Lightning Stalkers, the Finale Matchbox
By Alex Glow
[Xandra Ibarra](/artists/xandra-ibarra) and Marpi Over the past year [CODAME](/orgs/codame) has been partnering with CounterPulse to present a series of [Matchbox Salons](/artists/matchbox-salons-7e2416e02aaa) . Each event has paired up two artists to discover exciting angles on their craft and work. The prompt for interaction has been open and the resulting shows have ranged from formal slide shows to performances of new collaborative works. One of the more playful takes on the Matchbox assignment was a cyber stalking exercise conducted by [Mica Sigourney](/artists/mica-sigourney) and [Jordan Gray](/artists/jordan-gray) touching on themes of identity and security. Having never met, they dug into each other’s online personas to gather a body of facts and interpretations. The resulting presentations were such a hit that we decided to formalize the format and invite 6 more artists from each of our communities to cyber stalk each other for this season’s Matchbox Finale. [Join us](/artists/join-us) on Thursday, June 20th to witness lightning talk antics from the following artists! Clement Hil Goldberg is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working in film, sculpture and stop motion animation to create a fabulous extinction aesthetic. Their visual art and live performance project Our Future Ends will premiere at CounterPulse in October 2017. [Alex Glow](/artists/alex-glow) plays with robots, music, language, EEG, and wearable tech. Former boardmember at the AHA and Noisebridge hackerspaces, and later an Artist in Residence at Autodesk’s Pier 9, she is currently the Hacker Advocate at Hackster — the community for hardware makers to learn and share electronics. [Jeffrey Yip](/artists/jeffrey-yip) is a new media artist in Oakland California. Highly interested in the intersection of art and technology, he creates environments, often utilizing digital media to enhance the overall experience by integrating visualizations in unison with sound. One area of focus currently in his practice is projection mapping. This technique allows Jeffrey to combine the digital world with the physical through light, sound and sculpture. Animation is layered on top of his geometric sculptures, and then joined with organic and synthesized sound to create a symbiosis of the various mediums.