This Friday night at 7pm, XUXA SANTAMARIA will perform soundwave at the Internet Archive as part of the the Soundwave 8 Biennial Festival.
Experimental music and video duo XUXA SANTAMARIA (artist Sofía Córdova and Matthew Gonzalez Kirkland) will create a video maze stitched together from video games, Second Life, early screensavers, chat rooms, Myspace, and other renditions of physical architecture from a virtual realm that are drawn from the holdings of the Internet Archive. Their electronic instrumentation, samples, vocals and video piece will channel the sense of utopian promise and uncanny alienation which have characterized online spaces for as long as humans have existed within them.
Soundwave is a festival of cutting-edge art and music experiences. Each festival season investigates a new idea through sound. This years’ focus is on Infrastructure.
Tickets are available online ($15-$20) for Friday’s performance which takes place at the Internet Archive at 300 Funston Avenue.
Sarah B.