06:03:06: ~~~{Borderline Digital}~~~ at Station 40, SF

BORDERLINE DIGITAL
thinking of digital bits as a metaphor to the human experience. both in our three dimensional reality, atoms banded together to create the appearance of a smooth surface, but are indeed independent, anomalous, and disorganized, and in our social networks promising connectivity, communication and unity, yet through the cracks creeps alienation, and our brains, corrupted and pixelated, are not so easy to reboot.

here we are in the year 2006, and we have seen the future, we are post modern and post futuristic, we are freakin' post post, we are living in the days beyond the space odyssey.
The red eye of the soft spoken demented computer running the ship on it's way to jupiter, is at best, a wet dream.
In reality, that voice, is nothing but an automatic answering software running on a server farm in texas, telling us to please hold on the line until our future is available...

Using the medium, the science and the technology itself, Borderline Digital will tiptoe the fine line between the hype of digital technology and the hypocrisy of primitivist deconstruction, to turn technology inside out and point out it's vulnerabilities.

This would be a night long collective discussion, with prepared materials and on-the-fly plug-ins, across multiple mediums and from various angles, we will explore our relationship with digital technology, and provide council where council is needed.

It sounds vague you say... ? well, that's intentional. this event is somewhere between an art show and a community forum. it's a rave at an internet cafe and a videodrome in a convalescent home. it can turn out to be just some zombie geeks staring at the screen and throwing 3 LTR acronyms across the room, or it could be the video projector version of an open mic night. it is whatever we all bring to it... so... Bring your cellphones, your ipods, your laptops and gadgets, and most importantly, bring your thoughts and your ideas to share. We will either plug everything into a huge digital social network experiment or make a big bonfire in the center of the room and try to name the toxins for the different colored flames google free.

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Indybay.org + pan optic radio / ECR will be on hand to document ( No Live Stream ; We're in recovery ), but for those who wish to keep abreast of the results and/or join the dialogues from near or afar ... check yurself in here:

http://www.3030b.org
or
indybay.org/arts