TradeMark G. / Mark Gunderson

The Evolution Control Committee
66 Aquavista Way
San Francisco, CA  94131
415-648-7687
ecc@pobox.com
http://evolution-control.com
 

EDUCATION

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY

2006    The ECC & DJ Pantshead, Ritalin Ruckus
2004    The Evolution Control Committee, Default’s Greatest Hits (version gamma).
2004    DJ Pantshead, Weapons of Ass Destruction.
2003    The Evolution Control Committee, Plagiarthythm Nation v2.0.
2003    The Evolution Control Committee, Belfast Songs (book + comp CD).
2002    The Evolution Control Committee, Plagiarthythm Nation (v1).
2002    The Evolution Control Committee, Sounds From The Underground (comp)
2002    The Evolution Control Committee, Stay Free “Illegal Art” (compilation).
2002    The Evolution Control Committee, Cookbook CD (compilation).
2001    The Evolution Control Committee, The Best Bootlegs In The World Ever (comp).
2001    The Evolution Control Committee, Smells Like Teen Disco (12” EP).
2000    The Evolution Control Committee, Noise Kills Punk Dead (compilation).
2000    Gaga, Noise Kills Punk Dead (compilation).
1999    The Evolution Control Committee, Party Like It’s Only $19.99 (compilation).
1999    Blarney Stein, Party Like It’s Only $19.99 (compilation).
1999    The Evolution Control Committee, Berühren Meiner Affe, (12” EP by the band New Bomb Turks, ECC remixes “Scapegoat Soup”)
1998    The Evolution Control Committee, Rocked by Rape.
1998    Gaga, Good Night, Sweet Audience.
1998    The Evolution Control Committee, Deconstructing Beck (compilation).
1998    The Evolution Control Committee, Adventures in Modern Recording (compilation).
1998    The Weird Love Makers, Adventures in Modern Recording (compilation).
1997    The Evolution Control Committee, Eerie Bazaar (compilation).
1996    The Evolution Control Committee, The Whipped Cream Mixes.
1996    The Evolution Control Committee, Double The Phat and Still Tasteless.
1996    The Evolution Control Committee, Subliminal.
1995    The Evolution Control Committee, The Best of Mind/Body (compilation).
1995    The Evolution Control Committee, Mind/Body 3 (compilation).
1994    The Evolution Control Committee, Gunderphonics.
1994    The Evolution Control Committee, Wax Cylinder.
1994    The Evolution Control Committee, Music For Shopping (compilation).
1994    The Weird Love Makers, Sophisticated Savage.
1993    MelloDeath, MelloDeath.
1993    The Mood Swingers, Kiss ‘n’ Jenny ‘n’ Up ‘n’ Down.
1993    The Evolution Control Committee, Usenet Mind/Body (compilation).
1993    The Evolution Control Committee, How To Worship Mosquitos (compilation).
1992    The Evolution Control Committee, BIG WYOMING!
1992    The Evolution Control Committee, Magnetic Filings II (compilation appearance).
1991    Gaga, Gaga.
1991    The Evolution Control Committee, The Last Mall.
1991    The Mood Swingers, Girls.
1990    The Evolution Control Committee, Penis DeMilo.
1990    The Evolution Control Committee, Buddha Bleach.
1989    The Evolution Control Committee, Jesu, Boy of Man’s Desiring.
1988    The Evolution Control Committee, Notes  of Nihilistic Bliss.

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2006    05/12/2006. DJ Pantshead / The Evolution Control Committee. Wheel Of Mashup (debut), DNA Lounge, San Francisco.
2006    05/27/2006. The Evolution Control Committee. The Kitchen Of The Future (debut), Deep Wireless Festival, Toronto.
2006    04/22/2006. The Evolution Control Committee. Make Magazine Maker Faire, San Mateo, California.
2005    08/06/2005. The Evolution Control Committee. Opening for Brides of Frankenstein show, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California.
2005    03/04/2005. The Evolution Control Committee. Opening of Mash-Up! Festival, Grand Arts, Kansas City, Kansas.
2005    02/26/2005. The Evolution Control Committee. Social Experimentation and Absurd Theater, Las Vegas, Nevada.
2005    01/27/2005. The Evolution Control Committee. Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah.
2005    01/2005. The Evolution Control Committee. US tour with Chromelodeon (13 cities).
2004    10/31/2004. Soundtrack for “Nosferatu”.  Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
2004    10/16/2004. The Evolution Control Committee. CMJ Marathon, Knitting Factory, New York City, New York.
2004    10/09/2004. The Evolution Control Committee. ExperimentaClub ’04, Madrid, Spain.
2004    05/30/2004. Solo musical accompaniment to dance by Marlon Barrios-Solano. XI Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival.  Bytom, Poland.
2004    04/25/2004. The Evolution Control Committee. Open House Performance, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California.
2004    04/02/2004. The Evolution Control Committee. The Influencers Festival, Barcelona, Spain.
2003    11/01/2003. The Evolution Control Committee. Festival of Appropriation, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2003    10/11/2003. Soundtrack for “Chess Fever”. Avant Garage Film Festival, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
2003    06/07/2003. The Evolution Control Committee. Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Holland.
2003    05/31/2003.  The Evolution Control Committee. UnCommon Ground (opening ceremony of new city arts center), Cincinnati, Ohio.
2003    05/09/2003.  The Evolution Control Committee, with Mark Hosler (Negativland), Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2003    05/29/2003.  CJ Pinch Rolla, 2003 Beige Records Cassette Jockey World Championship (1st place), Chicago, Illinois.
2003    05/27/2003.  The Evolution Control Committee.  Version>03 Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois.
2003    03/22/2003. The Evolution Control Committee. I.D.E.A.L. Festival, Nantes, France.
2003    02/7/2003. The Evolution Control Committee. Illegal Art Festival, Buddy, Chicago, Illinois.
2002    12/2002. The Evolution Control Committee. Tour of Germany and Holland (9 cities).
2002    11/17/2002. The Evolution Control Committee. Illegal Art Festival, Tonic, New York, New York.
2002    05/04/2002. The Evolution Control Committee. Ether, Royal Festival Hall, London, England.
2002    04/28/2002. The Evolution Control Committee, with Freelance Hellraiser. 93 Feet East, London, England.
2002    01/26/2002. The Evolution Control Committee. The Big Noise, Mad Lab, Columbus, Ohio.
2001    10/20/2001. The Weird Love Makers. “Nosferatu” (soundtrack) performed with silent film. Studio 35, Columbus, Ohio.
2001    10/5/2001. The Evolution Control Committee, with Antediluvian Rocking Horse. Melbourne, Australia.
2001    10/4/2001. The Evolution Control Committee. Mu Meson Archive, Sydney, Australia.
2001    09/28/2001. The Evolution Control Committee. ElectroFringe / This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle, Australia.
2000    10/2000. The Evolution Control Committee. Tour with Bablicon (Chicago). Hamburg, Stuttgart, and Bielefeld, Germany.
2000    10/30/2000. The Evolution Control Committee. Debut of self-made Thimbletron instrument. Web/TV Festival, Milan, Italy.
1999    10/23/1999. The Weird Love Makers. Soundtrack for Maya Deren’s “Meshes In The Afternoon”. Avant Garage festival, Cinemateque, Cleveland, Ohio.
1999    10/16/1999. The Weird Love Makers. Avant Garage festival, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
1999    05/29/1999. Gaga, with KK Null. Mad Lab, Columbus, Ohio.
1999    03/06/1999. The Evolution Control Committee, with Operation Re:Information. OriCon ’99, Millvale Industrial Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1998    08/02/1998. The Evolution Control Committee, with Solex. Little Brothers, Columbus, Ohio.
1998    02/06/1998. The Evolution Control Committee. Active Not Passive, Columbus, Ohio.
1997    12/05/1997. The Evolution Control Committee. Active Not Passive, Columbus, Ohio.
1997    03/28/1997. The Weird Love Makers. Nitrogen, Columbus, Ohio.
1994    07/04/1994. The Evolution Control Committee, with Impact Test.
1993    07/10/1993. The Evolution Control Committee. Noise-A-Palooza, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1992    10/02/1992. The Evolution Control Committee. Café Ashtray, Columbus, Ohio.
1992    02/21/1992. Gaga. Café Ashtray, Columbus, Ohio.
1990    11/03/1990. The Evolution Control Committee. Alien Environments and Babbling Worlds event.
1989    08/05/1989. The Evolution Control Committee. Closing night of Crazy Mama’s nightclub. Columbus, Ohio.

GRANTS

2002    Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Grant in Media Arts.

RESIDENCIES

2006    Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California.
2004    Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California.

LECTURES / WORKSHOPS

2005    09/25/2005.  “Culture Jamming In The Post-9/11 Mindset” (panel).  Webzine 2005 Festival, San Francisco, California.
2005    04/20/2005.  “Culture Jamming and Anti-Advertising” (panel).  San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California.
2004    05/06/2004.  “Wicked Montage” (salon).  Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California.
2004    04/06/2004.  Lecture / Q&A. University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
2004    04/02/2004.  Lecture / Q&A. The Influencers Festival, Barcelona, Spain..
2003    06/07/2003.  “Couch Club Discussion” (lecture).  Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Holland.
2003    04/12/2003.  “Access And Use: Copyright, The Public Domain & First Amendment Issues”, 22nd NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
2001    11/09/2001. “Whose Domain: Creativity and the Internet” (panel). Outside The Lines symposium, Eugene, Oregon.
2001    11/09/2001. Intellectual Property Workshop. Outside The Lines symposium, Eugene, Oregon.
2001    10/14/2001. “The Net: Surveilled Beat, Shopping Mall, or Graffiti Wall?” (panel). TILT Festival, Sydney, Australia.
2001    09/30/2001. “Napster Nuggets”. ElectroFringe / This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle, Australia.

INTERVIEWS / REVIEWS

CityLife (Las Vegas), February 24-March 2 2005. p. 25. Jeff Inman. “CityLife Picks”.
Fabryka Tanca (Poland), July 1 2004.  p. 2. A.J. Lowe. “Unstablevolution / Mash-Up”.
Tendencias (Spain), April 2004. p. 80. “Abril se Mueve”.
U.S. News & World Report, January 20 2003. p. 66. Ulrich Boser. “A Beat All Your Own”.
SF Weekly, September 25, 2002. p.67. Dan Strachota. “Pop Philosophy”.
Columbus Dispatch, June 3 2002. p. E8. Erik Battenberg. “Bootleg Boom”.
New York Times, May 9 2002. Neil Strauss. “Spreading by the Web, Pop's Bootleg Remix”.
Cool & Strange Music Magazine, May 2002. p. 58. Jeff Chenault. ECC interview.
Bizarre Magazine, July 2001. p.112. Mark Blacklock. “Nobody’s Default But Mine”.
Bizarre Magazine, June 2001. p.128. Mark Blacklock. “Lords of the Files”.
Columbus Alive!, March 8-14 2001. J. Caleb Mozzocco. “Found Sound / The ECC oversees human evolution through musical innovations”.
Spin Magazine, December 2000. Douglas Wolk. “Sound Files / Dummies for Napster”.
NPR's All Things Considered, 8 Sept 2000.
LA Weekly, July 21-27 2000. Mara Schwartz. “Thieves Like Us / MP3: Recontextualization is your best entertainment value”.
Bizarre Magazine, June 2000. Mark Blacklock. “Listen to the Banned”.
Spin Magazine, February 2000. “Rocked By Rape” review.

ORGANIZATIONS

2004-present    BMIR, Burning Man festival official radio station (engineer, DJ, organizer)
2005                KULT Radio, an unlicensed radio station (co-founder, DJ)
2000-2003       Mad Lab, an alternative theater and performance space (musical curator)
2001-2003       Burning Corn, an annual art event (founder)
2001                Radio-Free 91.5 FM, an unlicensed radio station (co-founder, DJ)
1998-2000       ele_mental, a central-Ohio electronic music collective (resident DJ, support)
1995-1997       Active Radio, a student-based alternative radio group (president)
1991-1999       Red White & FU, an annual alternatively-patriotic music festival (founder, organizer)
1993-1994       Talamasca Gallery, a performance space and coffee shop (show booking, etc.)
1990-1992       Café Ashtray, a weekly performance art venue which existed for two years at the Acme Art Company (curator/manager)
1991-1993       Lyceum 23, an artists collective (organizer)