Ingenuity Announces 2011 Programming

[Jim O'Bryan]

Ingenuity Announces 2011 Programming
Cleveland Festival of Art and Technology Runs September 16, 17, and 18th

September 7, 2011 (Cleveland) -- One of America's largest festivals of art and technology returns to the subway level of the Veterans Memorial (Detroit Superior Bridge), September 16, 17, and 18th. IngenuityFest, now in its seventh year, will feature a wide range of music, dance, theatre, as well as numerous educational and interactive art Installations.

Visitors can access the festival on both the East side near West 9th and Superior and on the West side at the corner of West 25th and Superior. Directions and parking information are available at www.ingenuitycleveland.com/parking. The festival hours are 5PM - 1AM Friday, Noon - 1AM Saturday, and Noon - 5PM Sunday. For a full schedule of artists, bands, and other performances please visit www.ingenuitycleveland.com

This year's Festival will feature the internationally renowned Squonk Opera bringing a production of Astro-rama. This incredible outdoor performance spectacle features a 40' radio telescope dish, rising platforms, and rumors of a crashed UFO. Performances will take place on September 16 and 17 at 9:30PM at the end of the Superior Viaduct within easy walking distance to the West entrance of IngenuityFest.

Jared Bendis, a technology artist who has presented at all seven IngenuityFests, will return this year with his most ambitious project to date. Bendis has created an interactive sound chamber where visitors will rely only on their ears to hunt a creature called the Wumpus. Visitors can experience Treasure of the Wumpus in the dark Catacombs on the West side of the bridge.

Also in the Catacombs, visitors can experience sit-able art through HGR's Chair and Tell exhibit. HGR Industrial Surplus presented a challenged and engineers, steel workers, artists, and mechanics answered. Earlier this year, the Euclid based company invited participants to use their 12 acre warehouse as a playground for creation. The competition: transform ordinary surplus industrial equipment into an innovative chair design. The result is Chair and Tell, a project that explores the possibilities of combining public art and sustainability through creative upcycling. The very first showing of the finished pieces will be displayed throughout the weekend at IngenuityFest 2011.

2011 also brings together unlikely collaboration such as between NASA's Matt Melis and Duo Approxminate for performances of Ascent. This project brings together a live musical performance premiere as the score to Melis' film which uses high-resolution slow motion video of Space Shuttle launches. This homage to the space program through visuals and music will be presented in the West side subway station under Massimo's Restaurant on Friday, September 16 at 5PM, Saturday September 17 at noon and 5PM and Sunday, September 18 at noon.

IngenuityFest will also feature innovative dancer/choreographer Erica Mott. Mott will be presenting The Victory Project, site-specific performances examining the use of the female body to portray victory through various historical eras. Mott brings together technology and dance in new and inventive ways using mechanical creations, projections and a tethered sound system responding directly to a dancers movements. Erica's troupe of dancers will be performing throughout the Festival on the bridge span.

Ingenuity will also present a wide range of music from Classical (Currents of Trumpets, Saturday at Noon) to gospel (Holy Spirit Choir, Sunday at 12:30PM), and over 60 bands including:


Washed Out ? Eliot Lipp ? Cloud Nothings

_node ? 70 Lewis ? Attack Cat ? Ashley Brooke Toussant ? Ay Fast ? Brent Still Life ? Caleb Hickerson ? Cane Swords ? Carolina Jazmine ? Cats on Holiday ? Cello Fury ? Cleveland Tapes ? CuDa, RenKo, CuDa ? Diana Chittester ? Dixon's Violin ? DJ $crilla ? Eat Sugar ? Emplate ? Exo 4 ? Filmstrip ? Founding Fathers ? Future Days ? Graydar ? Guy Pernetti ? Jason Burns ? Jim Gill & Cathy Miller ? Johnny Jitters ? KEYEL ? Low in the Sky ? Megachurch ? Me ? Midnight Magic ? Muamin Collective ? Mush Mouth ? NanaBcool ? Nicky English ? Ohio City Deadbirds ? Oldboy ? Peachcake ? Pleasure Leftists ? Presque Vu ? PSI - Paul Stranahan's Insomnia ? Ray McNeice ? Red Giant ? Revolution Brass Band ? Robbing Mary ? Samples ? Sarah Spurgeon ? Sean Benjamin ? Shapeless Shadow ? Shivering Timbers ? Smoke Screen ? The Bees Trees ? The Modern Electric ? The Very Knees ? Titonton Duvante ? Trepanning Trio ? Trenchcoat Manifesto ? Tropidelic ? Trouble Books ? Uno Lady ? Uzizi ? You, You're Awesome (DJ set) ? Zack Orr


About Ingenuity
IngenuityFest, the Cleveland Festival of Art and Technology, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to annual presentations of Northeast Ohio's and the world's most creative and innovative work and to fostering new, imaginative collaborations between the region's arts and technology sectors. Ingenuity is funded by the generous support of The George Gund Foundation, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, The Cleveland Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, Third Federal Foundation, the Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation, PennPat/Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the William M. Weiss Foundation,
Ingenuity also receives support from Case Western Reserve University, CWRU Center for law, Technology & the Arts, and the College of Wooster and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. Corporate sponsors include Equity Trust Company, Time Warner Cable, University Hospitals, Forest City Enterprises, Ulmer & Berne LLP, Boston Beer, Medical Mutual,Turner Construction, Baker Hostetler, Frangos/USA Parking, HGR Industrial Surplus, and Provide-a-Ride. Corporate and private donors and special fundraising activities also help Ingenuity continue to explore art and technology in the community at the festival and throughout the year.
Media Contact: James Krouse jkrouse@ingenuitycleveland.org +1 216 220 5133
James Krouse
Director of Programming
Ingenuity Cleveland