Algo-what?: A Night of Algorave and Electronic Music

June 13, 2025 | 7:30–10:00 PM
California Center for the Arts Museum, Gallery One

Join us for a night of experimental sound, with artists incorporating electronic music with live coding and algorithmic visuals. This will be the 25th anniversary of Amy Alexander’s vj übergeek. An audiovisual performance, she will be creating visuals and partnering with Emir Chacra providing sound. There will also be solo performances by Roy Jara and a collaboration between Matty Terrones and Victor Castaneda H.

Featured artists include:

Matty Terrones, a sound artist attuned to the delicate balance of silence and noise, conjures sonic landscapes that reflect the interplay of the natural and urban world. 

Victor Castañeda H, a San Diego-based artist whose live-coded sets reframe field recordings and ambient textures into layered sonic experiences. Blending video, VR, and everyday materials, Castañeda crafts new narratives from the mundane through performance and installation.

VJ Übergeek (Amy Alexander) returns after a decade hiatus with a new audiovisual performance featuring real-time interaction between VJ Übergeek and a custom AI chatbot. Expect psychedelic visuals, algorithmic absurdity, and incisive humor in a collaborative set with monocromo.

monocromo (Emir Chacra) delivers genre-bending sets that channel the soul of Latin rhythms through ambient, shoegaze, and early house influences, infused with his roots in the Chilean club scene.

Roy Jara is an engineer and multidisciplinary artist originally from Lima, Peru, now based in San Diego. His work with new media investigates sonic mediation through techniques such as videogame-as-instrument, stochastic sound generation, and object-based speakers. Jara’s practice critically engages with the social and technical systems that shape how we create and experience sound.