Please note, this event will be held at Experimental Intermedia!
Monday, January 12th
9 pm
Live sets by:
- Alexandra Dementieva
(live video) and Michael Attias (saxophone)
- Aki Onda (slide projection) and Alan Licht (guitar)
Invited moderator / respondent:
- Amanda McDonald
Crowley
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Suggested donation: $ 7
Experimental
Intermedia
224 Centre Street, 3rd Floor
New York NY 10013
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about the artists:
Alexandra Dementieva
is a multi-media artist based in Brussels. Her main interest is application
of social psychology and perception in multimedia interactive installations.
She manages to create installations in which numerous cultural forms of
expression, such as dance, music, film, environments and performance are
being given a meaningful place. She links the "open" work of art to the
freedom of the spectator to assemble his or her own images. In her work
there is no trace of one way traffic - not from the art work to the spectator,
nor in making the art work as the frozen form of one or the other hunch
or reflection. Her video work integrates different elements, including
behavioral psychology and developing narrative through a point of view
of subjective camera.
alexdementieva.org/
Michaël Attias
has been active in New York City as saxophonist, composer, and improvisor
since 1994. Upcoming CD releases include Volume 5 of Paul Motian On Broadway
for Winter&Winter, Sean Conly's Re:Action for Clean Feed, John Hebert's
Byzantine Monkey for Firehouse 12, as well as the debut CD of Attias'
Quintet Twines of Colesion, recorded live in Portugal in June 08. Both
this album, and the second of Attias' trio Renku will be released on Clean
Feed in 2009. He will be performing a live electronic score to Robert
Woodruff's stage adaptation of Notes From Underground at Yale Repertory
Theatre in Spring 2009.
www.myspace.com/michaelattias
Aki Onda is
an electronic musician, composer, and photographer. Onda was born in Japan
and currently resides in New York. He is particularly known for his Cassette
Memories project -- works compiled from a "sound diary" of field-recordings
collected by Onda over a span of two decades. Onda's musical instrument
of choice is the cassette Walkman. Not only does he capture field recordings
with the Walkman, he also physically manipulates multiple Walkmans with
electronics in his performances. In another of his projects, Cinemage,
Onda produces slide projections of still photo images set to live guitar
improvisation. Onda has collaborated with artists such as Michael Snow,
Ken Jacobs, Alan Licht, Loren Connors, Oren Ambarchi, Noël Akchoté,
Jac Berrocal, Linda Sharrock, and Shelley Hirsch.
www.akionda.net
Over the past two
decades, guitarist Alan Licht has worked with a veritable who's
who of the experimental world, from free jazz legends (Rashied Ali, Derek
Bailey) and electronica wizards (Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke) to turntable masters
(DJ Spooky, Christian Marclay) and veteran Downtown New York composers
(John Zorn, Rhys Chatham). He has released five albums of compositions
for tape and solo guitar, and his sound and video installations have been
exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. With Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, he founded
Text of Light, an ongoing ensemble which performs freely improvised concerts
alongside screenings of classic avant garde cinema. Licht was curator
at the famed New York experimental music venue Tonic from 2000 until its
closing in 2007, and has written extensively about the arts for the WIRE,
Modern Painters, Art Review, Film Coment, Sight & Sound, Premiere, Purple,
Village Voice, New York Sun, Time Out New York, and other publications.
His book Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Media, the first extensive survey
of the genre in English, was published by Rizzoli in fall 2007.
myspace.com/alanlicht
Amanda McDonald Crowley is Executive Director of Eyebeam in New York (www.eyebeam.org). She is a cultural worker, curator and facilitator who specialises in creating new media and contemporary art events and programs that encourage cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and exchange. Amanda was executive producer for ISEA2004, the International Symposium for Electronic Arts 2004, held in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland, and on a cruiser ferry in the Baltic sea. She was Associate Director, Adelaide Festival 2002 and in this position was also Chair of the working group that curated the exhibition and symposium 'conVerge: where art and science meet'. From 1995 to 2000 she was Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) where she made significant links with science and industry by developing a range of residencies for artists in settings such as science organizations, contemporary art spaces and virtual residencies online; developing cross-disciplinary masterclasses for artists and curators; as well as beginning to establish links with media artists and organizations in Asia. She previously worked with a range of arts organizations in Australia including the Australia Council for the Arts (the federal government's arts funding and advisory body), Arts Training Australia (conducting research for a multimedia education and training strategy), and Electronic Media Arts Australia (incorporating the Australian Video Festival). She has done residencies in Berlin, Germany (1994/5), at Sarai in Delhi, India (2002/3), and Banff Center, Canada (2002), regularly speaks at international conferences and festivals, occasionally writes for journals such as Artlink, RealTime and the Sarai Reader, and lurks on a lot of media, technology and culture related email lists.
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