[spectre] OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason NYC - Thursday, January 11th, 8:30pm

[Katherine Liberovskaya]

Diapason, gallery for sound and intermedia presents...

Thursday January 11th
8:30pm

OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason

Live sets by:
- Andrew Deutsch (live visuals) with Stephen Vitiello (live music)
- Angie Eng (live visuals) with David Weinstein (live music) and Yumiko
Tanaka (live music)

Invited artist:
- Melanie Crean 

Suggested donation:
$ 7


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


About the artists:

Andrew Deutsch

Andrew Deutsch (b.1968) is a sound, video and graphic artist who lives in
Hornell, NY and teaches Sound & Video Art in the Division of Expanded Media
at Alfred University. He received his BFA in Video Art and Printmaking from
Alfred University in 1990 and his MFA in Integrated Electronic Art from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1994. He is a member of the Institute
for Electronic Art at Alfred University and the Pauline Oliveros Foundation
Board of Advisors and is a former member of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation
Board of Directors (1999 - 2001). Since 1998 Deutsch has released over 26
CDRs of solo electronic music on his Magic If Recordings

Stephen Vitiello

Stephen Vitiello is a sound and media artist, originally from NYC, now based
in Richmond, VA. Stephen's sound installations, objects and drawings have
been presented in solo exhibitions at The Project, NY, Museum 52, London and
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris. Group exhibitions include the 2002 Whitney
Biennial and the 2006 Sydney Biennial (in collaboration with Julie Mehretu).
CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion Records), Buffalo
Bass Delay (Hallwalls) and two recent CDRs, Inductive Music with Andrew
Deutsch (Magic If) and Untitled/Exchange with Michael J. Schumacher  (A
Question of Re-entry).  www.stephenvitiello.com

Angie Eng

Angie Eng is a media artist who works in video, installation and time-based
performance. Her current work draws from her peripatetic lifestyle and
inspiration from indigenous cultures. Eng was born in 1969 in San Francisco
California. In 1993 she moved to New York City to pursue her career in the
arts. During this time she became involved in the downtown electronic arts
scene and has collaborated on numerous video performance projects. She
co-founded The Poool a live video performance group with Nancy Meli Walker
and Benton Bainbridge in 1996-1999. Her  work has been performed and
exhibited at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, Lincoln Center Video
Festival, The Kitchen, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Renssalaer
Polytechnic Institute and Roulette Intermedium. Her videos have been
included in digital art festivals in the US and international venues in
Cuba, Greece, Japan, Germany, Former Yugoslavia and Canada. She has received
numerouse grants and commissions: New Museum of Radio and Performing Arts,
Harvestworks, Art In General, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation and Experimental TV Center. She
recently finished a video residency at VoomLabs HD and is currently
developing a cross-cultural project on privacy in urban spaces at Eyebeam,
NYC.

David Weinstein

David Weinstein is a composer and multimedia artist whose musical and
site-specific installation works have been shown worldwide. His musical
works juxtapose sound effects, traditional and non traditional instruments,
synthetic sound, ancient and exotic tunings, and noise. As a keyboardist
Weinstein has recorded and performed with musicians including Shelley
Hirsch, Elliott Sharp, John Zorn, Ned Rothenberg, Paul Dresher, Rhys Chatham
and many others from Arto Lindsay to Zeena Parkins. Weinstein also makes
theatrical, installation and site-specific multimedia pieces and is expert
in computer assisted audio and animation including streaming and interactive
media. His multimedia collaborations with video artist Doris Vila earned
them a jury prize at Ars Electronica in 2002 and a NYSCA grant in 2004.
Born in Chicago in 1954, David Weinstein studied music composition at the
University of Illinois with Ben Johnston and Salvatore Martirano. A founder
of the New York new music series Roulette, he co-directed the day-to-day
operations from 1978 to 1994. He has taught music, sound, and multimedia at
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Yale, and the City
University of New York. He has worked as a consultant, panelist, curator,
and organizer for arts organizations and companies from Morgan Stanley to
MTV. He is managing director at PS1 Museum. He has lived in Brooklyn since
1979.

Yumiko Tanaka
 
Yumiko Tanaka is a Japanese Shamisen player and a singer. She studied and
has been performing the traditional Gidayu music. Besides traditional music,
she explores and collaborates in comtemporary music, jazz, dance and
theater. She worked with Yuji Takahashi, Otomo Yoshihide, Min-Xio Fen, Ned
Rothenberg, Kiyohiko Semba, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Elliott Sharp, David Moss,
Carl Stone, Butch Morris, Heiner Goebbels, Basil Twist and among many
others. Tanaka has a Master's degree in musicology from Tokyo University of
Fine Arts and Music. In 1991 she was awarded the Minister of Education's Art
Encouragement Prize for Newcomers for the year 1990. In 1999 she received
the Committee's Special Prize at the 68th Japan Music Competition. She is an
associate professor at Hyogo University of Teacher Education. In 2006, she
was awarded a fellowship by Asian Cultural Council (ACC) and stays in NY for
five months to research current developments in contemporary performing arts
in the US.

Melanie Crean

Melanie Crean is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. As the former Director of
Production at Eyebeam, she managed a cooperative studio that supported the
production of socially based digital media. Previously, Melanie worked at
the MTV Digital Television Lab, managing a team of artists designing special
effects, motion capture and speech recognition systems. She has produced
documentaries in Nepal, India and the United States, on subjects including
women trafficking and the spread of HIV/AIDS along trucking routes in South
Asia. She has received fellowships and commissions from NYFA, NYSCA, and
Creative Time. She currently teaches at Parsons and Pratt, and is working on
a commission for Art in General, to be exhibited in April.



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