NAAU presents Ty Ennis's examination of a series of murders in Spokane, Washington: You’ll Live It Here: The Lilac City Track Murders ‘96-’98. Ennis is a versatile artist and this project has allowed him to work in video, drawing and sculpture on a real world drama. At New American Art Union www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny
NATIONALE shows French artist Arnaud Loumeau. Influenced by native American cultures, Loumeau produces psychadelic work. "Looking at Loumeau's drawings feels like you find yourself in the mind of a robot mind who is having a kaleidoscopic dream with his monsters and aliens friends spacing in a chessboard game. They are full of dazzling and vibrant colors playing together to impress your retina." Opening at NATIONALE nationaleportland.blogspot.com 2730 E Burnside 6PM-9
Kimberlyn Penrose shows drawings, you may know her work from Moshi-Moshi and Compound. Life + Limb combines a zen view of home, with some very artful plants + art. At www.lifeandlimb.net 1716 E. Burnside
In the 811 E Burnside Building
Anna Korte has a fiber installation inspired by Buckminster Fuller: "For me, creating fiber-based sculpture art fulfills a creative exploration of an inner-world... like my way down the rabbit hole or finding the key to my secret garden. At the moment, I am heavily inspired by the works and ideas of R. Buckminster Fuller. This piece, in particular, is inspired less about the perfection of symmetry, and more about the omni-interrelated universe of which you and I are part." At Sword and Fern swordandfern.blogspot.com
Redux has Fur Friends Forever drawings-acrylics at once portraits, nature, animals and dreams by Valerie Pensworth. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com
Grass Hut has Mike Perry as noted earlier in the week. At Grass Hut www.grasshutcorp.com
Newspace Photo has interior and exterior landscapes by Dawn Roe and Catharine Stebbins repectively. Both understand selective focus: take that point and shooters! www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th
Rob Pellicer and Zach Tobias are at Breezeblock. Breezeblock www.breezeblockgallery.com Gallery 1847 E. Burnside
Robert Huff shows Tropical Plastic, lush bright plants, juxtaposed with the opposite, except for bright, people made plastic manufactured goods. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 1021 SE Caruthers
23 Sandy has a very unusual combination: well known Portland artist Chris Haberman - Wonderland paired with dreamy photographer Jessica Spring - The Horse Show. At www.23sandy.com 623 NE 23 at Sandy
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
July 2 Westside Art Openings
I always recommend the Everett Lofts for ever changing viewing pleasure. I resist individual listings because they are more time consuming to compile than the time you could devote to just seeing everything. Nonetheless SEA Change has a political installation work about Congo, an African interest of mine.
Based on research by Portlander's Casey Bush and Joshua Seeds, Ryan Burns has created a mediation on mining in Eastern Congo, "Profane Relics--- An Ossuary of the Congo Mineral Wars". That is adjacent to Rwanda and intertwined in the 1994 genocide.
Congo has deposits of gold, diamonds and tantalum ore, all a perverse curse on everyday life. Tantalum is an ingredient in chip capacitors used to manage the characteristics of high speed electrical signals in almost all electronic equipment.
The show opens tonight and is open weekend hours throughout the month. SEA Change hosts a Congolese dinner and public brainstorming session July 11 facilitated by Mercy Corps and Run for Congo Women. One direct solution is expanded recycling of electronics, and the gallery hosts mobile phone recycling this month by Eco-Cell. RSVP for the dinner and discussion at seagallery at gmail.
At SEA Change Gallery seagallery.wordpress.com in the Everett Lofts on the Everett side, corner of NW Broadway opening 6PM-10. Dinner discussion Saturday July 11, 5PM-7, RSVP please. Free
Across the Hall is the space shared by Rod Pulliam and Jane Beebe in the former Pulliam Deffenbaugh gallery space. This month they present a group show Catch All. The show includes Brad Adkins, Monica Angle, Lydia Beebe, Victoria Haven, Philip Iosca, Vanessa Johnson, Jeff Keller, Justin L'Amie, James Lavadour, Raymond Meeks, Vanessa Renwick, Adam Sorensen, Storm Tharp and Marie Watt. At Across the Hall 925 NW Flanders 6PM-8
For some summer excitement Midori Hirose & Joshua Orion Kermiet collaborate in installation at Fontanelle. Fun! At Fontanelle Gallery www.fontanellegallery.com 205 SW Pine
At Compound there is an all woman show Pink Attitude comprising Anneli Olander, Candy Bird, Pink Sublime, Cikita Z, Isa Duval, Msss Kikao, B9 and Fawn Gehweiler. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th
Lorna Nakell who started with illustrated meal paintings has returned to domestic themes in illustration style. See at Beppu Wiarda www.beppugallery.com 319 NW 9th
Dana Dart McClean, Meg Peterson & Brenna Murphy are at Valentines with DJ Cuica spinning Jamaican & Brazilian summer dreams later. At Valentines myspace.com/valentineslifeblood 232 SW Ankeny Art 6PM, party 9:30
Powells has a sure to be odd photo show documenting commune life in 1970's Los Angeles. Cult leader Father Yod, with 14 wives and 100 followers living in a Beverly Hills mansion, drove a Rolls and led a psychadelic band Ya Ho Wa 13, recording limited vinyl pressings sold for $1 at the commune's organic vegetarian restaurant in Laurel Canyon popular with pop luminaries of the time. In 1975, with no training, Yod died in Hawaii on his first hang gliding experience. I am not making this up. The commune carries on as www.yahowha.org. Wednesday the 8th, the commune's documentarians Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian read from a book and show films of the commune's history at 7:30PM At Powell's Books 3rd floor, 10th and W Burnside
Blue Sky has photographs of urban China as noted above and photographs by Amy Stein documenting our interaction with animals, some wild. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th
Based on research by Portlander's Casey Bush and Joshua Seeds, Ryan Burns has created a mediation on mining in Eastern Congo, "Profane Relics--- An Ossuary of the Congo Mineral Wars". That is adjacent to Rwanda and intertwined in the 1994 genocide.
Congo has deposits of gold, diamonds and tantalum ore, all a perverse curse on everyday life. Tantalum is an ingredient in chip capacitors used to manage the characteristics of high speed electrical signals in almost all electronic equipment.
The show opens tonight and is open weekend hours throughout the month. SEA Change hosts a Congolese dinner and public brainstorming session July 11 facilitated by Mercy Corps and Run for Congo Women. One direct solution is expanded recycling of electronics, and the gallery hosts mobile phone recycling this month by Eco-Cell. RSVP for the dinner and discussion at seagallery at gmail.
At SEA Change Gallery seagallery.wordpress.com in the Everett Lofts on the Everett side, corner of NW Broadway opening 6PM-10. Dinner discussion Saturday July 11, 5PM-7, RSVP please. Free
Across the Hall is the space shared by Rod Pulliam and Jane Beebe in the former Pulliam Deffenbaugh gallery space. This month they present a group show Catch All. The show includes Brad Adkins, Monica Angle, Lydia Beebe, Victoria Haven, Philip Iosca, Vanessa Johnson, Jeff Keller, Justin L'Amie, James Lavadour, Raymond Meeks, Vanessa Renwick, Adam Sorensen, Storm Tharp and Marie Watt. At Across the Hall 925 NW Flanders 6PM-8
For some summer excitement Midori Hirose & Joshua Orion Kermiet collaborate in installation at Fontanelle. Fun! At Fontanelle Gallery www.fontanellegallery.com 205 SW Pine
At Compound there is an all woman show Pink Attitude comprising Anneli Olander, Candy Bird, Pink Sublime, Cikita Z, Isa Duval, Msss Kikao, B9 and Fawn Gehweiler. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th
Lorna Nakell who started with illustrated meal paintings has returned to domestic themes in illustration style. See at Beppu Wiarda www.beppugallery.com 319 NW 9th
Dana Dart McClean, Meg Peterson & Brenna Murphy are at Valentines with DJ Cuica spinning Jamaican & Brazilian summer dreams later. At Valentines myspace.com/valentineslifeblood 232 SW Ankeny Art 6PM, party 9:30
Powells has a sure to be odd photo show documenting commune life in 1970's Los Angeles. Cult leader Father Yod, with 14 wives and 100 followers living in a Beverly Hills mansion, drove a Rolls and led a psychadelic band Ya Ho Wa 13, recording limited vinyl pressings sold for $1 at the commune's organic vegetarian restaurant in Laurel Canyon popular with pop luminaries of the time. In 1975, with no training, Yod died in Hawaii on his first hang gliding experience. I am not making this up. The commune carries on as www.yahowha.org. Wednesday the 8th, the commune's documentarians Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian read from a book and show films of the commune's history at 7:30PM At Powell's Books 3rd floor, 10th and W Burnside
Blue Sky has photographs of urban China as noted above and photographs by Amy Stein documenting our interaction with animals, some wild. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th
July 1 China Photos and Motovational Speech
In a participatory prelude to Friday's opening, join in a special "extra credit" event, a book signing, motivational speech and coloring book party by well known artist illustrator Mike Perry. At Grass Hut www.grasshutcorp.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9
City of Ambition - Fast Forward is a body of photos of Chongqing by Swiss photographer Ferit Kuyas. Chongqing is a very large city in a small province in central China which was the capital in WWII owing to the Japanese invasion. At a population of 32 million, it may surpass Bejing and Shanghai in size by 2020. Kuyas documents that growth of this industrial town set amid mountains incidentally once home to Buddhist monasteries. Tonight Kuyas speaks on his experiences and photography there. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th 6:30PM
The first meeting of the Portland Taco Bell Drawing Club will be held at 725 NE Weidler 5:30PM-7
City of Ambition - Fast Forward is a body of photos of Chongqing by Swiss photographer Ferit Kuyas. Chongqing is a very large city in a small province in central China which was the capital in WWII owing to the Japanese invasion. At a population of 32 million, it may surpass Bejing and Shanghai in size by 2020. Kuyas documents that growth of this industrial town set amid mountains incidentally once home to Buddhist monasteries. Tonight Kuyas speaks on his experiences and photography there. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th 6:30PM
The first meeting of the Portland Taco Bell Drawing Club will be held at 725 NE Weidler 5:30PM-7
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
June 25-26 Water in the Desert Performances
Butoh dance is a recurring interest here. Friday and Saturday is a performance festival of Butoh artists from San Francisco, Seattle, Boulder and Portland along with Portland dancers pursuing independent vectors. It is a perfect opportunity to see butoh in contrast to some related forms. Friday evening Koichi & Hiroko Tamano with their Harupin-Ha Butoh Theatre, Japanese folk dancers from Portland Taiko, PSU’s Kyogen Theatre, Sahomi Tachibana Dancers, Cydney Wilkes and Sheri Brown + Douglas Ridings perform. Saturday it is Mizu Desierto Butoh Theatre, Syzygy Butoh, Christina Braun of SF Butoh Lab, Bad Unkl Sista, Wobbly, Theory1:Dance and Linda K. Johnson.
The Tamanos are very early butoh performers from Japan who worked with the founder of butoh in the 1960's. Forming his own company in Japan in 1972, Koichi Tamano and his wife Hiroko Tamano then came to San Francisco and performed the first butoh performance in the United States in 1976. In 1996 he was named as a national treasure by the Emperor of Japan. The Tamano's have been leading a workshop this week and the students will be incorporated into the performance. This is a very rare opportunity to see them. Kyogen theater provides a touchpoint to another traditional Japanese theater form in contrast. Sahomi Tachibana is a Portland teacher of traditional Japanese dance. Her troupe performs traditional buyo dance. Cydney Wilkes is a gifted Portland performer who has drawn upon landscape for outdoor performances as well as electrifying duets with Mike Barber. For the Festival she has recreated a piece in the style of Mary Wigman, a German expressionist modern dancer who inspired the creators of butoh. Sheri Brown and Douglas Ridings from Seattle started with Joan Laage and have developed powerful solo practices and collaborations.
Mizu Desierto is a gifted performer and excels in creating fantastic performances. She is also a great organizer, even of untrained dancers, and is the creator and organizer of the festival. Syzygy Butoh joins us from Boulder, Colorado. Christina Braun has many years of Duncan training as well as studying with Katsura Kan, Anzu Furukawa, Yoshito and Kazue Ohno, Akira Kasai, and Yumiko Yoshiokao. She is founder of the SF Butoh Lab and organizer of the current SF Butoh Festival. Bad Unkl Sista is a long time collaborator with Mizu Desierto. She is creator of fantastic costumes. Wobbly is a collaboration of partners Eric Ferguson and Yulia Arakelyan who have broken barriers in movement for those beyond the conventional concept of the dancer's body. Theory1:Dance is the creation of Portland dancers Tracy Broyles and Meshi Chavez. Linda K. Johnson is a modern dancer, artist and organizer in Portland's art world.
Details on the performances may be found at waterinthedesertfestival.org. At the Portland Center for the Performing Arts Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway. $25 each evening; students, artists & seniors $18; (both nights: $35 available at the PCPA Box office only)
The Tamanos are very early butoh performers from Japan who worked with the founder of butoh in the 1960's. Forming his own company in Japan in 1972, Koichi Tamano and his wife Hiroko Tamano then came to San Francisco and performed the first butoh performance in the United States in 1976. In 1996 he was named as a national treasure by the Emperor of Japan. The Tamano's have been leading a workshop this week and the students will be incorporated into the performance. This is a very rare opportunity to see them. Kyogen theater provides a touchpoint to another traditional Japanese theater form in contrast. Sahomi Tachibana is a Portland teacher of traditional Japanese dance. Her troupe performs traditional buyo dance. Cydney Wilkes is a gifted Portland performer who has drawn upon landscape for outdoor performances as well as electrifying duets with Mike Barber. For the Festival she has recreated a piece in the style of Mary Wigman, a German expressionist modern dancer who inspired the creators of butoh. Sheri Brown and Douglas Ridings from Seattle started with Joan Laage and have developed powerful solo practices and collaborations.
Mizu Desierto is a gifted performer and excels in creating fantastic performances. She is also a great organizer, even of untrained dancers, and is the creator and organizer of the festival. Syzygy Butoh joins us from Boulder, Colorado. Christina Braun has many years of Duncan training as well as studying with Katsura Kan, Anzu Furukawa, Yoshito and Kazue Ohno, Akira Kasai, and Yumiko Yoshiokao. She is founder of the SF Butoh Lab and organizer of the current SF Butoh Festival. Bad Unkl Sista is a long time collaborator with Mizu Desierto. She is creator of fantastic costumes. Wobbly is a collaboration of partners Eric Ferguson and Yulia Arakelyan who have broken barriers in movement for those beyond the conventional concept of the dancer's body. Theory1:Dance is the creation of Portland dancers Tracy Broyles and Meshi Chavez. Linda K. Johnson is a modern dancer, artist and organizer in Portland's art world.
Details on the performances may be found at waterinthedesertfestival.org. At the Portland Center for the Performing Arts Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway. $25 each evening; students, artists & seniors $18; (both nights: $35 available at the PCPA Box office only)
June 25 Floating World Animation Festival
Portland is the Floating World sometimes, yukio. Edo novelist Asai Ryōi describes in his tale, Ukiyo Monogatari, a floating world in which Buddhist transcendence focused on the next life was replaced by a transcendence based upon living this life as if each day was the last. When Ryōi wrote, Kyoto was the capital, a city of creativity, craftsmaship, art, gardens and pleasure, maybe not unlike Portland.
The Floating World is also a comics store here. Tonight they offer an animation festival for your pleasure. There is a continuity between sit down cinema, music visuals and video art and this material spans all. Animators Yoshi Sodeoka, David O Reilly, Bruno Dicolla, Barry Doupe, Kirsten Lepore, Tim & Eric Wareheim, Eric Fensler, Doug Lussenhop, Devin Flynn, Aids 3-D and Hazel Hill produce psychedelic animations. Accompanied by musicians MEGA*CHURCH, Flaspar link and DJ Bobby Dangerous.
At Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison 8:30PM $7
The Floating World is also a comics store here. Tonight they offer an animation festival for your pleasure. There is a continuity between sit down cinema, music visuals and video art and this material spans all. Animators Yoshi Sodeoka, David O Reilly, Bruno Dicolla, Barry Doupe, Kirsten Lepore, Tim & Eric Wareheim, Eric Fensler, Doug Lussenhop, Devin Flynn, Aids 3-D and Hazel Hill produce psychedelic animations. Accompanied by musicians MEGA*CHURCH, Flaspar link and DJ Bobby Dangerous.
At Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison 8:30PM $7
June 25, 26, 27 String Quartets
I am not an expert in Euro-American classical music, but I was lucky to hear a lot working for the music school. It is magical to hear live in a good wood hall, it's a different experience once it passes through a microphone then the chains of compression to something like an MP3. The Guarneri Quartet has been playing together since 1964, with one personnel change, this is their last year. All teach at Curtis, America's finest school of classical music, they have the Philadelphia sound and 45 years of musical mind meld. Their last performance in the Northwest is at Reed College Thursday and Saturday. Friday a documentary film screens, with the quartet in attendance. Presented by Chamber Music Northwest cmnw.org Film at the NW Film Center 8 Friday $10-30, 7PM Performance Thursday and Saturday $10-43 8PM
June 24 French View on Store
Tonight Philippe Blanc speaks his thoughts on "The Strategy of Sur-Distinction: building a cathedral inside the megastore". Blanc is an artist with a mastery of computers in art, from game art to wry comments on our physical computing culture with an installation at Fresh Trouble. Bringing the unique French philosiphical viewpoint to Store for a Month www.storeforamonth.com 1216 SE Division 7PM Free
Saturday, June 20, 2009
June 20 Milepost 5 Tea Speaks Lightness and Shadows
Milepost 5 has the graphic photo work of Justin Gorman; paintings by Anthony Conrad and Luke Heinrich; art by Kalina Torino and sculpture by Jessica Weitzel. At Milepost 5 www.milepostfive.com 900 NE 81st (go by MAX) 7PM-9 Free
In the alt-words arena, In Other Words bookstore hosts Michelle Tea. 8 NE Killingsworth 7PM $5-10
Meanwhile 2GQ presents a broad spectrum art event, Light and Shadows, incidental to the Solstace at Yoga Shala. Details at www.2gq.org Event at Yoga Shala N 3808 N. Williams 7PM-midnight $5-20
In the alt-words arena, In Other Words bookstore hosts Michelle Tea. 8 NE Killingsworth 7PM $5-10
Meanwhile 2GQ presents a broad spectrum art event, Light and Shadows, incidental to the Solstace at Yoga Shala. Details at www.2gq.org Event at Yoga Shala N 3808 N. Williams 7PM-midnight $5-20
Friday, June 19, 2009
June 19 Fourteen30 Summer Group Show
Fourteen 30 Contemporary opens its summer group show this evening with Mike Bray, David Corbwtt, Hamlett Dobbins, Alex Felton, Corey Lunn, Jenene Nagy, Devon Oder, Nicholas Pittman, Patrick Rock, Jennifer Shimatsu and Nick Van Woert. It is a big show, meaning limited pieces by each artist. Don't be afraid to inquire about their other works. At Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1430 SE 3rd 6PM-9 Free
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
June 18 Vinyl Store Nowhere Words
Stephanie Simek and Adam Keller are brilliant creatives and creators of Rererato, the space where experimental music and an experimental art gallery came together for a time.
Stephanie's art, sculpture, sound and performance facets become one in an event tonight. She has cut a vinyl disk with sounds from the "jungle, lovemaking, space, and hypnotic instructions" and built her own turntable to play it. Eight tone arms with needles connected to contact pickups sample the disk's tracks and are mixed by the artist into a unique soundscape tonight only.
At the FalseFront Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd 8PM Free
The Store for a Month is a fantastic maze of an arcade with art, small to large, you can afford - or even make in the studio with a collection of art-making material. Proprietor-creator John Brodie talks about the store in the context of Claes Oldenburg’s “The Store”, 1961-62 tonight. www.storeforamonth.com Talk at the Artemis Cafe 1235 SE Division, and visit to the the Store for a Month, 1216 SE Division, after. Talk 6PM, store 7 Free
The Nowhere collective is Matt McCalmont, Brennan Conaway and Charissa Nile, all of whom have done projects at the Center for Land Use Interpretation outpost in Wendover, Utah. It is a little nowhere, but at closer look yields rich creative ingredients. They speak tonight as part of Art Spark, and informal gettogether of creative art world people here. www.portlandartspark.com At Rontoms 600 E Burnside 5PM-7, short talk at 6 Free
Disjecta and Tin House present Arty Words II: music, art and readings by authors. Author and editor Jon Raymond, cofounder of Plazm and author of Half-Life, Livability and Old Joy joins Zak Smith, illustrator, writer for an evening of regional folk tales. Music by Quasi. At Disjecta www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate 7:30PM $7
Stephanie's art, sculpture, sound and performance facets become one in an event tonight. She has cut a vinyl disk with sounds from the "jungle, lovemaking, space, and hypnotic instructions" and built her own turntable to play it. Eight tone arms with needles connected to contact pickups sample the disk's tracks and are mixed by the artist into a unique soundscape tonight only.
At the FalseFront Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd 8PM Free
The Store for a Month is a fantastic maze of an arcade with art, small to large, you can afford - or even make in the studio with a collection of art-making material. Proprietor-creator John Brodie talks about the store in the context of Claes Oldenburg’s “The Store”, 1961-62 tonight. www.storeforamonth.com Talk at the Artemis Cafe 1235 SE Division, and visit to the the Store for a Month, 1216 SE Division, after. Talk 6PM, store 7 Free
The Nowhere collective is Matt McCalmont, Brennan Conaway and Charissa Nile, all of whom have done projects at the Center for Land Use Interpretation outpost in Wendover, Utah. It is a little nowhere, but at closer look yields rich creative ingredients. They speak tonight as part of Art Spark, and informal gettogether of creative art world people here. www.portlandartspark.com At Rontoms 600 E Burnside 5PM-7, short talk at 6 Free
Disjecta and Tin House present Arty Words II: music, art and readings by authors. Author and editor Jon Raymond, cofounder of Plazm and author of Half-Life, Livability and Old Joy joins Zak Smith, illustrator, writer for an evening of regional folk tales. Music by Quasi. At Disjecta www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate 7:30PM $7
Monday, June 15, 2009
June 18 Deeper Smart Grid Seminar
The smart grid is a new way of thinking born of necessity and possibility. Yesterday electricity was made in large distant plants. They burned the dinosaur remains of eons of sunlight stored by plantlife. They captured heat from the decay of elements like uranium. Or they slowed, for a moment, the gravity imperative of rivers seeking unity with oceans.
The big plants fed power through very high voltage transmission lines, the major arteries, to smaller and smaller capillaries connected to your neighborhood. It was returned through the earth whenever you turned on a light switch or the washing machine. The big plants needed to make at least as much power as the unpredictable instantaneous demand.
All this is changing. Thousands of small power plants - wind turbines, geothermal plants and solar farms are now feeding in power at the capillaries. The capability exists for variable power pricing, controlled by you, or maybe your smart clothes dryer, which can take a break when power is expensive. Plug in cars can store energy then release it back to the grid at any point there is an outlet.
The smart grid is a network of tiny computers built into your electric meter, heating, cooling, major appliances and car. They will communicate to measure how electricity is used, manage its use wisely and give you information to make decisions. Maybe they will communicate with your mobile phone. Scale wise, the number of smart grid computers required in the US is about the total number already on the Internet, worldwide. It is a perfect challenging project.
Will all of those meter readers will be replaced by legions of customer support people helping you run virus scans on your dishwasher? No, the system will need to be designed to be so reliable and secure that it should never be necessary.
Today Portland State University sponsors a seminar on the smart grid. It's all day and registration is required. But there is no charge. All the information is at http://www.extended.pdx.edu/nwsmartgrid/ 8:30AM-5PM Free
The big plants fed power through very high voltage transmission lines, the major arteries, to smaller and smaller capillaries connected to your neighborhood. It was returned through the earth whenever you turned on a light switch or the washing machine. The big plants needed to make at least as much power as the unpredictable instantaneous demand.
All this is changing. Thousands of small power plants - wind turbines, geothermal plants and solar farms are now feeding in power at the capillaries. The capability exists for variable power pricing, controlled by you, or maybe your smart clothes dryer, which can take a break when power is expensive. Plug in cars can store energy then release it back to the grid at any point there is an outlet.
The smart grid is a network of tiny computers built into your electric meter, heating, cooling, major appliances and car. They will communicate to measure how electricity is used, manage its use wisely and give you information to make decisions. Maybe they will communicate with your mobile phone. Scale wise, the number of smart grid computers required in the US is about the total number already on the Internet, worldwide. It is a perfect challenging project.
Will all of those meter readers will be replaced by legions of customer support people helping you run virus scans on your dishwasher? No, the system will need to be designed to be so reliable and secure that it should never be necessary.
Today Portland State University sponsors a seminar on the smart grid. It's all day and registration is required. But there is no charge. All the information is at http://www.extended.pdx.edu/nwsmartgrid/ 8:30AM-5PM Free
June 17 Films Chicago to Portland
There is a rich creative interchange between Chicago and Portland. Many Portland artists have been schooled there at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Tonight's film exchange is organized by Lori Felker of Chicago and and Ben Popp of Portland, who also ogranized Filmed by Bike. Included are films from Portland's Crispin Rosenkranz and Pippa Possible who are in Chicago studying at the school. At Performance Works Northwest www.performanceworksnw.org 4625 SE 67th 9PM Free
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
June 14 Father and Son Sitar Performance
The sitar is an magical instrument with main strings played on adjustable frets and sympathetic strings adding a response. It is a difficult instrument to master. It is a devotion. A spiritual experience to play, and to listen. Tonight father and son, Pandit Shivanath Mishra Deobrat Mishra, play sitar together, accompanied by tabla master Mahapunya Das. The program includes ragas, Indian classical music, plus less formal folk music.
This is a great opportunity to experience Indian music in an intimate environment. At Yoga Shala North 3808 N. Williams. reception at 6:30PM, performance 7:30. $10 advance, $15 – 20 day of
This is a great opportunity to experience Indian music in an intimate environment. At Yoga Shala North 3808 N. Williams. reception at 6:30PM, performance 7:30. $10 advance, $15 – 20 day of
June 14 It's Possible - PSU MFA Big Show at Disjecta
Portland State University has been quietly building its MFA program. Each MFA student has shown in PSU galleries on a compressed schedule. Tonight there is an opportunity to see many in one place and at one time. It is a mix of studio art and the documentation of social practice art. Artists Katy Asher, Steve Baggs, Vanessa Calvert, Varinthorn Christopher, Damien Gilley, Bethany Hays, Avalon Kalin, Laurel Kurtz, Sandy Sampson, Rebecca Shelly, Cyrus Smith and Eric Steen show their work. All at Disjecta www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate opening 4PM-7 Free
June 14 DorkbotPDX Talks
Dorkbot is people doing strange things with electricity. It's an international DIY movement. Electricity craft, if you like - and art. It is something you can do. Portland Dorkbot has informal monthly meetups, workshops and a lecture series.
Tonight is DorkbotPDX 0x03. In their own words:
"HURRY HURRY STEP RIGHT UP! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ___ ___ _____ / _ \ __ __ / _ \ |___ / DORKBOT | | | | \ \/ / | | | | |_ \ PDX | |_| | > < | |_| | ___) | \___/ /_/\_\ \___/ |____/ http://dorkbotpdx.org/dorkbotpdx_0x03 Dorkbot PDX [[People doing strange things with electricity...in Portland]] ...welcomes you to the 4th installation of its lecture series. * Where: AboutUs: 107 SE Washington St, Suite 520. * When: Sunday, June 14th, 2009 - 7pm As always, the event is free and open to the public. Feel free to bring snacks and beverages to share. Please spread the word! Andrew S. Parnell ----------------- Pieces to be discussed include Semaphore-bot, Tangólumen, and Cardiolumen: a multifaceted exploration of the data we create both consciously and unconsciously and their inherent value. Andrew S. Parnell is a Portland based digital artist. His work primarily deals with the physical manifestation of digital information using code, image capture, and electronics. Michael Bunsen -------------- Dome Control: Altering a space via physical and web-based interfaces Michael Bunsen spends most of his time on the internet but is more interested in nature and the outside world. He developed Urbanedibles.org and began exploring microcontrollers to cultivate his mission of using the computer to get people off the computer. Dan Gilsdorf ------------ A presentation featuring works from 2006 to the present, including the recent exhibitions Interiotrope, 2008 and SRO Video, 2009. Dan Gilsdorf is a sculptor and installation artist based in Portland. Using video, sound, and mechanics, his work addresses the mediating effect of technology on physical and cultural landscapes. See you there!
A Dorkbot event. www.dorkbotpdx.org Generously hosted by AboutUs www.aboutus.org at 107 SE Washington St, Suite 520. 7pm Free
Tonight is DorkbotPDX 0x03. In their own words:
"HURRY HURRY STEP RIGHT UP! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ___ ___ _____ / _ \ __ __ / _ \ |___ / DORKBOT | | | | \ \/ / | | | | |_ \ PDX | |_| | > < | |_| | ___) | \___/ /_/\_\ \___/ |____/ http://dorkbotpdx.org/dorkbotpdx_0x03 Dorkbot PDX [[People doing strange things with electricity...in Portland]] ...welcomes you to the 4th installation of its lecture series. * Where: AboutUs: 107 SE Washington St, Suite 520. * When: Sunday, June 14th, 2009 - 7pm As always, the event is free and open to the public. Feel free to bring snacks and beverages to share. Please spread the word! Andrew S. Parnell ----------------- Pieces to be discussed include Semaphore-bot, Tangólumen, and Cardiolumen: a multifaceted exploration of the data we create both consciously and unconsciously and their inherent value. Andrew S. Parnell is a Portland based digital artist. His work primarily deals with the physical manifestation of digital information using code, image capture, and electronics. Michael Bunsen -------------- Dome Control: Altering a space via physical and web-based interfaces Michael Bunsen spends most of his time on the internet but is more interested in nature and the outside world. He developed Urbanedibles.org and began exploring microcontrollers to cultivate his mission of using the computer to get people off the computer. Dan Gilsdorf ------------ A presentation featuring works from 2006 to the present, including the recent exhibitions Interiotrope, 2008 and SRO Video, 2009. Dan Gilsdorf is a sculptor and installation artist based in Portland. Using video, sound, and mechanics, his work addresses the mediating effect of technology on physical and cultural landscapes. See you there!
A Dorkbot event. www.dorkbotpdx.org Generously hosted by AboutUs www.aboutus.org at 107 SE Washington St, Suite 520. 7pm Free
June 13 Our Farm Is Real
Project Grow is a practical social practice project involving farming, yoga, music and art for a community including people with developmental disabilities. It is one Portland instance of socially conscious social practice art. It is what we need now.
Project Grow has taken a brown field vacant lot and made a permaculture-inspired farm replete with goats, chickens, vegetables and a chicken coup that rivals the Riverdale School in architectural significance. It is all part of a micro CSA, organized by social practice artists and activists connected to PSU and the Art Institute of Chicago - the social practice art movement is broad and deep. Through Project Grow, the clients of the adjacent sheltered workshop are expanding beyond traditional factory work to vegetable gardening and making art. Project Grow has assembled a community to help out, including Street Yoga.
Tonight at the site, there will be music by Inside Voices, Why We Must Be Careful and DJ Janet Weiss. They will show a great documentary Growing Awareness tracing the evolution of community supported agriculture - CSA.
At the Port City Development Center. 2124 N Williams Ave at Tillamook. Enter in the back of the building on either Tillamook or Thompson
Salon reception 5PM-7:30, film 7:30PM Free
Project Grow has taken a brown field vacant lot and made a permaculture-inspired farm replete with goats, chickens, vegetables and a chicken coup that rivals the Riverdale School in architectural significance. It is all part of a micro CSA, organized by social practice artists and activists connected to PSU and the Art Institute of Chicago - the social practice art movement is broad and deep. Through Project Grow, the clients of the adjacent sheltered workshop are expanding beyond traditional factory work to vegetable gardening and making art. Project Grow has assembled a community to help out, including Street Yoga.
Tonight at the site, there will be music by Inside Voices, Why We Must Be Careful and DJ Janet Weiss. They will show a great documentary Growing Awareness tracing the evolution of community supported agriculture - CSA.
At the Port City Development Center. 2124 N Williams Ave at Tillamook. Enter in the back of the building on either Tillamook or Thompson
Salon reception 5PM-7:30, film 7:30PM Free
June 13-July 28 Summer Institute of Movement at the Headwaters & PSU
Portland has a concentration of amazing movement artists. Some of them have gathered around the Headwaters Studio which shares a space with Disjecta. Their summer festival of workshops and performances is now.
The workshops include Shadow Yoga, Javanese dance, seeing while moving, butoh, ego and the subconscious in performance and Kyogen theater from Japan. All taught by gifted teachers from here and a distance.
All the details including discounts for registering for several workshops are at the Headwaters website. Workshops take place at at the Headwaters studio and Portland State University, where some workshops may be taken for credit. Keep and eye out here for public performances, some free. Headwaters Studio theheadwaters.net/programs/ 8371 N. Interstate
The workshops include Shadow Yoga, Javanese dance, seeing while moving, butoh, ego and the subconscious in performance and Kyogen theater from Japan. All taught by gifted teachers from here and a distance.
All the details including discounts for registering for several workshops are at the Headwaters website. Workshops take place at at the Headwaters studio and Portland State University, where some workshops may be taken for credit. Keep and eye out here for public performances, some free. Headwaters Studio theheadwaters.net/programs/ 8371 N. Interstate
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