319 Scholes invites image-based chat site DUMP.FM to inhabit the gallery and present a group exhibition of animated objects, sound, sculpture, and performance. Founded in November 2009 by Ryder Ripps in collaboration with Scott Ostler (of MIT Exhibit) and Tim Baker (of Delicious), DUMP.FM is a new platform for real-time image communication. The site's popular chat room and user-friendly accessibility have inspired a committed group of users to rapidly share and subsequently alter their internet discoveries, from Web1.0 animated GIFs into current memes. Throughout the week-long residency, interactive works will invite users to engage with the DUMP.FM full-screen, workstations will be provided for on-site experimentation, and a live-feed will stream to DUMP.FM contributors all over the world. A selected group of DUMP.FM users will present multi-media works which address how the site could translate to, and interact with, physical space. The residency welcomes DUMP.FM users to inhabit the gallery 24/7, to use the space and materials as an open studio for collaboration, in virtual and/or physical formats. The studio time is meant to foster new and deeper collaborations between artists, embracing the sense of community, group discovery, and creativity already present on the site.

Sterling Crispin was born in Maui, Hawaii and received a Bachelors Degree of Fine Art from the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design. He is an artist in residence at RedLine and was the recipient of the 2008 Institute for Experimental Studies Innovation Grant. His artwork has been featured internationally on cable television as a part of Souvenirs from Earth in Germany and France, Issue # 3 of Iwantyou Magazine and Rhizome at The New Museum. Notable group exhibitions and performances include “Shows Promise” The Denver International Airport, “American Association of Museums Expo” Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, “DrawRings 4” Rhinoceropolis, “Riddle of Ritual” Emmanuel Gallery.

Tom Moody is a visual artist based in New York City. His low-tech art made with simple imaging programs, photocopiers, and consumer printers has been exhibited at artMovingProjects in New York as well as galleries and museums in the US, UK, and Europe. His videos have been screened in the New York Underground Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Dallas Film Festival, and other venues, and he and his work appear in the film 8 BIT, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His blog, commenced in February 2001, was recommended in the 2005 Art in America article "Art in the Blogosphere." He has been a member of the Nasty Nets internet surfing club since 2006 and currently posts artwork to the real-time image sharing site dump.fm.

Duncan Alexander seeks to explore the unique visual sensations that people experience when using the internet. His artwork often contains stroboscopic effects, pallette cycling, and psychedelic deformations in order to exaggerate physical responses encountered in everyday browsing. He currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Ryder Ripps is interested in humor, medium, and technology. Born in 1986, he is among the first generation who grew up with the internet and his work is a reflection of this. In addition to dump.fm, his other projects include Internet Archaeology, newmoticons and Facebook.

Lucy Chinen is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist and received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work in this show addresses hybrid forms of AZN culture via the internet. Using the space of the IRL gallery, she will explore the physical manifestation of borrowed/shared imagery that typically only exists on the internet, google, tumblr, dump.fm etc…

Jamie Rockaway is the co-founder of PIXELFUCKS and the Senior Art Director at Transistor Studios. In addition to Rockaway’s work at Transistor, he is also an owner in NYC-based fashion label Love Brigade.
The son of a globe-trotting oil industry professional, Rockaway and his family relocated to Mogadishu, Somalia in 1990, where they barely escaped the bombing of their house; this was among the first of many events that catapulted the country into a civil war. After moving back to his hometown in Oklahoma, they lived in Argentina for one year before finally settling south of Tampa, Florida. After becoming a doctor and on holiday in Norway, Rockaway witnesses the arrival of an alien scouting party. Rockaway flees into a cave, and after discovering ███████, and █████████, transforms into ███████. Defeating the aliens, Rockaway shares a double life with his alter ego: treating the ill with his █████████ in a private practice and defending humanity from evil. Rockaway's presence on Earth almost immediately attracts the attention of his stepbrother and arch-foe Torti; who returns repeatedly to Earth in a bid to destroy Rockaway. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York and has survived the swine flu three times.

Matthew Torti moved to New York in 2005. Torti is the co-founder of PIXELFUCKS, and works the video at production, animation and design studios, and for visual poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña. Torti works with a variety of mediums including animation, video, film, and sketch. He studied Electronic Media Production and Psychology at Kent State University in Ohio. Torti is a sentient alien with a gooey, almost liquid-like form, who requires a host, usually human, to bond around for survival. Torti is telepathic and does not require physical contact to influence the minds of others. If rejected by a host, Torti emits a powerful scream which drives nearby humans to states of extreme depression.

Felix Lee is a young artist and musician from London working with bodies light and indoctrinated melody. Many of his AV pieces work with medicinal culture and phonetics. Currently a student at CSM, he just held his first solo exhibition at Preteen Gallery in Hermosillo, MX.

Justin Strawhand is a NY-based writer and director. His feature films include "8 BIT: A Documentary about Art and Videogames" (2006) and "War Against the Weak" (2009).

Jude MC is one third of the visual collective Thunder Horse.. They do amazing visuals for bands including GATEKEEPER AND....

Artist bio-- Born in Toronto in 1988.

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