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Join us for our second show on the Brooklyn Waterfront. This installment includes myself, Nick Hallett, Zach Layton and Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

ISSUE Project Room celebrates The Brooklyn Heights Association's 100th Anniversary with an event that will program channel the psychedelic spirit of poet, journalist, humanist and Brooklynite, Walt Whitman, set against the stunning waterfront backdrop on the Pier 1 Harbor View Lawn of the new Brooklyn Bridge Park on July 1st at 5 pm until midnight.

Musicians and bands including the Wingdale Community Singers, Christy and Emily, Prince Rama, and others will perform original work along with new pieces set to a marathon reading of "Leaves of Grass," recited by some of the nation's most intriguing poets.

The outdoor concert, closing with a late night program of acoustic music after 10 pm, is part of Celebrating a Century, an exciting year-long series of events highlighting Brooklyn Heights history, famous residents, and the BHA's past and future.

Featuring:

CSC Funk Band

Rick Moody and Hannah Marcus of the Wingdale Community Singers

Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille

Jonathan Kane's February

Prince Rama of Ayodhya

Henry Grimes

Christy and Emily

Shannon Fields

Sexual Energies School: Quebec City

Steve Dalashinsky

Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers

Lilah Freedland

Holly Anderson

Alyssa Taylor Wendt

Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris, Brendan Lorber, Yuko Otomo,Tsaurah Litsky, Linda Lerner, and more..

A workshop of a new play
Written and directed by Andrew Ondrejcak

With
Jennifer Claire Dees
Cara Francis
Jason Winfield
and Juri Onuki

Dramaturgy by Allison Lyman
Lighting by Scott Bolman
Costumes by Mary Catherine Muir
Make-up by Jun Funahashi
Sound Design by Mike Skinner and Ray Sweeten
Production Management by Lydia Andersen-Tarnell
Press by State PR


RSVP: fatherland@statepr.com

Info: www.andrewondrejcak.com

A workshop of a new play
Written and directed by Andrew Ondrejcak

With
Jennifer Claire Dees
Cara Francis
Jason Winfield
and Juri Onuki

Dramaturgy by Allison Lyman
Lighting by Scott Bolman
Costumes by Mary Catherine Muir
Make-up by Jun Funahashi
Sound Design by Mike Skinner and Ray Sweeten
Production Management by Lydia Andersen-Tarnell
Press by State PR

RSVP: fatherland@statepr.com

Info: www.andrewondrejcak.com

$10 per set

Nick Hallett (vocals, piano, electronics) Zach Layton (guitar) Mike Skinner (drums) Ray Sweeten (electronics)

Hallett convenes a structured melodic improvisation over interlocking layers of electronic arpeggios.

Admission $15 Students/Seniors/Under 30s $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242

In her celebrated video serial, Whispering Pines, artist Shana Moulton tells the ever-evolving story of Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac whose constant search for health and happiness leads her towards fad cures and new age kitsch, creating situations in turn comic, contemplative, and surreal. The mundane objects in Cynthia's world act as portals into her own overactive subconscious, wherein hallucinatory sequences explore the nature of material and spiritual concerns in contemporary culture.

For this latest installment, Moulton collaborates with composer-vocalist Nick Hallett to transform the work into an electronic chamber opera, woven out of pop melodies, extended vocal techniques, alternative sound controllers, and a flexible instrumentation performed by Hallett along with the soprano Daisy Press and harpist Shelley Burgon. Moulton stars as Cynthia, enveloped in her original multi-channel video design, which tackles the divide between low and high production values through the use of green-screen compositing and interactive technology.

This program is made possible with the support of The Greenwall Foundation, the Harvestworks Artist In Residence Program, Experimental Television Center Finishing Funds, the New York State Council on the Arts and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

In her celebrated video serial, Whispering Pines, artist Shana Moulton tells the ever-evolving story of Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac whose constant search for health and happiness leads her towards fad cures and new age kitsch, creating situations in turn comic, contemplative, and surreal. The mundane objects in Cynthia's world act as portals into her own overactive subconscious, wherein hallucinatory sequences explore the nature of material and spiritual concerns in contemporary culture.

For this latest installment, Moulton collaborates with composer-vocalist Nick Hallett to transform the work into an electronic chamber opera, woven out of pop melodies, extended vocal techniques, alternative sound controllers, and a flexible instrumentation performed by Hallett along with the soprano Daisy Press and harpist Shelley Burgon. Moulton stars as Cynthia, enveloped in her original multi-channel video design, which tackles the divide between low and high production values through the use of green-screen compositing and interactive technology.

This program is made possible with the support of The Greenwall Foundation, the Harvestworks Artist In Residence Program, Experimental Television Center Finishing Funds, the New York State Council on the Arts and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

A re-screening of HAI SCOPERTO L'AMERICA at the Directors Lounge in Berlin!

9 'discovered' videos

curated by andrea monti

"But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them." Christopher Columbus

"You discovered America!" is what your mother tells you, in Italy, when you think you discovered for the first time something amazing, and instead you've just found something everyone else already knows since ages. A variant can be "you discovered hot water!". I mean, everybody knows that America exists, right?

Well, that's exactly the feeling I have in presenting this program of 9 short videos realised by renowned artists who have been working in New York for many years, and many of you already know probably, but I meet only now in my personal trajectory. I went ashore only 6 months ago coming from Lucca, a little roman city in the hearth of Tuscany, where I run a film festival for the 'happy few'. Hai scoperto l'America! is the second stage (the first was called NYC TO PAL and took place in Lucca last October) of a larger project aiming to make these works circulate both in Italy and New York.

The other main purpose is to bring in the context of contemporary art galleries very interesting artists related mostly to avant-garde and experimental video-making, whose work is remarkable and particulary predisposed. White Box is the perfect venue for this to happen: very watchful and open towards the domain of video-art, sensitive, thoughtful.

For my experience, I have to say, I discovered here - beyond my already very high expectations - an experimental-video "El Dorado", and I think it's a shame that so many extraordinary works don't have in Europe the attention and the recognition they deserve, making the ocean seem bigger than it really is. Well, let's just say, so far.

If I wanted to explain why this show, I would say that you don't explain love, it just happens. And it was love at first sight with these works. Simply, I came and this is what I found. I mean, not ALL I found, I'm not so lazy!
The very special ones.

La Superette 2009 will transform a space at 210 Front Street for three days, creating a temporary store that will present a huge selection of artist-made multiples from around the country. Now in it's 11th year, La Superette is one of the few crafty events with a non-commercial goal: to support and distribute the works of independent artists and designers. The variety of items include hacked clothes, assemblage accessories, housewares, artists books and CDs. Emerging once a year, just in time for holiday shopping, La Superette offers the most unique and affordable shopping experience for hundreds of shoppers year after year. This year, more than ever, is a time to celebrate the craftiest and be a part of an event that represents the true spirit of New York City.

La Superette 2009 includes live performances by Arp�ge (Nick Hallett and Ray Sweeten), Anwar Pruitt, Maria Chavez, Carrie Dashow, Pixel Form, Todd Bailey, NAUM f/ Antoine Catala, David Linton, and David Galbraith. La Superette 2009 will also feature Rainbow Cloud City (an art installation created by the collaboration HappyFun, Erik Z., and Rachel Nelson), Edible Winter Snowballs, Coal, Icicles, Pine Cones, and Warm Drinks by Rachael Morrison, and a free ScrapCycle gift-wrapping station by Analogous Projects.

This year's participating artists include: Ann LePore, Amanda Mayoff, Ben Fino-Radin, Carrie Dashow, Secret School and the K.I.D.S., Cindy Yoon, Daphne Bernard, A Rarer Borealis, Daina Platais Ortiz, unxyloid, Hadas Hinkis, deChow, Jennifer Sullivan, kaboom!press, Kimm Alfonso, Katherine Tali Hinkis, Chiu, RingMan, Canine Orthodontia, Lilah Freedland, LoVid, Loren Siems, Melissa Barrett, Michelle Rosenberg, Molly Dilworth, Madeleine Fix, Miss Chief, Neg-Fi, Mustache Sisters, Nathaniel Kassel, Peter Jacobson, Raquel Hecker, Steven Anglin, Samantha Merritt, sallykismet, Sanjay, Susie Reiss, teamtichenor, heartfast

"Void Ratio: Scope Tutorial" and "Vatican Satellite" will be screened Wednesday evening at Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow.

NYC to PAL. New videos from NY

I will be sharing the bill with Nate Boyce.. Boyce is a video artist and musician who lives and works in San Francisco. His audio/visual works investigate the liminal regions of human perception through kinetically charged, visceral abstractions. His work exploits inherent plasticity of electronic sound and image through the use of customized analog and digital tools with which he has developed a formal language informed the history of structural and psychedelic filmmaking. He has performed and exhibited at galleries and film festivals such as the Scope Art Fair, New York (2009) The Luggage Store, San Francisco (2009), New York Underground Film Festival, New York (2008), Deitch Projects New York (2008), The Stone, New York (2008), Center For Contemporary Art Glasgow, Glasgow (2007), Galerie Alt Neu Brukte, Frankfurt, Germany (2007), the Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2006), the Aurora Picture Show, Houston (2006), Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (2006), Monkeytown, New York, (2006) Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco (2005), Yerba Buena Center For the Arts (2004)

Presenting the Nowthenafter album in SurroundSound

Ikue Mori & DJ Olive
Judy Nylon & SA
David Linton & Charles Cohen
Marina Rosenfled
Ray Sweeten
Treyce Warren
Mark C
Mal Torrance
Stuart Argabright

Loosely inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 masterpiece of psychedelic cinema The Holy Mountain, ISSUE Project Room and Galapagos Art Space will collaborate to host a sumptuous event for the senses. Marking ISSUE's sixth anniversary, the event will be part costume party and part benefit, with raffles, prizes, photobooths, auctions and some wild performances.

The evenings Delights and Highlights:

JG Thirlwell (FOETUS) with Ed Pastorini and Owen Bloedow
Ray Sweeten - live video and performance
Brock Monroe - live visuals (member of Joshua Light Show)
"Straight and Narrow" (1970), Film screening by Tony Conrad with soundtrack by John Cale and Terry Riley
Films by Martha Colburn & Marie Losier
Elysian Fields
MV Carbon
members of Excepter
DJ Fabio from WFMU's "Strength through Failure"
And others TBA

Another Unity Gain approaches. I don't know what this one will have in store, but I do know I will be doing a duet with Zach Layton. As usual there will be two show times, 7:30-ish and 10. Reservations are recommended!

This one is something of a homecoming for me, since I used to work as a 'sound guy' at Galapagos and also bartended EVERY Darmstadt show since its inception back in... 2005? 4? ..when the big G was on North 6th. I have not been to this new Galapagos, but I hear it's actually pretty cool. It probably doesn't even have that New York bar smell yet which, depending on your inclinations, is great or terrible. I will be performing scope and video feedback jams fresh from playing at the SFEMF. Possibly with guests. Possibly not.

I will be doing an extended Oscilloscope performance for the first time ON THE WEST COAST. I have to say I am very excited about it. I share the evening with Edmund Campion (with Thomas Buckner) and Tujiko Noriko.

Matt Welch performs Bhima Swarga (Balinese Journey of the Soul 2006) with Ikue Mori* and 6-piece gamelan ensemble. This collaboration is a modern spin on the Balinese Wayang Kulit, or shadow puppet theatre. Ikue Mori has added image processing to her unique sound manipulations to create a brilliant audio/visual performance animating characters from traditional Balinese paintings. Welch's accompanying compositions for Balinese gamelan are based on bagpipe laments. Utilizing a revolutionary new gamelan species called Semara Dana, Welch is able to take his starting material of excerpts and arrangements of pibroch, the classical music of the bagpipe and completely map it onto the pitch spectrum and idiomatic rhythmic, formal and textural practices of the Balinese gamelan.

In this, the very first installment of What the Dormouse Said, Ray Sweeten and Zach Layton perform new and old takes on sound/image generation. Using the OpenGL protocol, Layton produces dimensional wire-frame geometrics and extracts lush sound abstractions from the visual field. Approaching at 180 degrees head-on, Sweeten digitally synthesizes two sets of waveforms which are graphed to XY coordinates on a pre-pc era analog oscilloscope. Joining us this evening, the live circuit building stylings of Loud Objects.

We offer a twice-yearly video art program - a semiennial - of the high water marks, the standouts, the stuff that made an impression. The immersive video equivalent of "come hang out a my place and listen to some records." The curatorial criteria is no more complicated than this is the best new stuff we've seen. We've continued to be turned on to great work and we're just itching to pass it along.

Media Archeology is here! Get ready for three mind-bending days of audiovisual kinesis featuring hackers, benders, builders, and overall enthusiasts of the analogue aesthetic. These artists invent their own instruments of sound and light, and find new uses for technologies of the past to create future-forward entertainment. Thursday night features Bruce McClure and Ray Sweeten at Aurora Picture Show