Wednesday October 7th, 7:30 PM
NIMBY, 8410 Amelia Street, Oakland

What is Ardent/Interpretive Arson up to? Well, lately, we’ve fragmented off to do a lot of smaller projects, as well as exhibiting our primary projects.

Existing projects: DDI is back from Denmark, complete with a lot of organizational stuffs for the trip across the pond. 2pir made it to the playa and back, with some ignition woes that we may or may not discuss. Spurious Causality is a steampunk-styled control panel that controls… who knows what? David, Audrey, Ian or MotoMike will be on hand to talk about that.

Robotics! Morley and Sam are both working on two extremely different robotics projects, Morley rebuilding a battle bot frame to shoot fire, and Sam is making a semi-autonomous walker.

Fire! Ian’s got all manner of portable fire, some in the works. Ed made a nice portable flame effect that he or Nicole will discuss if prompted, and likely demonstrate. Peter is fabricating the prototype for a liquid fueled effect.

Music! Nicole (and friends) will be discussing a new large-scale project idea that integrates fire, light, music, and serious interactivity.

Optical curiosities! Neil and Casey and friends made a thing called HaloWall. It’s big. It creates rainbows in unusual ways. Refurbished and rethought after the playa thrashed it, tonight they demo night-time lighting effects and more brilliantly colored rainbows.

Metalwork! Morley and friends are teaching themselves to MIG weld, Sam is teaching himself Aluminum TIG. There’ll potentially be some bits for practicing sheetmetal fabrication, and discussion/demonstrations of metalworking in general.

Shop Upgrades! Unless you’ve been around lately, you probably haven’t seen how our shop has changed drastically. Come just see the new layout, hang out, and be a part of our shop family.

If you plan on staying through the evening, bring something to throw on the grill, and we’ll hang out some in the yard as well! We’ll have the grill hot, and as always, beer’s a dollar.

Wednesday October 7th, 7:30 PM
NIMBY, 8410 Amelia Street, Oakland

Skanderborg, Denmark

The Denmark crew of Interpretive Arson is on its way across the ocean to shoot Danes with fire! We’ll be in Skanderborg for 10 days, setting up, running, and tearing down Dance Dance Immolation. If you know anyone that lives out in that area of the world, tell them to come check it out! Here’s our official page on Smukfest’s site for those of you that can read Danish.

Don’t forget that the Universe is being destroyed this Saturday at NIMBY!  Dance Dance Immolation will be running and shooting rivetheads in the face with fire.  Not only is it a night of good industrial music, fire, dancing and fun, it’s also a benefit for SRL’s Todd Blair.

SAT 25 April – @ NIMBY in Oakland
8410 Amelia st., Oakland, CA 94621-1836
(All Ages)
5 pm – ? am
Massive Festival event at NIMBY’s 35,000 Sq. Ft. space!
Music, Machine-Fire Art, Dance, Performance Art, Crazy Antics
SIXTEENS, SWANN DANGER, BAD UNKL SISTA (Butoh inspired dance), THE ART OF BLEEDING, CROOKED COWBOY and the FRESHWATER INDIANS, SORIAH, SWORDS OF FATIMA, TOILING MIDGETS, SCOTT ARFORD, THE COPPERTHIEF, BIRTH,
Interactive Machine-Fire Art: DANCE DANCE IMMOLATION, LIFE SIZE MOUSETRAP,
THERM related artists: EVAN TRACY, RYON GESINK, ALEX NOLAN, VANCE CEARLEY (Exothermia – Fire/Ice sculpture)
Visuals and DJs: CHKNFSH, MOLITOV, POST-PUNK.org
“Industrial Culture” film screenings: DECODER, F-SPACE @ Thunderdome, etc.

$9 – $20 Sliding Donation