CHANCE 3 DAYS IN THE DESERT November 8-10, 1996 Starring JEAN BAUDRILLARD and ALLUCQU=C8RE ROSANNE STONE CHANCE is a philosophical rave and summit meeting between artists and philosophers, chaosophists and croupiers, mathematicians and musicians at Whiskey Pete's Casino in the Nevada desert. A CHANCE to redefine this century's romance with randomness and synchronicity less innocently for our era. Sponsored By the Art Center College of Design and the French Cultural Servic= e Produced by CHRIS KRAUS Web Site: http://www.artcenter.edu/events/chance.html Email: [log in to unmask] CHANCE is: Three days of chance encounters, gambling and deep thought with Jean Baudrillard, Allucqu=E8re Rosanne Stone and 30 other internationally active cultural strategists ... music from the San Francisco bands Towel and Ohm-a-Revelator... DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid... a one-time mystery jam between six special guest star musicians with Red Krayola lead guitarist Tom Watson... Financial Collapse - a talk by Wall Street chaos trader Douglas Hepworth ... Calvin Meyers of the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians on the phantom desert... a roving fun-house of installation art and readings... Hong Kong artist Shirley Tse on postcolonial mutation and the aesthetics of fastfood...The Rules of the Game with Las Vegas Gambling Academy Director Nick Kallos...Chance & Cut-Ups - a writing workshop with Diane di Prima... the intensely nameless beauty of Oguri & Renzoku butoh... "Chance is a special effect that redeems the paradoxical nature of our lives." -- Jean Baudrillard About the HEADLINERS: Jean Baudrillard 'is the most important and original French thinker of the past twenty years.' (J.G. Ballard) Tongue-in-cheek,iconoclastic, ruthlessly cultivating paradox at the expense of any established truth, he's managed to radically upset our relation to the world and to thinking. Although for a number of years he has exerted 'a virtual hegemony in the American artworld' (New Art Examiner) Baudrillard never deviated from his own course, deceiving fans and adversaries alike, challenging every single paradigm in order to short-circuit contemporary reality. Gambler of concepts and poet of ideas, Baudrillard is the ultimate agent provocateur, the exterminating angel of theory and yet its ultimate practitioner. Allucqu=E8re Rosanne (Sandy) Stone is one of the world's leading theoreticians of technology and the transhuman. Stressing the interface between the conscious body and technology at the end of the mechanical age, her work has greatly advanced contemporary discourses of cyberspace, gender and identity. Writing in Artforum, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve has noted that Stone's work "is one extended autobiographical performance ...it breathes of our technologically vibrant era. [For Stone] virtuality is ... practice, possibility, performativity, and most delicately, life." Stone is the author of The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age (MIT Press, 1995). She is the director of the Advanced Communications Technology Laboratory (ACTLAB) at the University of Texas where she teaches in the Department of Radio-TV-Film. About WHISKEY PETE'S: Chance will be held at Whiskey Pete's Casino & Hotel, one of three casinos situated in Stateline, Nevada at the California border in the midst of 24,000 acres of public lands. Via CAR: from Los Angeles: 4 hrs on I-15 Via CAR from San Francisco: 8.5 freeway hours Via AIR: 40 miles south of Las Vegas Airport; then airport rental car or K-T Shuttle Services to Primm/Stateline (Shuttle bus info: 1.702.644.2233) ATTENDING: CHANCE passes provide entrance to all events and can be bought with or without Friday and Saturday night group rate accommodation. There are only 200 tickets, we reccomend ordering early rather than taking a CHANCE... =46or the complete schedule and speaker/performer biographies check out our website <www.artcenter.edu/events/chance.html> or request the full electronic brochure from <[log in to unmask]>. You can call the CHANCE Group at 818.568.4805. MEDIA INQUIRIES to 213.256.1340. ---------------------------------- CHANCE Tickets Please fax this with your credit card information or mail with your check or credit card information. CHANCE Fax: 818.795.0819 or CHANCE c/o Department Chairs Office Art Center College of Design 1700 Lida Street Pasadena, CA 91103 ___ SINGLE PASS ($180) All Chance events + 2 nights private room ___ DOUBLE PASS ($250) All Chance events for 2 + 2 nights double accommodation ___ TRIPLE PASS ($340) All Chance events for 3 + 2 nights triple accommodation ___ QUADRUPLE PASS ($420) All Chance events for 4 + 2 nights quadruple accommodation. ___ TRAILER PASS ($100) All Chance events for 1 + 2 nights RV hook-up space ___ NOMAD PASS ($ 80) All Chance events for 1; exclusive of accommodation Name __________________________ Address __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ Additional Names for Multiple Passes __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ Phone __________________________ Email __________________________ __ Mastercard __ Visa __ Amex __ Discover Billing Address __________________________ Number __________________________ Exp. __________________________ Signature __________________________ Pre or post-conference accommodation at Whiskey Pete's can be arranged directly by calling 800.248.8453. 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