Survival Research Labs Benefit Debut of "SRL Nudie Calendar "
presented by ZeroOne, SomArts and Survival Research Labs, and ZeroOne: The Art and Technology Network
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Bare Skin, Bare Metal: Survival Research Labs Benefit Debut of
SRL Nudie Calendar To Raise Funds For a Friend

The underground art world joins forces for fundraising extravaganza Diverse performances, exhibits and presentations to benefit artist, Tim North, creator of The Hoverdrum

ZeroOne: The Art and Technology Network in conjunction with Survival Research Labs (SRL) and SomArts present a fundraiser to benefit artist and SRL community member, Tim North, 7 p.m.-midnight, Tuesday, March 25, SomArts Gallery, 934 Brannan, San Francisco. The event includes diverse performances, exhibits, presentations and a Tim North video series world premiere as well as the debut of the Official SRL Nudie Calendar. Tickets will be $10 - $10,000 sliding scale.

SRL, founded by Mark Pauline and known for creating some of the most audacious and dangerous art shows on earth, will showcase its newest creation: a calendar that presents SRL members in various states of undress with some of their famous robots and machines. "This project was inspired by the need to raise as much money and as many eyebrows as possible," Pauline said. Images are available to the media upon request.

In addition to the debut of the calendar, the evening will be filled with a cornucopia of music, videos, performances, presentations and an art auction, with works donated by local, national and international artists. Proceeds from the event will benefit Tim North, a local artist suffering from cancer, who created The Hoverdrum, an art piece that has been described as a kinetic sound sculpture, an interactive musical instrument, a low-fi lunar module and a suspended object'd arte.

According to Amy Critchett, co-director of network and programs for ZeroOne, this event is the manifestation of closely-knit San Francisco Bay Area art and technology communities coming together to help one of their own. "Over the years, I've been struck by the amount of creativity and energy being generated by Tim North. Tim's artistic voice, as well as his art, remains loud and must be heard," Critchett said.

Event highlights include:

Master of Ceremonies
Mike Dingle

Screenings
World video premiere, Pounding on Deaf Ear Drums v.02, Tim North's Hoverdrum performance at the XenoDrome June, 7th & 8th 2002
Premiere release of Tim North's recording, T!mult, with a special remix by DJ Vordo (limited editions for sale at event)
Landing at San Francisco MOMA, documentation of a performance at the Rebellissance Ball June 24, 2000
Building the Drum Machine, a documentary by Richard Gaikowski
Hoverdrum Video Collection Hoverdrum 10/91, NYC 3/91, Din Shadow SF, Drumageddon 12/95, X-Teresa (Mexico City) 4/94, Hoverdrum Herbst Pavillion

Music And Performance
Thomas Dimuzio
David Therrien (Comfort Control Systems) Body Drum
F-Space (Scot Jenerik, Ethan Port of Savage Republic, Joel Connell of Man is the Bastard and Aleph of Chrome) a pyro-maniacal percussive explosion
Special Sauce with Blaise Smith, Bond Bergland (Factrix) and Desmond Shea (the National Curiosity Company)
Peoplehater a noise/robotic ensemble
The Hot Dog Party Playboys masters of irreverent twang
Naut Humon (Recombinant Media Labs, Surround Traffic Control, Rhythm and Noise)
Joan Jeanrenaud formerly of Kronos Quartet
Beth Custer (Club Foot Orchestra, Dona Luz 30 Besos, Eighty Mile Beach, the Beth Custer Ensemble)
Alex Theory (Mystic Vibration) live world groove electronica
DJ Vordo (The Abstrakt Zone) experimental electronica
Barry Schwartz - electro-acoustic structures
Gooferman (Voodoo Lounge) "chop-hop" - funky live electronica band with hip hop mentality
Gregory Cowley (Testsite) - electronic projection media and performance

Performance And Installation
Survival Research Labs Running Machine
Matt Heckert - kinetic sound installation original SRL member/partner
Peoplehater pay to play mechanical installation
Seemen kinetic installation
Shelley Cook installation entitled "Peace Table"
Eva Konig fire dance
X-tra Action Marching Band

Videos
Stacy Greene
Glen Mckay
David Therrien
Scot Jenerik
SRL Berkeley Show

About Survival Research Labs
Survival Research Laboratories was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare. Since 1979, SRL has staged over 45 mechanized presentations in the United States and Europe. Each performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political satire. Humans are present only as audience or operators.

About SomArts
SomArts' mission is to celebrate the multicultural texture of San Francisco by presenting art reflective of the City's different communities. SomArts is a 30,000 square foot city-owned cultural center with two exhibition spaces, a 250 seat flexible theater, rehearsal spaces, printmaking, pottery and design studios and administrative offices. Since 1979 SomArts has been providing low-cost rental space to communities and arts groups that do not have access to major funding. SomArts' large size, its flexible performance spaces and its spacious art galleries afford local artists the opportunity to artistically exploit the venue's multidisciplinary possibilities.

About ZeroOne: The Art and Technology Network
ZeroOne: The Art and Technology Network (formerly known as GroundZero: The Art and Technology Network) is a non-profit organization that blends art, technology and culture together to inspire innovation and creativity by empowering artists through the intersection of art and technology. ZeroOne fuels creative art and technology projects by providing infrastructure support and project management, technical resources and funding. Tapping into Silicon Valley's technical talent, equipment and entrepreneurial spirit, the organization is a catalyst for artistic innovation. By expanding cultural horizons through art and technology, ZeroOne gives a whole new generation of artists and patrons an opportunity to change the world.