*Center for Visual Music (CVM) presents five screenings of experimental animation, visual music and abstraction, Aug 14-16 in Sonoma County (1 hour north of San Francisco).* *Aug 14*, 7 pm, 2 programs: --New Restorations & Discoveries (Fischinger, Lye, Belson, Conner, Dockum and more, featuring restorations from several archives, and rarely seen films)
--Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective. A newly revised version of CVM's popular program. Classic films by the Father of Visual Music. *Aug 15*, 7 pm, 2 programs: --Fischinger's Legacy - a program of films from artists influenced by Fischinger across eight decades --A program of New Visual Music *Aug 16*, 2 pm Treasures from the CVM Archive, a 16mm program including some rare prints. 2pm, Sebastopol Center for the Arts A discount *Screenings Pass* is available now, the first *4 screenings for $20 (early bird price)*. The fifth screening on Aug 16, is a separate ticket, it's part of the Closing Event + wine reception after. Tickets available via the CVM site below, or via Eventbrite. Note, the first four screenings are digital. Full title lists will be posted online by end of June. ******************* Screenings are in conjunction with CVM's Symposium: *CVM Symposium 2018: Exploring and Preserving Visual MusicAugust 14-16, Sonoma County, CAIn association with Sonoma State University* * centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium <http://centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium> * The *CVM Symposium 2018: Exploring and Preserving Visual Music* will explore the theories, histories and practices of Visual Music. It features two days of* talks and presentations* from international scholars, researchers, students, curators, archivists and artists (August 14-15), plus a final half day Closing Event at Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Set in Sonoma County's wine county, the Symposium also includes a *private opening reception* at a winery the evening of August 13. *Five screenings* occur throughout of historical and new visual music work. Center for Visual Music is pleased to present this symposium in association with Sonoma State University at their Rohnert Park campus in Sonoma County, CA (north of San Francisco). Opening and closing wine receptions are off-campus; the closing event is presented with Sebastopol Center for the Arts. The CVM Symposium 2018 features talks on Oskar Fischinger & *Raumlichtkunst*; James Whitney, Norman McLaren, John Cage and his interactions with Brakhage and VanDerBeek, color organs, music visualization, mapping musical scores, sonification, IML & visual music performance, hybrid analog/digital live performance, 1960s psychedelic light shows, oscilloscopes, preserving video processing instruments, an Artist's Talk by visual/sound artist Steve Roden, and much more. Also featured are several video spotlights: one by Mary Ellen Bute's biographer, and another of Barbara Fischinger discussing and demonstrating Oskar's Lumigraph. centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium Direct link to tickets on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cvm-symposium-2018-exploring-preserving-visual-music-tickets-45091049543?aff=es2 Join us in wine country! Thanks to: SSU Film Studies, Sonoma Film Institute, Brad and Mary Glanden, Kit Smyth Basquin, Jim Middleton, Conner Family Trust, Len Lye Foundation, and all the artists featured. best regards, Cindy Keefer, CVM CVM CONTACT = cvmaccess (at) gmail dot com
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