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LA-Lit records interviews with poets and writers in the Los Angeles area. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles as a place, this may mean writers that have lived here all their lives or writers who happen to be in LA for a couple of days. LA-Lit is hosted and produced by Stephanie Rioux and…
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Piracy – Karaoke – Conviviality An Occasional Special Event at Betalevel Swap Meet is a celebration of face-to-face cultural exchange and hand-crafted karaoke, produced by Superbunker and The Royal Academy of Nuts + Bolts, hosted by Betalevel. Admission is always free. Swap Meet is a place for you to come with a special selection of…
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Dorkbake images on Flickr Superbunker, Machine Project and Make Magazine present: DORKBAKE! giant robot illustrated by Richard Horne for How to Survive a Robot Uprising Saturday Feb 3 at 8pm Construct Oven Teams or individuals will construct ovens using only the heat of a standard 100-watt incandescent bulb. The name “Easy-Bake Oven†is property…
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LubberNet is a laboratory concerned primarily with the proliferation of highly multifarious combinatoric mutations of love, piracy and fine literature. Arrr. LubberNet is a wholesale rip-off of DinnerNet, which was a laboratory concerned primarily with the proliferation of highly multifarious combinatoric mutations of dinner and fine literature. (Right?) DinnerNet has since evolved into other forms……
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Live ambient music. Free Haircuts. Hairstylists from Top Notch Salons collaborate with a team of musicians to work on your head, inside and out. Live Ambient Music by AMBIENT FORCE 3000 featuring members of: last nights of paris, communicating vessels, zotalayer, and “special guests” Admission and haircuts are free. But you really should tip your…
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Ambient Rock Supergroup, featuring members of communicating vessels, last nights of paris, zotalayer, and “special guests.” House Band of Ambient Haircut AMBIENT FORCE 3000 PRIMARY INTERWEB LOCUS
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Fight With Words! Live Nude Brain! Thought Bunker II – June 9, 2007at Betalevel It goes like this: Two contestants pick words from a hat. Perhaps one gets puppy and one gets mountain. Perhaps one gets sky and one gets facelift. Perhaps one gets sandwich and one gets leg. The contestants have a brief time…
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The Game
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New Advisor for New Future! U Want the rBecky! rBecky updater is all up in the social time! @rBecky rBecky helper is on the Bleb Network! rBecky Mediated Presence rBecky is fueling the Freedom Revolution! freedom fellow: rBecky
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Friday May 13, 2005 at BETALEVEL The apocalyptic war of the undead has begun — and this time, it’s textual! Taste the dark pleasure of an Unrepentant Rhetorical Assault on Mortality! DAVE “Guts” ENG takes on GRACE “Blood” KRILANOVICH in ten judged rounds of brutal undead literary action! Referee JUSTIN “Bones” VEACH keeps the gore…
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There is no zota layer. zota.la/yer
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Fight With Words! Live Nude Brain!
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Martial Arts Choreography Film Series and Seminar presented by d. g. eng “Wasp and orchid, as heterogeneous elements, form a rhizome. . . . At the same time, something else entirely is going on: not imitation at all but a capture of code, surplus value of code, an increase in valence, a veritable becoming, a…
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Machine Poetics was started in 2004 by Braxton Soderman and Jason Brown with the page_space symposium and exibits. It continues as a research unit of Superbunker focusing on the poetics of electromechanical and infomatic systems, and an corresponding archive for artwork, writing and study. Sometimes blogging is involved. MachinePoetics.com project status quietly frothing agents editor/publisher:…
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Trepan cultivates mutation in forms and styles of reading and writing, discarding traditional barriers between genres and forms, seeking out unexpected openings, and creating them where necessary. Trepan was founded and edited by the MFA students of the CalArts Writing Program, who published the first four volumes. Trepan is now produced by Superbunker as an…
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This was Cedars of Lebanon hospital, built in 1930. In 1976, Cedars merged with Mt. Sinai, moved to Beverly Hills, and became Cedars-Sinai. In 1977, the old hospital was bought by the Church of Scientology, and today it is Pacific Area Command — PAC Base! — their west coast headquarters. In 1996, they even got…
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It Happened at BETALEVEL on St. George’s Day (May 15, 2010) Produced by the Focus Group of Saint George Robot Fight Photos! Robot Fight Song! saint-robot-fight-robot-fight-jingle.mp3 [536k] The Robot Fight! Robot Fight! Robot Fight! Fight to Win! Win to Fight! Gotta Kill the Robot! Ahh! Ahh! Robot Fight! Robot Fight! Robot Fight! Robot Fight! Robot…
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Flynn [gesturing at his video game arcade]: The kids are putting eight million quarters a week into the paranoid machines. I don’t see a dime except for what I can squeeze outta here. Alan: I still don’t understand why you want to break into the system. Flynn: Because, man! Somewhere in one of these memories…
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For reals giant ouija board, embedded at Betalevel
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The Cultural Output Leader!
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An exquisite basement redoubt beneath Chinatown, Los Angeles. Events at Betalevel are curated and produced by an independent Board of Creativity. Superbunker provides infrastructure and network support for the space, and supports the production of a variety of projects.
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Southern California Institute for the Study of Southern California Institutes The Southern California Institute for the Study of Southern California Institutes (SCISSCI) is an overview of informal art organizations and venues in Southern California, focusing on non-commercial and social art practice. SCISSCI also provides an array of resources, information and advice for aspiring Institutes, Organizations…
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Tracking the History of a High Score This is an ongoing research effort examining the progression of the official Donkey Kong high score, prompted by conflicting narratives around the documentary King of Kong. This timeline is incomplete. It will probably always be incomplete. But every effort will be made to document, compile and condense all…
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This 254 page book is an un-edited reproduction of the search queries of AOL user 23187425 from May 2006. This strange server log autobiography was found in the released AOL search queries by Thomas Claburn. Now available at at Lulu. Half of the profit from each book sold will go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.…
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Obscurantist traces the constellations woven throughout the history of mnemotechnology and the symptoms arising in contemporary mythology. This study is accomplished with an ongoing series of annotations and references — the Obscurantist Mnemotechnical Archive, or OMA. Obsucrantist is also gathering a library of obscure texts which embody and reflect upon the history of paranoid technology.…