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

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 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