MAN,

SUCH AS WE KNOW HIM,

IS A COMPUTER

Opening January 20

Synchronicity Space is pleased to announced the exhibition, “Man, Such As We Know Him, Is A Computer,” which will be on display in Mastodon Mesa at the Pacific Design Center from January 20 - February 27. This exhibition showcases artists whose work explores the relationships between technology, the culture of the internet’s past, present and future, and the questionable need for viewing art in the context of a gallery.

The exhibition features an installation by artist, Spencer Longo, transforming the interior of the gallery space to communicate the internet’s ability to transform itself into a physical space. Incorporating sound, projected images as well as pieces on paper to fill the space, the artist seeks for the audience to be viscerally taken over.

The main exhibition showcases a group of artists that make work in different media and multi-media addressing technology in their work. We will be exhibiting an array of work that includes sound, video, websites, drawings, and paintings. With the increasing proliferation of the internet worldwide, we have experienced a global connection and rapid cultural malleability unlike any other time period. These artists have found a way to adapt to the ever-changing current of our technological culture, either by commenting on it or exemplifying its benefits towards the creative process. The exhibition will be on display from January 20 to February 25, 2011.

The artists include:

Rafael Rozendaal

Christelle Gualdi

Peter Burr

Mario Zoots

Kristy Foom

Laura Brothers

Andrew Benson

Aaron Anderson (ex Hardland/Heartland)

Eric Timothy Carlson (ex Hardland/Heartland)

owleyes

Paul Slocum

Christopher Baker

Jon Cates

The opening reception will take place at Mastodon Mesa in the Pacific Design Center January 20, from 5 to 8:30pm.

The Pacific Design Center is located at 8687 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

Any questions, please call (818) 863-6528 or email at info@syncspacela.com

OPEN STUDIO. ETC. + ALL.

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In light of the upcoming holiday season -- and possibly, 2010 write-offs -- artist, Eric Timothy Carlson will be hosting an open studio this Saturday. This will be an opportunity to view previously unseen works, learn about recent projects & collaborations, visit the storefront studio space he shares with the talented Annie Larson, and purchase both original and editioned work created over the past four years.

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Saturday, December 4. 2010. 11AM – 5PM
Private appointments available upon request

512 E 24th St.
Minneapolis, MN.
(storefront next to the alley)

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For those of you who are interested in the purchase of work, but cannot attend or do not live in the Minneapolis area, please contact Eric via his website and he will provide a catalog of available works following the event this weekend.

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OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST

http://thereisawe.com
Books, t-shirts, prints, and the virtual catalog of works by Hardland / Heartland: (Anderson, Carlson, Quinn)

http://allforeveryone.com
Annie Larson's knitwear online!!! In commemoration of recent collaborations, they have released a limited run of TEAM Annie Road t-shirts! ! ! ! ! c)B-D

http://www.honeycombmpls.com/
Make sure you swing by Honeycomb, Erin Flavin's brand new salon in South Minneapolis, where ETC has a selection of drawings on display. The space is nestled right in between a new record shop (AOT RIP) and B Squad Vintage -- hair, art, music, duds, knick-knacks, multi tasking, supporting local independent business, etc...

http://hardlandheartland.com
collaborative internetting

http://tiredandtrue.com
a portfolio & ever changing virtual presentation of...

http://erictimothycarlson.blogspot.com
a new blog?!

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Synchronicity the DJ's KXLU Halloween Radio Show 2010

Synchronicity the DJ (aka DJ Pumpkinhead and DJ Gourd Guts (aka Chris and Katie))'s KXLU Halloween Spec-spookular playlist!



Roky Erickson & The Aliens - Night of the Vampire
Jacula - Triumphatus Sad.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees - Halloween
Bubonic Plague - Gray Wave City
Zola Jesus - Stridulum
Swans - Blood & Honey
Umberto - Temple Room
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The Birthday Party - Release the Bats
Wooden Shjips - Vampire Blues (Neil Young)
Bauhaus - Exquisite Corpse
Slint - Nosferatu Man
Sun Araw - Last Chance
Racoo-oo-oon - Untitled
Prince Rama - Lightening Fossil
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Kate Bush - Houdini
Diamanda Galis - Cris D'aveugle
Goblin - Suspiria
Yoko Ono - Walking on Thin Ice
Exepter - Kill People
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Tonstartssbandht - 5ft 7
Nadja - Dead Skin Mask (Slayer)
Black Pus - Ghrost
Tim Curry - Halloween (from The Worst Witch)
Sunn0))) - It Took the Night to Believe
LA Vampires & Zola Jesus - Bone is Bloodstone
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Nico - Fearfully in Danger
Geneva Jacuzzi & Obelisk - Weird Wolf
White Ring - Suffocation
Circle of Ouroboros - Pits of Torture
Ramones - Pet Semetary
Sonic Youth - I'm Insane
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Electric Wizard - Satanic Rites of Drugula
Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky
Robedoor - Exploited
Silk Flowers - Costume
Comus - The Bite

Archival Revival: a celebration of books and music with Kaugummi Books and Not Not Fun Records

Synchronicity Space is pleased to present an extremely jubilant event welcoming Bartolome Sanson and Felicia Atkinson into Los Angeles by way of France. We will host a night in order to praise the printed accomplishments of Kaugummi Books and the melodical accomplishments of our own LA based, Not Not Fun Records. Together, we will transform the gallery's interior space into a setting equally grandiose and convivial. Amanda of Not Not Fun (as well as Pocahaunted and LA Vampires) will be providing music for your ears and Bartolome will lend us Kaugummi publications for your relaxed perusal. Please join us for an elegant night of aural and visual adulation.

The festivities are free and begin at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 17th.

Bad Dads Screening July 14

We are very excited to screen Bad Dads featuring Michael Cera and directed by Derek Westerman. The screening begins at 8:00 pm, July 14th. Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be on hand for the event. Join us for a night of hilarious paternal irresponsibility!

GENERAL DELIGHT - New Video Works, Comedy and Otherwise - June 26

GENERAL DELIGHT PRESENTS SCREENING OF 10 SHORT FILMS
FOR THEIR 1ST BIRTHDAY BASH

SATURDAY, JUNE 26TH

WHAT: Come and celebrate General Delight’s first birthday with the screening of 10 short films featuring interactive elements (Hint-Phantom of the Opera sing-a-long).
Some of the short films include:

• A lascivious magician that makes husbands disappear and then beds their wives
• The awkward moments after an inter-racial swingers party
• Paula Deen facing off against the Busch Bean’s Golden Retriever
• A tribute to porn’s greatest boom operator
• A tickle fight that goes on for too, too long.

WHO: Michael Cera (Juno, Superbad, Youth in Revolt) and Elaine Carroll (Very Mary-Kate). More names to be announced shortly!

WHEN: Saturday, June 26th, 8:00-11:00 p.m.
Screening 8:30 p.m.
Reception (Open Bar) 9:30 p.m.
FREE!

WHERE: Synchronicity Space
4306 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90029

WHY: This event is a culmination of General Delight’s creative output to date. A few films have been circling various sites on the web to much acclaim, but with this event they are releasing work that is even more ambitious and exciting.

ABOUT GENERAL DELIGHT:
General Delight encompasses four film makers based in Los Angeles and New York who make comedy shorts. The films are provocative, absurd and euphoric. They describe their work as, “An aurora borealis Disneyland fireworks display with a swim up bar, free refills”. Their videos are a balance between high and low, as they explore issues of technology, sexuality, pop culture and how we try to transcend our own confines through fantasy, imagination and techno music.


To Request Media Credentials, Contact:

Lisa Marie, General Delight, generaldelightpress@gmail.com

Poor Joel from General Delight on Vimeo.

Blood Diamond from General Delight on Vimeo.

Spider, Our Living Sacrifice and Devin, Ross & Gary with Rick Potts this Tuesday!

Poster by Gary Panter

Friday, May 21

Independents present

show card image by Shannon Keller

Synchronicity Space asked small, independent companies and publishers to showcase an artist they were excited about. Independents present is an exhibition resulting in our request to these companies to group curate an exhibition. Synchronicity Space will host an opening reception Saturday, May 15 from 7 to 11pm. The exhibition will run from May 15th and close June 5th.

These companies and artists include:

Nieves presents artist, Jay Nelson
Nieves is an independent publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland.
Founded in 2001, Nieves' focus is on publishing Artists' Books and Zines.

Ooga Booga presents artist, Maxwell Krivitzky
Ooga Booga is a store in Chinatown Los Angeles that specializes in artist books, art, music, and fashion. Since opening in 2004, they have also hosted concerts, film screenings, book launches, readings, mini-exhibitions, reading rooms, window installations in their space and in satellite projects around the world. The aim of Ooga Booga is to support independent creative culture in its various forms.

Drippy Bone Books presents artist, Shannon Keller
Drippy Bone Books is a publishing project run by artists Kristy Foom, Mario Zoots, and Keenan Marshall Keller out of Amsterdam, Denver and Los Angeles. Drippy Bone Books releases underground art zines, comix, and promotes the distribution of art multiples. The name, Drippy Bone Books, was inspired by the comic Oops Goops drawn by David Magdaleno and Brian Bamps of Los Angeles. Editions are curated by a single person and worked on by the group. Focusing on limited edition releases of explosively creative underground work; the artists involved are as diverse as the mediums they use. Treading the lines between the beautiful and the ugly, the intellectual and moronic, the optimistic and apathetic, the primitive and the modern...

Penny Ante presents artist, Jed Ochmanek
Penny-Ante is an independent book publishing company based in Los Angeles. Founded in 2005, Penny-Ante has since released three large volumes compiling art & literary works from a wide range of artists, writers, and musicians. Starting in 2010, Penny-Ante will be expanding its output to other forms of art-based product including limited run art prints, DVDs, vinyl records, and cassettes. Past contributors to Penny-Ante's "Book #1", "Book #2", and "Three" include Alice Bag (The Bags), Billy Bragg, Bill Callahan (Smog), Robin Crutchfield (Dark Day/DNA), Jad Fair (Half Japanese), Mick Farren (The Deviants), artist Terence Koh, Bettina Koster (Malaria!), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), and artist Jason Yates (Fast Friends, Inc.) to only name a few.

Kaugummi presents artist, Rasmus Svensson
Kaugummi is an independent publishing house and a label based in Rennes, France.
They publish and promote artist books, zines, and records focusing mainly on contemporary drawing, photography and psych sounds, since 2005. Kaugummi was created and is run by Bartolomé Sanson.

Narrow Books presents artist, Shawn Petersen
Narrow Books is an independent publisher headquartered in Los Angeles. Our most recent books include Hey Fudge, a sweeping collection of drawings, paintings, installations, and sketchbook pages by the artist Travis Millard; Eat Hell, a trio of stories by award-winning author Joseph Mattson; and Two Letters Vol. 2, our second anthology featuring dozens of contributors offering unique art and writing.

ALL KNITS, ALL THE TIME!

Check out our amazing, talented, and beautiful friend, Annie Larson's online sweater shop!
Just launched to-day!

www.allforeveryone.com

And..a call for artists

For this exhibition we will open submissions to every artist who would like to be involved.
We would love to see what everyone has to offer with your pet as the inspiration.

However, please follow our guidelines for submission.

-This show is about pets. Please keep the theme of the show in mind when deciding what work to present. We reserve the right to not accept any work that may be offensive or work that is not falling within the spirit of this exhibition.
-We are not limiting the work in terms of scale but please be conscious that small works are preferable.
-The work MUST be ready to hang on our wall. Please provide us with any special hanging instructions and hardware if necessary.
-Please drop off work on specified drop-off dates and times. Work will not be accepted otherwise unless prior arrangements are made.
-As soon as the show comes down please make arrangements with the gallery to pick up unsold work. We will not be responsible for storing artwork. The gallery will not take care of shipping costs to out of town artists.
-In the case your artwork is sold the night of the reception the gallery will take care of payment and shipping arrangements with the buyer.
-Please keep in mind while pricing your artwork the percentage split between artist, gallery and charity. The artist will take 50% of the sale, 30% will go to the gallery and 20% will go towards a charity focused on the care of animals. If you have a specific one in mind we will make payment to the charity of your choice.

Please email info@syncspacela.com if there are any questions or something is unclear.

Drop off dates
Monday, May 3rd 7-9PM at Synchronicity Space, 4306 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029

Installation will take place on Tuesday, May 4th and Wednesday, May 5th.
The reception will take place on May 8th from 7pm to 11pm.

Unleashed: The First Annual Los Angeles Pet Art Show

An art show of your pets, by your pets and for your pets. Los Angeles’ finest and most original artists come together to present a one day exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures inspired by man’s and woman’s best friends.

Humans and their pets are welcome to view these works Saturday May 8th from 12pm to 11pm. Several animal rescue services will be on hand with a fuzzy menagerie of furry art experts to guide you along. The Pet Art Show involves two of Los Angeles’ most off beat galleries located directly on opposite sides of Melrose Avenue.

Synchronicity Space at 4306 Melrose Avenue showcases creative expressions of sight and sound, imagined by artists looking for a place without limits, a place where "things just happen." Exhibitions have no definitive style or subject matter, the doors are left open to the most exciting art, music and other creative projects presented by local, national and global artists.

For over 173 years, The Fake Gallery, located at 4319 Melrose Avenue, has curated some of the finest fictitious artworks from many of the most accomplished and noteworthy nonexistent artists. The Fake is also considered to be one of Hollywood’s most preeminent comedy venues. Los Angeles magazine described it to be one of the best places to see comedy in the country.

From 7 to 11pm, Synchronicity Space will host a reception for the artists and their guests. There will be complimentary wine and pet snacks.

At 9:00pm The Fake Gallery will present a free special edition of their hit otherworldly sideshow, “The Showatorium”.

A portion of the art sale proceeds will go towards charities who support the well being of our wonderful pet companions. Please visit www.syncspacela.com and www.paulkozlowski.com for more information.

Sunday, April 25

OPENING SATURDAY, APRIL 3

PFFR presents LEGACY IIX

April 3 - May 1

Opening Reception April 3

7 - 11pm

From the mushheads who have broughten you such tele/videvisual creambominations as Xavier: Renegade Angel ([adult swim]), Wonder Showzen (MTV), Final Flesh (Drag City) unt Hands of God (God); the soundmares of United We Doth (Birdman Records); the spastic dancing failures of various art attempts and one-offs bedazzling the nations glorious hole, comes the ultimate attempt at re-creating the maullification of our “society”. PFFR presents Legacy IIX. Godard got through the Louvre in less than 60 seconds. We took it upon, nay, up on ourselves to run through every mall in 'merica in under a minute. The intake was a full frontal assault on our collective mind’s eye, that visually ralphed on the forgotten pages where it hath been discovered by our scientist, nay, our fact fuckers that the dinosaurs do in fact exist. So do we as well and here is the astroidal proof (pre-collision and post-dustings) for your consideration. We’ve swallowed ourselves whole and hope to pass any savings unto your naked chests for this one. This, Legacy VIII. So, please let us take over, nay, take under the world’s highest hopes/arts to bemuse and extricate the yuckity yucks that are most needed in a time like this. If we can make you laugh, then shame on us. But if we can make you cry, in fear, then let’s hang out more often…. Love, xPoFxFoRx An opening reception for "Legacy IIX" will take place at Synchronicity Space on April 3rd from 7pm to 11pm. Synchronicity is located at 4306 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90029. Any questions please call 323-264-8960 or email info@syncspacela.com.

SUNDAY

BUCKS FOR BARNABY

COME PARTY FOR A GREAT CAUSE!

One of the sweetest dogs ever, Barnaby Vonderheide (humans are Helen and Katie Vonderheide) has fallen victim to canine oral melanoma. On Friday, March 11th, he had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his mouth. As a result, Barnaby has lost his lower mandible.

Leading up to this surgery, Barnaby was given several tests including blood work, urine analysis, and a therasic study. Thankfully, the cancer had not spread and the surgeon is hopeful that he can remove the cancer through surgery.

The culmination of all these tests and Barnaby's surgery have left Helen and Katie with a huge amount of vet bills. This FUNdraiser is to help offset these costs, because we all know that if this was our beloved dog (or cat, or child!) we'd all do the same thing. We're just happy that Barnaby is going to be ok and will give his humans many more years of love.

We'll provide food, open bar and a fabulous line up of entertainment!

Hot DJ, Tita Poe & Stand-Up Comedy, featuring two of the most hilarious comics in town - Tess Barker www.tessbarker.com and Lizzy Cooperman!

We'll also have a silent auction* and a bake sale (homemade treats - yummy!)

Silent Auction Items (more will be added!)

Dog walking
Professional make up session
Art plate sets from POKETO
Dog training
Restaurant gift cards: McCormick and Schmick's, Katsuya, Cafe Santorini, Scoops
Pet portraits
AVEDA gift basket
Paul Mitchell Pet Care set
Professional haircut
Boot Camp: 6 sessions
Boxed sets of Mad Men and Weeds
Personal Shopping
Pilates session
VIP tickets to The Doctors and Dr. Phil
Organic dog biscuits
*We're accepting donations - services, items, etc. Let us know if you can donate something!

A minimum suggested donation of $10 gets you in the door, food & open bar, plus 1 raffle ticket for a great prize that will be announced at the end of the party.

Coupon for a FREE MOJITO at Ciudad for the first 100 in the door!

IF YOU ARE NOT IN LOS ANGELES or cannot attend, you can still help! Please give anything (and we mean anything!) you can via PayPal. Here is the link to the Help Barnaby PayPal account: http://bit.ly/c1DRuW

Lastly, PLEASE invite everyone you know to this event! The more bodies, the better.

THANK YOU so much for your love and support!



Later in the evening at 8pm...

Lemon Bear (from Oakland)
Back to the Future The Ride (member of Foot Village)
Cowan
Suzi Star

Brian Miller from Back to the Future the Ride has been so generous to say $3 of every tape sale will go towards the Barnaby Fund.
THANKS BRIAN