http://betalevel.com Sun, 27 May 2012 03:30:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://betalevel.com/2012/05/12/signal-archive/ http://betalevel.com/2012/05/12/signal-archive/#comments Sun, 13 May 2012 03:00:56 +0000 jason http://betalevel.com/?p=2938 Screening and Device Archiving
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Screening and Archiving Station
Saturday, May 12
8:30pm
Free

The Signal Archive is the ‘Rosetta Stone’ of the immaterial residues of our everyday devices.

This ongoing archive defines the backbone of our techno culture. May it be discovered one day and utilized as historical reference, research, or affection development with electronic devices. This event will include 13 screenings from the Archive and the Archiving Station for visitors to have their device recorded.

The archive frames the development and history of Morse Code as a point of reference. A point in time when our modes of communication were at the early stages of mediation. The electrical telegraph, the mediator of the time, was a device to communicate the spoken word through a codified system of dots and dashes. The electrical telegraph and its intrinsic physical properties and technology, coupled with this codified system, quickly transformed into a sound object as it became evident that listening to the device was just as effective than reading the dots and dashes. This compelled the research and collection of the intrinsic sonic qualities of our contemporary communication devices: the mobile device.

]]> http://betalevel.com/2012/05/12/signal-archive/feed/ 0 http://betalevel.com/2007/12/07/website-launch-party/ http://betalevel.com/2007/12/07/website-launch-party/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:00:36 +0000 sdeyoe http://betalevel.com/2007/11/07/website-launch-party/ The launch of two websites Words! Images! Links! Cookie Jar! Friday, December 7 at 8pm]]>

Featuring: Words, Images, Links, Hyperlinks, Hot Hot Hotlinks
And: Music by Cookie Jar aka The Mongoloid Messiah

Friday, December 7
8pm
Free

Seth John and Sean Deyoe became friends in high school, where they shared an interest in activities such as “Philosophy Seminar,” “Writing Workshop,” and “Lunch.” After graduation, they each went their separate ways, as people do. Time passed, as it does. Now they are both in Los Angeles and are both launching websites. And this is a party to celebrate that fact. Each will give a short presentation of his work; in between will be a screening of Injected with a Poison, the fung fu movie made in high school by Deyoe, starring John; afterward a live performance by pop sensation Cookie Jar. Refreshments served throughout.

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Betalevel member Sean Deyoe is a designer, artist, and writer, who produces work under the guise of The Royal Academy of Nuts + Bolts. He was Senior Graphic Designer at the Hammer Museum and sometime prior to that worked at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. His website is TheRoyalAcademy.org.

Seth John is a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology studying trace-metal isotopes in the oceans. He recently completed his PhD at MIT with a thesis entitled “Marine Biogeochemistry of Zinc Isotopes.” His current interests are Fe isotopes, biological fractionation of Fe isotopes upon cell-surface reduction, and virus-metal interactions. His website is SethJohn.com.

Mike Greiner will not be in attendance.

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