"I Love Presets, the multimedia spaz-lab of Chicago artists Jon Satrom, Jason Soliday & Rob Ray, celebrates how technology can revolutionize video art, but, paradoxically, revels in how limited some of that technology is. Their live performances and YouTube videos capture a pixelated meltdown in which rather low-rent digital animation and imagery—including those animated GIFs that used to flicker across your Geocities page back in 1998—intersects with glitchy, static-ridden music. They even claim to incorporate computer viruses into the mix. Here, Satrom and Soliday (w/ Ray over the internet) will perform and also host a workshop, offering some clues as to what makes their gleefully destructive works tick."
--Starlight Cinema: Performance And Workshop By I Love Presets
A/V Club; The Onion: 2009.12.03
http://tinyurl.com/yauum5x
Yay! Video from the I Love Presets show at Starlight Theatre in Wisconsin is up!
Rob Ray
I’m an interactive artist recently relocated to Los Angeles, CA from Chicago via Rensselaer's Electronic Arts MFA Program in Troy, NY. I make experimental public games, listen to numbers stations, ride a bicycle, and spelunk abandoned buildings.
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Recent Exhibitions
BIKE BOX locative media exhibition. Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. July 2010
SUPERNATURE, Capital Region Arts Center, Troy, NY
May - June 2010
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival, Cumbria, UK. April 1-3 2010
The Reanimation Library's exhibition, GRIDSPACE, Brooklyn, NY. Feb 28 - Apr 8 2010
art.tech at The Lab, San Francisco, CA.
August 3-6 2009
(re)load at Antena Gallery, Chicago, IL.
May-June 2009
Squirrel! at Contemporary Arts Center at Woodside, Troy, NY.
May 2009
Recent Residencies
Center for Land Use Interpretation - Wendover, UT Residency Program
July and August, 2009
Recent Presentations
Moles Not Molar - Friday Oct 16 2009 - 7:30PM
GRAY AREA at The Crane Arts Building
400 N. American St. [map]
(two blocks north of Girard Ave. between 2nd & 3rd streets)
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art.tech at The Lab - Sunday Sept 6 2009 - 3:30PM
The Lab
2948 16th St [map]
San Francisco, CA
I'll be giving my "Dissecting Bucky" presentation.
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Dorkbot Chicago - August 27 2009 - 7PM
Enemy Sound
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. [map]
I'll be giving my "Into the Wild: Electronic Art and the Great Outdoors" presentation at the August Chicago Dorkbot!
Recent Screenings
Blockparty and Notacon 2010
April 15-18, 2010
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
June 16-20, 2009
DIGIT 2009 Digital Media Exhibition
June 12 -July 4th, 2009
My new 12 minute video "Canaries in the Coalmine" winner of the DIGIT Excellence in Cinematography prize