Art Hack Day is an event dedicated to cracking open the process of art making, with special reverence toward open-source technologies. Between January 26-28, artists and collaborators will inhabit 319 Scholes to create and explore the participatory nature of technology, bringing together hackers whose medium is art and artists whose medium is technology.

Modular Synthesizer Edition Leisure is a bi-monthly social exchange at 319 Scholes involving music & visual performances. December, December 10, 8pm $10 at the door. Artists: Keith Fullerton Whitman Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer/performer obsessed with electronic music; from its mid-century origins in Europe through its contemporary worldwide incarnation as “digital music.” Ben Vida [...]

Anomalous Warmth showcases experimental music from some of the most forward-thinking performers. Running the gamut from free-jazz to prog-rock, the series aims to assemble disparate lineups that share the common thread of improvisation and sonic innovation. Saturday, November 26, 8pm $10 at the door. Den Svarta Fanan Drawing from the playing field of no-wave, hardcore [...]

Notes on a New Nature is a physical manifestation of an ongoing research project conducted by artist, writer, and curator Nicholas O’Brien. The research critically examines and compares the relationships that contemporary artists working with digital media have to practices started in Modernist Painting – specifically the pursuit of capturing the virtual qualities of what constitutes a landscape. How does an artist depict a space faithfully enough to show its affect on a subject? Can art capture the space between the viewer and the horizon, and where does that horizon reside now that we can digitally circumnavigate the globe? Can the digital reconcile the physical?

In “The Three Ecologies,” Félix Guattari proposes strategies for an eco-logic and ethico-aesthetic. In grammar, ‘correlative’ implies a (non-adjacent) reciprocal or complimentary relationship. Affixing the two, Ecologías Correlativas presents projects and research from a trans-disciplinary group of artists, architects and scientists navigating interrelated environmental/socio-political ecologies.

Leisure is a monthly social exchange at 319 Scholes involving music & visual performances. Saturday, October 8, 8pm $10 at the door. Artists: toktek (NL) vs. Simon Berz (CH) http://toktek.org/Site/toktek.html http://www.simonberz.ch/index.php?/work/rocking-desk/ toktek (NL) vs. Simon Berz (CH) toktek (Holland) and Simon Berz (Switzerland) battle it out in supercharged music sessions. Playing their self-made electronic instruments/interfaces, [...]

monthly series of experimental sound + vision inaugural performance: Friday, September 9 2011 • 8pm-1am $10 cover featuring: BASSOON: http://www.popejoy.org/bassoon SPLIT RED: http://www.myspace.com/splitredmusic STATS: http://www.myspace.com/statsbrooklyn INZINZAC: http://www.inzinzac.com/ live visuals by COSMIC MORNING: http://www.no-carrier.com/ installation by Genesis Residents Jody Wood & Mikel Bisbee-Durlam

Genesis Project is a month-long, artists’ residency program catering to body-based artists who identify as working between disciplines and/or seek to integrate other disciplines into their performance practice through individual experimentation and open-source collaboration. Six artists from around the world will travel to Bushwick and live in double-decker bungalows designed by architect, Terri Chiao (www.asmallspace.com), [...]

Curated by Lindsay Howard and Katie Miller Thursday July 14, 2011 Open reception from 6:00-8:00pm Bands begin at 9:00pm; $10 cover after 8:00pm 319 SCHOLES is pleased to present the premiere of WALLPAPERS, an immersive, 3,000 sq ft installation designed by new media artists, Nicolas Sassoon and Sara Ludy. Throughout the past year, these two [...]

Curated by Phillip Stearns June 23 – June 25, 2011 Full Schedule of Performances, panels and workshops, http://bentfestival.org/2011/schedule Bent is an annual art and music festival celebrating circuit bending and its related creative practices: DIY electronics, hardware hacking, glitch, code bending, software art, abstract video. Now in its 8th year, the festival is a public [...]