121308 vBrooklyn at Polytechnic University

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

Presented in cooperation with the Integrated Digital Media Institute, Forward Motion Theater and Harvestworks

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

The evening includes performances and screenings focusing on the complexity and detail that make Brooklyn a unique city within a city, including pieces written specifically for IDMI’s 9 channel video system.

$5 admission for the entire afternoon

2:00 pm — Video Screenings

(+) Piama Habibullah, James Charles Daher – ‘broken land: NOW’

(+) Jared Lamenzo – ‘Brooklyn Bridge’

(+) Kimberly Simpson, Brian Colby – ‘Saint Agnieska, Patroness of the Waterfront’

(+) vydavy sindikat – ‘a voyage to Laputa’

(+) David Watson – ‘Wasted’

(+) Tamara Yadao – ‘Red Hook Sugar’

2:30 pm — IDMI’s Featured Screening and Discussion of the 9 Channel Video System

IDMI presents a screening by its graduate students followed by a demonstration and discussion of the technology behind their custom 9 channel video system.

(+) Gary Acers, Richard Lewis and Lan Xu – ‘Global Flittr’

3:00 pm — Video Performances

(+) Chika (with musician WvS) – ‘110408′

(+) Bruce Tovsky – ‘Elegy’

4:00 pm — Video Performances

(+) Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer – ‘Coney Island Moves’

(+) Karl Mendonca – ‘A Tiny Patch of Sky.’

Installations
IDMI presents ongoing interactive installations featuring its custom 9
channel video system.

(+) Bilge Demirtas, Laura Lou and Lenin Paulino – ‘Real-time Editing’

(+) Caroline Bouchat, Angeline Su-Ching Chang and Catalin Stefanovici – ‘Club Hello’

Wunsch Hall at Polytechnic University
Six MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718 260-3600

A,C,F to Jay Street/Borough Hall
2,3,4,5 to Borough Hall
M,R to Lawrence Street
Q,B to Dekalb Avenue

120907 OPTO SONIC TEA


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.

120306 VBROOKLYN

GALAPAGOS ART SPACE :: 70 North 6th Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn :: $5

Brooklyn – A video-festival about Brooklyn as a place and Video as an artform. As Brooklyn’s development hits critical-mass, the vBrooklyn video-festival documents the borough’s evolving cityscape through contemporary video-art. Video-artists will present live video-performances and screenings, helping to build a dynamic historic record of Brooklyn through personal interpretation and literal documentation.

6:30pm – Doors Open

7:00pm – Video Screenings

(+) Benton-C Bainbridge & Evidence – ‘(a)Bridge’
(+) Elle Burchill – ‘Demolition (Brooklyn Style)’
(+) Christopher Curtin – ‘Giving Up the Ghost’
(+) Andy Graydon – ‘Conductant’
(+) Giles Hendrix – ‘Transit’
(+) Janene Higgins – ‘Tunnel Vision’
(+) Chris Jordan - ’step b’
(+) Leif Krinkle & Karl Channell – ‘B61 Scan: Redhook to Greenpoint’
(+) David Last – ‘Coney II (for SEQ3 and SEIN)’
(+) Zach Layton – ‘Greenpoint Warehouse Fire’
(+) Elizabeth Smolarz – ‘Lucie / Jan’

8:15pm – Live Video Performances

(+) Naval Cassidy – ‘Twice a Rat’
(+) Madeleine Gallagher – ‘FBF RFG/MMG’
(+) Adam Kendall with Brian Moran – ‘Negative City’

9:30pm – Live Video Performances

(+) Luke DuBois – (title TBD)
(+) Chika Iijima with Zach Layton – ‘Chronos IV’
(+) Bruce Tovsky – ‘Underpass | Section One’

vBrooklyn is supported by Forward Motion Theater, The Independence Community Foundation, and The Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds program, which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and mediaThe Foundation.

091106 UNITY GAIN

SPIEGELTENT :: pier 17 at the south street seapor
Darmstadt Classics of the Avant Garde & the hausofouch nyc present Unitygain 911 ‘06


live audio

Zach Layton & Bruce Tovsky
O.blaat & Sawako
David Last & Nicolas Sauser
Bubblyfish & Glomag
Charles Cohen & David Linton
Honeychild & DJ Olive the Audio Janitor

real time video mix
Luke Dubois
CHiKA
Lu(x)z
SEEj
Adam Kendall
Peter Shapiro
c.h.i.a.k.i


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