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Friday, June
23
A live-mix video event with VJs, DJs, and AV action!
*Signal2Noise*
Featured video artists and collaborators include:
Art Jones & Macaque
LoVid
VJ syn_crow
Friday, June 23
Admission: $5
Showtimes: 7:30pm and 10pm
reservations
are recommended
About the artists:
Macaque and
Art Jones will present "Anchored
and Docked" an audio visual improvisational narrative and
love letter to and about the urban environment. Our protagonist
moves through a relationship with the sea, with the pavement,
and with her lovers, real and metaphorical. Lyrical and audio
elements are used to establish an internal reality and personal
mythology. They are repeated, re-contextualized and morphed with
the visual themes to create a multi-layered story. Art Jones is
an image/sound manipulator working with film, digital video and
hybrid media. His films/videos, CD-ROMs, live audio/video mixes,
and installations often concern the inter-relationships between
popular music, visual culture, history and power. As a VJ he has
performed with a variety of musicians and artists, including Soundlab,
DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, DJ T-Ina, Amiri Baraka, Femmes
with Fatal Breaks and Alec Empire and Phillip Virus. He has recently
completed a trilogy of music videos and a CD-ROM, and continues
to perform at various locations in Chicago and New York. He is
from the Bronx, New York, and lives and works in New York. Macaque
is Chris Hart (programming and beats) and Evers (vocals and melodies).
Macaque’s sound is a unique blend of pop sensibilities,
noise, textures and the histories and mysteries of urban music.
Sweet melodies wind over deep bass and stylish beat structures.
LoVid breaks out
family style, performing with Coat of Embrace, a wearable version
of their AV synthesizer. Created in 2006, the instrument is inspired
by early experimentation with image processing as well as current
trends in DIY and hacker culture. Coat of Embrace is functionally
related to LoVid’s previous AV synth, Sync Armonica, and
draws on concepts and feel developed in the VideoWear, while getting
middle ages preliterate, real old school.
VJ syn_crow is Ryota
Suyama, a New York based VJ obsessed with trance / techno-themed
visual. Since his first exposure to Japanese VJ scene in 1998,
he has been involved in New York art scene to develop his own
style of visual. Currently he is working for artist Ruslan Karablin
to produce SSUR clothing line as well as other art projects. Although
he has been out of VJ routine for 2 years, he is now more motivated
than ever to blast the audience with his clean cut, intense visual.
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