Gary Numan's "Pleasure Principle" Anniversary Tour at the Gothic Theatre

Gary Numan played Denver's Gothic Theater on October 28, 2010. Hearing Pleasure Principle album from start to finish was a great cyberpunk flashback, and the whole show reminded me of the role that artists like Gary Numan, John Foxx, The Normal, and Fad Gadget played in a wider cultural shift from outer space to the synthetic, replicating, interiorized spaces of late-`70s and `80s science fiction.

Robert Henke's "Intersection" at Gates Planetarium

The Digital Media Studies program at the University of Denver is hosting a visit from Robert Henke. Robert will be performing his multi-channel work, "Intersection," incorporating field recordings made in Hanoi in 2009, reconstructed through narrative, music and sounds. Monday's performance will unfold in the context of full-dome digital theater at Gates Planetarium, with live Uni-View visualization from Ka Chun Yu. The next evening's presentation will have Robert displaying his performance techniques, handmade hardware and custom software tools.

ROBERT HENKE
Gates Planetarium
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2001 S. Colorado Blvd.
Monday, September 27
Doors open: 7:30pm
Show begins: 8:00pm (no late seating)

Robert Henke Workshop
Sturm Hall 253
University of Denver
2000 E. Asbury St.
Tuesday, September 28, 7pm

Cyborg Ritual and Sentic Technology in the Vortex Concerts

Trace Reddell presents the Vortex Concerts of Henry Jacobs and Jordan Belson, which took place at San Francisco’s Morrison Planetarium between 1957 and 1959, as extensions of astronautic research and cybernetic space sciences. While considering the audiovisual content and new performance interfaces used by these artists, he is most interested in how this space age ‘theater of the future’ plays out a cosmological agenda. The unique spatial structure of the planetarium dome represents the near atmosphere and distant outer space, but it also mimics the observatory and even the cramped interiors of spacecraft. Through this vehicular mechanism, the Vortex Concerts promote a new understanding of the nexus of mind, mood, and body as these are integrated into highly technical cybernetic systems by means of bio-engineering and pharmaceutical regimes. These performances facilitate the emotional life and imaginative health of the cyborg-astronaut through ritual use of sense-altering technologies.

Sonic Acts XIII: The Poetics of Space
spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology
25-28 February 2010, Amsterdam