Steve Cooley Fine Art

Yesterday, Derek and I made the short trek up to Menlo Park to Techshop for the Maker Faire 2007 try-outs. We’re proposing to show off what we’re doing with Pure Data, Processing, and OSC to communicate between the two.

• Got there with about 7 minutes to spare before out time slot to present
• TOTALLY forgot there would be a camera crew there
• NOT mentally prepared for bright lights and big audience
• Computer Network acted more like a not-work, therefore, an actual demo did not work, whee!
• Did not completely biff the presentation.
• Did get great support and questions from Dale Dougherty and team.
• Met several people from the south bay who stepped up properly after I lamented in front of the audience that south bay electronic artists are hard to find.
• Horrifyingly intimidated to see today what some of the other people presented before we showed up. Good lord.
• very glad the day went exactly the way it did, we had minimal time to freak out about the entire situation before our presentation, and didn’t really have time to change our minds and back out.

And now… we wait to get a call back to see if we’re in. And while we wait, we continue to develop what we presented.

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I won best in show for the unjuried portion of Heart of Chaos‘ Urban Geography show! There were a lot of great artists in the show, and I’m very grateful to have been awarded this honor. Key events besides the accolades were meeting Miguel Machuca, who is a very talented abstract painter in a very similar vein as myself, and doing a live painting demo. Thanks to Heart of Chaos and Brooks College for a great night.

Hey, if you’re an artist in the SF/san jose bay area and would like to get some bullet points for your art resume, I’d strongly suggest you high tail it over to this link: http://www.workssanjose.org/ and send an email to auction@workssanjose.org by monday, october 16, 2006, to participate in Works San Jos?©’s annual art auction.

I’ll be making a bunch of computers do some some bad ass math art this friday night in downtown San Jose. Check it out, it’s freeee!

Some Sounds We Like and DoBox Recordings are proud to present A.V.A. (audio.video.art) on Friday, September 8th at Blue Monkey in downtown San Jose. This event will feature live performances from DoBox artists Qorser, Steve Cooley and The Rhythmist. Also performing will be Noka from Nokamusic and Chachi Jones from Robotspeak. On top of all that, Steve Cooley will also have an interactive video installation for all to enjoy. Click the flyer image for info.

Dear Mr. Ryoji Ikeda:

Derek and I saw C^4I at the California Theatre. While I can appreciate your pieces as conceptual existential statements, I wonder if it was necessary to run your exhibit at over 85DB? Is that the major feature of these two pieces? Would your art still be art to you if it weren’t hurting the audience? I know you had some cool data driven visuals and audio, but the volume was loud enough to distract me from all other contemplation and comprehension of your works… it seemed to defeat the purpose for me.

I’ll overlook your attempt to make me deaf this time. If you try to repeat this kind of dangerous shit again in the future, I’ll be storming the theatre with a big box of 30DB foam ear plugs so that everyone can at least have the opportunity to experience your art without needing a hearing aide the next day.

Now that my ears have stopped bleeding and are starting to scab over, I recognize your provocation and accept your challenge. A battle of style, ok? See you in san jose in two years… Bring something other than something painfully loud; I will.

Love,
-steve cooley

P.S. California theatre, you’re not off the hook. I’ll be talking to you in person.

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Click here for photos from gallery AD’s august 2006 street mrkt!

AD’s STREET MRKT this Friday!:

Join us after work (6-9pm) for this DIY urban fair beneath the murals at Anno Domini. Local artists & retailers and live bands get together to bring you an early evening of art, unique wares and live music!

Participating artists/vendors: Marissa Arterberry, Beadworker, Black & Brown Clothing, Steve Cooley, Evelyn’s Henna Tattoos, Heart of Chaos, Harriet Helfricht, Amanda Lennon, Manny Magallon, Al Preciado, Andrew Stattmiller, Martin Steiner, Streetlight Records & Xenia International Crafts

Music on the stage: WORKER BEE an up-and-coming young band specializing in moody instrumental rock. FAKE PUBLIC an energetic foursome known for their catchy, upbeat indie rock. THE ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE San Jose’s finest purveyors of dynamic dance-rock. And special guest DJ CUTSO keeping things moving along.

Be sure to stick around for South FIRST FRIDAYS in the SoFA district from 8pm ’til late!

I’m on the vendor list tonight! Photos to follow!

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Well, we had a fine old time at the Chabot Space and Science Center… again. Chachi had an amazing set of music. He’ll be playing again in August at the Blue Monkey event during the Zero One festival in San Jose.. details to follow soon… anyway, big ups to everyone who came out, kind of a trek, but we appreciated it! here’s a few photos:

This friday June 23, 2006, from 8pm to 11pm, I’ll be showing at the Lunar Lounge Express at the Chabot Space and Science center in Oakland, Ca… If you missed the last show in May, here’s your chance to check out my Processing/Arduino video projects and a live musical performance by Chachi Jones!

Saturday night crossfader:

The live visual show on Saturday was a nice event, I was relatively happy since VisionFactory worked pretty well in its networked configuration. Though, controlling several parameters with only a mouse and a keyboard at the same time was quite painful and not really that intuitive. I really missed a midi input controller here. Hopefully, I had plugged some music responsive scenes and a webcam focusing of my friend Sevenfive performing live, so that the whole thing was enough reactive to the sound and to the context.
Here are three videos shot during the show :

Webcam 3D Pixels+Grid effect (.mov, ~6Mo)

Hey, is that my webcam 3d pixel code? What is vision factory? The term is too generic for google to turn up anything meaningful.