052909 SIGHT and SOUND (SONetVUE)

Eastern Bloc | 7240 Clark, 2nd floor Montreal, QC

Eastern Bloc presents SIGHTandSOUND: an immersive video experience, over 2 nights, incorporating the work of 20 artists from Canada and the United States. Combining various forms of digital arts, these artists will collaborate in a manipulation of the space at the Eastern Bloc through the use of six projection screens, encapsulating the audience in waves of sound and video. The artists’ works will travel from one screen to the other, in random sequences, creating an onslaught of sensory stimuli.

Part I (May 29) is co-curated by Eliane Ellbogen (artistic director, Eastern Bloc) and Marie-Helene Parant (Share MTL). Part II (May 30) is curated by Eliane Ellbogen.

SIGHTandSOUND: Part I will captivate its audience with 2 hours of experimental audiovisual explorations. The works presented willencompass an interactive, ambient, and minimal approach to audio and visual collaborations amongst the following artists:

Katherine Liberovskaya (mtl) and Eric Létourneau (mtl); Marie-Hélène Parant (mtl), Angela di Lauro (mtl), and François Giroux (mtl); Chris Jordan (nyc) and Maxime Rioux (mtl); David Linton (nyc); CHiKA (nyc) and Jim Bell (mtl); and Eric Filion – Nokami (mtl) and Michael Trommer (to)

SIGHTandSOUND: Part II is a spasmic array of video mash-up works by artists using a strong audio-visual link in their repertoire. In contrast to Part I, transitions from one screen to another will be quick, sound will be fast and loud, and videos will be provocative and intense. Works will be shown by the following artists:

Jubal Brown (to), Beewoo (mtl), Ouananiche (mtl), Agor (mtl), Pete O’Hearn (to), Nwodtlem (to), Bear Witness (ottawa), and Meat Parade (gatineau)

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.