[L.A.]TERRA-BYTE 3.0

TERRA-BYTE 3.0,

an Environmental Exploration at

The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden

September 14, 2008, 5:30-9:30 P.M.

More information: www.arboret um.org | 626.821.3208

TERRA as in the planet earth and BYTE a unit of storage in computers, TERRA-BYTE creates a platform for artists to interpret the natural world through art, science, and emerging technology within the beautiful gardens of The Arboretum. Visitors enjoy music, garden tours, interactive exhibits and a cash bar.

The mission of TERR-BYTE is to inspire an appreciation of the natural world through the interpretation of the artist--the communicator. Curiosity and wonder for nature is ensued in this outdoor exhibition. Admission is $10 and kids enter for free (age 5 and under). More information: www.arboret um.org | 626.821.3208

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES AND ART FOR ALL AGES: 5:30-7:00 P.M.

Garden Tours

Drum Circle

The Arboretum Library

Patick Dougherty's "Catawampus": htt p://www.stickwork.net/

MUSIC: 5:30-9:30 P.M.

Tycho: ht tp://www.tychomusic.com

Test Shot Starfish: http://www.myspace.com/te stshotstarfish

Dusty Brown: http://www.myspace.com/dustybro wn

EEZIR: http://www.myspace.com/eez ir

DERU: http://www.myspace.com/iamderu

ART AFTER DARK: 7:00-9:30 P.M.

Infranatural: "The Amazing Mental Telescope"www.infr anatural.com

Broadcast your inner brain wave activity into the night sky above The Arboretum. Oliver Hess, Jenna Didier and Marcos Lutyens of infranatural, have created "The Amazing Mental Scope", an installation that uses a Neurosky EEG headset to project this experience into a spectacular lighting display. The viewer can look up at the stars and their mental response would then be displayed on the outside of the tube of the scope as a series of changing colored lights - the patterns and colors change depending on the mental activity of the viewer creating a public mental beacon for the excitement and fascinations felt throughout the evening.

A new and emerging generation of EEG (Electroencephalography) devices is beginning to help shed light on the brain's unknown regions. With the NeuroSky EEG headset, a device that measures the electrical activity in the brain, infranatural has been able to use the advances in technology for "brain" health spas and video games to externalize the delicate palette of inner emotions through real-time analysis of alpha and beta waves within the brain.

infranatural is an art and technology partnership focused on the creation of emotive and ambient environments.

http://www.nytimes. com/slideshow/2008/07/27/style/0727- VOWS_index.html

Launa Bacon: "Cold Fusion, Fire from Water" http://www.laun abacon.com/html/installations.html

Cold fusion is a controversial, and fantastic discovery made by two of the brightest contemporary electrochemists. In Jules Verne's 1890 novel, "The Mysterious Island," Verne predicted an age of water fuel: "I believe that water will one day be employed as a fuel. That hydrogen and oxygen that constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable...I believe then that when the deposits of coal are exhausted, we shall heat and warm ourselves with water. Water will be the coal of the future." This installation in the main fountain of The Arboretum creates a physical manifestation of the nuclear reaction of cold fusion: the extraction of hydrogen and oxygen from water through electrolysis - electro chemistry. Floating white coloured LED lights personify fire in water in the pattern of the scientific diagram of cold fusion. The forms are a hybridization of both natural and man-made forms.

"Inception Conception" http://launabacon.com/html /MaraBathMovie.html

"Inception of Conception",the impact of natural creation that is both personal and poetic in nature; and one that manifests the rhythms of a natural lifecycle in a virtual environment. An extract of the video can be viewed at:http://launabacon.c om/html/MaraBathMovie.html

Micheal Joaquin Grey: http: //www.citroid.com/

Karl Fornander:http://www.karlfornander.com/

Carmen Argote:http://carmenargote.com/node/50

this was awesome!

  Ominous said:

this was awesome!

gorgeous views.

thanks to all those who made it out.