This Rhizome sponsored gig didn’t get covered much on the ol’ ‘zome. Unclear why…

One of the more exciting places to note is the Williamsburg performance space/restaurant/bar Monkey Town. Assuming you can handle a few hours on the most uncomfortable couches on the planet, this place will be considered a real jewel. Their sound system is impeccable, the food is great, and all this week they are showing cool videos in their performance/screening room.

Kicking off the event last Friday, was the Rhizome curated event Craptop vrs Laptop. The title is slightly misleading in that it was really more of a Craptops vrs One Beat-up Laptop showdown but I think we can all agree that the later is an unnecessarily wordy re-title. I had thought that perhaps 50% of the line up would be comprised of recent MIT graduates, who in addition to hacking Bass, were waiting to see the latest full page spread of their work in MAKE magazine, but alas this was not the case. I guess there aren’t as many video-maker-singing-fish-hackers as I had thought.

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