Binary New Year’s Eve: 010111 GAFFTA Membership Drive Celebration December 31, 2010

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ROBERT HODGIN (FLIGHT404)
Interactive Kinect Visuals!
Robert Hodgin (aka Flight404) is a renowned artist and coder living in San Francisco. A founding partner of the Barbarian Group, where he helped establish the west coast office and headed the labs division, he now speaks at conferences around the world, including FlashForward, FITC, Flash on the Beach, OFFF, and FlashBelt. His work spans the broad range between simple 2D data visualizations to immersive 3D terrain simulations, grounded in theoretical physics, astronomy, and particle engines.

MONIKER
New Live Set!
San Francisco electronic music producer duo Kenneth Scott and Emilio Orlandi [EO] will premiere a brand new live set.

QZEN
Live w/Vocals!
A native San Franciscan, Qzen started DJing a decade ago (having played everything from drum & bass to house), and her music geekery landed her a ?ve-year stint as the dance and electronic music programmer for iTunes. You may have seen, or read about, her hyped performances at this year's Decibel Festival in Seattle, or at MUTEK Argentina and Montreal. Before she in?uenced the digital music market, she was making her voice heard with The Invisibles, a live electro-punk project that saw great local success in San Francisco and released on International Deejay Gigolo. Her subsequent collaboration with John Tejada produced the above track, and her new disco outfit, 40 thieves, sees her continuing expansion of her already diverse sonic palette.

NIKOLA BAYTALA
Extended DJ Set!
San Francisco DJ Nikola Baytala has become a crucial component of the minimal-techno collective known as Kontrol. But don't typecast him as a one-dimensional droid with a M-nus Records logo tattoo. He's been exploring the upper echelons of the techno/house Continuum since the early '90s (including the last 10 years at The Top, a weekly event hosted by S.W.A.T., aka Special Weapons and Tactics), gaining a reputation as a DJ's DJ, with acclaim coming from house-music legends like Derrick Carter and Doc Martin.

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts invites you to ring in a new year with us, become a GAFFTA Member in the final days of 2010 and carry this community into 2011!

Here in the Gray Area, we predict that 2011 will go down as the year that transforming your body into binary code went mainstream. Accordingly, it will also be the year that Gray Area Foundation for the Arts continues to traverse the elusive edge of digital artistry. It’s up to you to help us kick it all off with our New Year’s Eve Fundraiser.

In the past month, hackers have exploited the technology of Microsoft’s Kinect 360 for XBox to transform the physical form into the digital realm, to astonishing artistic effect. At Gray Area’s Binary New Year’s Eve: 010111 Gray Area Members will be dancing their way into interactive digital visualizations, projected on walls of the Gray Area. The Kinect visuals in our banner are the work of the infamous Robert Hodgin (Flight404).The kinect camera sensor will be installed above the audience and projections will display collective movement. When you toss in some bangin’ LIVE performances by Moniker, Qzen, and Nikola Baytala, an LED balloon drop, complimentary champagne toast, an open bar until 11pm, then you’ve got a pretty exciting New Year’s Eve bash.

Come to support, become a member, participate in the interactive digital visuals, and mingle at the open bar! (open until 11pm…) Until then, check out the Artist Bios below, and get an idea of just how cool this is going to look and sound. In the words of Morpheus himself – “Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Gray Area [sic - the Matrix] is. You have to see it for yourself.”

Binary New Year’s Eve: 010111 is a Gray Area Members only (21+) event. You can reserve your spot by purchasing a GAFFTA Membership at any level (see below). Membership perks include discounts on future GAFFTA events and Members-only keepsakes. (Members that supported in 2010 are asked to RSVP and will be contacted soon with more details.)

All proceeds directly fund GAFFTA’s operating and production expenses, and memberships are 100% tax deductible as acceptable by law. By becoming a GAFFTA Member you will be stakeholder in our shared vision of building social consciousness through digital culture…and what could make a better Holiday gift than a GAFFTA Membership and the hottest ticket in town?!

Capacity is strictly limited and sales are online only, so become a Member, support GAFFTA and secure your spot at Binary New Year’s Eve 010111 now!

BECOME A 2011 MEMBER
Unless otherwise noted memberships are good for 1 calendar year from the date of activation. Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is a 501(c)3 Public Charity. Your contributions are tax-deductible. Our membership program operates on a sliding scale with recognition and premiums commensurate with the generosity of contribution. All support levels receive recognition on Supporters Page

Official Website: http://www.gaffta.org/2010/12/08/binary-new-years-eve-010111-gaffta-membership-drive-celebration/