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.
January 26, 2024 |
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On January 26, I presented and discussed some excerpts of my
audiovisual artworks at an event called Sound at
Luck Dragon, in Delhi, NY.
Sound is a monthly event at Luck Dragon, in which two
artists or musicians present and talk about their work,
followed by a period of group discussion. In this way, artists
and sonic practitioners are brought into conversation with
both each other, and the local community. The other presenter
for this edition was Sam Tellman, who talked about his
research and design journey toward creating
https://www.sottoinstruments.com/
that's more lightweight and user-serviceable.
Luck Dragon is an art supply shop that also hosts community
events. It was cool to visit this space because the people who
run it also have an open-source audio hardware company, a
pottery studio, various artist spaces, and a private occult
library in the same building. Delhi is about an hour west of
where I'm currently based, so I'm hoping to spend more time
there in the coming months. Thanks to
Brian
for inviting me.
🌐 Visit Luck Dragon's website:
luckdragon.space
