Cubicle2 is the second in Skewed Visions’ innovative series of podcasts. Exploring the intersection of identity and the internet, this season invites artists to explore site-based work with the internet as a virtual site. Click on an artist’s name below to be taken to their episode page.

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CUBICLE2
Season Two Artists:
Avye Alexandres
Jaime Carrera & Tyler Jensen
Elliott Durko Lynch
Gülgün Kayim
Noah Keesecker
Sean Kelley-Pegg
Ben McGinley
Kevin Obsatz
Garrett Tiedemann
Angela Regas
Craig VanDerSchaegen

Created by Elliott Durko Lynch in direct collaboration with Justin Jones, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

“Overture, New Material; Live Feed DVD” was originally created and presented for “Why Won’t You Let Me Be Great”, an event held July 30 – August 1, 2009, at Performance Space 122 in New York City presented by Catch Series in collaboration with Neal Medlyn and Brendan Kennedy: “a downtown spin on Kanye West’s album 808s and Heartbreak.”

Read Nytimes here, MTV review here, and Time Out here.

Please watch the video for a brief explanation.
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Elliott Durko Lynch is a Minneapolis Minnesota based performance maker, theater technician at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, and sound and media artist active in the Twin Cities Area since 2005. His performances / Public Service Announcements have been most recently seen in 2008, at CATCH 38 in New York, and at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis. As a performer, he most recently performed in Megan Mayers’ “we tried to throw the light,’ at the Southern Theater 2010, and sang a song in Morgan Thorson’s national 2009/2010 touring contemporary dance work ‘Heaven.’ Elliott has worked extensively on new visual-art performance co-creations with Justin Jones; “RadioBrain” presented at the Southern Theater in 2009, and has created electronic music and sound designs for a diverse range of live performance, theater, and contemporary dance including Skewed Visions’ “Strange Love,” “He Woke Up…”, and “Jasper Johns: Grey,” Chris Schlicting’s “love/things”, Interact Theater Company, and Jo Furnans.

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Skewed Visions’ own Charles Campbell and Gülgün Kayim went to Bowling-Green State University in Ohio this September to teach a workshop in an interdisciplinary “Collaboration in the Arts” class, followed by a presenting of 2/3 of The Car. Itself a component of the performance triptych The City Itself, these two performances will offered the community a taste of what the Twin Cities already knows:

Skewed Visions is kinda cool.

Created by Kevin Obsatz.

Any virtual environment such as World of Warcraft or Second Life is conceived of and rendered by computer programs as an array of polygonal shapes that merge to represent the three-dimensional surfaces of the landscape. The more complex the environment, the smaller the polygons, and the more there are.

“Polygon” depicts a mundane experience in the real world – a simple walk around the non-quadrilateral block where the artist lives – as an infinitely fractal, organic experience… which is subsequently filtered through the intensely reductive algorithms of video compression for presentation online.

It is both a study in contrasts and an experiment, to see how much of the organic experience survives the translation.
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Kevin Obsatz is a film and video artist living in Minneapolis who works in a range of time-based media, including multi-source video installation and hand-processed black and white 16mm film. More of his work can be found at www.videohaiku.com

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Created by Jaime Carrera and Tyler Jensen.

This film is not autobiographical. It does not judge nor condone. It is based on the real life collective experiences of various close friends. When it comes to the internet, there are very unique & specific circumstances that have become the exclusive property of homosexual men…for better or worse. This film is a humorous nod to those situations. It leaves the options open to interpretation and the decisions to those who live it.
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Jaime Carrera is a dishwasher at Chowgirls Killer Catering. He also dabbles in photography, music, film & performance. Jaime is in the midst of curating his first show Peligro at Patrick’s Cabaret. He lives in Powderhorn with his boyfriend Nick and his cats Henri & Roxie.

Tyler Jensen is a filmmaker out of NE Minneapolis. He lives with his boyfriend, Seth and their dog, Moose. He’s terrified of public spelling. He is currently at working making 30 Films in 30 Days.

You will need to decide for yourself where you are comfortable watching this episode.

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Created by Craig VanDerSchaegen.

Captured and Left Behind explores what it means to exist out of context.
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Craig VanDerSchaegen is a photographer based in Minneapolis, MN. For more information, visit craigvanders.com.

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If you found an iPod Touch, with someone’s personal information on it, what would you do?

The Lost Bits is a work created using material found online and narrated by people with false identities.  It’s a site-specific work for the Cedar Lake bike trail between Lake Calhoun and downtown Minneapolis. From your smartphone, download the free SCVNGR app and get your bike to the Rustica bakery in the Calhoun Village parking lot. When there, open the app and search for “The Lost Bits Bike Trail.”

The whole adventure is about 3 miles one way. Get out of your cubicle, and go at your own pace.

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Sean Kelley-Pegg is a founding member of Skewed Visions.  He is currently working on a number of smartphone-based performances over the course of the next few years.

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Created by Noah Keesecker, May 2011.

Flowers for Algorithm is a collection of seven audio-visual allegories.  Each allegory tells a small tale about the user experience.  In their simplest form these allegories are physical corporeal analogs to what is often referred to as virtual.   They steal from the profound and give to the trivial.  They are first person stories, they are about you and you are the author.
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Noah Keesecker is a composer, multimedia artist and idea-guy.  In addition to his purely musical compositions he makes video, dance, text, performance art, interactive installation and animation.   His works have been programmed and performed on concerts and at festivals throughout the United States and Europe.  In 2008 he was the recipient of a McKnight Composer Fellowship.

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As part of Northern Spark: a nuit blanche, Skewed Visions presented Please Remain Seated, overnight from June 4 at 8:55pm to June 5 at 5:28am. Skewed Visions’ contribution to this event was a set of performances tailored for the 15 festival buses and their drivers, along the routes and for the duration of Northern Spark: a Nuit Blanche. Giving riders a glimpse into the inner life of driving and being driven as they navigate the city, Please Remain Seated explored the forgotten spaces of a system of public transit and the dynamics within a system of public service.

Created by the three Skewed Visions principles Charles Campbell, Gulgun Kayim, and Sean Kelley-Pegg, Please Remain Seated ranged from short enigmatic pronouncements to longer monologues, from the haiku of paying the fare to the historical epic of the cross-town journey. These performances offered rider-audiences insight into the world of bus drivers, the routes of the buses, and an opportunity to experience the mystery, intimacy and the terror of missing your stop from the other side of the steering wheel.

The 15 Please Remain Seated audio pieces are now available here.

For more information on the festival, please see the Northern Spark website.

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For all you French speakers out there, relax. For everyone else, get ready for a Skewed bus ride.

As part of Northern Spark: a nuit Blanche, Skewed Visions will be joining a long roster of artists making work over night in the Twin Cities as part of this festival. Our little contribution will be making work for all the shuttle buses that run between and among the festival sites on the evening of June 4.

We’re working on it now. In the meantime, brush your teeth and take a nap: this is from dusk until dawn.