BLIP FESTIVAL 2007 NEW YORK NY US		2007 11 29 - 2007 12 02 -
[NEW YORK NY US] — Manhattan art space The Tank and New York artist collective 8bitpeoples announce the Blip Festival 2007, a four-day music and multimedia event focusing on the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology. Featuring nearly 40 musicians and visualists from around the world, the Blip Festival showcases artists adopting and repurposing familiar but forgotten hardware — such as the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Atari game console and home computer line, and the Nintendo Game Boy — exploring their untapped potential and unique aesthetic character. The festival's nightly concerts and daytime screenings, workshops, and presentations are supplemented by B I T M A P: as good as new, an adjunct visual art exhibition, held at acclaimed Brooklyn gallery vertexList. The Blip Festival 2007 offers a fascinating cross-section the chiptune musical aesthetic and related low-bit visual art, in an explosive event taking place at the epicenter of the creative world. Those in-the-know and new initiates alike will enjoy a rare chance to experience this pioneering underground digital art niche movement, buzzing with the excitement of familiar devices doing unfamiliar things. And chances are you'll find yourself dancing to some of the strangest, most resonant, and most unexpectedly compelling music you'll have ever heard. We'll see you November 29th. MUSIC: Anamanaguchi [US] Bit Shifter [US] Blasterhead [JP] Bodenständig 2000 [DE] Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou [JP] Bubblyfish [US] Mark DeNardo [US] The Depreciation Guild [US] 8GB [AR] Firebrand Boy [UK] Gijs Gieskes [NL] Glomag [US] gwEm & Counter Reset [UK] Huoratron [FI] Lo-bat. [BE] Loud Objects [US]   Alex Mauer [US] minusbaby [US] NrGiGa [IT] Nullsleep [US] Paza [SE] Postal_m@rket [IT] Rugar [SE] Sabrepulse [UK] Saskrotch [US] Markus Schrodt [AT] 6955 [JP] Tree Wave [US] Virt [US] Neil Voss [US] Yes, Robot [ES] VISUALS: kiken.corporation [AR] No Carrier [US] noteNdo [US] Otro [FR] Voltage Controlled [US] Plus screenings and workshops. See www.blipfestival.org for full details and for tickets. Event Name: The Blip Festival 2007 Event Type: Festival Date: 2007 11 29 Thursday — 2007 12 02 Sunday Schedule: [See the Blip Festival schedule page] Location: Eyebeam   [ website ] 540 W 21st St. New York NY 10011 Admission: $10.00 • any individual evening $ 5.00 • weekend workshops $35.00 • Four-day festival pass, including all performances and screenings. Presented by: 8bitpeoples The Tank Tickets: Available through SmartTix. Click the options below to be taken to an ordering page. Individual night - $10.00 Festival pass - $35.00 Subway: C, E  to 23rd St. Related Links: Blip Festival official event site The Tank 8bitpeoples