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"the hausofouch presents: unitygain" was probably the first ongoing series of events in nyc to dedicate itself entirely to the process of integrating live realtime improvisatory electronic audio visual performances into a seamless extended timeframe socio-spatial immersion environment matrix.
Since 1997 we have been active in developing and implementing a viable synergistic intermedia platform that encourages a diverse community of participating electromedia artists to plug in and present individual interactive works in a setting designed with a strong predilection for and understanding of the particular creative and technical concerns of the electronic modality of working... and to help bring new audiences to these concerns.
In our early days the first stage of this process involved inviting as many and all practitioners of this emerging form as we could find within our local environs. At first the concentration was primarily with audio artists who worked with self contained portable "soundsystems" or "live PA's" and in finding solutions that would integrate these "performance modules" into seamless full length poly stylistic evenings, which often took place in venues totally unaccustomed to this sort of work or how to present it. We had our hands full.
As the gradual rewards of our organizational approach became more apparent (through trial and error and repetition) we began to exert more effort to integrate more visual work into the proceedings. This effort reached a whole new plateau of activity in late 1998 with the full time participation of resident video artist benton bainbridge and our move to a regular monthly format at galapagos art space in williamsburg throughout the year 2000.
The onset of 2001 (the real "millennial" year) found us looking for larger more flexible spaces where we could expand our projection architecture into a much desired 3D spatial configuration. In turn, access to such spaces has, to a strong degree, led to our adaptation to a seasonal multi day mini-festival approach to programming as evidenced by our spring and summer outings:
at the kitchen (april '01 ) and chashama's theater 135 (march and july "01)
For a great number of large and well documented reasons the Fall of '01 presented insurmountable challenges to even the will to attempt to put on art events in downtown nyc... although in retrospect we have to admire those who were able to do so. Like so many others we spent these months in anxious introspection, the longer term results of which remain to be seen.
January 2002 marked the opening of a new door and harbinger of things to come for the hausofouch and unitygain with our first efforts at reaching a larger virtual community via live Cable TV and simultaneous webcast. We are pleased to announce the quite viable probability that soon New Yorkers (and surfers everywhere) will be able to tune in or log on to a regular (as in weekly) late nite weekend "UG TV" broadcast via MNN cable and webcast via the DCTV cyberstudio.

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