Interfuse 2008 Iowa Theme Camp Discussion Thread

[tjHooD]

It's now a new year & you all know what that means!!?!...

INTERFUSE 2008 is almost here! Well...still 5 months away but that time will fly by faster than you think.

InterFuse 2008, the Midwest Regional Burn, will occur May 1-4 at Ozark Avalon in Boonville, Missouri(Let's hope for GREAT weather)!!!

This is a thread dedicated to the planning & organizing of our trip to Interfuse 2008. Rides, theme camps, art/deco, sound, ect...anyone attending this year please feel free to post your ideas & opinions on how we should be representing Iowa at this years festival!

This thread can also be used to organize tasks & jobs, if you have something special in mind you want to do please post it. If you need help, please ask for it. If you want to volunteer your services please do so. Any & all help is not only welcomed & appreciated, but also very necessary to create the greatest possible experience!

BEFORE WE BEGIN IT SHOULD BE KNOWN THIS IS AN EVENT THAT IS NOT TO BE POSTED ON THE EVENTS PAGE ON THIS FORUM. IF IT IS POSTED ON THE EVENTS PAGE IT WILL BE DELETED! THE ORGANIZERS ASK THAT THIS EVENT DOES NOT GET ADVERTISED ON THIS WEBSITE OR ANY OTHERS. ALL INFO FOR INTERFUSE CAN BE FOUND @ MIDWESTBURNERS.COM

I ALSO WILL NOT BE POSTING ANY TICKET INFORMATION AS THIS CAN ALSO BE FOUND ON THE ABOVE WEBSITE.

Now! I! Present! To! You! Our! Interfuse! 2008! Theme!

Technophilia/Technophobia!

Technology: Do we love it or hate it? Does it isolate us or bring us together? Does it make our lives easier or does it add layers of complications? Do we own our tools or do they own us? Can we live without our technology? Can it live without us? We shape the world through our technology but to what extent does our technology shape our world views?

This theme is a study of modern life that is very relevant to us as Burners. Modern technology is both a consumer product and a means to promote consumption. Yet it can also be used to create art and to connect us. Technology extremely enhances our creative abilities yet also enhances our destructive abilities. As we know from our experience with the fire arts, destructive technology can also result in positive beautiful things.

Burners are especially suited for examining our relationships with technology. We are some of the most technologically savvy people out there. We’ve used the tools of the Internet to connect with each other and build a community like no other. We are intimately familiar with creating new uses for technology and subverting it to our own fun purposes.

At InterFuse 2008, we will mock, celebrate, exaggerate, demonstrate, and use technology to create. Bring your fearful or hopeful vision of our technological present and future. All robots, cyborgs, couch potatoes, slaves to the machines, Luddites, interactive tutorials, genetically enhanced humans, virtual selves, icons, nuts & bolts, flotsam & jetsam etc. are welcome! You can take this theme in any direction! Unveil a new and enhanced IF08 Theme version 2.0. Come set up your office cubicle camp, post-apocalyptic scenario, personal billboard, or cyber-utopia. Form a techno cult or create a reality TV game that has gone horribly awry. Show off your inventions, bio-fueled art car, or invite people to add to your open source installations. Create recycled trash art, build a DNA sculpture, or assemble something else so engaging that people find themselves sitting around it for 36 hours straight sipping energy drinks.

At the center of this technological cacophony will sit that most loved and most hated icon of modern technology, that mighty conduit of modern culture, that unmatched propaganda and marketing tool, THE TELEVISION! The TV will be large enough to serve as an open performance stage and projection screen. We will be filling our giant television with our own content. All participants are invited to create Premier Entertainment Programming and clever personal advertising to display on our TV. There must be NO dead air time!

Our modern society churns out tons of STUFF! So, around the giant television will be piles of personal technology sculptures created by YOU. Bring an effigy of whatever technology you fantasize about burning. Does your cell phone drive you crazy? Build a larger than life cell phone with non-toxic materials like wood, cardboard, paper, cloth. NO BURNING ACTUAL PLASTIC TECH DEVICES! You could give your effigy evil teeth or put something in the screen to express it’s annoying qualities. Put your art on the pile around the TV and watch it all BURN on Saturday night when we use our favorite medium, fire, to transform technology and reclaim it as an authentic tool of our imaginations.

Welcome to the Machine!

Let the brainstorming commence!

[tjHooD]

I am going to get in contact w/ Zay & figure out what space we will use for the Iowa camp this year. How did everyone like last years space??? We're going to definatley be doing another sound stage this year as well so ALL dj's who will be part of the Iowa camp get ahold of me via pm & let me know you are interested in being on our lineup this year.

[PsydTraxd]

Oh.......OH.....OHOHOH!!!!! Interfuse nagga's!!!

I am willing to do anything to help plan or setup for the Iowans going out there.

It would be really cool if we can get our camp to match the theme of the party. And that site last year was pretty dope. Nice and secluded.

Maybe since our scene is strongly revolves around the internet......something to do with that maybe?

[tjHooD]

Oh.......OH.....OHOHOH!!!!! Interfuse nagga's!!!

I am willing to do anything to help plan or setup for the Iowans going out there.

It would be really cool if we can get our camp to match the theme of the party. And that site last year was pretty dope. Nice and secluded.

Maybe since our scene is strongly revolves around the internet......something to do with that maybe?

That's one thing I had in mind, the internet has been a very powerful tool in keeping the Iowa scene alive!

If we can get the same space as last year we could have a giant wooden computer monitor replica as the entrance to the camp w/ maybe like a keyboard walkway??? We should definatley create a Plurbot army as well(In memory of Zach "muthafuckin" Hoeken)

What should our camp name be??? We should start brainstorming a few ideas & then I will go back & open a poll on this thread so everyone can vote on this year's camp name!

I hope everyone is excited as I am for this year's event!

[Skitzo]

I did not attend last years interfuse

But I am 100% in this year. I also will do anything I can to help. Paint, cut, Dj, get naked
Whatever it takes.

I went to the website from last year it looks like soooo much fun.

Yeah...

[tjHooD]

I did not attend last years interfuse

But I am 100% in this year. I also will do anything I can to help. Paint, cut, Dj, get naked
Whatever it takes.

I went to the website from last year it looks like soooo much fun.

Yeah...

Nice! We will definatley need your DJ skills

As far as cutting & painting we will need some help when we figure out what our theme camp will be & what type of deco we will want! We need an entrance to the camp, random other deco around the camp & then we will need to decorate our sound stage as well.

getting naked will come later

Can someone get ahold of Allison from WI, she has our domo & I think that we should continue to use it.

[PsydTraxd]

It should be called INTERNEEETTTT!!!!

[airyck]

I am going to get in contact w/ Zay & figure out what space we will use for the Iowa camp this year. How did everyone like last years space??? We're going to definatley be doing another sound stage this year as well so ALL dj's who will be part of the Iowa camp get ahold of me via pm & let me know you are interested in being on our lineup this year.

Last years spot was too far off the beaten path, people rarely wanted to make the hike to the bottom of the hill. I also don't think the entire stage should be pink stars and polka dots this year

I also think there should be more fire oriented stuff, such as a fire sculpture of some sort or at least a lot more tiki torches to create a nice atmosphere.

[bLiTz666]

I am going to get in contact w/ Zay & figure out what space we will use for the Iowa camp this year. How did everyone like last years space??? We're going to definatley be doing another sound stage this year as well so ALL dj's who will be part of the Iowa camp get ahold of me via pm & let me know you are interested in being on our lineup this year.

Last years spot was too far off the beaten path, people rarely wanted to make the hike to the bottom of the hill. I also don't think the entire stage should be pink stars and polka dots this year

I also think there should be more fire oriented stuff, such as a fire sculpture of some sort or at least a lot more tiki torches to create a nice atmosphere.

i agree also...i didn't like last years spot cause of the seclusion...the spot just inside the entrance was cool, where they had the coffins

[sillynoob]

a couch with all characters you love/hate who kept you in front of the tv on it

a robot made out of corn

a robotic cow

[Geoffrey Law]

a couch with all characters you love/hate who kept you in front of the tv on it

a robot made out of corn

a robotic cow

...and a Bad Robot that goes around and does bad things.

[sillynoob]

like michael jackson bad?

[Ascension]

heck yeah, heard it was a blast last year, definitely gonna make it out for this one

I'll have more experience spinnin at shows by this time and would LOVE to play

[Skitzo]

I did not attend last years interfuse

But I am 100% in this year. I also will do anything I can to help. Paint, cut, Dj, get naked
Whatever it takes.

I went to the website from last year it looks like soooo much fun.

Yeah...

Nice! We will definatley need your DJ skills

As far as cutting & painting we will need some help when we figure out what our theme camp will be & what type of deco we will want! We need an entrance to the camp, random other deco around the camp & then we will need to decorate our sound stage as well.

getting naked will come later

Can someone get ahold of Allison from WI, she has our domo & I think that we should continue to use it.

TJ, let me know when the theme is figured out:)
I have a few tapestries I can bring. Also, we should organize a get together to make the deco...

ALso, I WILL BE GETTING NAKED.

[tjHooD]

I did not attend last years interfuse

But I am 100% in this year. I also will do anything I can to help. Paint, cut, Dj, get naked
Whatever it takes.

I went to the website from last year it looks like soooo much fun.

Yeah...

Nice! We will definatley need your DJ skills

As far as cutting & painting we will need some help when we figure out what our theme camp will be & what type of deco we will want! We need an entrance to the camp, random other deco around the camp & then we will need to decorate our sound stage as well.

getting naked will come later

Can someone get ahold of Allison from WI, she has our domo & I think that we should continue to use it.

TJ, let me know when the theme is figured out:)
I have a few tapestries I can bring. Also, we should organize a get together to make the deco...

ALso, I WILL BE GETTING NAKED.

The theme is Technophilia/Technophobia.

We just need to figure out how we want to interpret this theme...

So far we have 1 suggestion for a camp name(INTERNEEETTTT), anyone else have any ideas? Does anyone like the idea of a plurbot army? What type of deco should we place throughout our camp?