http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/want_a_show_at_moma The Residents have been making music and multimedia art since the 1970s, always appearing in disguise—usually tuxes, top hats, and big eyeball masks—and never granting interviews. Now, they want a collaborator, and they'll take anybody. They're doing an "online community art project" exploring the rise of instant-video creation and YouTube by putting out an open call for video to go with a 1:30 audio clip from Episode 1 of their podcast series, River of Crime. The audio is based on the story of Toni Jo Henry, the only woman executed by electric chair in Louisiana, who on Valentine's Day 1940,... Copyright 2007 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:16:29 -0800 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:51:13 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I cast my vote for the Residents as the best rock band ever. Most creative, most original, most twisted, and most consistently interesting. It's almost worth a trip to New York in October just to see their 3-day retrospective at the MoMA.

]]> Gurldoggie http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/want_a_show_at_moma#c446667 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/want_a_show_at_moma#c446667 Arts Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:51:13 -0800