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press release September 22, 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Performance: Evolutionary Patterns and the Lonely Owl (Byte #0), a new multimedia work by DOUBLE VISION, a collective of performer, musicians, dancers and video artists Location: Works/San Jose, 30 North 3rd Street, San Jose, CA 95112 Date: Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. Admission: $8 - $10 Evolutionary Patterns and the Lonely Owl (Byte #0) is a new multimedia work combining dance, music, video and installation adapted from mathematician John Conway’s Game of Life, a 1970 life simulation popularized by Scientific American in 1970. In the game/model, the players, or “cellular automata,” each fixed within his or her own square on a grid, are born, reproduce and die according to the numbers and arrangements of players in adjoining cells. The processes of growth and decay thus form ever-changing patterns of Tetris-like domino shapes of great interest to mathematicians, biologists, economists, philosophers and gametheorists, who study the lives of the tile-centered life forms dubbed pentominos, heptominos, octominos, and nonminos. DOUBLE VISION transforms this simulation game into “an immersive evening of cellular struggle, oscillating flesh, and digital drama … experimenting with the adaptation of social systems, transvergence of scientific models, and mapping of algorithmic structures. DOUBLE VISION, founded in 2003 by Sean Clute and Pauline Jennings, has performed at 23 Windows in Brooklyn, Mills College’s Signal Flow Festival in Oakland, Works/San Jose, and KQED’s SPARK in San Francisco, among other venues. It will be featured in “Meaning in the 21st Century,” a national PBS broadcast. DOUBLE VISION performers are David Bithell, Liz Bootz, Bonner Butler, Sean Clute, Amanda Crawford, Dorsey Dunn, Jessica Gomula, Dave Holton, Marielle Jakobsons, Pauline Jennings, Jason B Jones, Amy Leonards, Amy Nielson, Sonia Reiter, Aki Shinomiya, Isabelle Sjahsam, Max Stoffregen, Agnes Szelag, Bill Wolter and Nicole Zvarik. Contact: Pauline Jennings, DOUBLE VISION 510.535.2504 dv@double-vision.biz www.double-vision.biz DeWitt Cheng, Works/San José Publicity Coordinator 415-412-8499 (cell) acdcmr@earthlink.net Jennifer Levy, Works/San José Gallery Coordinator 408-295-8378 works_sj@yahoo.com Parking is available across the street in parking deck on North 3rd. Established in 1977, Works/San José is a non-profit, volunteer-run contemporary art and performance center dedicated to providing a venue for artists, ideas, and images that expand the scope of cultural and artistic experience.

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