First Friday reception: December 1, 6 - 11pm
 
Anita Allyn: Harvesting
Anita Allyn's new work explores the language of found photography and masculinity through downloaded images from online dating websites.
These images are uniformly altered, creating a formal consistency with a focus on the periphery of image as well as the vernacular of gesture. Allyn's fascination lies with patterns and categories that emerge from this investigation.

Max Lawrence: Sky Scraping in Star Garden

Redbook Productions, Inc. Preferred Burnout Function
The Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Preferred Burnout Function will hold its first annual audio convention at the Vox Populi Annex of the Philadelphia Convention Center during the month of December. Registration begins on Friday, December 1, 2006 at 6PM and will be open until 11PM that evening. PSPBF invites members of the public to visit the exhibition space, where the work of 100 chapter members toiling at the forefront of the sound barrier will be showcased, and experience the latest advances in digital audio technology. PSPBF was formed in 1998 with the purpose of finding a cure for Buffer Underrun Syndrome. For more information, and for the schedule of workshops and demonstration sessions please visit www.preferredburnoutfunction.org.

Redbook Productions specializes in meetings, line dancing and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs.  Most recently, Redbook produced the 28th Conference of the Association for Alternative Mummery at the Philadelphia Civic Center and the Freemason Open Membership Month at the Grand Lodge.

Proof: Curated by Colette Copeland
Video Lounge

How is visual evidence presented to compel the mind to accept it as true? How is this evidence represented for such consideration? What informs our perception of visual truth? What are the various ways and forms that video is used to represent reality? These questions are considered by the artists participating in Proof: Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand, Tom Sherman, Delmira Valladares, Ellie Brown, Nadia Hironaka, Mari Jaye Blanchard, Scott Groeniger, Matthew Suib, Liselot van der Heijden, Peter Hayes, Karina Skvirsky and Patrick Craig Manning

Liz Nofziger: Pass and Stow
4th Room

Drawn to the discarded, overlooked, and obsolete, Liz Nofziger creates site-specific multimedia installations. Sparked by religion, politics, pop-culture, and personal experience, these site manipulations are comprised of familiar, benign elements re-configured, thereby blurring the lines between attraction and repulsion, high and low. Playing with perspective, voyeurism, and humor, Nofziger examines scale and demands physical involvement and curiosity from the viewer.