OPEN OFFICE

Dinowalrus performs at OPEN OFFICE. Saturday May 10 2008.

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Mmmm…that virtual chef salad sure was delicious. Today is the last day at OPEN OFFICE and we’re going out with a bang, or rather, several loud bangs. We’ve got a great final meal planned and we’ll welcome our friends Dinowalrus from Brooklyn who will be dropping in to play some psychotic jams for us this evening. They’ll be joined by the one man video/music performance of Donkey Kong and the hardcore jams of Enter the Scorpion Pit. What a lineup! Today in the screening rooms we’ll be doing a recap of all the films we’ve shown this week, rotated every hour on the hour. Those who are totally committed could come in and do a marathon session. It’s been a great week folks. Come on down today for one last time at the office and tonight for the big show!

The Electronic Music class has been setting up in here all day. There are so many weird sounds coming from all the screening rooms but the movies are still up. Today we’ve got a reprise of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Open House plus two new ones: Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco’s The Eternal Frame and Dara Birnbaum’s Technology/Transformation: Wonderwoman. I think the music’s gonna start in a few minutes so get over here!

Today the Alternative Media Seminar at Vassar College takes over OPEN OFFICE. A variety of projects and films are going to be presented throughout the day. Projects on graffiti documentation, mental maps, and the anatomy of social images, among other things. DeeDee Halleck brought a solar cooker and tons of food and now we’re all feasting on roasted plantains. In the viewing rooms right now we have Portable Channel’s Attica Interviews, People’s Communication Network’s Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison, and Deep Dish TV’s Lockdown USA. We’ll serve dinner at 6 pm tonight as usual and then at 7:30 pm we’ll be showing Barbara Zahm’s The Last Graduation. Tree Arrington, an advocate for inmate rights who is featured in the movie, will talk afterwards about the importance of prison education programs.

Ted Gordon of Lady Lovelace and the Calculator Death Machine sent these photos that he took of the space.

David and Charysse of LLATCDM (Photo: Ted Gordon)

People gather after dinner waiting for the music to start (Photo: Ted Gordon)

Late night at the Office (Photo: Ted Gordon)

View of the front desk and into the kitchen (Photo: Ted Gordon)

Small screen theater set up in the Treatment Room (Photo: Ted Gordon)