When I got word from Ed Patuto at Montalvo Arts in Saratoga that the Bleeding Edge was going to happen and that I was selected to curate the festival, I started my artist search in the Bay Area. I knew that I needed an established act to get the ball rolling. Ed suggested Matmos, an avant-garde electronic music duo made up of Drew Daniel, Martin Schmidt, and friends of his from the Art Institute in San Francisco. After a few weeks of emailing back and forth, I made a trip out to SF to meet them. Ed had set up a breakfast at a great little restaurant in the Mission, and we got together and talked about electronic arts and the Bay Area scene over eggs. We all agreed that the people of San Jose, being in the epicenter of technology, had to meet some high expectations, and so far, they hadn't. The... read more >