AMODA Hosts Digital Showcase with DJ /Rupture

The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is bringing back its monthly Digital Showcase tomorrow night at Club DeVille, and, as usual, they've managed to assemble an impressive roster of electronic musicians and visual artists.

Saturday's headliner is New York City's DJ /rupture, aka Jace Clayton. A gifted musician and producer, Rupture has enjoyed a prolific career that's run the gamut from releasing mix albums and performing with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (as a turntable soloist, no joke) to hosting a local radio show that's re-broadcast around the world (Belgium, Croatia, France) and running his own indie label. Live, he employs three turntables simultaneously — one for vocals, another for beats, and the last for ambient effects. A veritable bouillabaisse of electronic music, Rupture incorporates hip-hop, baile funk, breakcore, reggae, and just about everything else into his average DJ set.

Others included in the lineup are IHeartComix's OCELOT (who had to cancel their DJ set at Austinist's Local Music is Sexy IV due to a conflicting UK tour), Magic Surprise, Frogboy (from Dallas), and two curiously named Austin DJs going by Cal Cutta and Sriracha.

And then there's the visual art, of which there's so much that we'll let the AMODA folks describe it:

There will be a special live video performance by Daniel Perlin (from New York), who is a frequent collaborator with DJ /rupture and whose work has been shown at the Postmaster’s Gallery, TN Probe Tokyo, Temporary Contemporary London, Guggenheim Film, the Centre Pompidou, and the Whitney Biennial 2006. There will also be screenings of the spastic, new-rave fashion videos of CassettePlaya (London), the tightly synced audio/video work of Beeple (Wisconson), the confessional TV-informercial video of Sean Ripple (Austin), the morphing everyday objects of Robert Seidel (Berlin), the quick-cut energetic motion graphics of D-Fuse, the graffiti-influenced Flash animations of Screenvader (Paris), and the found internet video clips of Corkey Sinks (Austin).

[AMODA Digital Showcase Info Page]

AMODA Digital Showcase
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Club DeVille
$7 general / $4 for AMODA members
18 and up, 9pm-2am