IMAGIMA

Special OptoSonic Tea event, fundraiser for Issue Project Room

Featuring:
Lady Firefly (live visuals) + Paul Amitai (live sound)
Chika (live visuals) + bubblyfish (live sound)
Marie-Helene Parant (live visuals) + Jim Bell (live sound) (Montreal, Canada)
David Linton (live visuals + sound)
Katherine Liberovskaya/Peter Shapiro (live visuals) + Hitoshi Kojo (live sound) (Japan/CH)
Ursula Scherrer (live visuals) + Kato Hideki (live sound)

Invited artist/respondent-moderator: Bruce Tovsky

OptoSonic Tea is a new 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

Bruce Tovsky is a visual/sound artist based in in Brooklyn, New York. After earning his MFA degree in Multimedia from Rutgers University in 1979, Tovsky began showing his video work across the USA, as well as Europe and Japan.

vBrooklyn
: A video festival about Brooklyn as a place and video as an art form

November 30 to December 2, 2007, at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, in cooperation with the
Integrated Digital Media Institute and Forward Motion Theater.

The vBrooklyn video-festival documents Brooklyn, NY’s, evolving cityscape, culture and people with contemporary video-art. The festival presents innovative and entertaining video-artists through live video-performances, screenings and installations.

Brooklyn’s urban development and population has hit critical-mass vBrooklyn asked video-artists to tape the borough before it permanently transforms, building a visual historic record through personal interpretation and documentation.

Sunday December 2 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm

The day includes technical demonstrations of IDMI’s 9 channel video system; a performance by R. Luke DuBois specially written for the system; panel discussions; and a screening of Michael Miscione’s “The City of Greater New York: The Story of Consolidation”, a chronicle of Brooklyn’s end as an independent city.

$5 admission for the day (Artists listed in alphabetical order)

1:00 pm Video Screenings

(+) Jeanne Angel - ‘i [heart] brooklyn’
(+) Al Griffin - ‘South 2nd Street’
(+) Tamara Yadao - ‘Miss Brooklyn’

1:30 pm The City of Greater New York: The Story of Consolidation

(+) Michael Miscione - ‘The City of Greater New York: The Story of Consolidation’

2:30 pm Presentations, Demonstrations, and Talks

(+) Insook Choi & Carl Skelton - ‘BrookLynX’
(+) Ardis Kadiu
(+) Anton Marini
(+) Panel Discussion and Q/A with R. Luke DuBois, Carl Skelton, Ardis Kadiu and Anton Marini

4:00 pm R. Luke DuBois and Todd Reynolds with Satoshi Takeishi

A special performance by multimedia artist, educator and software programmer R. Luke DuBois, presenting a piece specially written for IDMI’s 9 channel video system.

(+) R. Luke DuBois (with musician Todd Reynolds & Satoshi Takeishi)

4:30 pm Video Performances

(+) CHiKA (with musician Sawako) - ‘chronos v’
(+) Adam Kendall (with musician Richard Garet)
(+) Lady Firefly (with musician Zemi17) - ‘Under the Urban Blanket’

Video Installations

(+) Bettina Johae - ‘bedford avenue - brooklyn - ny’

For more info to go vBrooklyn video-festival