Scott K James

Visual/Audio performance

I first got into live visual work around 2001 while I was designing and building multimedia at a firm called Spinwire. We met Rod Hatfield and Pedro Alexander from Spaceboat.tv and soon I was attending and participating -- in their shows. Eventually I joined the board of Spaceboat, and did many more shows. I met and started working with Sean Frego at Spaceboat. Rod, Sean and I wanted to focus more on professional event services, and so we formed The Now Device (TND).

TND has been my main focus professionally for several years, and my "art work" , such as it is, has been organically integrated with the development of and work for that company. Meanwhile, I've been doing shows and nights around town, producing lots of content, refining my technology and techniques. This is a random sampling of some of the work I've done, with Spaceboat, with TND and solo.

Oscillate | repeating night | the Baltic Room | Seattle.

Eclectic music including audio residents Electroset, Kinoko and Greg Skidmore. I was the visual resident for about a year and a half, and then helped Greg to produce the night for a brief span.

Heaven and Hell Ball [The Now Device] | New Year’s Eve ‘04 and ‘05 | Consolidated Works | Seattle.

Multi Room Visual Design, Installations and mixing of live and pre-made video. We supported bands such as The Long Winters, The Decemberists (sorry), and United States of Electronica (U.S.E.).

911 Media Arts Opening Bash | 12.02.04 | 911 Media Arts | Seattle.

The Now Device were invited to reprise our media piece at this opening of the (then) new 911 space on Dexter. Sean Frego, ndCv, Akil and myself performed.

Superflat Screen [Spaceboat] 06.14.?? | Consolidated Works | Seattle.

The Spaceboat.tv crew cut and mixed a bunch of anime content on a kind of complex series of surfaces and installations at a party for Exploding Cinema/SIFF. This included our beautiful TV wall.

The Future of Media: Action for Media Democracy [Spaceboat] | 03.07.03 | Experience Music Project | Seattle.

Performance of our “Media Piece” with Sean Frego, ndCv, Akil. Also live cameras and mixing with Rod Hatfield and the Spaceboat crew w/ Chuck D and the Fine Arts Militia

The Seventh Art: New Dimensions in Cinema:Scratch Cinema [Spaceboat] | 07.11.02 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | San Francisco.

A performance at the invitation of SFMOMA/San Francisco Film Society

Satellites Film & Video Festival Opening Party | 04.09.02 | Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater | Seattle.

The Now Device performed a Live A/V set with ndCv. I actually don’t remember this.

“Spaceboat TV” [Spaceboat] | 01.11.02 | Experience Music Project | Seattle.

Spaceboat presented an entire opus incorporating theater, performance art, music, alongside live video compositions on the jumbotron in the Skychurch.