(A) r4WB1t5 festival (CHI/2005.05.25/Mutiny)
This week a new art event hits Chicago. Unlike recent and massive art market and festival adventures, (A) r4WB1t5 festival is a small, viral and infectious form of festival full of raw bits of digital art and dirty new media. r4WB1t5 (geek speak for "raw bits") is, according to organizer jonCates, about developing "open and decentralized platforms" to participate with and discuss new media art. Less purist than populist, the first ever (A) r4WB1t5 festival happens on Wednesday May 25 at the Mutiny, 2428 N Western Ave.

I Love Presets combine the sound of a semi-truck falling off the sunset, a scratched up hip-hop album kissing an outlet and the sound of an angry life guard at the boom-box swimming-pool. Audio and video collide head on to open the timespace rift spewing forth sonic mirth and visual delight. Where else have you seen a 16 color rainbow explode?

Get your workout on with Total Gym! A collaborative social network of artists who play with and transform environments, Total Gym promises a multi-tentacled gymboree for this r4WB1t5 festival.

The Faultless grabs pixels in heaps, pounds samples into new shapes and punches out audio and video. Duck and cover, The Faultless is a one man digital-punk system crash.

Presentations and videos by Mike Miles, Morgan Higby-Flowers, Joshua Conro and r4WB1t5 festival organizers jon.satrom and jonCates open this night. Organizers say that various new media art will also be freely available at r4WB1t5 and online. If you can't get enough computer crashes, broken beats, viruses and corrupted files then (A) r4WB1t5 festival is for you.

Wednesday May 25
no cover
21 and up
9 PM - ON
The Mutiny
(773) 486-7774
2428 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL 60647