March 9, 2024 |
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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...
🌐 More info/subscribe:
palomakop.tv/zine-club
March 3, 2024 |
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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.
February 29, 2024 |
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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.
🌐 More info:
lightsoutgallery.org/silvering
February 24, 2024 |
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On Saturday, February 24, Andrei and I (Phase Shift Collective) created an interactive video installation at a pop-up event
hosted by
Anna Oxygen
in a disused retail space at a dying mall in Ithaca, NY.
At the event, Anna performed an experimental run-through of
The Shapes We Leave Behind, a strange livestream performance in which she greenscreens
herself, wearing various sculptural costumes created by
collaborator
Fawn Krieger, into a surreal video-game-esque landscape filled with glitchy
3D scanned statues of herself, while also singing and performing
electronic music.
The night ended with a dance party to 80s disco music, with
people dancing inside the video feedback loop of our
installation.
Anna was able to briefly take over this former storefront space
in a mostly empty shopping mall, inserting herself and her
artwork into an appropriately liminal venue during a sabbatical
from her professorship. Thanks to Anna for inviting us to be a
part of this unusual show.
February 16, 2024 |
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On Friday February 16, I performed a collaborative audiovisual
set with
Matthew Ryals
at
The Avalon Lounge
in Catskill, NY. Matthew and I have collaborated before, so when
I found out that he would be performing in the area, I eagerly
joined the bill. Combining modular video synthesis and camera
feedback, I was able to incorporate control voltage signal's
from Matthew's audio synths, introducing synesthetic interaction
between the sound and video.
Other performers included
The Early
from Philadelphia, and
Friends Meeting, ambient duo project of Ben Seretan and M. Geddes Gengras. It
was a lovely evening of dreamy experimental sound. At the end,
The Early and Friends Meeting joined together for a rather epic
jam. The show was also broadcast live on
Wave Farm's WGXC.