DJs:
Andrew Vogt
Dany Veltri
George Macys
Zack Roth

cover $10

$3 beers 10pm-12am

Remote is located at 327 Bowery between 2nd and 3rd Streets on the border of two lower Manhattan neighborhoods: the East Village and Noho. It's a short strut, saunter, or stroll from SoHo, the Lower East Side, the West Village and the Flatiron District.

Nearby Subway stops:
- the 6 at Bleecker
- the F and V at Broadway-Lafayette or 2nd Avenue
- the B and D at Broadway-Lafayette
- the N and R to 8th Street or to Prince Street

www.remotelounge.com

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Andrew Vogt:

Andrew Vogt's love of electronic music started in the same place most people's did, the rave scene. Living in New Jersey in the late 90's, Andrew began attending parties on a regular basis and quickly moved on to DJing at them. Under the name Dreas, his sets of house, progressive, and breaks got him recognized as one of the most talented DJs in the NJ scene. As he got older he realized the existence of the Chelsea super club,Twilo. His total idea of music and DJing was flipped upside down by listening to such DJs as Sasha, John Digweed, Jimmy Van M, and Dave Seaman, just to name few. Soon after its closure, he was forced to give up DJing and move on to another Career.

Three years later in September of 2004, Andrew's love of electronic dance music proves to be too strong. He quit his job, sold his car, and moved to New York to once again pursue his Djing and Production work. Since his return he has played with such DJs as Steve Porter, Astro & Glyde, and Lance Jordan. His sounds of Tech-House, Electro, and Prog-House also got him chosen as the Bi-weekly resident DJ at the Smokin Saturdays Roof party at club Shelter. He also was recently signed to Insomnia Bookings with some of NYs most talented artists.He is currently working on his production and will be releasing his first couple tracks in Fall 2005.


Dany Veltri and George Macys:

Dany Veltri and George Macys will always consider themselves fans of EDM above anything else. Before ever knowing what a DJ did, these native east coasters spent every possible moment at clubs soaking in as much music as they possible could. It was this passion for the music that inspired them to start DJing. Theor style blends tribal, tech and progressive house with elements of trance and breaks. Not limited to genres, Dany and George hold themselves to only one rule: if you love it, play it.

Having spun at 340, Alphabet Lounge, Happy Ending, Hook, Sullivan Room, Seho, and Voodoo Lounge in 2004, 2005 promises to be a busy year as Dany Veltri and George Macys start a new monthly residency at Remote Lounge NYC, where they will be playing alongside the likes of Steve Gerrard, Ben Lost, Pole Folder and DC's EMC Crew.


Zack Roth:

A DJ with truly eclectic tastes in music, Zack Roth is definitely an up and comer to look out for in the near future. Since 2004, he has played at some of New York City's best known clubs, including Sullivan Room, Ikon (formerly Exit), and most recently Avalon. Zack has spun alongside some of the best known and respected DJs and Producers in the business, including Noel Sanger, Thomas Penton and Sheldon Romero. His style of music can be described as progressive, dark, and most importantly danceable.


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Remote Lounge:



Remote is a revolutionary new concept in nightlife entertainment. Located in downtown Manhattan, it is a technology-themed cocktail lounge and new media art space unlike anything else in the world. The lounge is outfitted with over 60 video cameras - covering every square foot of the space from multiple angles - and this live video is displayed on over 100 output devices, such as CRTs, LCDs, large format plasma screens and video projectors. Into this mix of live feeds are an everchanging roster of digital and analog video artworks, animation, special effects, web-based art and interactive multimedia created by both emerging and established new media artists.

Telepresence
Controlled Entropy Ventures (CEV), the developers of Remote, describe the lounge as a "telepresence" environment. The appeal inherent in this seemingly contradictory concept has been noted by a number of techno-sociologists working in fields like video-conferencing and Virtual Reality. At Remote, all of the cameras within the lounge are controllable by the bar patrons themselves, who can view the output of the different cameras at custom-designed Cocktail Consoles. The Cocktail Consoles also allow customers to then remotely pan and tilt any camera they are viewing using a joystick. Patrons therefore"spy" on other patrons and will be "spied" on in return. The cameras act as the "remote eyeballs," or the visual prosthetics, of the bar customers. This distortion of the usual way in which people interact, at the same time more (virtually) intimate and (physically) remote then typical bar encounters, is at the core of the fun to be had using the gadgets at Remote.

Rather than focus on the "Big Brother" association with the surveillance technology that has been co-opted and adapted to use in the lounge, CEV founders point out that their version of telepresence is used to very different ends then traditional surveillance implementations. First of all, access to the system is mutual, bilateral and consensual - nobody gets to violate anyone else's privacy in a manner that they would not be subject to themselves. Secondly, the environment is designed to encourage exploration, experimentation and human interaction rather than to control or protect people or property.

Design
The "telepresence" capability, along with the retro-future stylings of the Cocktail Consoles themselves, evokes a 1960s vision of the future - part Jetsons, part 2001 A Space . Furthermore, TV screens over the bar and along the walls pick up random camera channels to create a richly textured funhouse mirror effect, where the physical arrangement of the lounge itself and the people in it are fractured and re-presented in a complex, constantly-changing, multilayered way.

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