[spectre] Mini OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason NYC - Tuesday, May 17th, 8pm

[Katherine Liberovskaya]

Tuesday, May 17

8 pm

Mini OptoSonic Tea

We are very happy to have Carole Kim from Los Angeles and Carmina
Escobar from Mexico City as our guests for the next OptoSonic Tea.
Please note, Diapason has moved a couple of blocks south.

Carole Kim (live visuals) with Carmina Escobar (live sound)

Suggested donation:
$ 7

Diapason (at its NEW location)
220 36th Street, Studio 407
BROOKLYN (Sunset Park)
(718) 499-5070
directions: D, N or R train to 36th Street in Brooklyn


OptoSonic Tea is a 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

OptoSonic Tea is partly funded by the Experimental Television Center.
The Experimental Television Center¹s Presentation Funds program is
supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.


About the artists:

Carole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on live video
performance and performance-based video installation. Kim explores
video for its most tactile, expressive and responsive potential as a
live medium. She is interested in creating activated spaces that are
conceptually and/or spatially rooted to the architecture of a site.
She seeks an integration of media where moving image, sound, dance and
space are on equal planes engaging in a dynamic reciprocating and
mutually supportive dialogue. Kim's installations are hybrid spaces in
which the illusory and actual (i.e. mediated and live) merge together
in an "other worldly" environment. She has exhibited and performed
widely in the US and abroad. Recent performance venues include the
Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles, REDCAT/Disney Hall, the Getty
Center, Springwave Festival/LIG Performing Arts Hall (Seoul, Korea),
Decibel Festival/Seattle, the Stanford Jazz Festival, Issue Project
Room and Engine 27 (New York), Arts, Media and Engineering Program
(AME) Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) and the Knitting Factory
(LA). Her single-channel work has been screened at the Museum of
Modern Art-New York, Trampoline: Platform for New Media Art
(Nottingham, England), ArtSonje Center (Seoul, Korea) plus numerous
festivals in Brazil, Australia, Japan, Germany, England, Estonia and
Latvia. Recently, she was in residence at Montalvo Arts Center,
Saratoga, a Master Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the
Arts, FL, and a Cultural Crossroads resident at the Holter Museum of
Art in Montana. (Please see www.carolekim.com)

Carmina Escobar is a singer, performance and multimedia artist from
Mexico City that has collaborated in many different projects, which
explore a diversity of sonorous languages such as medieval music,
opera, contemporary music, folk music, electronic music, improvised
music and experimental trends involving interdisciplinary
collaborations and multimedia. As a soloist she has performed concerts
of contemporary repertoire for solo voice, the premieres of works by
young composers and performances of her own compositions. She has
appeared in diverse forums and festivals all around the Mexican
Republic, USA and Europe collaborating with artists of diverse
disciplines. . She is an active improviser, as much in a solo context
as in a group context, in which she involves, as part of her sonorous
vocabulary, real-time processing of her voice and the use of concrète
elements through electronic media. At the moment she resides in Los
Angeles CA.
www.carminaescobar.com


for more information about OptoSonic Tea please visit:
http://www.diapasongallery.org/optosonic.html