Swift Society Fund-Raising Party
Static Fuse
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2004
9 pm / 2am
LIVE SET: FUSSIBLE (Nortec Collective)
DJ SET: CIHAN (Swift)
$10 Cover / Free Beer and Wine

CURRENT SHOW: SCOTT ARFORD
Static Room
(11.13 through 12.18)

Swift Society invites you to our recurring nights where artistic vision meets music. A night where the thematic elements of our current exhibition will be interpreted via sound. Fussible of Nortec Collective will bring his live set into Scott Arford's Static Room, creating a fusion of static video noise with infectious norteno grooves. High Tech and Low Tech meet again through this visual performance. Fussible lands on Swift Gallery after having performed at such venues as the Hollywood Bowl and the Hammer Museum.
   
Swift Society Lecture Series
ANDREW PELLING & ANNE NIEMETZ
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2004
Reception: 7pm / Lecture: 8pm RSVP ONLY
Singing cells, art, science and the noise in between

Andrew Pelling, working with Professor Jim Gimzewski at UCLA recently demonstrated that the cell wall of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Bakers Yeast) exhibits local oscillating motion at characteristic frequencies which is not caused by random processes (SCIENCE Magazine). By converting the motion into audio, Gimzewski and Pelling developed a new discipline known as Sonocytology, which is the diagnosis and characterization of cell state with sound. Media artist Anne Niemetz and Andrew Pelling first met while working together on the sound design for the NANO exhibition, which was on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2003/2004. In their presentation “Singing cells, art, science and the noise in between”, Niemetz and Pelling will give an overview of the scientific basis and discovery of Sonocytology and the artistic realization of their concert.
   

Swift Society Lecture Series
TRINA RAY (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2004
Reception: 8pm / Lecture: 9pm RSVP ONLY		  
In 1685, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens pointed a telescope of his own making at the planet Saturn and discovered a large moon, now known as Titan. On December 25th, 2004, after a seven year journey from Earth, a spacecraft named in his honor will begin a 21 day descent to the surface of this unexplored world.
The first close approach of the spacecraft to Titan will be on October 26th, 2004. Trina Ray, an astronomer with the Cassini-Huygens Project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, will deliver a guest lecture
at Swift Gallery on the scope and current status of this historic mission.
 
 
Swift Society Fund-Raising Party

Doble Ducha
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2004
9 pm / 2am
LIVE SET: CLOROFILA (Nortec Collective)
DJ SET: CIHAN (Swift)
$10 Cover / Free Beer and Wine and Dutch Cheese

CURRENT SHOW: ADAM EEUWENS
False Flat, Why Dutch Design Is So Good
(09.11 through 10.14)

Swift Society invites you to our recurring nights where artistic vision meets music. A night where the thematic elements of our current exhibition will be interpreted via sound. Cihan will kick off the night spinning musically fresh "Dutch Gouda" on the plates, while later Clorofila of Nortec Collective will perform a live set to honor their "Amsterdam mojado Adam" with a music event they¹ve dubbed "Doble Ducha".
 
 
Swift Society Fund-Raising Party
Minimal Graffiti
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2004
9 pm / 2am

DJ’s: Jun (bossanova, re-boot.org), Djemel (room records), Cihan (swift)
$10 Cover / Free Beer and Wine and Dutch Cheese

CURRENT SHOW: BOB PARTINGTON
Mechanical Sculptures & Paintings

Swift Society invites you to our recurring nights where artistic vision meets music. A night where the thematic elements of our current exhibition will be interpreted via sound. The minimalist and urban graffiti aspects of Bob Partington's show will inspire a set of minimal house, urban beats and the amalgam where it all collides.

There will also be a DVD screening "The Making of Bob Partington @ Swift" throughout the night.