[spectre] OptoSonic Tea @ Experimental Intermedia NYC - Thursday, October 7th, 9pm

[Katherine Liberovskaya]

Thursday, October 7th
9 pm

OptoSonic Tea

Live sets by:

- Tony Martin (live visuals) with Margot Farrington (live poetry)
- Thomas Dexter (live film) with Jake Adams (percussion)

Invited respondent/moderator:

- Davidson Gigliotti

Suggested donation:
$ 7

Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, NY 10013
212 431 5127, 212 431 6430

OptoSonic Tea is a 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


OptoSonic Tea is partly funded by the Experimental Television Center.
The Experimental Television Center¹s Presentation Funds program is supported
by the New York State Council on the Arts.


About the artists:

Tony Martin has devoted himself to visual composing in time, using
simultaneous projected imagery in motion, for more than four decades. The
legendary visual compositions produced at the San Francisco Tape Music
Center stand as early testament to his love of "painting in time," and to
his involvement with music. These works apply combinations of liquid
projection, hand painted 2"x2" slides programmed for cross-dissolving, 16mm
film, and projected "pure" light. He has worked intensively with Pauline
Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, David Tudor, and other composers,
and dancer/choreographers such as Anna Halprin and Merce Cunningham.
Recently, Martin has created works using a computer program developed to his
specifications to make direct, hands-on drawing performed or captured in
real time. These works have been performed at such places as Mills College,
EMPAC, Artfair Miami-Basel, Miller Theater at Columbia University, and The
Boiler. Viewer participatory installations The Well and Door are in the
permanent collections of The Everson Museum and The Butler Institute of
American Art. Light Pendulum, 2009, which doubles as a performing instrument
and installation was on view at The Ontological Theater, NYC and is slated
to tour during 2010-11.  Margot Farrington, poet and performer, has
collaborated with Tony Martin at The Katonah Museum, Mills College, ArtFair
Miami Basel and other venues. Martin's website is http://www.tonymartin.us/

Margot Farrington, poet/storyteller/performer has worked in both traditional
and experimental modes, singly and in collaboration with Tony Martin.
Published poems include Flares And Fathoms (Bright Hill Press), and her work
anthologized in both the U.S. and the U.K. Farrington was a Norton Island
fellow in 2009. A reading and interview, recorded in January 2010, can be
accessed via Art On Air International radio.  She has worked extensively as
poet-in-residence with diverse audiences, independently and through Poets &
Writers.   

Thomas Dexter is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. "ERRATA.CINEMA" is a
vocabulary for live-filmmaking. Through the use of direct animation /
destruction of clear 16mm film leader projected onto a surface of
photo-sensitive oscillators, Thomas creates synesthetic light and sound
works with an emphasis on free improvisation.
Thomas has performed and exhibited throughout New York City at venues
including Roulette, Issue Project Room, The Stone, Sideshow Gallery,
Monkeytown, The Tank, Beta Spaces, 3rd Ward and in collaboration with
information artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, sound artist Maria Chavez, and as
a member of the Future Archaeology collective.

Jake Adams studied experimental music at Bennington College where he focused
on developing improvisational structures for "audience participation" as
well as solo performance. He was a member of the art-rock group "The
Gazelle's" and most recently "Globular Cluster;" an ensemble who's open
format encourages participation on all levels, from guest artists to
complete strangers.

Davidson Gigliotti began working in video in 1969. He joined the Videofreex,
an early New York video collective in that year. Since then he has been
active, both as an artist, a writer on video art history, and an arts
administrator. His video work has included multi-channel installations and
recording performance art. He was formerly the Director of Video at the
Experimental Intermedia Foundation. He is currently the President of the
Emily Harvey Foundation, an artists' residency program based in Venice,
Italy. Some of his writing can be found on the following sites:
www.davidsonsfiles.org and www.radicalsoftware.org

for more information about OptoSonic Tea please visit:
http://www.diapasongallery.org/optosonic.html