[spectre] OptoSonic Tea @ Museum of Arts and Design NYC - Wednesday, April 24th, 7pm

[Katherine Liberovskaya]

E.S.P. TV invites OptoSonic Tea to their residency at the Museum for Arts
and Design

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
7 pm

OptoSonic Tea

Live sets by:

- Bill Etra (live visuals) with James Herring (sound)
- Nicolas Maigret (live visuals and sound)
- Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer (live visuals) with Michelle
Nagai and Kenta Nagai (sound)

Respondent/moderator:

- Scott Kiernan of E.S.P. TV

$7 general / $5 students and members of the Museum

E.S.P. TV in residency at
The Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York City


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

E.S.P. TV is a nomadic showcase of primarily NYC-based experimental music,
video art and performance tapes live and produced for Manhattan Neighborhood
Network public television. E.S.P. TV formed in January of 2011 out of Louis
V E.S.P. In the summer of 2012, E.S.P. TV opened a new space in Brooklyn, NY
for production of the show, development of the E.S.P. LAB project, and a
regular schedule of performances, screenings and special events. Tapings of
E.S.P. TV are in front of an audience with live green-screening, signal
manipulation and analog video mixing. The entire night is recorded to
videotape and edited into half hour episodes for airing on cable TV in New
York City. After airing, the episodes are posted online at www.esptvnyc.com
for later viewing. E.S.P. TV has worked with various venues including: The
Museum of Arts and Design (New York City); Present Company, The Schoolhouse,
La Sala, 285 Kent, Vaudeville Park, Spectacle Theater and Roulette
(Brooklyn, NY);  Franklin Street Works (Stamford, CT), Liminal Space
(Oakland), Queens Nails Projects (San Francisco), Millennium Film Workshop
(NYC) as a part of INDEX Festival, Printed Matter (NYC), General Public
(Berlin) and Pallas Projects (Dublin).


About the artists:

Bill Etra (Born March 27, 1947) is a live video pioneer and the co-inventor
(with Steve Rutt) of the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer.[1] Bill is a founding
member of The Kitchen. He is currently developing (with Anton Marini) a
video synthesizer plug-in that emulates the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer.
Mr. Etra holds several patents, including developments for 3D television and
text-based (versus time-code based) editing of video. His video art work is
in the permanent collections of the Museums of Modern Art in Mexico City,
Tokyo and Cologne and the Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Beauborg in
Paris.

Planet Sounds (James Herring)
Kalimba & Experimental Percussion Effects

Nicolas Maigret has been developing digital and sound art realizations since
2001. In his works, internal characteristics of media are revealed through
their errors, dysfunctions, borderlines or failure threshold, which he
develops sensory and immersive audio visual experiences. After studying
Intermedia arts, he joined the Locus-Sonus Laboratory in Nice dedicated to
networked art research. He taught at the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux and is
presently involved in an artist run space named Plateforme in Paris.
Simultaneously, he co-founded the Art of Failure collective in 2006. His
works have been presented in various exhibitions and venues such as File
(Sao Paulo, BR) - Encountering Data (New York, USA) ­ Upgrade! (Chicago,
USA) - Gli.tc/h (Birmingham, UK) - Gaite Lyrique (Paris, FR) - Leeds Film
Festival (UK) - Le Zoo (Genève, CH) - LEAP (Berlin, DE) - DeOrigenBélico,
(Caracas, VE) - Sonica (Ljubljana, SI) ­ Artivistic (Montreal, CA) - ESG
(Kosice, SK) - Cimatics (Brussels, BE).

Katherine Liberovskaya is a video/media artist based in Montreal and New
York. Involved in experimental video since the 80s, she has produced
numerous videos, video installations and performances shown at various
events and venues around the world. Since 2001 her work predominantly
focuses on collaborations with composers and sound artists notably in live
video+sound performance where her live visuals seek to create improvisatory
"music" for the eyes. Frequent collaborators include Phill Niblock, Al
Margolis/If,Bwana, Zanana, Kristin Norderval, Hitoshi Kojo, David Watson,
David First and o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi). Recent projects have involved:
Shelley Hirsch, Chantal Dumas, Leslie Ross, Richard Garet, Emilie Mouchous,
Kevin Norton, and Dorit Chrysler. Concurrently she curates and organizes the
Screen Compositions evenings at Experimental Intermedia, NYC, since 2005 and
the OptoSonic Tea series with Ursula Scherrer at Diapason, NYC, since 2006.
http://www.liberovskaya.net/

The poetic quality of Ursula Scherrer's work reminds one of moving
paintings, drawing the viewer into the images, leaving the viewer with their
own stories. She transforms spaces and landscapes into serene, abstract
portraits of rhythm, color and light - inner landscapes in the outside world
where the images have less to do with what we see then with the feeling they
leave behind. Scherrer is a Swiss artist living in New York City. Her
aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography and
expanded to photography, video, text and mixed media.
Http://www.ursulascherrer.com

Working mainly as a composer and performer, Michelle Nagai has collaborated
regularly with music, video, dance and theater artists since the late 1990s.
In tandem with her work as a composer, Nagai's published writings reflect a
deep engagement with the intersection of words, sounds, places and ideas. In
2011-12, Nagai lived in rural Japan, the recipient of a creative artist
fellowship from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission. She now
resides in rural New York State, where she continues to explore connections
between sound and place, while working toward completion of a doctoral
dissertation in composition at Princeton University. Nagai¹s work has been
presented in North America, Japan and Europe with the support of numerous
institutions including the American Composers Forum, Deep Listening
Institute, Harvestworks, Eyebeam, the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art,
Nature and Dance, the Jerome and McKnight Foundations, Meet the Composer,
the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the
Arts. 

Kenta Nagai is an audio-visual artist and performer, originally from Niigata
Japan. His keen sense of physicality is reflected in his current exploration
of the physical properties of sound and its impact on human emotion and the
body. This interest has led to numerous collaborations with dancers and
artists across diverse media, in New York City and abroad. Nagai's original
work, and collaborations, have been presented at major venues including
Carnegie Hall, Roulette, Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen,
Lincoln Center Out Door Stage, Rubin Museum, Hershhorn Museum at the
Smithonian Institute, Sculpture Center, The Whitney Museum, and The Japan
Society. Nagai is the guitarist for Trophies, a Berlin-based musical trio
featuring composer/vocalist Alessandro Bosetti and drummer Tony Buck (of The
Necks). The band has released two albums since 2010 - 'Become Objects of
Daily Use' (Monotype Records) and 'A color photo of the horse' (D.S. al
Coda). A third album is due for release this autumn. In 2011, Nagai made a
year-long sojourn back to Japan, where he studied shamisen with Tsuruzawa
Asazo the 5th and participated in the daily routines and cultural traditions
of rural Japan.

Scott Kiernan is an artist and curator who lives and works in New York City.
Scott received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. He is a
founder and director of Louis V E.S.P <http://www.louisvesp.com/> ., a
not-for-profit gallery and performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and
co-founder and director of E.S.P. TV <http://www.esptvnyc.com/> , a
Manhattan cable access program and live taping event which showcases NYC
based artists and performers. He also is one half of E.S.P. LAB
<http://www.esptvnyc.com/E-S-P-LAB-1>  with Victoria Keddie, a collaborative
performance team exploring analog video signal and magnetic manipulation in
tandem with sound. His work has been shown internationally in venues such as
PS 122, Mixed Greens, NurtureArt, Jack the Pelican, Dam Stuhltrager (NYC),
The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, KT&G Sangsangmadang (Seoul), Centro
Internazionale Per L¹Arte Contemporanea (Rome), Southern Exposure and Baer
Ridgeway Exhibitions (San Francisco), and the Magnes Museum (Berkeley, CA).


for more information about OptoSonic Tea please visit:

http://www.diapasongallery.org/optosonic.html