On Tuesday, June 18, I gathered with a few friends in an outdoor
space behind a small gray barn which I helped renovate over the
spring. As part of a party taking place that night, we set up a
projector screen and a PA and brought out some music and video
gear for a jam session that lasted well into the night. I pulled
the excerpt below from our session, which features
Snark
on saxophone and electronics,
ShmOoOo
on synths and samplers, and
Ben Kujawski
on guitar, as well as myself on visuals. It was a memorable
evening, and I look forward to my next opportunity to perform
video synthesis outdoors.
On Saturday, May 4, Andrei and I returned to
The Psychic Garden
in Rochester, NY to perform live video and sound as REALITY ORP!
Our friend
Anna Oxygen
(Ithaca) also performed a bumping synthwave set. Unfortunately
Dr. Hamburger
was unable to perform, but fellow Rochester locals Shonen Book
were able to hop on at the last moment with a fever dream of
feedback-laden visuals mixed with Donkey Kong. It was a
memorable night. Many thanks to
Taimur
for holding down the Psychic Garden fort as well!
Zine Club is the culmination of some ideas I've had
brewing for a while. I wanted to start making more physical
objects and mailing them to people, and I also wanted to start
something like a Patreon but without actually using that
platform. After fleshing out the details and creating a new page
on my site, it's now ready for launch! If you're interested in
receiving mysterious virtual or physical objects at regular
intervals throughout the year, and supporting my ability to
spend more time making weird art, check it out at the link
below...
On Sunday, March 3, my art collective,
Phase Shift, led an Intro to Live Visuals workshop at
The Psychic Garden
in Rochester, NY. Rochester has a strong DIY community, and many
local folks found their way to the event, as well as a few from
Buffalo and Alfred. We had a full house, but luckily we also had
a few extra helping hands from
Evan
and
Max.
The Psychic Garden is located inside a row of unmarked warehouse
spaces near the Genessee River. There were a number of video
installations in the space, so it was an inspiring environment
for people to learn about video art, since they could see some
cool applications of the medium at the same time. After the
event, we visited the space of
Rathaus Press, a risograph print studio run by Evan in an adjacent building.
We are already planning our next visit to Rochester and looking
forward to getting involved with more of the cool things that
are happening there. Thanks to
Cameron, Evan, and The Psychic Garden for having us.
Thursday, February 29, was the opening of
Silvering Toward Invisible, a group exhibition at Speedwell Contemporary in Portland, ME,
presented by
Lights Out. The show features my audiovisual work along with photography
(often of glowing spiderwebs in the dark) by
Peah Guilmoth, minimal textured landscapes in charcoal by
Emily Nelligan, and poetry by
Kristen Case.
Silvering Toward Invisible is driven by
poetry, both visual and written. During this season the light
is changing, and the warmth of the sun is slowly returning. We
begin to hunger for spring, though it is months away. We look
for evidence of its signs, but a thick white blanket of snow
still covers the ground. We can see the contours of the
landscape through the trees. At this time the world is at its
most stark and elegant and takes on the impressions of our
imaginations. This show will harness the returning light, the
receding darkness, and the bare, suggestive quality of the
landscape waiting to undergo monumental change. Viewers will
encounter moments of brightness, velvety darkness, and a deep
poetic primality waiting to erupt from beneath the
surface.
