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Sue Costabile, a visiting faculty member at the California College
of Art, is a curator, video art and installation artist and live cinema
performer who has presented her work internationally. Laetitia Sonami,
of the San Francisco Art Institute, is a composer, performer and sound
installation artist who designs and builds her own instruments; her
“lady’s glove” is a device that allows her to control
sound, mechanical devices and lights in real time. Working as a duo,
they will present their newest project I.C. You, which features
a live cinema stage built around a suitcase and a live foley stage
built around another suitcase, employing dry ice and sensors. Costabile
will also present her solo piece, Songs About Videos.
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New York-based video artist and musician Jarryd Lowder has been presenting his innovative live audiovisual work for many years, and is perhaps best known for his piece “Autoharp,” in which the performer plays a custom-built harp-like interface that triggers integrated video and audio. Lowder’s performances have taken place at venues throughout the world, including the PixelAche Festival in Helsinki; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, France; the Transamerica '99 Festival, San Francisco; and the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid.
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Absence/Presence is a collaboration between dance company Group
A, choreographer Alyssa Lee, video artist Mark Bartscher, and composer
Cenk Ergün. Operating at the intersection between audio-visual
synchronicities and dancer-input sensories, the artists contribute
freely and sometimes independently of one another. Group A is
committed to bringing dance closer to new media art forms, ranging
from installation pieces to new technology to conceptual works that
investigate pop culture and gender. A native of Turkey,
Cenk Ergün is an Oakland based composer and laptop performer.
This year, Cenk is one among the nine American composers nominated
for the prestigious Gaudeamus Prize.
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Improvising on custom audiovisual software, Cinema Cycles 07.3
processes and assembles image sequences and short narrative
elements, sounds, text and video live according to spontaneity and
flow. Mirroring the emotional state of the performer, this is a
visual journey into controlled aleatoric real-time cinema, a simultaneity
and succession of locations, worlds, texts and memories about
the metropolis, the urban experience, the city inhabited, dehumanized,
uncanny, utopian. Ran Slavin has released CDs and DVDs for numerous
electronic music labels, such as Mille Plateaux or sub rosa.
This performance has been made possible thanks to the support
of the Consulate General of Israel, San Francisco.
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Barcelona-based cultural agitator solu is a Finnish media artist,
teacher and activist whose work includes organizing events and workshops;
speaking about robots, audiovisual culture and tactical sound; writing
about digital media and live cinema; creating her own sound and visual
art; and performing live cinema works. Solu began performing visuals
as part of the audiovisual improvisational band called DADATA in 2001,
and after the dissolution of the group she continued as SOLU, collaborating
with many other artists and musicians at numerous festivals across
the world. For Live Cinema Nights, solu will do a solo video improvisation
called taxi, take-off and landing.
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Meta is an artist who utilizes generative processes to create richly
textured audio, video, and graphic works. Since 2000, his work has
been performed and exhibited worldwide, as well as featured in a number
of books and publications. He is a co-author of the book "Generative
Design: Beyond Photoshop". He will be performing a live improvisation
featuring the interaction of generative sound & abstract visual
forms.
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Joshua Kit Clayton is a San Francisco-based DJ, electronic musician,
producer and live cinema artist, as well as the main author of the software jitter, which allows for the programming, editing
and visualizing of audio, video and 3D. Over the last
decade, Clayton has released music on several labels, including Mille
Plateaux, Parallel and Plug Research, and he currently runs the minimal
techno label Cytrax Records with partners DJ Jasper and Tang, as well
as Orthlorng Musork. Joshua will perform an underwater
piece called Aquavision with video camera, sand, strobe light,
saliva, water and a fish tank.
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Scratchy, buzzing analog pulsates across visual moans and aural electrons in Scott Arford’s TV-IV, where microphones attached inside TV sets are imprisoned in an endless loop of input-feedback monitored on the outside by the performer’s laptop. Light becomes sound and sound becomes light. At one moment haunting, at another humorous, and even later screeching and howling brightly, this piece reminds us of Fluxus and sleepless nights awash in static.
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Founded in 2000, RyBN is a Paris-based multi-field artistic collective
specializing in the realization of installations, performances and
interfaces by referring to both the codified systems of artistic representation
(painting, architecture, counter-cultures) and to human and physic
phenomena (such as geopolitics, sensory perception and cognitive systems).
Their axes of research include the construction of a “semantics
of the convergence” via the coupling, diversion and perversion
of writing and tools connected with the technologies of communication,
information and the senses (webs, data flows, smell, surveillance,
etc.). Since 2001, RyBN, has worked in collaboration with Eol-Industries,
a company that develops technological solutions for controlled smell.
A/U_[EEE008] incorporates the artists’ trademark olfactory
technology for a multisensorial immersive experience of desolate urban
landscapes.
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In their collaborative performance of the net.art piece Respam, Los Angeles-based VJ Tim Jaeger and Romanian visual artist Alex Dragulescu use custom-made software and a database of more than 50,000 spam messages in a melding of narrative VJing, creative coding, typographic 2D design and computer music into a unique audiovisual experience.
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In Silmukka, Helsinki-based artist Samuli Alapuranen, performing as O Samuli A, mixes melancholy and melodic low-fi sound and black-and-white imagery to craft a dreamy piece about furry mechanical animals. Alapuranen is a graphic designer and animator for the Finnish Broadcasting Company, but since the mid-90s, he has become known for a series of acclaimed experimental films, music production and audiovisual performances often using low-tech consumer keyboards and a nostalgic sound.
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Sound designer Guillermo Galindo and independent filmmaker and video artist Gustavo Vazquez from Mexico will present a live version of their installation Glance, which was made by asking diverse residents of San Francisco about their hopes and ideas about the future, and is performed using their cyber-totemic instruments. Galindo will mix the audio, which includes music, languages, accents and composed rhythms, while Galindo will mix the visuals to create a communal and dynamic image of the future from the community, rather than one imposed on people from the outside.
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Brian Ziffer is Naoism, a live, cinematic, audiovisual performance.
Both music & audio are performed in real time, giving each show
an authentic, multi-sensory experience. The music is multi-genre -
from ambient & abstract to hip-hop / jungle / drum n bass, as
well as various acoustic instruments performed live. Visually, Naoism
explores many realms - narratives, live-action, painterly abstracts,
animation - all scratched, triggered, synchronized and cut-up using
custom software, programmed specifically for each piece.
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Dmitry Kmelnitsky is a composer, designer and media artist who explores
narrative and innovative approaches to communication through motion-based,
immersive and interactive audiovisual media. Yong Ha Jeong is a performer
and graduate student of ethnomusicology at UCLA. Together, they will present
an audiovisual performance featuring the lyrical sounds of Uchronia and the
poetic live-action/motion graphics/animation of Lustre.
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For the last several years, Colombia-based artist Vanessa Gocksch
has performed as a VJ under the name Pata de Perro, and is known for
the rich textures and saturated colors of her video footage, which
she mixes live. Using the many rhythms of Colombia’s disparate
regions, as well as political discourse and sarcastic comedy, she
will show us a place “where people dance with angry bulls, where
the carnival makes a farce out of death and where the wind blows the
spirit of true liberty” in a rich audiovisual experience that
responds to “the beauty of the moment, unrepeatable and volatile”.
She will be performing to the grooves of turntablist hip-hop DJ Anthony
Valadez.
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Nuutti initially studied philosophy and arts history in Turku, Finland.
His interest in electronic music led him to produce visual material
for the scene. Around 1999 he started to experiment with moving images
and VJ work, and never stopped. In his performances, he recycles material
from his short movies and animations, creating a visual style that
might be described as the imagery of 18th century phantasmagoria meeting
Terry Gilliam in the computer lab. “Engaging in semipolitical sodomy,
these cut-out monsters of the Id ram on their grotesque trip”.
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Digital graffiti artist VJ Synesthete + electronic musician Steve Nalepa present
Kure Kure, built on custom OpenGL software and pastoral ambient
glitch. They foreground the nexi of a networked globe, informed
by Synesthete’s nighttime digitally projected raids with collective
Artificial Eyes on urban advertising space monopolized by the corporate
sector. Similarly irreverent composer Steve Nalepa has collaborated
with Bill Laswell, George Clinton and Pharoah Sanders.
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