Irene Moon and the Begonia Society are part of the 2nd episode of GX Jupitter-Larsen's new online variety show, A 5-Minute Hour. We include a 1-minute Microtheter on various insects and other invertebrates. These are coming once a week from his studio and Irene Moon will be part of the next four (and hopefully more)!
The Macroptheter is small theater, generally filmed under a microscope and the actors are those that are more difficult to see.
As part of the recent exhibition "In Collaboration with Earth" at the Glass Box Gallery (UC Santa Barbara), I presented a series of museum specimens with related artifacts. The first drawer of insects is all regional bees to Santa Barbara, California. The second drawer focuses on the Western Monarch. Discussion and Microtheater about the insect boxes were performed live during the exhibition and can be revisited on Facebook. In short, the insects are the stars!
I am pleased to announce a new collaborative project called Big-Bee for the exploration of bee natural history traits via images and morphology. This three-year National Science Foundation funded project is a collaborative effort across thirteen US institutions and we will be digitizing bees from all over the world. Love bees, keep an eye on this project to see many lovely images.
Big-Bee is also supporting a few new arts research projects, including a radio series called The Buzz, inspiring new Irene Moon performances and video collaborations. Please keep in touch and find out more via the Big-Bee website at http://big-bee.net/. Buzz to you!
Irene Moon is performing during the closing reception for an exhibition by Shana Moulton at The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. Shana Moulton will be performing The Invisible Seventh is the Mystic Column and Irene will present Lovely Moth, a new lecture about moths and your best behavior.
Join us for a London party! In celebration of 30 years of People Like Us. Tickets on sale now for this as of now:
A new performance by Irene Moon uses R software programming language to make music. As quoted from the beepr documentation: "beepr is an R package that contains one function, beep(), with one purpose: To make it easy to play notification sounds on whatever platform you are on. It is intended to be useful, for example, if you are running a long analysis in the background and want to know when it is ready."
It is ready!
20 May 2021 11.59PM PST People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) was interviewed by Jon Leidecker on Over The Edge on KPFA radio: https://kpfa.org/program/over-the-edge. In hour 3 of the show, they rebroadcast a mix from 2002 including PLU, Wobbly, Irene Moon, and the Evolution Control Committee.
Hour 1 Vicki and Jon in conversation (recorded May 2021)
Hour 2 Live Session with PLU, Wobbly, and Don Joyce on Over The Edge, KPFA (2002)
Hour 3 Live Session with PLU, Wobbly, Irene Moon, and The Evolution Control Committee on WFMU (2002)
