Signal Culture residency

I am super excited for a week-long residency later this week with Signal Culture in freezing cold and snowy Owego, NY. I’ll be bringing some media from an installation I made years ago with the intention of trying out some of their cool signal processing tools to add abstration and editing it into a single channel piece. As I have never been before, I solicited information from media artists and theorists who have and got such great advice, synthesized (no pun intended) here:

Have fun!!
Bring lots of source material.
Don’t sleep!
Bathe very infrequently.
Prepare to have your mind blown by Dave Jones.
Don’t forget to visit Hand of Man!
Jail meal at your own risk.
Shop at Two floor thrift/vintage on the corner.
Walk along the river.
Have an amazing time!
Have a plan that you can abandon. The machines are alive and take a bit longer to get going.
Bring a notebook so you can get back to something that got interesting results. Some of the best things happen when you lose track of how you got this or that result.
Experiment!
Walk to the cemetery.
Breakfast at diner across the street to get a feel for the place.
Bakery downstairs.
Abandon control.
Take your time exploring town as all of this could take just one afternoon.
Don’t forget your snow boots!
If you’re up for a challenge ask about Ghost Pepper Pizza night at John Barleycorn’s!

Thanks so much Annie Berman, Torsten Zenas Burns, Karl Erickson, Kristen Lucas, Darrin Martin, Monica Panzarino and Jim Supanick for the advice!