Tuesday, September 8th
8 pm
Live sets by:
- Martin Blazicek (live visuals) with Bryan Eubanks (live sound)
- Jeremy D. Slater ( ) (live visuals and sound) with WvS (live sound)
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Suggested donation: $ 7
about the artists:
Martin Blazícek
Born 1976, czech film/video maker, multimedia performer. Founding member of expanded cinema group Ultra, since 2002 solo film performer with occasional cooperation with various filmmakets and musicians. He made 17 films on 16 and 8mm since 1997, in last years working more frequently on live film screening. He previously cooperated with Martin Jezek, Tonic Train, Guyla Nemes, Beth Custer, Arszyn, Ond?ej Vavrecka and others. His work is an amalgam of structural film, hand-made abstracts and home-made optical printing. Since 2004 he started to use video as a medium, which results to collaboration with Steven Ball on web based streaming project Eutopia. Blazícek was also curator of NoD experimental space in Prague (2006-2008) and post-graduate student of Academy of performing arts Prague, recently teaches at FAMU Center of audiovisual studie. His current projects include collaborative video performing, series of shows with multiple 16mm screening Mikroloops and cooperation on a live Super-8 performance with Kate?ina Zochová.
http://www.blazicek.net
Filmography:
Study 10 (Titan), Night (Stories), Study 9, Luna-Luna-Luna, Image Description, Study 8, Pour J.B./ Our J., Hérakleitos, Short films 99-00, Psoty lopoty, Study 2-7, Study 1, Copyright Kren, The Gray Zone, Fragment, NP55-neg.film, Test, Neo-B
Performances/Live works:
42:43 asi, Mikroloops, ***/untitled, Eutopia, P-P (pleonasm), Š28sq, Periferie, Koridor, Walking Man, Lumiere Project, Ultra
Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, Pasco, WA.) is focused on collaborative improvisation, solo musical projects, and sound installations, and has performed his work in live settings across the US, Europe, Japan, and Korea. Originally a saxophonist, his work has expanded to include computer music and instruments of his own design that incorporate open-circuits, samplers, and other electronics. He became musically active in the late 90's in Portland, Oregon as a performer and organizer and worked extensively with Joe Foster, Jean-Paul Jenkins, Leif Sundstrom, Doug Theriault, GOD, Super Unity, and many others. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY. where he develops music with Andrew Lafkas in a myriad of settings, works on solo music and sound installations, and collaborates frequently with other musicians and artists.
http://www.rasbliutto.net/bryaneubanks/main.html
Jeremy D. Slater ( ) is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings. He uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. His sound work consists of field recordings as a base to create processed drones with tabletop guitar, toys, circuit bent items, and ambient noise. Performances include live performed video that is ambient and reactive. Video work also includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture.
Jeremy was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. Collaborators have included Patrick Todd (Red Chair), Shige Moriya (Cave), Ximena Garnica (LEIMAY), Yuko Kaseki, Minako Seki, Takuya Muramatsu, Yann Keller, Maria Moran, Tamara Yadao, Richard Garet, EA, Marie Evelyn, Gregory Reynolds, Ann Adachi, Ed Bear, Sara Sun, Rhiannon Gibbs, Xavier Becerra, Daniel Carter, Stefano Scippa, Matt Motel, Andrea Williams, Ned Mooney, NYSAE (New York Society for Acoustic Ecology) and is also a member of ROTC (Rubaiyats of the Cicadas) with Aaron Halley (North Guinea Hills), Red Chair (with Patrick Todd), t? (with Tamara Yadao), and Frogwell (with Richard Kamerman, Bob Lukomski, Robert Hardin, Tamara Yadao). Jeremy has peformed and/or exhibited with Front Room, Diapason, Issue Project Room, The Whitney Biennial (NPR), Bridge Art Fair, Fountain, Hogar Collection, Perpetual Art Machine, The Tank, Collective Unconscious, Chashama, Electronic Church, KuLe, Tonic, The Stone, fotofono, Goodbye Blue Monday, monkey town, opensource, Cave Art Space, Grace Exhibition Space, Plan B, Theater for the New City for The New York Butoh Festival, Clink Street Gallery, and 7hz. http://www.jeremyslater.net http://www.parenthesismusic.com http://www.myspace.com/parenthesis
WvS is a New York City based sound organizer and software engineer, who studied computer music composition, classical composition and music theory in Europe with composers Jolyon Brettingham-Smith, Morton Feldman, Gyoergy Ligeti, Roland Pfrengle, Luigi Nono, Wolfgang Rihm, Mathias Spahlinger and in the US with John Cage.
He wrote software for robotic systems & the Internet, composed for orchestra, chamber ensemble & solo instrument and conceptualized & realized computer controlled interactive performances. WvS further lectured at IDEA'92 in Rotterdam on Internet based artists' community projects, attended as a Sponsored Fellow and performed at the "Darmstadt Ferienkurse fuer Neue Musik" in 1986 as well as many European Computer Music conferences since then.
Apart from having been the General Manager of "Knitting Factory Records" and running his own record label "noharmdone" for many years, he was Artist-in-Residence at Harvestworks, toured all over Europe & and performed in New York City at Roulette, the Knitting Factory, the Generator Sound Gallery. His recent work emerges from collaborations with leading experimental video and audio artists such ( ), Richard Garet, Chika and Lady Firefly and has been performed at {R}AKE, FLOW, Flux Factory, Video as an Instrument, Good Bye Blue Monday, Warper, Goliath Visual Space, and other venues. A selection of these A/V collaborations has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art Barcelona and at the COSMONOISE 2009 festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. WvS his currently working on two DVD projects and otherwise keeps himself intellectually inspired through the study of contemporary concepts of AI, cellular automata, chaos theory and analog systems modeling. His current improvisational electronic work is inspired by the contemporary noise, experimental electronic, ambient and Japanese 'onkyo' genres.
http://www.myspace.com/thesoundofwvs
http://iwvs.am
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