31 DOWN creates darkly themed audio-based performance work with a heavy emphasis on light, imagery and mood infused with obsession, fear, voyeurism and the media. There is an invested use of new technologies and interactive systems to create and control the performances.

Our work is a form of study in audio and visual perception. Like radio, disembodied voices and a remote sense of time and place informs our visual tableaus and aural landscapes, that set out to put the audience into a dreamlike heightened state.

31 DOWN's technology-based works incorporate physical computing and wireless radio technologies, including: networked objects, interactive devices, MIDI, OSC, XBEE and Bluetooth communications systems, telephone systems, streaming servers as well as original scripts and music for its performances.

Recent performance history includes productions with: Performance Space 122 (The Assember Dilator, fall 2009), Bumbershoot (P.S. 122: Seattle Edition, The Scream Contest, fall 2009), the Megapolis Festival (Boston, MA, Radiosnake, summer 2009), The Ontological-Hysteric Incubator (Universal Robots, summer 2007, Metronoma, summer 2006, That's Not How Mahler Died, summer 2005), PRELUDE07 (CUNY, I Used to be Curious [Loud]), The New Museum (Wanderlost, spring 05), White Box/PERFORMA 05 (Rita, Katrina and Stan, fall 2005), The Kitchen (Chase the Bitch, 2004), Rhizome (wwwSomnambulator, 2005), free103point9, EXIT ART (I Am So Sorry), Participant, Eyebeam, The Brick Theater (That's Not How Mahler Died, fall 2005), WFMU, CATCH (Galapagos), SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Art (Minneapolis, MN, That's Not How Mahler Died, 2006), The Bushwick Starr (The Assember Dilator, work-in-progress, 2008, 2009), Black and White Gallery, Gigantic ArtSpace (I Used to be Curious [Silence], 2007), and Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY, 2008).

Educational workshops on interactive gaming and interactive devices for performance have been given in Beijing China (2007), Eindoven, NE and New York City.

The theater company is a transmission artist with free103point9, who released a CD of 31 Down performances for their Audio Dispatch series in the spring of 2004.

Designers and collaborators include: Ryan Holsopple, Shannon Sindelar, Mirit Tal, Jon Luton, Benjamin Brown, TaraFawn Marek, Andreea Mincic, Tim Cramer.
Formed in 2001, the company is based out of Brooklyn, NY.


31 Down's Exhibition CV PDF