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Now on View! Nervescape, a colorful, organic, and beastly installation by Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir aka Shoplifter with sound by Kría Brekkan in the Clocktower's upper gallery. On view noon-5 pm., Tues.-Fri. all summer. More details and directions HERE.

Also on View Prisoner Fantasies: Photos from the Inside a fascinating collection of self-portraits of and by inmates organized by artist Dave Adler, Mary Mattingly's Flockhouse living pod project, and other long term exhibits.

Javelin's Canyon Candy Extended through Summer! (Tues.-Fri., noon- 5pm) The Clocktower Gallery exhibition features a large screen viewing theater for the 16-minute film by Mike Anderson and music by Javelin alongside a winding walk through a maze of life size dioramas including a wind-washed cabin, termite hills and cactus fields with glimpses of coyotes, campsites, and lawless hijinx. Javelin has created a multi-channel surround-sound environment embedded in Anderson’s set with sounds of crickets, howling winds, mysterious voices, and drifting melodies. See photos from the exhibit's opening here.

Programs For The Week
Hosted by Alec Hanley Bemis
Originally aired Monday, May 28th, 2012

About this program AHB writes: These are songs I compiled for a script given to me by my friend Seth Gordon, a director out in Los Angeles. It was about a girl who connects with her dead parents by a series of mix tapes, set in 90s era Seattle.


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Hosted by Jill Spalding
Originally aired Monday, May 28th, 2012

Host Jill Spalding with Victoria Newhouse, architectural historian and the author of Towards a New Museum and Art and The Power of Placement, two insightful studies of museums and their relationships with collectors, trustees, artists and the public.


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Hosted by DJ Shakey
Originally aired Monday, May 28th, 2012

Comandante Zero is a Brooklyn-based drum/bass/laptop duo consisting of producers Dan Freeman and Ken White who mix the heavy groove of bygone dance bands like Chic, a modern electro sound and baritone Leonard Cohen-esque English and Spanish vocals.


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Hosted by Leeza Ahmady
Originally aired Monday, May 28th, 2012

In collaboration with Independent Curators Int'l, curators Hitomi Iwasaki and Herb Tam speak with Leeza Ahmady about the arts and aesthetic development across the Caribbean and their research on the presence of Asia in Caribbean culture and art.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, May 28th, 2012

In this Special Edition installment of Beyond the Subtitles, François Cluzet candidly discusses his crossover into commercial filmmaking and what it's like to suddenly star in France's surprising blockbuster hit, the comedy-drama The Intouchables.


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Hosted by Elliott Sharp
Originally aired Monday, December 20th, 2004

Playing the pedal-steel guitar, an instrument usually associated with country & western music (but coveted by anyone with ears and a sex drive), this Texan creates a music that is simultaneously meditative and energizing. Live at Issue May 30-31.


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Originally aired Friday, June 1st, 2007

The band playing some of the more challenging scores of late 20th Century composers including John Cage, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros. Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Wolff, George Maciunas, Nicolas Slonimsky, Cornelius Cardew, and James Tenney.


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Hosted by Alanna Heiss

In this two-part program from 2004, music entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren performs an impromptu monologue and exemplifies his work involving experimentation with bastard blues, chip music, and more with a fusion of Captain and Tenille and New Order.


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Hosted by Jeannie Hopper
Originally aired Saturday, July 21st, 2007

The independent house music label Objektivity hosted a day of Warm Up, PS1 Contemporary Art Center's outdoor summer music series and brought the youthful Martinez Brothers to the museum's courtyard to make house music fans move on July 21, 2007.


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Hosted by David Weinstein
Originally aired Monday, September 5th, 2005

The Google synth is cool! Here's our birthday celebration of Robert Moog and his influential electronic instrument, the Moog Synthesizer, with tracks by Wendy Carlos, Dick Hyman, Kraftwerk, Perrey & Kingsley, Sun Ra, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, others.


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