[spectre] OptoSonic Tea @ Milenium Film Workshop NYC - Tuesday, October 30th, 8pm

[Katherine Liberovskaya]

Tuesday, October 30th
8 pm
 
OptoSonic Tea
 
Live sets by:
 
- Ana Carvalho (live visuals) with Ben Owen (live sound)
- Joel Schlemowitz (Magic lantern projections) with Roe Enney (live music)
 
Invited respondent/moderator:
 
- Elle Burchill
 
Suggested donation:
sliding scale $ 7 - 15
 
Millenium Film Workshop
66 East 4th Street, basement
New York NY
(between 2nd and 3rd Ave)
directions: F to Second AVE
 
 
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
 
 
About the artists:
 
Ana Carvalho is visual performer, researcher and teacher on the intermedia
between sound and image. Her interests extend across areas of knowledge,
feeding a strong curiosity about everything. Central subjects to her work
are identity (collective and individual), memory (documentation) and uses of
technology. Ana's art projects evidence process as art and are practical
reflections on fictional biography, social utopias, ways of knowing and
women's achievements. Outcomes take form of texts (books), photographs,
drawings, installations but mostly live audiovisual performances.
Ana grows gardens simultaneously as a metaphor in the ongoing construction
of a personal cosmology.
http://cargocollective.com/visual-agency
<http://cargocollective.com/visual-agency>
 
Ben Owen works with sound, recording, light, projections and print.
Early sound studies began with cassettes and live radio, in tandem with
stone lithography printmaking and photographic slide projections. His
process of lithographic printing is balanced by the intended preservation
and natural degradation of marks. He finds complimentary inherent
similarities between the cycles of inking and surface reception of
printmaking, mark making through drawing on printing stones and audio marks
amplified by contact mics and environmental recordings. He is interested in
the relationship between the spacial aspects of existing sound fields,
intervened environments, and the projection and reflection of light.
Locations are an active and physical palette, much like an improvisational
setting where control is relinquished. Through mark making, and an attention
to instability he continues the practice of listening and response.
http://benowen.org <http://benowen.org/>
 
Joel Schlemowitz is an experimental filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY.
Screenings of his films include the New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film
Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum,
Anthology Film Archives, and The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema. His work has
received awards from the Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Dallas Video
Festival, and elsewhere.  A three disc DVD set of his short films is
available from MicroCinemaDVD.com <http://MicroCinemaDVD.com/>
 
Roe Enney grew up in northwestern Virginia, in the foothills on the verge of
District sprawl. She is/isn't in any mood to describe past participations,
but would like to let her name speak for itself. Named in part after her
great-uncle Harvey Enney, who was fond of shaking his can of marbles around
the yard and counted the bees among his closest friends, each performance
may be the progeny of this present and his past insanity.
 
Elle Burchill is an artist and curator living and working in Brooklyn, New
York. She primarily works with the moving image and her works have screened
and exhibited in the US and internationally including Bronx Museum of Art,
Anthology Film Archives, NYC; Light Industry, NYC; Berkeley Art
Museum/Pacific Film Archives; Academia Di Bella Arti di Brera, Milan;
Director¹s Lounge Berlin; Chicago Underground Film Festival, White Box
Gallery, NYC; and many others. Her most recent curatorial project is
Microscope Gallery, an art space in Brooklyn devoted to film, video, sound,
and other time-based arts, which has presented over 100 screenings and
events and 19 exhibitions since opening in September 2010
(www.microscopegallery.com <http://www.microscopegallery.com/> )


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