First performance at 8:30
Suggested Donation $5
A portion of the door will go to benefit the non profit Refugee Cities
Refugee Cities
Blue Room @The Crown, Baltimore

Hanna Olivegren
http://www.hannaolivegren.com/

Maurício Takara & Henrique Diaz (Brazil)
Breaking the barrier of what is possible to do with twelve strings, ToTi is presenting a combination of latin rhythms, with samba, Bossa Nova, electronic music and improvisation. Maurício Takara plays an electrify cavaquinho (traditional Brazilian small guitar) and his own creation: an electrify skateboard turned into a rhythmical instrument, while Henrique Diaz control and process a cuatro, a type of Latin America acoustic guitar.

Robert Donne from Richmond, VA
rdonne.com

Bonnie Jones (accompanied by Joan Sullivan)
https://bonnie-jones.com/

Musical interludes provided by Balagan

Followed by a possible late night dance party that may or may not involve ABBA and an international musical melange.

AMT FESTIVAL, SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE
FEBRUARY 2-4, 2017

TECHNE is honored to join the amazing roster of artists, technologists, and musicians for the inaugural AMT Festival (art, technology, music), a pilot initiative of the San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) in collaboration with the Fleet Science Center and Southwestern College.

From February 2-4, 2017, AMT featured panel discussions, lectures, demos, DIY educational workshops, and artist performances that reflect themes at the forefront of electronic arts/music, data visualization/sonification, and the confluence of arts, technology, and music.

TECHNE will present our Sounding Points of Light workshop, where participants learned how to make their own light controlled oscillator. Afterwards, the instruments were presented as an installation that audiences could explore and interact with in the SDAI gallery space.

View photo gallery archive on TECHNE’s website.

One of the unique characteristics of the contemporary art scene in Los Angeles is the proliferation of artist-run spaces, many of which are located in storefronts across the city. MOCA was founded by artists and, due to its philosophy of placing artists at the center of its mission, has long been known as “the artist’s museum.” Storefront continues this tradition by inviting two artist-run organizations to take over MOCA’s Marcia Simon Weisman Works on Paper Study Center each year.

Called a “valise fiction” for the portability and unfixed tenancy of its mission, the Poetic Research Bureau (PRB) has for nearly two decades been a lodestar for language-centered inquiry in Los Angeles. Avowedly non-institutional, it has hosted 300+ readings, talks, screenings and performances in galleries, DIY punk clubs and project spaces throughout the city, drawing in a loose-limbed community of poets, conceptual artists and freethinkers. Since 2010 the Bureau has been anchored on Chung King Road, in Los Angeles’s historic Chinatown, where it hosts one of the city’s longest-lived reading series, programmed by Joseph Mosconi and Andrew Maxwell, among others.

Taking its title from a lecture by poet Susan Howe, and gesturing toward Los Angeles conceptualist Guy de Cointet’s hermeneutic talk-performances of the 1970s, THIS KNOWN WORLD restages the PRB as a pocket theater from which messages of great moment emanate and dissolve. Here, various screens re-imagine Bureau directors, previously unseen or unknown, guiding careers of inquiry down forking paths. As with the PRB’s regular programming, undisciplined enthusiasms are readily embraced. Psychic research, detective bureaus, ‘pataphysics and poetry – all these inherited solutions for urban bafflement – become the stuff of “unoriginal literature” in an open, expanding “commonplace” of language that precedes and encompasses us.

Featured artists include Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford, Guy de Cointet, Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade in collaboration with Theodore Darst, Harmony Holiday, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Bonnie Jones, Sophia Le Fraga, Holly Melgard, Nikita Pashenkov in collaboration with Casey Anderson and Steve Ziadie, Poetic Research Bureau in collaboration with Rich Bott, Syd Staiti, Ed Steck, Divya Victor, Michael Webster in collaboration with Monique Prieto and Diane Ward, and Lawrence Weiner.

storefront: THIS KNOWN WORLD: Spontaneous Particulars of the Poetic Research Bureau is curated by MOCA Senior Curator Bennett Simpson and Poetic Research Bureau founders Andrew Maxwell and Joseph Mosconi with Executive Assistant to the Chief Curator Hana Cohn.

http://www.moca.org/exhibition/storefront-poetic-research-bureau

Now in its 9th year, SIGHT.SOUND INTERACTION is an annual exhibition, curated by Interactive Arts & Sound Art faculty member Jason Sloan, brings together a wide selection of local and international artists exploring the language of sound, electronics and interaction.

This years exhibition includes work by:
– Maurizio Bianchi (Italy)
– Kate Carr (London)
– Peter Cusack (London)
– Bonnie Jones (Baltimore)
– Charlie Knott (Baltimore)
– Sebastian Schmieg (Berlin)
– Jana Winderen (Norway)
– Zac Bolubasz, Lci Larocci & Sonja Larosa (Baltimore)

Rosenberg Gallery [2nd Floor / Brown Center]
November 12 – December 8, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday November 17, 2016
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Suzanne and I are honored to receive the Tudor Residency at Mills College where, as TECHNE, we’ll be presenting a workshop, lecture and concert.

Friday & Saturday, November 4 & 5, 2016
BONNIE JONES AND SUZANNE THORPE
Friday, November 4, 7:30 pm–Lecture
Saturday, November 5, 8:00 pm–Concert, Littlefield Concert Hall

August 25th, 2016
Walters Art Museum
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321 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220-4218, United States
7:00pm | Non-member: $12.00  / Member: $7.00

Electronic artist Bonnie Jones will use the themes of migration, mobility, and impermanence to highlight the Renaissance and Medieval collections. Jazz pianist Lafayette Gilchrist will use his compositions to examine the components of great civilizations in the Egyptian galleries.

Presented in collaboration with The Red Room, a project of the High Zero Foundation.

ART/SOUND/NOW is a live music series in which performers use sound to create a new context for viewing the galleries of the museum.

Tickets are available at
http://thewalters.org/boxoffice/tickets5.aspx?e=4387