limited.

2 VERY INTIMATE LIVE PERFORMANCES

IN SAN FRANCISCO
SATURDAY. Nov. 6, 2004
8:00 & 10:00 PM

I haven’t done one of these shows since the spring, way over due and have some really great new machines to show!
And, the show is being videotaped for SPARK on KQED/PBS and Discovery Channel Australia, so, have your bad self immortalized and seen all over the world! If you want.

Blue about the election??
Well, come celebrate our freedom and some artistic ANARCHY for the world to see, this is FAR from over.

OK, heres how this works.
EMAIL FOR YOUR RESERVATIONS, DIRECTIONS & INFORMATION to:
Zues_94124@yahoo.com

Please say WHAT TIME you want to attend, 8 or 10 PM

ONLY 50 PEOPLE ALLOWED EACH SHOW
$10.00 SLIDING SCALE

SAY EXACTLY HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN YOUR PARTY AND WHAT TIME YOU WANT TO ATTEND
SHOWS START PRECISELY at 8:01 & 10:01 PM
If you do not receive a confirmation back then the date is sold out, sorry, try again next time.

SEEMEN create situations where audiences are encouraged to Interact and operate their machines and robots. You get to run a machine that can kill you. IT'S FUN! To see what we have been up to go to:
http://www.monkeyview.net/kal@seemen.org/

YOU VOLUNTARILY ASSUME THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH BY ATTENDING THIS PERFORMANCE, Blah, blah, blah.

ok,
this is it!
everyone get off yer butts and get engaged this week, so as to help save the planet!

The Census Bureau reported that there were 35.8 million Americans living in poverty in 2003, an increase of 1.3 million over 2002, and that the number of people without health insurance rose from 43.5 million to 45 million.

The Bush Administration issued a new rule that will permit the EPA to approve pesticides without finding out from wildlife agencies whether the chemicals will harm plants and animals protected by the Endangered Species Act.\\

In the weeks following the attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bush’s press secretary Ari Fleischer replied to criticism of administration policy by warning that “all Americans need to watch what they say, watch what they do”. This challenge to free expression emphasized the climate of war, repression, and xenophobia that continues to run through American society.

Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden diversion. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony. The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq. A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.
Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.
If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.
A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, then demand their cooperation and money.
Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health care to all Americans is socialism.
HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart. Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.
A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense. A president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.
Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.
The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's driving record is none of our business.
Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness, and you need our prayers for your recovery.
What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.

If you don't talk about this to at least 10 other people, we're likely to be stuck with Bush for 4 more years.
Friends don't let friends vote Republican.
Do not forget, we had a budget surplus before the repubs siezed office, we are now sunk into a quagmire of debt, likely for decades, let alone the war quagmire!

Tired of the Elections? Sick and Tired of the propaganda? Disgusted with the lies?
This is HARD WORK!
Watch 2 ROBOTIC DEBATERS controlled by you, duke it out!

Matt Heckerts and I have a show at ATA ~Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/ 992 Valencia St. San Francisco, Ca. 415.824.3890 this Saturday October 23, 2004
At 8:00 PM until midnight
$6.00 admission
WITH! DJ RAGI da LAWYER


If you don’t know Matt Heckerts work, he is one of the originators of machine and robotic art and it is a thrill and honor to be collaborating with him!
See here:
http://mattheckert.com/


We are going to have a blast letting the audience operate a ROBOTIC DEBATE
And some other machines and robots
AND a lot of crazy political videos and films from time immemorial to the present.
There will be mayhem
There will be chaos
It will be clear who to vote for in the end.

Richard Avedon, 1923–2004 died this week
the quintessential fashion photographer, I blew off a photo shoot with him a couple of years ago, it was for a LEVI’S add, they tried to trick me into wearing a wearing a LEISURE SUIT, I got pissed at them and left him standing in a studio,
whatevah, I would have worn my jeans, not some cheesy leisure suit, they were gonna pay like $1000.00 and more if the add was a hit and went national, and I got a print port with me and one of my machines and a quote by me, it was a longer story, ahhh, the straight world.

have the installation at yerb buena arts center up, go down and give it a look, opening is on Sepy 30, 2004 OR ELSE VOTE INSTALLATION PROPAGANDA KIOSK Opening on Sept. 30 at 5:00 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 701 Mission St. Third Street, between Mission and Howard Streets Musical accompaniments will be provided by Ragi da lawyer Regular Gallery Hours Thu–Sat 12–8 pm Sun, Tue, Wed 12–5 pm An interactive piece made by15 people at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts In the lobby so you can see it for FREE. There are 5 machines manipulating the other peoples’ work, it is very Agit-prop with hundreds of political fliers free for the taking, a dico ball, spinning neon. Be sure to interact with everything, press the buttons, step on pad, have your heart-beat trigger the eraser, etc. For pics and videos go to: http://www.monkeyview.net/kal@seemen.org/vote/index.vhtml COLLABORATORS: CHRIS JOHANSON KAL SPELLETICH SCOTT HEWICKER CLIFF HENGST CHRIS CORALES KRISTA BRAY JACKIE SUMELL JOHN LAW RIGO RANDY COLOSKY KARA SABOURIN RUDY RUCKER MOIRA MURDOCH TERRY And anyone who interacts with it. We thought about how to get apathetic people involved, art viewers and the public at large. The loss of rights, of life, culture and dissent, your identity, if you don’t get involved…. The loss of your position in society by not being engaged, the erasure of certain groups, the spinning around of the electorate until they are dizzy and sick, the PARTYS OVER, propaganda, corporations taking over, electronic voting, lies and the lying liars This is up until until Nov. 3 2004

O v e r v i e w :

California has been ground zero for extreme machine art and robot performance. The combination of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, plus a technically skilled volunteer pool, plus decommissioned military bases and piles of discarded equipment, has created a fertile breeding ground for a virulent mechanical 'arts and crafts' scene with a hacker ethic. Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, increasingly versatile and robust sensors and actuators, computer vision, artificial life, and virtual reality are appropriated and subverted by these artists in order to experiment with alternative scenarios for extreme human-machine interaction.

Talk at columbia went real well, smart peeps there, very good question/answer session.
The show was ok, weird crowd, these 2 tweaker women ran the walker.

The space was good, but real off vibe, they were in it fer the bux.
So kinda lame people there running the space.

Good crowd, they all left immediately after my demo, i felt for the other acts.

Madagascar institute were cool, and helped me a lot, lent me a bicycle while i was there
NELSON and Heather were super and put me up the whole week
See:
http://www.chaircut.com/

Later in the week I was at this cool party, really fun and drunk and rowdy, i start askin people what is going on in NYC/brooklyn, they are all laughing at the gallery/museum scene, hatin it , yeah, right on i am thinkin, so i keep prodding them for what cool have they seen lateley, What is up with NYC??
 Finally this guy starts describing a show he saw on the street a couple of years ago in williamsburg, MY show from like 1999 !!! I did there just before williamsburg became really lame and yuppie!
So, what is goin on in NYC?
SF! ah well.

After my show this woman comes up, as usual, for the millionth time someone asks how to make one of my pieces, i tell her jokingly, to take my class, then that it is alchemy and you need to study it for years and years, she gets grumpy,,,,, then to learn how to make it herself cuz it is the journey not the prize, the learning process is part of the art! It is like inventing something... she doesn't get it, they never ever do, everyone wants a quick fix. An easy out, no one wants to do the hard work. They want me to do it and they want to use my labor.
She says Burning Man has given her a $4,000.00 grant to build an EKG like i just demonstrated and she wants me to tell how to do it!
Well, gimmee the 4K and i will make it for you i said.
I rekon she left pissed.
Good.
Art is hard and should be.

all in all the people at office ops sucked and didn't know what they were doing and put a damper on the show, oh well, next time.

Machine Demo
Friday May 9
at
OfficeOps
57 Thames St.,
2nd Floor,
Brooklyn, NY

I am bringing from San Francisco a walking machine that walks when you talk to it (voice activated) with an onboard pyro unit(fire 2-6') that is triggered with each heartbeat (an EKG).
I am going to demo it and let people operate it on Fri. May 9 at a party/event. There are a bunch of other really cool NYC acts there too!!

http://www.officeops.org/
Info@officeops.org
718.418.2509

more info and directions: http://www.seemen.org/booking.html

last night my friend Timothy North passed away,
he was such a gem, a fantastic artist, a pinnacle in The San Francisco Industrial art scene, wherever he went,
he is adored by many, myself included,
he left us because of cancer,
i am so tired of my friends and family getting cancer,
he had no insureance and never reallty went to doctors his whole life, he was in his mid-40's,
his work had such a profound affect on me,
shit,
we all need to help take care of each other,
we are our only safety nets,
fuck,
i can't really think straight right now.
here is a lttle tiny bit about tim, his life and his work
http://www.hoverdrum.com/

ok,
lots going on!
monkey on yerback macHine is coming along nicely

maybe a couple of gigs in Austin Tx. in June,

off to NYC next week for a talk and demo of the walker triggered by an EKG and voice activator!

AND another NYC gig in July
see: http://artbots.org/2003/
where i am going to premiere the MONKEYONYERBACK.

WENT TO PEDRO'S HUT IN THE MENDOCINO WOODS, I LUV IT UP THERE.
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4/15/03

just back from the LA shows.
Man, i am beat, everything went great. Pretty amazing. Heres a couple of pics.,  hopefully many more to come
http://lemonodor.com/archives/000393.html#000393

and
a FUNNY article from The one and only LA WEELKY
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/22/live-bemis.php
the 3rd article down
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4/3/03
upcoming LA show 4/11-12/03
http://www.seemen.org/booking.html
Contrary to some reports I am not exhibiting at the robot wars show in SF on 4/11/03
I am exhibiting in LA. That weekend.
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3/27/03
The Timothy North http://www.hoverdrum.com/  benefit went incredibly well! We got him lots of support and everyone from the scene showed up and contributed in a myriad of ways. It was FANTASTIC to see a small community gather around to help a friend in dire need seings how there is no safety net for broke artists with cancer who do not have insureance (most of my friends and myself included).
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OK, time for boycotting BIG businesses,  McDonalds, any chain store, locally owned or not, they are SATAN
See   http://adbusters.org they have tons of information, Boycotts work, you hit them where the only thing that counts for them., , their wallets, and see: http://www.theyrule.net/
 If the Corporations are getting corrupt politicians elected then we need to stop them.
McDonald's, the Niketowns and Hollywood cinemas. No more Disneyland.Turn off Fox, CNN and MTV. We shut down Esso and Texaco, Gap and Starbucks. Anything Mono-culture.
One person does make a difference.
LET THE TRADE WARS BEGIN!!
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3/24/03
I am so proud of Michael Moore, and his film and his oscar and his acceptance speech, what a great American hero.
All of the other actors, who are acting be reminded, cow-towed to their agents so as to not offend anyone or risk their raking in more millions for their play-acting.whttp://michaelmoore.com/

The smug self righteous bastards at the Academy Awards who booed Michael Moore for his anti-corporate war message at tonight's ceremony should be at least boycotted. All this while people are getting their eyes popped out on the corners by the LAPD? What a bunch of self congratulatory whining subhumans these actors are. Their message to the world is America doesn't care about your suffering. We only care about our shitty golden statue. I wish they could all live in Baghdad. It makes me sick to be an American.
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3/23/03
WELL I HAVE BEEN ON THE STREETS ALL WEEK HERE, IT HAS BEEN MUCH THE SAME, MAYHEM, WITH NO COVERAGE IN THE MEDIA, COVERING UP THAT THIS CITY HAS BEEN UPSIDE DOWN WITH PROTESTS, IT IS INSPIRATIONAL, THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE GUTS TO PUT THEIRT ASSES ON THE LINE, TO RISK BEING ARRESTED, BEATEN, MACED AND JAILED, NOT JUST RISK THIS BUT TO HAVE THIS ACTUALLY HAPPEN TO THEM TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST THIS CORPORATE VIOLENCE.
SO I WAS ARRESTED AGAIN, a 2nd time illegally, they are targeting certain people, THIS TIME WITH RUDY RUCKER AND SLUG, IT WAS REALLLY LAME THIS TIME, WE WERE IN A MARCH, AND THEY SURROUNDED US, DIDN'T ALERT ANYONE DISPERSE, AND THEN LOADED EVERYONE UP, THEY WERE REALLY VIOLENT AT FIRST, PEOPLE WERE FREAKING, THEY COULDN'T BEIEVE IT, THEY WERE IN A  PEACE MARCH, USING THEIR FIRST AMMENDMENT RIGHTS, ON THE SIDEWALKS, AND ROUNDED UP LIKE IT WAS NAZI GERMANY, INCREDULOUS CHILDREN, GRANDMAS, HIPSTERS, HIPPIES, I KINDA TOOK IT IN STRIDE THIS TIME, THEY WEREN'T AS VIOLENT THIS TIME AT LEAST, I ONLY SAW THE COPS CLUB AND BEAT A BLIND MAN, AND CONTINUALLY THREATEN SLUG, RUDY'S DOG. IT TOOK HOURS,  AND EVENTUALLY THEY WERE THREATENING ME WITH THE PATRIOT ACT, AND LOCK UP FOR DAYS, I WAS HOME BY 9 AM THE NEXT MORNING, ABOUT 15 HOURS TOTAL, SHIITY JAILHOUSE "FOOD". NO SLEEP, FRAZZLED NERVES, I WAS BACK OUT BY NOON. Hatred against America is increasing, SAT. DAY AND NIGHT THERE WERE RUNING SKIRMISHES ALL UP AND DOWN MARKET STREERT, I HAVE NEVER FELT MORE ALIVRE. I HAVE NEVER SEEN MORE VIOLENCE METED OUT BY A "POLICE FORCE". May "god" - have mercy on us all !

Subsequently, the only police activity I saw was more to the detriment of public safety rather than to "to serve and protect." I saw police cars drive head on into the crowds of marchers nearly running many of us over. I saw police manhandle protesters and bicyclists without any resistance  to police orders. I saw police on motorbikes racing along sidewalks paying no attention to pedestrians. I saw police threaten and beat protestors with their billy clubs. I definitely saw arrests without reasonable cause. Many of us were stopped at a light by police on Market Street. They would not allow us to pass. After a large group had collected, they grabbed a few riders who were peacefully standing at the light waiting for direction from the police and threw them violently into a van.
My family fought in ther Civil War(for the North) and every damn horrible war after it, not for this shit, this is not how i was raised as an American.

There were endless surreal moments, one of the oddest was  thousands yuppies standing in endless lines for the grand opening of the New Asian Fart Museum for several days during the protests, so, thousands of protestors heckling passive clean-cut overdressed yups in their sheeply line snaking around the block. What is wrong with this picture? Art "lovers" who don't protest and spend WAY to much money on "clothes".

In a mere 2 years the US administration has upon the people of America the contempt and distrust  of the rest of the world. Many hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated against
the war in cities all over the world. Protests in San
Francisco were particularly lively. One group of protesters
vomited on the sidewalk in front of a federal building after
drinking large quantities of red, white, and blue milk;
others pulled out mats and practiced yoga in front of the
police. A federal park ranger tried to run over protesters
in his truck and then attempted to run down a reporter. One
protester apparently committed suicide by jumping from the
Golden Gate Bridge. Police were repeatedly videotaped
attacking demonstrators with clubs and pepper spray.
Protesters were also observed beating police officers.

THIS IS WHAT A POLICE STATE LOOKS LIKE, COMING TO A SMALL TOWN NEAR YOU!
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/1588649.php

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3/20/03
TODAY IN SAN FRANCISCO

it's crazy here...
never have i seen such protests, right up there with the Rodney King/Gulf War protests.
it takes hours to work your way through the crowds,
bicycles are good, but hard to do an about face when the cops charge in close quarters.
thousands and thousands of people blocking the streets,

I was constantly running into commrades, forming cells, everyone looking out for each other, than losing each other in the throngs only to run into others in mere minutes.
performances and stunts everywhere you look.
men in business suits carrying "peace" signs,
police in their riot outfits, carrying battons dragging bodies to awaiting paddy wagons...
hundreds and hundreds of people sitting handcuffed
being arrested...many many mass arrests
music blaring through a loud speakers...drums and noisemakers everywhere.

Helicopters, everywhere,
the city is out of control, YAY!
grandmothers carrying signs with "love the Iraqi children"
Whole families together protesting.
market street - the huge main street of traffic in San Franicsco
completely blocked by protesters sitting at every intersection,
so emotional - people crying publicly,
police yelling at everyone, they are sadisticly violent. Screaming at protestors. Signs everywhere. People hollering at each other.

the actions of a government do not always
reflect the feelings and wants of the people,

May "god" - have mercy on us all !

I was clubbed, maced and dog-piled on by cops, we were corralled and beaten like animals, maced again, arrested, charged, my bicycle tossed aside by the cops laughing, never to be seen again, incredible, to serve and protect my ass.

They came from all sides swinging their batons into us yelling for us to move, which was stupid since they surrounded us on all sides

. A couple officers decided to beat many of us after they had pushed us down to the ground,Ya know, they aren't so tough, they aren't even that strong, you can grab their batons, the beating stops, you can shove them, their fellow pigs don't like this and will smack you, it isn't like they are super-humans or anything, but really they are a bunch of pussies hiding behind all of their equipment and badge. They are sadists living out their violent fantasies, probably from childhood, we are planning on filing charges. I am sore as hell, i feel like i was in a car wreck.
It feels like i have cracked ribs, my jaw hurts, my tongue is swollen, i am limping. We aren't getting overtime for this,  much the opposite, we are losing money doing this.

It is like a giant party sometimes, people drinking, smoking, dancing, anarchy. My friends have a new squat nearby, it is full of people, free food, everyone telling stories, very celebratory!

Everyone keep the faith, this is about love, not the hate our coup de'tat "government" is putting on.
I will be back out tomorrow for another 14 -20 hour day as i have been the last 3 days. and at least 15 protests since 9/11

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3/19/03
this country is pathetic. what a let down. after all of this, this evolution.
we do this
i
am
sickened

pictures from latest 2003-02-28 show

http://photo.theory.org/index.cgi?mode=album&album=/thinboy/Random/Seemen_20030228
and
http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/tmp/seemen/

and

http://www.theory.org/~adric/album/index.cgi?mode=album&album=/events/seemen

thanx to Lisa Pesnichak

AND
BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE
BY MICHAEL MOORE
THEY CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE, or at least realign it. Both of these guys should be running our country but they are too smart to deal with idiot politicians and would  most likely get whacked.

What a week
SOMETIMES MORE HAPPENS IN A WEEK THAN ALL MONTH.
Hung out with the genius club.
Some cheesy tv show that shalll remain unnamed asked me to host it for the next season.
Annd i got asked to be in a porno.
I hadtapass on both.

Did the dorkbot DORKBOT.SF.ORG talk/demo.
It was good.
http://www.srl.org/karen/dorkbotsf6/
http://www.monkeyview.net/id/4/shows/karen_pics/index.vhtml

A bunch of people saw this woman storm out DRAGGING HER MALE FRIEND when i talked about women gettin all bizzee when they interact with the pieces.
Everyone cracked up, i didn't even see it. Damn.
The SLUGBOT demo went perfect, PURRFECT!
He was a star!
Phenomenal, a 120 lb. Dog running, with his body, a walking machine with a flamethrower and a pair of snapping arms!

Looks like i am going to lecture at Columbia University in NYC this spring, not columbia missourri or the in the South American country. MAY turn into east coast shows!

Art piece of the week, well there are 2, #1. The motor pressure washer/compressor with spoiler for a roof abandoned down the block #2. The NEW bicycle ramp going up over the dip on Cesar Chavez St., beeutifull ramp/trusses/cement forms/rebar/plywood/1/2 built/1/2 demolished/post-apocalyptic look. (though they stopped working on it back over X-MESS)

I have been getting interviewed a bit lately, by a nice guy from minneapolis who is putting out a book on dangerous art.
And a local magazine, and by some PHD students working on their theseis'.

The Valentines day show at the ODEON BAR went, well,
Huggingly swell. With the NEW Hugger machine and the flying carpet! AND A DRINK DELIVERY SYSTEM ON THE BAR AND THE BURNING BED ANNNND THE STRAP ON FLAMETHROWER NO LESS, Chicken was really fun and goofy and we watched the phatt man-dee video, she was on judge Hatchett, what a Jackass.