project for the affirmation of the new project after the affirmation of the new
an exhibition of new ideas
by travis wyche

opening february 19th
reception at 6pm
discussion with the artist at 9pm

at
Autumn Space

Our new cassette tape titled Music for Mesmer will be available at the end of the month exclusively on SANITY MUFFIN limited cassettes
SANITY MUFFIN

The new Tristeza Album titled Paisajes is now available to order from Darla Records and Sanity Muffin featuring artwork by Travis Wyche. Pick it up on vinyl while they last, you won't be sorry!

I will be participating in the group exhibition MULTIOCCULTI at 4707 Telegraph, an art studio and exhibition space I helped build before I moved to Chicago.

Midnite Snacks : Chicago
@ 1366 Space (a temporarily rented commercial storefront)
1366 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Reception: Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 6-10pm
Curated by Brian Hubble, Amie Cunat, Travis Wyche

Studies and compositions often play a vital role in the artistic process. Whether a five-minute sketch on paper or a finely worked image on canvas, these efforts reveal the thoughts of an artistic mind at work.

Midnite Snacks : Chicago includes over 150 international artists presenting diverse studies that have helped actualize works of merit. Coming from far ends of the visual arts spectrum, these are works that usually fall in the shadow of more important pieces. This is a collection of the forgotten blueprints lying around every artist’s studio. From abstraction to photo-realistic drawing to digital renderings, each piece functions as the backbone of what is to come.

Midnite Snacks exhibited at Ghost Print Gallery in Richmond, VA and No Globe Gallery in Brooklyn, NY in 2009. Plans to extend the show to Milwaukee, WI and a museum in Newport News, VA are in development.

For additional information or to schedule an appointment, please contact:

Brian Hubble
646 244 9503
brian@brianhubble.com

Amie Cunat
646 468 0499
amiecunat@gmail.com

Travis Wyche
510 229 7744
travis.wyche@gmail.com

Contributing Artists Include:

Brian Hubble (curator), Amie Cunat (curator), Travis Wyche (curator), Josh Reames, Ricardo Harris-Fuentes, Kang Joo Lee, Jason Conny, Nazafarin Lofti, Rita DeAngelo, Chiara Galimberti, Kristin Rae Oldach, Rob Bos, Mat Thomas, Amanda Scuglia, Shane McAdams, Matt Terrell, J.B. Elko, Sean Ward, Winslow Smith, Carly Silverman, Maddie Reyna, Ingrid Olson, Clare Rosean, Antonia Gurkovska, Andy Wilhelm, Paul Ketterman, Josh Hester, Jang Soon Im, Jason DeMarte, Kara Clarke, Erin Minckley Chlaghmo, Chinatsu Ikeda, Joe Noderer, Kellie Romany, Billy Sprague, Yuka Wrenn, Tricia Keightley, Adam Fung, Erin Washington, April Behnke, Theresa Walloga, Tim Louis Graham, Alfredo Martinez, Jovi Schnell, James Davis, Matt Ostroff, David McDaniel, Teresa Baker, Austin Watts, Nick Cueva, Daniel Davidson, Jon Gardner, Tony Eaton, Murassa Qazi, Amber Thomas, Jean Seestadt, Chelsea Heikes, Cheryl Bentley, Eric Cain, Sam Jaffe, Tanya Tucci, Magalie Guerin, Sparky Campanella, Elizabeth Malaska, Curtis Hamm, Kara Joslyn, Seth Childs, Daniel Schmid, Erick Maybury, Mark Pease, Brian Spolans, Jessica McCambly, Joshua Abelow, Erika Fortner, John Oliver Lewis, Logan Hill, Jeff Mueller, Emily Krzan, Kumiko Murakami, Glenn Wexler, Tim Berstrom, Anthony Hawley, Barbara Wakefield, Garrett Durant, Rachel Fay, Tony Lewis, Ji Soo Hong, Daniel Glendening, Sarah Sohn, Lindsey Hook, Michael Paxton, Stevie Howell, Johnston Foster, Vanessa Rondini, Brian Rush, Brian Matthew, Ryan Richey, Maxon Higbee, Megan Kalmes, Chris Cosnowski, Rebecca George, Adrienne Tarver, Candida Alvarez, Xin Wang, Jay Gaskill, Fatima Haider, Robin Dluzen, Samantha Bittman, Julia Bernatz, Liz Tjepkema, Nina Pagano, Allison Wade, Val Ocampo, Brian Maller, Douglas Burns, Astrid Toha, Neeka Allsup, Eric Ashcraft, Edmund Chia, Corrine Halbert, Cliff Alejandro, Aislinn Jefferies, Karen Azarnia, Jingxuan Hu, Sarah Cho, Joshua Abelow, Layne Jackson, Stephanie Dean, Kate Hampel, Kunyoung Chang, Tade Abidoye, Candice Latimer, Coraline DeChiara, Sarah Butler, Yo Ahn Han, Crystal Heiden, Jennifer Jones, Jim Burton, Seungean Cha, Nicole Horn, Tisch Abelow, Shannon Sullivan, Vanessa Watts, David Willburn, Jennifer Mills, Lauren Luloff, Irena Jurek, Jon Elliott, Miso Lee, Scott Campana, Shonna Pryor, Scott Horn

Aurora Crispin at The Curiosity Shoppe curated an amazing exhibition called the Survival Annex that I was lucky enough to participate in throughout February 2010. My piece "Khimiapoiesis: Alchemical Poetry Kit" was made in a limited edition of 5 multiples for the exhibition and I still have some left! Please email me for details.

Currently seeking participants for the intermedia experiment known as NOTACHOREOGRAM

A list of artistic motivations (to be differentiated from influences or inspirations):

· To create images, objects, and experiences of an auto-referential, self-reflexive, and transparent nature, as a critical component to the process and product of art making being intrinsically integrated.

· To craft an art that generates more questions than attempts to provide answers.

· To insist upon an a priori artist-inflicted intentionality to any artistic practice. Indeterminism and chance exist outside of the artist, that is, a decision still must be made to allow for the functioning of such an idea within a work.

· To research and refine involvements in synergetic formalisms; to continue to articulate the complex interdiscursivity of ontological architectures of every epistemology.

· To perpetually propose a renewed phenomenology of consciousness via perception of pattern-phenomena (and patterns within phenomena) in all material (objects of systematic reflection and analysis in any “form,” of any substance).

· To have the research culminate into a novel design aesthetic to phenomenologically disseminate content; “media is the message,” “art is life,” “energy is a wave,” (etc).


NOTACHOREOGRAM...

· Studies the interrelations, interactions, interlacings, interdependencies, and intrapsychic opportunities fluxing dynamic ad infinitum in the areas of sound, movement, writing, and thought (etc).

· Offers an intermedia collaborative arena.

· Exists as an experimental experiential exercise.

· Aims to conceive and enact modes of thought and physical action to further broaden and articulate the network of associations between topics of study, methodologies, materials, mediums and modes of transference.

· Envisions a compositional study of time, space, and force.

· Attempts to apply these primary principles towards the creation of novel notational formalisms and approaches to instrumentation and performative styles.

· Explores the interstices of movement (human, natural, mechanical, and otherwise) between sound, film, and other performative actions in space.

· Studies these correlations to movement of the eye over 2D visual images, in relation to written and spoken language, and other phenomena.

· Creates new languages (modes of transference) between the media/material utilized, the composer/choreographer/writer/artist/being, and the audience at large.

· Will apply and present the research and results of such experiments through myriad materials, including but not limited to: sound recordings and music on various media, books, pamphlets, zines, leaflets, broadsides, manifestos, essays on the phenomenology of sense perception and the physics of sound, novel instrumentation and styles, novel movements and corresponding notation, unique site/event specific intermedia performances of various scale, unique works of mixed-media, multimedia, and intermedia art works to exist in isolation as well as in relation to each other and other outlets, published research on studies of gestured emotion, physicalized psychology, intrapsychic mobilitiy, extrasensory perception, cognitive motion awareness, and the malleability between the human body, artistic media, and the epistemologies of time, space, and force within the universe as we have, will, and do perceive and analyze it.

Founded in August 2009 with artists/musicians Billy and Christopher Sprague, Sanity Muffin is collectively run stereo cassette label based out of Oakland, CA & Chicago, IL. We release the best and most interesting music we can find in our areas and abroad. SM will also be releasing our favorite local & underground 80's artists featuring never before issued music. Our top concerns are fantastic music with artwork to match. All releases are full length with stellar packaging usually limited to 50-100 copies.

Odd Nosdam / Drape split Cassette (SM01)
* Kicking off the label with this amazing 60min full length release! Limited to 100 numbered copies. Lush layers of dense instrumental ambiance. Drape create moods to get lost in... like a beat-less Boards of Canada teaming up with Flying Saucer Attack, Tim Hecker and Fennesz. side B has everyones favorite Anticon hero Odd Nosdam. making you woo at his flowing instrumental voyages mirroring the feel Drape create but with his own unique flavor. he reworks a Galena track as well! an instant classic...

Voices - Aether Ore Cassette (SM02)
*60min. Limited to 50 numbered copies. cavernous vocals upon rhythmic & psychedelic guitar, violin and drums. analog processing washes over you like a warm waterfall... for fans of AMBIENT ANALOG SOUND construction, KRANKY catalog and Panda Bear and Avery Tare. VOICES are Oakland underground favorites that are going places, this is their first official release, a must get!

Perpeteia - Trepanation Constellation Cassette (SM03)
*Our 3rd release! 60min. Limited to 50 #'ed copies. spaced out dark astral traveling via guitar, bass, rotating Leslie speakers & simple effects. Features Travis Wyche from Voices. beautiful fold out collage artwork w/ SM logo Gocco printed inside!

BUY HERE:
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I've been accepted into the Graduate Painting program at the School of the Art Institute Chicago, as well as extended the honor of a Trustee Scholarship.

This is an amazing opportunity and I am very excited, even as I know I will sorely miss some keen minds and natural outcroppings of the bay area.

Curated by Rich Jacobs
@ Park Life, San Francisco

With:
tana sprague(lisomm), billy sprague (galena) with travis wyche, eric white, cody hudson, james gallagher, richard mcguire (liquid liquid), chris shary (descendents art), bernie mcginn (sideshow), jason polan, cynthia connolly (dischord), dave king (crass logo), ian johnson, chris duncan, jordin isip, alex kopps, andrew scott, bill daniel, v.vale (re/search), brian flynn, carl dunn, tim kerr (big boys, poison 13, monkeywrench, lord high fixers, total sound group,etc...), pat graham (dischord), jeff canham and luke bartels, calef brown (solo), sonny kay (angel hair,vss,gsl,millions of dead comps. etc..), gabe voiles (powerdresser), chrissy piper, jfre robot coad (physics & aspects of physics), phil franklyn (sunburned hand of the man, and borscht), yuri shibuya, bill kouglas (sudden infant, family battle snake,etc), andy ward (evergreen, antioch arrow, gravity , etc..), hiroshi kimura (silkworm artist), dora drimalas, fritz welch, bert quieroz (double o, manifesto), matthew badja, david applegate, koen holtkamp, mike sutfin (charles bronson,killers, etc...), garry davis (custom and carpet floor), rodger bridges, kyle ranson (pale horse), jeff manson (solo), james brown (holoy, bluebird), pat delaney (pollution), rich jacobs, and more...

This art show promises to bring the viewer a little closer to that sound in their own head that won’t stop going, even when it is quiet, wait - is it ever really quiet? The show is an attempt by curator Rich Jacobs, to bring a lot of different influences together, and show people that are open to it, that sound, noise and even music can all be neighbors. - Rich Jacobs

Featuring:
Sculptural works, flat drawings, paintings, photographs, sound pieces, and home-made instruments, made specifically for the exhibition.

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?op

Our new studio space and art gallery in Oakland
is located at 4707 Telegraph Ave. in the Temescal District

Check out updates to the space
http://4707telegraph.wordpress.com