Join us @ SMoCA for

a LIVE multi-media blog performance event

Saturday,December 17th
3-5 p.m. 

To kick off the opening of the exhibition southwestNET: techno, on December 17th, 2005 , artist Rick Silva will be in Scottsdale for a 24 hour, international "blog jam" event called 24 Hour Count. Along with artistic collaborators Mark Amerika (in Sydney, Australia) and Nathaniel Wojtalik (in Boulder, Colorado), Silva will record, mix, interpret and respond to current events using technologies that include the mobile phones, digital video, mini-disk recorders, musical instruments and numerous computer software programs. As the artists record images, sounds and other information, they will send their findings in the form of digital messages and files back and forth to one another, continually mixing sound, images and text, like DJs. Hour by hour their mixes will be uploaded onto a blog, which will document live their intercontinental "jam session."

Visit the website http://www.djrabbi.com/24/ to read more about the project and explore the blog as it transforms!


From 3-5 p.m. artist Rick Silva will be in the galleries at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) and all are invited to observe his contribution to 24 Hour Count. Refreshments will be provided by Orange Table Cafe in SMoCA from 3-5 p.m., followed by a no host bar cocktail reception at the Orange Table Cafe from 5-7 p.m.

Location
SMoCA is located at 7374 e. Second st. adjacent to the Scottsdale Center for the Arts (approx. 4 blocks south of Indian School Rd. and 1 block east of Scottsdale Rd.).

For further information:
Lesley Oliver
Marketing and Public Relations Manager
480-874-4654
loliver@sccarts.org