LATEST astrodime journal now available!

Starring Julia Tenney!

Wow! we did it. The latest INtransit Video Journal is out and freed from discmakers. Yay!

INtransit V. 5: Can You Hear me Now? is available to purchase. This journal provides distinct looks at the historical successes and failures in communications technology. Including a performance re-enactment of the first Trans-Atlantic cable, this journal captures true and re-imagined moments of telecommunications history. You have to see this!

Come and get it. It’s $25.00 for individuals and $50.00 for libraries. Special offer..if you buy ALL of our previous INtransit journals now we will give you this for free.

GLITCH is out!!

after a slight delay at Discmakers, INtransit V. 4: What the [Glitch]!? is out! It’s available for $25.00 for individuals or $50.00 for institutions. For more info, contact rocketscience@virtualberet.net.

INtransit V.4

Glitch and Secret Decoder Ring Nov 23!

On Saturday November 22 at 8pm, AstroDime Transit Authority will be screening INtransit V.4 “What the [ glitch ] ?!” and INtransit V.3 “Secret Decoder Ring” in the lobby of Brickbottom Artist building. The screening will be free and open to the public. You will also have a chance to see and use the new iCAN and give customer feedback.

The location is in Somerville, Massachusetts. The best way to get here from the T is the Lechmere Green Line stop, walk up McGrath Highway to the right, and then after you go over the bridge, (you will see Brickbottom to your right) there will be some stairs. They will take you to the building. There is also parking available. Here’s more directions, and check out the open studios Nov 22-23 as well!

Brickbottom Artists Association

Got Glitch? 8pm Nov 1 in Lowell

INtransit V.4: Got Glitch? release party followed with performances by Id M Theftable + Birdorgan

Id M Theftable – voice and objects
+
Birdorgan:
Marc Bisson – tabletop guitar and objects
deiX – vocals
Mike Fun – analog synth
Mike Dailey – drums
Walter Wright – analog synth and video

INtransit#3 CODE Screens August 8, 2008

CODE will screen on Friday, August 8th at Axiom Gallery to kick off an exhibition about art and text. See axiomart.org for more info or check back here next week.

Call for Work: Dropout

CALL FOR WORK: Dropout
Postmark DEADLINE September 15 2008

Seeking video, documentary and animation entries in relation to the idea of digital dropout for Volume 4 of INtransit, produced by the AstroDime Transit Authority. How does the loss or corruption of data alter information as it reaches us? What happens to the message when we become aware of the medium? When is a glitch not just a glitch? Digital decay, lost signal, system error, the cliff effect, rolloff, dropout, static, interference, noise, data loss, corruption, malfunction. Don’t put a magnet too close to your computer screen. Don’t store your DVDs in direct sun. Walk through a wall to get to the Minus World. Can you hear me now? Remember when all of your vacation film went through the x-ray machine at the airport? When technology fails, what is lost and what is gained?

Please mail your work to:

Ali Horeanopoulos
15 Channel Center Street
Studio 519
Boston, MA 02210

If you want it returned, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope. Preview copies should be on DVD, VHS, or mini-DV. For more info, contact AliNichole@gmail.com

The AstroDime Transit Authority is a Think-Tank and public service organization that considers issues of transportation, communication and world and intergalactic citizenship. We are specifically interested in issues of race, class, gender and culture, art and technoscience. In addition, we consult and advise in sustainable communication and transportation systems off and on this planet.

Our research includes curated video shows, data collection, and performances which reveal and explore these issues. We publish a twice-yearly video journal called INtransit. We invite guest artists and contributors to participate in our curatorial and creative projects.

For general questions about AstroDime Transit Authority, email rocketscience@virtualberet.net.

Our web site is http://www.virtualberet.net/ata.

We are sponsored by the 119 Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts at http://www.119gallery.org/

AstroDime Spring Update

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

Where is your secret Decoder Ring?

Video, documentary and animation entries about code, coding and coders accepted for INtransit V.3, produced by the AstroDime Transit Authority. Code is about patterns, sequences, systems, translations, substitutions. It can bind, trick, and free. How is media coded, historically, culturally, aesthetically? How is metacommentary about race, culture, class, gender expressed within the frames and between them? What is the liminal space of the edit? Where is your secret decoder ring?

The AstroDime Transit Authority is a collective of media artists curators who will be hosting a roundtable at the Society of Literature and Science’s conference in November 2007. Moving image submissions will be compiled into a DVD that will be played throughout the conference. In addition, this compilation will be screened at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts in the winter of 2008, and produced into INtransit V. 3, a video journal. For more info contact sam smiley at rocketscience@virtualberet.net

Please submit your videos to
AstroDime Transit Authority: CODE
119 Chelmsford Street
Lowell, Massachusetts 01851

Submissions for SLSA screening by October 13, 2007
Submissions for 119 Gallery presentation and complete DVD by January 20, 2008.
SLSA submissions will be included on the final DVD.
INtransit V. 3 will be published in the spring of 2008.

More information about the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts:
http://www.slsa07.org/

AstroDime Transit Authority
http://www.virtualberet.net/ata

119 Gallery
http://www.119gallery.org/

To purchase INtransit V. 1
http://119gallery.org/merch/

INtransit, a video journal

INtransit: A Video Journal

INtransit has an open call to media artists, animators and researchers to
submit work in the moving image for review. The journal publishes topical
compilations about science, technology, gender, class, race, culture, and
history. Submissions are reviewed quarterly. Contributors who submit their
work will get an honorarium and 5 copies of the journal. Forms can include
animations, mini-documentaries, performance art, experimental video and
film, retrofuturistic musings, documentation of odd technologies, and
other weirdness. Most pieces should not exceed 10 minutes.

Please mail your work to
AstroDime Transit Authority, c/o Research Team
119 Gallery
119 Chelmsford Street
Lowell, MA 01851-2621

If you want it returned, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope.
Preview copies should be on DVD, VHS, or mini-DV. for more info, contact
rocketscience@virtualberet.net