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Thursday, March 9
Let's just say a few things about tonight...
Thursday, March 9
Admission: $5
Showtimes: Two Shows, 7:30pm and 10:30pm
PURELY MIXED (descending in order of appearance)
The Psychasthenia Society presents satiric stories
through remixed vintage movie stills blended with live video and
electronic music. Founded in 2003 by author and storyteller Jon
Brunelle, its other members are video artist Daniel Vatsky and
composer Mad EP (Matthew Peters). For two years they mounted multimedia
story programs in collaboration with internationally known guest
musicians at Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space; currently they
have an extended run at Tribeca's Collective: Unconscious Theatre.
The Psychasthenia Society is dedicated to the creation and performance
of political and cultural satire as digital spectacle, sampling
and mixing sounds and images from the flood of information that
inundates America.
The Psychasthenia Society appears at Collective Unconscious in
Tribeca, 279 Church Street, at 10:00 pm on the first Friday evening
of every month. During their next show -- on April 7 -- they'll
premiere the first episode of their new serial, "Ghost Car."
Details are at www.psychasthenia.com.
Jon Keith Brunelle, the host and curator of The
Psychasthenia Society, calls his work laptop storytelling: rapid-fire
digital slide shows comprising hundreds of vintage movie stills,
remixed to form satiric new stories that he tells in live voiceover.
Various editions of "The Hammer Variations," Jon's remix
of the movie "Kiss Me Deadly," have been featured at
Collective: Unconscious and P.S. 122, and in New York gallery
events. At the turn of the century, Jon curated and performed
in "Stories from the Future," produced by The Moth at
Joe's Pub.
As the visual coordinator of The Psychasthenia Society, Daniel
Vatsky draws from his expertise as both an artist and
a professional archival image researcher. His projections have
graced the walls and screens of dozens of New York clubs and parties.
Recent performance highlights include the Museum of Modern Art,
the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, P.S. 122, the New York International
Fringe Festival, and the Kitchen.
Matthew Peters, a.k.a. Mad EP, originally was
a cellist and later a producer of the Chicago Symphony radio broadcasts.
He has been creating his unique soundscapes with live instrumentations,
found sounds, and field recordings for the past six years in various
studio and performance environments. His music has been featured
on US college and underground radio stations as well as international
broadcasts, including the CBC's Brave New Waves in Canada, JJJ's
Soundlab in Australia, and on a "Best Of" series to
commemorate the late John Peel (legendary DJ on BBC's Radio One
in the UK). Refusing to be bound to any given genre or style,
Mad EP's diverse range of live sets have made him a regular performer
in many of New York City's clubs and art spaces. His recent releases
on Ad Noiseam have garnered resounding critical acclaim worldwide."Seven
Sounding"
Andy Graydon is an artist and filmmaker based
in New York City. His work focuses on the problems and potentials
in the interaction of sound and image. Taking the form of videos,
live video mixes, sound works, music and movement performances,
and installations, this work explores the boundary zones between
performance and exhibition, liveness and mediation, presence and
deferral. Recent media performances include shows at Participant
Inc gallery, Galeria Galou, The Dumbo Arts Festival, Millennnium
Film Workshop, The Tank, The Lehman College gallery and Tonic.
He is currently the visiting artist at the Center for Computer
Music, Brooklyn College. www.andygraydon.net
Richard Garet is a sound artist, video artist,
and a painter whose sources of inspiration are nature’s
processes and the relationships between nature and human beings.
Even though Garet’s work suits the standard gallery environment,
many of his other activities as an artist explore the various
practices of experimental sound and video performance. All of
these forms are different explorations of the ways in which Garet’s
work exposes the visitors to physical acoustic and sensory perception.
Garet currently lives and works in New York City. http://www.ruccas.org/index.php?Richard%20Garet
Chika Iijima is a live computer visuals artist
working within New York’s expanded cinema community and
VJ scene. Her videos implement geometric minimalist patterns and
original graphics in unique, repetitive combinations. Chika works
exclusively with Module8 (from Gragecube in Switzerland), software
that, as a Beta tester, she was among the first to use in the
USA. Chika has performed at the Museum of Modern Art, The Mapping
Festival (Geneva), the Bushwick Art Project and the clubs Galapagos
and Tonic, as well as private parties, festivals, events, galleries
and night clubs. Since Chika started performing live in the summer
of 2004, she has become very active in the experimental music
and video underground scene in NYC. She is a member of the Share
community, a weekly multimedia open jam organized by Keiko Uenishi
(http://share.dj for more info). Chika was born and raised in
Japan and moved to New York in the early 90s, working as a graphic
designer until she began her experiments in time-based media.
Chika also collaborates with electronic musicians and DJs on several
projects.Log on to http://www.chiklet.com
for more information.
OCDJ (Dan Gaeta) OCDJ is a musician and DJ from
New Jersey whose
personal compositions range from noise constructions, to 8-bit
influenced dance tracks, to garage rock. His performance for Pure
Mixed was written specifically for the occasion and will feature
processed and arranged field recordings accompanied by live instrumentation.
http://www.ocdj.org/
ANTLER is a writer and conceptual artist. She
is has done graduate work in French and comparative literature
at Columbia University and
is now a phd candidate at The European Graduate School. ANTLER
is at work on three performances, BEING DONG, THE NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
OF THE COCKLES OF MY HEART, and VOICES FROM ANOTHER ROOM. Her
master's essay examines touch and witnessing in the figure of
Doubting Thomas. She is editing a film of the flesh of Marisha
Tems, who survived the Holocaust in Poland. She is working on
a novel called THE RED HAND, which is supposed to be good. Her
writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Skanky Possum, Phoebe,
Mudfish, The Ephemera, Mastermind, onjunctions, New York Press,
The Paris Review, Upstairs at Duroc, Teen Vogue, Bizarre, The
New Yorker, and Barely Legal.
RJ Valejo
NY native and current Brooklyn resident RJ Valeo has been performing
with a laptop in NYC for about 10 years now. He has played live
along side such artists as Ulrich Schnauss, Andreas Tilliander,
John Tejada, Aerovane, and Type Records label mate Khonnor. Valeo
has been influenced heavily by the hip-hop and techno of his NY
youth as well as the "Industrial Revolution" of the
late 80's. But moreover, he's always held a special place in his
heart for the the EU's IDM and Glitch, and it shows in his work.
He crafts his sound using analog synths, field recordings and
enough software to cripple a quad processor computer, always creating
something unique, fresh, and unidentifiable, yet at the same time,
strangely familiar, and always distinctly 'Valeo.' His style may
vary but one thing remains firm: his performances are always meticulously
crafted and inspire head nodding. He is currently signed to type
records and is working on his 3rd release entitled "Behind
the Shadow of the Moon", a sci-fi concept album. Listen to
past live performances and keep up to date at the transelectronic
lab. http://transelectronic.net
about the curator: ilan katin
For the past decade Ilan Katin has worked in a wide variety of
disciplines including programming, graphic design, illustration,
comics, animation and broadcast design. His illustrations, logos
and character designs have been featured in a variety of online
and print publications. As a video performance artist Ilan has
provided visual support for a variety of musicians including o.blaat,
Lance
Blisters, Becca
Schack, Bora Yoon, ErwinMusic, Lukas Ligeti and The
Mad Scene. He has also performed numerous VJ sets in a variety
of locations in the United States and Europe.
In 2003 Ilan became involved with SHARE. His creative energy as
part of SHARE includes the design of the SHARE logo, the christening
of it's satellite, multi-location performance event 'Anyware',
along with several posters and flyers. In 2005 he assumed of the
title 'project director' upon the groups incorporation and fiscal
sponsorship under New York Foundation for the Arts.
Personally Ilan is developing his own approach to audio visual
performance that tests the boundaries of performing with a laptop
in front of an audience, engaging the ‘here’ and ‘now’
by interacting with inanimate objects in a live setting as well
as mixing and manipulating pre-recorded imagery of these objects.
The goal is to experience how these actions interact symbolically
with the experience of video projections in the performance environment.
The first of these works called 'eggsounds' and has been performed
at 'mapping festival' in Geneva Switzerland (2005) and Participant
INC Gallery in New York City as part of the Roberta Fleck Memorial
Cinema (2005).
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