033005 [kure u] @ LUCKY CAT, New York

LUCKY CAT: 245 Grand Street Williamsburg, NY
7:30-10:00 Free

SAWAKO is a Japanese sound artist currently living in New York City. She graduated Keio University, SFC, JAPAN, in 2002, where she studied computing culture and sound design with Christopher Penrose, as well as”environmental information” as an interdisciplinary approach. She has performed in Japan, USA, Paris and London. She makes soundscapes graced with beautiful silences, the poetics of petite sounds, mixer feedback, computer prossesing, and field recording, and the various sounds of her immediate environment. Almost paradoxical in nature, Sawako’s music encompasses both deep contemplation and a arbitrary randomness.

MPLD – prepared and processed slide projectors. The photoacoustic continuum of MPLD’s projection slowly flows into the performance space carrying fragments from unidentified places and times. Fades and cuts play with memory’s subjective persistence, as light and darkness keep carving out e ach one from the other. The mechanical sounds of this projection are tapped and processed to become its own soundtrack. Color, density, texture, frequency become simultaneous qualities of the light and the sound, as they are explored in a way somewhat analogue to the distorted
enlargement of a magnifying glass.

( ) is an artist born in Wallingford, England who now lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn. He is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings doing interactive and ambient-reactive installations. Otherwise known as ( ) Jeremy Slater uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. He 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.

NORTH GUINEA HILLS is Aaron Halley who started DJing in Florida while in various noise/improv combos before moving to NYC. He got his start in NYC w/ DJ Olive/Toshio Kajiwara’s Phonomena party at Subtonic. He has formed groups that have performed everything from primitive dadaist hiphop to realizations of works from Bernard Parmegiani and Steve Reich to free psyche folk. He also has performed for free103point9’s radio art performance tune-(in)))) (2003), performed turntabilized interperetations of Michael Count’s Surrealist landscape sculpture “the world” for the Gale Gates gallery, and has recently performed for Share’s “Anyware” at the Kitchen (part of the New Sound New york festival) where he collaborated w/ Sean Smith, clarkovsaturn, and remotely
(via webstream) w/ Ryoko Kuwajima while she was in London.

SHIGE MORIYA, born 1967 in Kyoto, Japan, is a video artist and curator. He has been in New York since 1993, He first worked as an exhibition curator in Soho, but in 1996 Moriya moved to Williamsburg and opened CAVE. Since then he has been CAVE¹s Artistic and Executive Director. He has presented his video pieces both locally and internationally in Germany, Japan and Vietnam. In 2002 he received a grant for a residence in Hanoi, which was partly funded by the Ford Foundation.

CHiKA works with abstract images, movement, and emotional states with a minimalist aesthetic. It illustrates how one’s past is linked to one’s present and how ever-changing feelings affect the perception of each moment. In collaboration with musicians,she combines video with graphic imagery to traverse a range of emotion. She also has performed Galapagos, Tonic, The Lucky Cat and several other places.
Chika lives and works in New York City.

051105 EYEWASH *Art Is…*

Remote Lounge: 327 Bowery (at 2nd Street)
9pm – 1am **FREE**

DOCTOR T (EMILE TOBENFELD)’s artistic sensibility is strongly influenced by his education (Ph.D in Physics), and his fascination with improvisation in all forms. His sonic and visual experiments apply a scientist’s and photographer’s eye for texture, geometry, form, and the interaction of light and surface, a strong sense of collage, and an abiding curiosity about technology’s use in creating music and visual art. Dr.T is joined by CLAIRE BARRATT of Cilla_Vee Movement Projects. Claire specialized in Motion Sculpture, a unique art form in which the artist becomes a living sculpture piece. Gradually melting and morphing through transitions of shifting forms, constantly reinventing itself. Special audio by DEKNOW.

With BRAD SWINDELL no video stream from any source is safe from being yanked out of the air and dropped into his laptop. Once there, clips are mixed, scratched, and looped to music, creating a whole new context for the images. Next thing you know, Celebrity Boxing is playing with Radiohead, and Bollywood clips are jumping to Basement Jaxx beats.

CHARLES ATLAS is a filmmaker and video artist who has created numerous works for stage, screen, museum, and television. Atlas is a pioneer in the development of media-dance, a genre in which original performance work is created directly for the camera. Atlas worked as filmmaker-in-residence with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for ten years, and many of the Atlas’ works have been collaborations with choreographers, dancers, and performers, including Yvonne Rainer, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramovic, Diamanda Galas, John Kelly, and Leigh Bowery. Atlas is the recipient of three Bessie (New York Dance and Performance) Awards. His feature-length film “Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance” won the Best Documentary Award at Dance Screen 2000 in Monaco. His work has been shown at international institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Geoerges Pompidou, Paris; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

CHIKA IIJIMA is a visual artist from Japan who has been living and working in New York City since the early 90’s. She combines video with graphic imagery to traverse an emotional range by processing them through real-time programs such as Modul8. She integrates music to further explore how physical and rhythmic modulations affect human emotions and vice-versa.

Music by resident DJs Duane Reade and Krou