Ongoing Project

23 Entryways Into My Mind, Portal 6: 23E Studios, in conjunction with The Museum of Viral Memory and Fringe Exhibitions, Presents Disembody

Holy cow! The last year was quite the ride. And there's a year and a half left to go for 23 Entryways Into My Mind, Portal 6: 23E Studios, in conjunction with The Museum of Viral Memory and Fringe Exhibitions, Presents Disembody.

We are pleased to say that the installation of the Morgellon Theater, as part of Disembody, was a huge success at Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles.
We had good audiences, and the gallerist was so pleased with the show that she requested we keep it up an extra week.

We are now moving on to the next phase:

populating the wiki, so that all of the references and influences of the varied and sundry crew members can be explored

digitizing all of the footage, well over 100 hours

parsing the footage into discrete scenes

exporting each of these in multiple formats, .dv, .mpg, .mov

uploading all of the footage to our database at the internet archive

tagging every scene, so that the complete collection (literally every second of footage shot for the project over the course of a year) is easily searchable

editing a feature length documentary about the creation of this work of contemporary art.

The goal of all this is to make the project available in its entirety to the world at large. It's to be expected that we, the artists and filmmakers will make a film out of our labors, and submit ti to festivals and distributors. We're also curious to know what each crew member's individual film might be like. And so every crew member is being encouraged to create their own documentary about what happened, and to submit those to festivals.

Beyond this, we are making all of this footage available online, in high and low resolution formats, under a Creative Commons license, not just for crew, but so that anyone on Earth can use it and remix it, re-imagine it. It is our suspicion that the most fascinating visions of our work will come from those who have never heard of The MVM, from those outside our world and community.

We're also pleased to announce that the next two Portals in the series are currently in development. More news on Portal 7: A Mild Informality and Portal 8: Expansion will be forthcoming soon.

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The Map of Vime's Mind

SLEEPWALKS
performance by Lee Pembleton and Andrea Williams
Mills College - ENSEMBLE ROOM
Saturday Oct 24th, 9pm-9am

Join The MVM for the first full-run of SLEEPWALKS, an overnight sound performance taking place in the Ensemble Room at Mills College.

SLEEPWALKS explores the impact of sound on dreams by playing to a sleeping audience who then journal about their experience in the morning. Our goal for this long-term project is to create soundwalks for dreamers. We first premiered Sleepwalks as a shorter 'catnap' at Issue Project Room in NYC earlier this year to much positive feedback. Recordings of our work (what it might sound like but not exactly) can be found here.

From 9pm-11pm there will be an opening for Sleepwalks in the Ensemble Room with wine, crackers, and cheese.  Please arrive before 10pm, as that is when doors will close.
We will be providing water; there is a restroom with a sink in the Ensemble Room; and there will be muffins served in the morning at 8am.  Please bring your own bedding and toiletries, eyemasks, etc.

The Stowe-Pembleton Project CD Hommage An Klaus Kinski is out. This is improv jazz with heavy doses of post-fusion (Nobu Stowe) and sampled chaos (Lee). It's available from Soul Note/Black Saint as compact disc and as MP3 downloads. Hoorah!

The next record, Confusion Bleue, is slated for a Fall release in 2009 on Soul Note/Black Saint. The third record and fourth records are currently being mixed. Cuts from the first two records can be found at the group's MySpace page.

The Morgellon Theater

Mission Statement

The Museum of Viral Memory was founded by Lee Pembleton, Randolph Carter and Duke Lee in 2000. It is an ever expanding and contracting organization of artists and musicians. The MVM is a subsidiary of Nightmare City.

Today's mission statements are:

The MVM are makers of friends, not objects. Poor commercial choice. Wise life choice.

The primary focus of 23 Entryways Into My Mind is immortality:
What strategies for survival are the most effective? What actually constitutes immortality?
Where are the religious, psychological, physical, and metaphysical limits of immortality; and where are the limits in the search for immortality?
How can we constitute research of the infinite and incomprehensible?

All materials generated by The Museum of Viral Memory are free for the butchering under a creative commons license. Some items generated by others which we feature here are copyright protected. This is clearly stated when it is the case.
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