OptoSonic Tea @ Experimental Intermedia NYC. Thursday, October 7th,9pm
OptoSonic Tea Live sets by: - Tony Martin (live visuals) with Margot Farrington - Thomas Dexter (live film) 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 We are excited and honored to present the work of live visuals pioneer Tony Martin in collaboration with Margot Farrington and early video pioneer and historian Davidson Gigliotti as respondent/moderator. The second set will be played by Thomas Dexter (live films). 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 Centers 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. 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 Ursula Scherrer [email protected] http://www.ursulascherrer.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
