101207 EYEWASH *Storyscapes*

Monkeytown :: 58 N 3rd St (btw. Kent & Wythe) Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Seatings at 7:30pm and 10pm. $5
Space is limited, reservations recommended.
Call 718.384.1369 or email monkeytownhq@aol.com for reservations.

featured video + audio artists include:
Jon Keith Brunelle
Adam Kendall + Richard Garet
CHiKA + DJ ActivePhaze
Vanessa + Ray Velasquez

Movement collaborators include: Rebekah Kennedy, Eric Dunlap.

Music by DJ ActivePhaze

Directions from the L Train:
1. Exit at the Bedford stop (the 1st stop in Brooklyn).
2. Walk 4 blocks south on Bedford,
3. Make a right on N. 3rd St. (west)
4. Walk an additional 2 and 1/2 (west) on N 3rd.
MonkeyTown is halfway down the block on the left.

about the artists:

Jon Keith Brunelle calls his work laptop storytelling: rapid-fire digital slide shows comprising hundreds of vintage movie stills, remixed to form satiric new stories that he tells in live voiceover. For *Storyscapes* he will deliver another solo performance featuring a new episode in my series of Jack Bauer “24″ remixes. Jon is the founder of The Psychasthenia Society,which is dedicated to the performance of political and cultural satire as digital spectacle.

Adam Kendall and Richard Garet will present a live audio-visual set with motion artists Eric Dunlap and Rebekah Kennedy. Kendall will work with a live camera and custom software to manipulate Dunlap and Kennedy’s movements in real-time, and Garet will create environmental and microtonal sounds from his computer-based system. Kendall/Garet will create both figurative and abstract audio-video from their real-time processing of real-world images and sounds. Adam is a video-artist and musician living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Through his own work and the A/V series he curates, Adam explores the means of multimedia improvisation and composition. Richard is a sound artist, a video artist, and a painter. He is interested in the phenomena found and produced in aural and visual time-based media, in nature’s processes, and human beings’ relationship with both artificial and natural environments.

CHiKA will mix a story called “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics” which is a book written and illustrated by Norton Juster, first published by Random House in 1963. This two channel performance will feature a score by DJ ActivePhaze. CHiKA is a live computer visuals artist working within New York’s expanded cinema community and VJ scene. Her videos implement geometric minimalist patterns and original graphics in unique, repetitive combinations. Chika works exclusively with Module8 from Gragecube in Switzerland.

Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez directs “Somnex in Luminem”, a live video/dance/soundscape interaction featuring dancers whose movement and form are abstracted to various degrees to create a projected misc-èn-scene of real-time performance. A 3-way conversation among media and senses in space and time. Continuing the experiment from “Untitled#1″, this performance is a excerpt from the larger piece “We Hide Our Monsters Underneath Our Pillows”, a story of resolutions in the realm of vivid dreaming. Soundscape selection and live camera feed by DJ Ray Velasquez and feature motion artists Eric Dunlap and Rebekah Kennedy.
Nyculture Rgb150EyeWash is an event where VJs and Video artists perform live-mix video, present audio visual performances in collaboration with Audio and Motion artists, workshop live performance involving video and technology. EyeWash is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

092207 The MenschMeerMedien Festival


MenschMeerMedien
Nordwolle Delmenhorst Am Turbinenhaus 10-12 27749 Delmenhorst

The MenschMeerMedien Festival takes part at the old industry culture site Nordwolle in the middle of Europe, which was a famous woolmill in the time of industrialization. Between the red brick stone fassades, towers and bridges and in the old steam-machine-hall visitors will find actual media art from artists in Germany, Poland and the U.S..

Live Concerts
Barbara Buchholz (Berlin)
Mikro Orchestra (Breslau)

Interactive-Media-Art
BNC (SHARE.bremen)

Fassade-Projections
Eric Dunlap + Holly Daggers (New York)
ChiKa Iijima (New York) + i8u(Canada)

Live Electro Sound
Axel Himmelmann (Bremen)
Andreas Genz (Bremen)

Live classic canto:
Dorothea Wegelein (Bremen)
Lidia Visconti (Berlin/ Danzig)

VJ+Video Art
Dan Winkler (SHARE.newyork)
Pedda Borowski (Berlin)
Swaantje König (Dresden)
Adam Witkowski (Danzig),
Maciej Szupica (Danzig)
VJane Danuzja (Danzig)
Agata Michowska (Posen)

Light-Installations
Franz Betz (Hannover)

Curator: Martin Koplin
Magda Ziomek-Beims

A project by: M2C – mobile2culture Institute Bremen, SHARE.bremen, Nordwestdeutsches Museum fuer IndustrieKultur, agitPolska, Kulturbuero Delmenhors

092107 Decibel Festival

CHiKA is vjing for Alland Byallo for decibel festival 2007 in Seattle.


CHiKA and Killingfrenzy are vjing for 3 channels for decibel festival 2007 in Seattle.

The 4th Annual Decibel International Festival of Electronic Music Performance, Visual Art and New Media is happening September 20th through the 23rd in Seattle. This year’s program features over 60 artists presented in 14 showcases, representing 9 countries across 9 venues, each being outfitted with custom sound and video. In keeping with festival tradition, expect to experience a broad range of cutting-edge electronic music based performances from international talent of the highest caliber.


09207-092907 Super PHAT

Tuesday, September 18, 6-8pm: exhibition reception
Visual Arts Gallery :: 601 West 26th Street, 15th Floor, New York NY 10001

School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City, and the SVA Japan Alumni Association present “Super Phat,” a multimedia exhibition that highlights the work of Japanese alumni and alumni living in Japan. Working in a variety of media, more than 40 established and emerging artists explore how their exposure to Japanese and American cultures has informed their work.

The word “phat” an American slang word for “cool” in the exhibition title, plays off the word “fat,” referring to work that has adopted, absorbed, taken in, eaten and digested culture and has grown, extended and expanded because of that absorption. Forty-one artists including ON megumi Akiyoshi, Chika Iijima, Takahiro Kaneyama, Kanako Sasaki, Junko Shimizu, Yuko Shimizu, Kiriko Shirobayashi, Yuken Teruya and Chiaki Watanabe have produced illustrations, photographs, paintings, sculpture and video installations as result of this fusion between Japanese and American cultures. The exhibition is curated by Marshall Arisman, chair of SVA’s MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department; Re Sato-Manni, a member of the Japan Alumni Association; and Retsu Takahashi, a Japanese-American alumnus. The exhibition is organized by Elaine Chow, associate director of alumni affairs.

The complete list of artists whose work will be on view is: Kathleen Adair, ON megumi Akiyoshi, Asterism (Naoko Takemoto), Masako Ebata, Mihoko Hakata, Shisei Hashimura, Katsumi Hayakawa, Rie Hayakawa, Chika Iijima & Zach Layton, Kazuyo Inoue, Takahiro Kaneyama, Chie Machida, Scean Mitchell, Aki Morita, Yoriko Nagae, Kimihiko Nagase, Yuko Nakajima, Masayoshi Nakamura, Hiro Ohta, Kei Okada, Fumiyo Osawa, Mikiko Otaki, Kanako Sasaki, Junko Shimizu, Shungo Shimizu, Yuko Shimizu, Kiriko Shirobayashi, Reiko Sugitani, Miho Suzuki, Ko Takeuchi, Daisuke Takeya, Tomomi Tanikawa, Ai Tatebayashi, Yuken Teruya, Masako Toyoda, Miyuki Tsushima, Nao Uda, Mine Umeda, Chiaki Watanabe, Junko Yasumaru and Hiroko Yoshida.

For more info go to School Visual Art