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“Out There” goes places you wouldn’t expect, from the cult magazine Weird New Jersey, to robots programmed to make art, to the Lounge Lizards (in dance). Having fun and making art, on this edition of State of the Arts.
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Friday, July 18, 2008 @ 8:30 pm
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 @ 11:30 pm
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weird new jersey
First there was Weird New Jersey, a homegrown magazine and travel guide for people interested in things like abandoned asylums, backwater roadside attractions and other hallmarks of modern folklore throughout the Garden State. Then there was Weird New Jersey - The Exhibition at the Here Art Center in New York City, featuring 17 artists with a unique connection to, and whose work is specifically inspired by, all things Jersey - from the industrial landscapes surrounding the Turnpike to the mythologies of the Pine Barrens. State of the Arts talks to magazine founders Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, curator and frequent Weird NJ contributor Phil Buehler, and one of the weirdest of the Weird NJ artists: self-proclaimed “techno visionary king of art” Stephen “Hoop” Hooper.
 watch a clip from Weird U.S.
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A recent issue of Weird NJ
Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, editors-in-chief of Weird NJ
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the bots
Eva Sutton and Sarah Hart are an artist team who create “bots” – robots that are art and can even make art! For instance, “Chance Transmission: An I Ching Reading with Two Small Robots” have the bots painting symbols with sumi ink. State of the Arts visits the artist team in their New York studio, and finds out more about how and why they create their robots.
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An I-ching painting
by one of the sumi-bots
Eva Sutton and Sarah Hart’s
sumi-bot at work
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vista
Graham Lustig has created a physical, colorful, jazzy, multi-movement new dance work called Vista, choreographed especially for the elite professional dancers of the American Repertory Ballet based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where Lustig is the Artistic Director. The work is set to the music of the eclectic jazz group, The Lounge Lizards.
see an extended excerpt of Vista
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Graham Lustig |
ebony hillbillies
Say African-American music and you usually think of jazz, gospel, or rhythm and blues. Until you hear the Ebony Hillbillies -- a modern country string band that plays old-time dance music on banjo, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, string bass, and Ricky Gordon's home-made percussion set consisting of a washboard, an array of cymbals, triangles and chimes, and a pair of tambourines strapped to his feet. State of the Arts caught the Ebony Hillbillies recently at a program at the Newark Museum.
 hear a track from the Ebony Hillbillies' cd
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The Ebony Hillbillies |
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