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Jeffrey Lewis, Lykke Li, Vile Imbeciles, XX Teens, David Cronenberg's Wife, UNKLE, The Dodos

Front woman Rachel Callaghan and Drummer Rory Attwell of KASMs get together for a cookery session for SUPERSWEET making Toad in a Hole!

Franz Ferdinand, Get Well Soon, Dawn Landes, frYars, Sparkadia, Gemma Ray, Adam Green

Installation by Jennifer Steinkamp

Installation by Jennifer Steinkamp

Jennifer Steinkamp's great uncle Ernest Hedinger was a seaman on the Dumaru during WWI, 1918. The ship carrying weapons and fuel was struck by lightning scarcely a couple hours outside of Guam. Powerful currents carried the helpless lifeboats out to sea. There were not enough provisions in the over crowded boat. Only 19 years old, Uncle Ernest died after 13 days. Out of desperation he had been drinking seawater, which caused him to imagine a nail stuck in his head. Soon after his death, two of the shipmates were cannibalized. The crew was trapped out at sea for 24 days total.

Jennifer: "Jimmy Carter" is a site-specific video installation that fills large walls of the gallery; thousands of computer synthesized flowers swing back and forth. The flowers create an illusion where the space seems to dematerialize. It feels as though the walls are moving along with the flowers. The work is synthesized with software; it never existed in reality, only as code. The striped imagery transforms the architecture, while in turn the art is transformed by the same architecture. This creates an experience for the viewer, in-between a real and imaginary space. Steinkamp has come back to these particular ideas over and again in various installations. Her artwork utilizes computer animation to craft immersive interactive projection installations. Three-dimensional computer graphics are the basis of her animation; animation that takes full advantage of the computer's ability to create motion and points of view that are not available by any other means.

Jennifer: "Eye Catching" was created for the historic Yerebatan Cistern. Three computer animated trees were projected on the walls of the cistern which respond to two ancient Medusa Heads that are used as column supports in the cistern. Curiously, one is placed upside down, while the other is on her side. Animated enchanted trees sway while their branches move like Medusa's serpentine hair. The installation is meant to be a celebration of the power of female sexuality and Medusa's beauty.

Jennifer: "Dervish" consisted of four high definition projections of individual trees with twirling branches. This was inspired by a ritual practiced by the priests, or dervishes, of the Mevlavi sect of Islam. In the midst of a trance, the dervishes whirl in a motion symbolizing the soul's release from earthly ties and communication with the divine. The movement of the branches contains elements of both control and lawlessness -- while the whirling motion of the trees is fanciful and seemingly enchanted, the movement is limited by the roots of the trees.

Jennifer: "Loom" consisted of two overlapping video projections; one contained a horizontal pattern, while the other vertical. When combined, the two created a weave. Because there were two projections at angles, the viewer created two shadows that disrupted the projection; one shadow revealed the vertical lines while the other was filled with horizontal lines. The image formed a cube that matched the perspective of the space, which was a deep tunnel. The lines warped with a water like pattern.

Jennifer: I constructed two red criss-crossed passageways with curved corners inside the gallery space. Vertical projections of spinning, undulating meshed cylinders created optical moir effects. The sound, space and the visual created an experience simultaneously mechanical and sensual.

The 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Kasabian, The Cooper Temple Clause performing 'Devil Walks In The Sand', My Red Cell, The 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

The Cooper Temple Clause, Travis, Liars, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Libertines, The Cooper Temple Clause, Stellastarr*, and The Cooper Temple Clause!!!