Rob Ray will introduce KDZU’s Dubplate Forensics Agent (DFA), a combination of performance software and hardware that uses augmented reality (AR) fiduciary markers to summon and animate spectral 3D forms in real-time as the DJ manipulates their vinyl records.
All Is Not Lost is an alternate reality game (ARG) that uses found objects as entry points into a layered fictional world. These everyday items—wallets, gloves, books, and key cards—are strategically placed in public and transitional spaces, where they appear to be lost belongings.
Static is the Spellwork is a participatory workshop that shares KDZU’s practice of tactical mythmaking. DJ Future Ghost (Rob Ray) will guide participants through the MIX Center and its surrounding terrain revealing how our technology-infused environment can become sites of collectivity, activated histories, and autofictions waiting to emerge.
In Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Toru finds a dry well where he discovers his subconscious. If you don't have a dry well handy, this track will do nicely.