Astrodime Transit Authority

a cheery spring hello! and some news.

INtransit V.3: Secret Decoder Ring premieres Saturday May 3 at 8pm at the 119 Gallery in Lowell! it will also be screening at the Electronic Literature Organization in Vancouver Washington the first week in June. (Note: Vancouver is a suburb of Portland, Oregon, not the Canadian Vancouver!)

Carrie and sam are in the final stages of production for Secret Decoder Ring. Carrie is going to leave AstroDime in research assistant capacity for summer work as of the end of April but will come to our May screening. Thank you Carrie for all your great editing work. Carrie has also posted a lot to this blog with interviews of participating artists, and will continue to do so this month.

Upcoming INtransit brainstorms:

NOISE (Ali is organizing this)

SURVEILLANCE (John is organizing this)

and a few other ideas..one on Nanotechnology (we are writing a grant for it) and Scientific American. What is a Scientific American anyway? if you have work on any of these themes, feel free to let us know.

We’re going to be at the MIT Flea May 17 with the goods for sale. We are grateful for donations from George Fifield and Prilly Sanville. This funds our productions in part. If you know of anyone who has anything, except computer monitors, give a holla.

that’s some of the news anyway!

-sam smiley

Please join AXIOM Gallery for the Astrodime Transit Authority DVD release and screening of their curated video and animation journal.

December 14th, 8pm

For info and directions go to http://www.axiomart.org

(they are right at the Green Street T station in Jamaica Plain, MA)

INtransit Volume Two: Fast Women (New Release!)
This 35 minute program presents works by and about women who address speed in different manners–physically and through technology: Tanya Bezrah, Maggie Orth, Margaret Dolinsky, Eve Gordon, Ellen Lake, Annmarie Lanesey, Kama Lord, Natalie McKeever and more.

INtransit Volume One: Will Pandas Ride Free on the Handlebars in 2092?
This 44 minute video looks at future and imagined transportation systems and includes work by: Anna Shapiro, Christian Frey, Sangho Shin, Muriel Magenta and Michael Udow, Jessica Irish and Jonathon Mc Dowell.

Astrodimers are gearing up for FAST WOMEN showing at the 119 Gallery on October 13, 2007 at 8pm. There may be a Mystery Band preceding the show but as of now, we’re not sure yet.

We also have a non human representative on our Astrodime Team. We consult with her periodically on transportation issues for dogs.

Our headquarters here at our campsite on Bumpkin Island

Bumpkin Island welcome center

Map of all the projects taking place

This weekend the AstroDime team successfully set up eight 2-can tin can phone network units on Bumpkin Island.

Here are the transitions before and after the tranformation into the AstroCan telecommunications network.