[spectre] OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason NYC - Tuesday, March 27th, 8:30pm

[Katherine Liberovskaya]

Diapason, gallery for sound and intermedia presents...

Tuesday, March 27 
8:30pm 

OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason NYC

Live sets by: 
- Janene Higgins (video mix) with Mari Kimura (violin and interactive
computer) 
- Jennifer Reeves (dual 16mm film projection) with Anthony Burr (music)

Invited artist: 
- Tony Dove 

Suggested donation:
$ 7 


OptoSonic Tea is a new regular series of meetings dedicated to the
convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual
component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore
different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide
projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways
they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features two
different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a set
with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are followed
by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of green
tea. A third artist, from  previous generations of visualists or related
fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as to
create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide different
perspectives on the present and the future.

Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer



About the artists: 

Janene Higgins' videos and digital media have been presented internationally
at numerous festivals and galleries, including The 2006 New York Video
Festival; Documenta in Kassel, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon;
City of Women Festival, Slovenia; The Chelsea Art Museum, NYC; MAD '03 in
Madrid; Art Institute of Chicago; Experimenta Festival in Buenos Aires; and
at The Impakt Festival in The Netherlands. Using laptop, mixers, tapes, and
camera, she developed a technique for live video performance, and has
collaborated with many of New York's pre-eminent composers and improvisors
of new music, including duo performances with Elliott Sharp, Ikue Mori, Alan
Licht, Okkyung Lee, Aki Onda, Nurit Tilles, and Zeena Parkins. Higgins is a
frequent artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center, and is a
recent recipient of their Electronic Arts grant. She has given workshops on
her approach to video performance at A.I.R. Gallery and the Chelsea Art
Museum, NYC, and at the Watson Festival at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.echonyc.com/~myrakoob

Mari Kimura: Hailed by The New York Times as "a virtuoso playing at the
edge,"composer/violinist Mari Kimura is widely admired for her revolutionary
extended technique "Subharmonics" and for the solo performances of diverse
programs including her works with interactive computer music. She has won
numerous awards both in her native Japan and in the U.S., and has been
invited to give solo performances in international festivals around the
world including Spring in Budapest, Other Minds Festival in San Francisco,
International Bartok Festival, Festival Cervantino in Mexico, ISCM World
Music Days, and at IRCAM, Paris. Ms. Kimura's works have been supported by
grants including Jerome Foundation, Arts International, Japan Foundation,
the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation of the
Arts. Since September 1998, Ms. Kimura has been teaching a graduate class in
Computer Music Performance at The Juilliard School in New York City.
http://www.marikimura.com

Jennifer Reeves (b. 1971, Ceylon) is a New York-based filmmaker whose films
have shown the world over, from the Berlin, Sundance, Vancouver, London,
Toronto, New York, and Rotterdam International Film Festivals to Princeton,
MOMA, and the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Reeves' debut feature film THE TIME WE
KILLED (2004) won the FIPRESCI Critics prize at the Berlin Film Festival,
Outstanding Artistic Achievement at OUTFEST, and Best NY, NY Narrative
Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival. The Village Voice Film Critic¹s poll
honored TWK with votes for: Best Film, Best Cinematography, and Best
Performance. As director of TWK Reeves was nominated for a 2005 Independent
Spirit Award.  
More Info: www.jenniferreevesfilm.com
      
As a clarinetist, Anthony Burr has enjoyed a distinguished career as an
exponent of contemporary music performing, often solo, with many leading
groups, including Elision, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Sospeso, and the
Chamber Music Sociey of Lincoln Center. Among the composers with whom he has
worked are: Alvin Lucier, Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, and Magnus
Lindberg. Burr has performed widely outside the classical arena with artists
including Jim O'Rourke, John Zorn, Mark Feldman, Chris Speed, Jim Black,
Ikue Mori, Tim Barnes, Ted Reichman, Mark Dresser, and Briggan Krauss. As a
composer Burr has specialized in the creation of epic scale mixed media
pieces often in collaboration with other artists. Burr has produced and/or
engineered records for Charles Curtis, La Monte Young, and Ted Reichman. New
releases include the music of Alvin Lucier on sigma/antiopic and a trio
album with Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega.
More info: www.gardenvariety.org

Toni Dove is an artist/independent producer who works primarily with
electronic media, including  virtual reality , interactive video
installations, performance and DVD ROMs that engage viewers in responsive
and immersive narrative environments. Her work has been presented in the
United States, Europe and Canada as well as in print and on radio and
television. Projects include Arxheology of a Mother Tongue, a virtual
reality installation with Michael Mackenzie, Banff Centre for the Arts (see
the book ³Immersed in Technology² from M.I.T. Press) and an interactive
cinema installation, Artificial Changelings, which debuted at the Rotterdam
Film Festival, and was part of the exhibition: Body Mécanique, at the Wexner
Center for the Arts, Ohio, at the Institute for Studies in the Arts at
Arizona State University International Performance Studies Conference, in
"Wired" at the Arts Center for the Capital Region in Troy, N.Y., Book-Ends
Conference. Her current project under development is Spectropia, a feature
length interactive movie performance for two players also to be released as
a linear feature film. It previewed as a work in progress at Lincoln Center
in Scanners, the New York Video Festival 2006. A DVD ROM, Sally or the
Bubble Burst, an interactive scene from the Spectropia project is
distributed on the Cycling '74 label and has toured as an installation.
Dove has received numerous grants and awards, including  the Rockefeller
Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Langlois Foundation, New York
State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York
Foundation for the Arts, The LEF Foundation, and the Eugene McDermott Award
in the Arts from M.I.T. 
http://www.tonidove.com
 

 



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