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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

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.