Project MAMA II

Project MAMA: Media Art Mobile Attack Unit
A Road Ready Utility Trunk prepared to contain, transport and dynamically exhibit new media based exhibitions.

MAMA is outfitted with a wide range of equipment for exhibiting new media works taking such forms as net-art, sound, video, interactivity, gaming, multi-media, installation, activism/tactical media, robotics, haptic environments, open-source, hybridity, trans-media, wireless art, nomadic work, motion graphics, animation, and technological and cultural interface performance.

(See About Project MAMA for history and current projects.)

Project MAMAII: Above Board

During the MAMA recommissioning process, MAMA II has been retrofitted with a glorious new main sail (pop up projection screen) and upgraded racing stripes, sound system and main projector with up to 10000 lumens of new media love.

Project MAMA is a Media Art Mobile Attack Unit (a Road Ready Utility Trunk prepared to contain, transport, and dynamically exhibit new media based exhibitions) whose mission first came to fruition in 2006.

MAMA is outfitted with a wide range of equipment for exhibiting new media works taking such forms as net-art, sound, video, interactivity, gaming, multi-media, installation, activism/tactical media, robotics, haptic environments, open-source, hybridity, trans-media, wireless art, nomadic work, motion graphics, animation, and technological and cultural interface performance.

MAMA was decommissioned for a time when her services were no longer needed. In light of current climate and administration, there appears a need to recommission MAMA. She makes her NY debut on May 12, 2018 in collaboration with First Street Green Art Park in Manhattan. Project MAMA II: Above Board.

During Project MAMA’s recommissioning process for MAMAII: Above Board, MAMA has been retrofitted with sail and stripes and upgraded with new projection unit containing 10,000 Lumens of love for First Street Green’s greatest hits to be projected on her sail.

Project MAMA History

Inaugural Exhibition Call 2006:

The “Media Art Mobile Attack” unit (Mama) will feature a wide range of equipment for exhibiting new media works. The rules are…there are no rules, -just gotta fit in MAMA (a 45x30x27 case and will contain the contents of this traveling, new media based exhibition.) Much of the work we’re interested in will deal with media, technology, culture, etc. We are inviting a range of artists whose work may take such forms as net-art, sound, video, interactivity, gaming, multi-media, installation, activism/tactical media, robotics, haptic environments, open-source, hybridity, trans-media, wireless art, nomadic work, motion graphics, animation and technological and cultural interface performance. All configurations for work are variable to an extent. Currently, we plan to outfit MAMA with 2 CPU’s, iMac G5s with iSight, 2 video projectors, approx. 32” (max) plasma screen, surround sound stereo equipment, wireless networking capabilities, iPod for audio components/sound art, built-in server and a range of software. We are very excited that MAMA will also have her own GPS tracking device and web-map interface. Currently, she is a Mac set-up, but if necessary, we can accommodate PC. Cabling and power supply back-up will also be integrated into the system. In short, this will be one well-packed mama.

Participating Artists:

Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain
Marika Dermineur “Incident.net”
Robin Rimbaud aka “Scanner”
Bevin Kelley “bLevin bLectum”
Wobbly, Jay Lesser, and Bevin Kelly “Sagan”
Jeremy Drummond
Doug Easterly and Matt Kenyon “S.W.A.M.P.”
JoeNice
Michael Salmond
Kakirine Moriwaki
Robert Dansby
Damion Catera
Justin Boyd
Eduardo Navas
Lynn Cazabon
Hasan Elahi
Mat Rappaport

Carlos Rosas + Leanna Rosas
rosasstudio@overtheedge.net

Carlos Rosas is a new media artist, designer, and scholar of Chilean descent whose creative works and collaborative explorations engage a range of media, technologies and disciplines. His conceptually layered creative work and research seek to open a critical space to reflect upon digital culture and to chronicle latent technology-impelled impositions, emerging ideologies and ironies at play. Rosas has presented, lectured and exhibited his creative research at notable national and international venues, media festivals and conferences. He is currently Head of New Media and Professor in Charge of the Interdisciplinary Digital Studio Program at Penn State University where he has taught since 2001 after spending 6 years on the Faculty at the California Institute of the Arts. Rosas received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1995.

Leanna Rosas is a new media artist, designer, and composer whose creative work is concerned with issues of identity, digital culture, manipulation, irony, and relationships between visual culture and the human condition. Much of her most recent work focuses on music composition in audio-visual new media environments with partner Carlos Rosas; this collaboration seeks to explore means in which one identifies with the continually evolving conditions within a technology-driven culture. Rosas is currently on the faculty in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State University. Before joining Penn State in 2005, she was an instructor and graphic designer at the California Institute of the Arts Community Arts Partnership. She received her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1996.