June 13, 2023 |
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For the past few years, I've been living in Brooklyn, working
a full-time tech job, and helping run a video art studio and
collective called Phase Space out of my basement. Now, I've
left the city and started a six-month road trip across the USA
and back with my partner & collaborator, Andrei. Since we
have left Brooklyn for the foreseeable future, Phase Space has
come to a close after four excellent years of offering
workshops, events, and community. However, some of my friends
and I are working on some new projects which will continue the
spirit of Phase in two ways...
First of these is Phase Shift Collective,
which consists of Andrei and myself teaching workshops,
attending artist residencies, and visiting art spaces across
the country as we travel. You can find out more on our new
website for this (also lovingly hand-coded with plain
html/css):
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phaseshift.zone
Secondly, me, Andrei, and our friends Tim Caldwell and Sean
Hallowell have started Polyphase Portal, a
DIY, collectively-run online school that hosts workshops,
classes, and talks. We already have some classes on the
schedule, and I hope to lead an online workshop in the next
few months on making simple, hand-coded websites in HTML and
CSS that bring back some of the magic of the early internet.
Polyphase is online at:
🌐
polyphaseportal.xyz
We've only just started our road trip, and we are deliberately
moving quite slowly, but we'll be on the west coast by
September, and then driving back and spending most of the
winter in upstate New York. Our first major stop will be at a
1-week residency later this month at
FEED, a new art center in Erie, Pennsylvania, founded by Benton C
Bainbridge.
I am hoping that these life changes will will lead to more
time and energy spent on creative and independent projects,
and I'm looking forward to spending more time in nature and
meeting like-minded people in different parts of the country.
I find my lifestyle is becoming more and more offline and
low-tech, but I also want to stay connected and share what I'm
up to, so stay tuned for more
updates over the next few months!
May 6, 2023 |
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On Saturday, May 6, we hosted our last show at
Phase Space
before moving out (more on that soon). I performed live
ambient music for a collaborative a/v set with
Andrei Jay
as REALITY ORP. Our friend
식료품groceries
did a set as well! As always, there were a variety of
installations on view throughout the event, and we also had
tarot readings.
We will miss organizing events here in Brooklyn, but our
friends are taking over the space and continuing to do cool
stuff there, while Andrei and I are hitting the road for a
cross country tour. So this was also a bit of a going away
party, and a final hurrah for Phase Space as we know it.
📺 Watch a recording of our performance as REALITY ORP:
Youtube
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August 27, 2022 |
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Our late summer show at
Phase Space
was on Saturday, August 27! I had an excellent time performing
as part of REALITY ORP, a new collaborative project with
Andrei Jay. I performed live with liquids for the first time, and
combined that with analog video processing. Our friend
Rob Feulner
from Montréal also came down to show installation work and do
a performance! And there were multiple glowing polyhedra, so
that's always a plus.
📺 Watch a recording of our performance as REALITY ORP:
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August 19, 2022 |
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On Friday August 19, my video projections accompanied an
experimental music and poetry performance by Dorota Czerner
and Augustus Arnone at the Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock,
NY! This was part of a concert called
Open Space Encounters: Music from the Time of Renewal.
📺 Watch a recording of the performance:
Youtube
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🌐 Visit Open Space's website:
the-open-space.org
July 1, 2022 |
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On Friday July 1, I performed a collaborative audiovisual set
with
Matthew Ryals. The video and sound was interactive via control voltage
signals from Matthew's modular synthesizer interacting with my
modified video hardware. The show was at Littlefield in
Gowanus, and celebrated album releases by both Matthew Ryals
and
Chloe Alexandra Thompson. It also featured excellent performances from live-coder
Melody Loveless, dark synthscaper Brian Wenner, and
experimental electronic musician Chloe Alexandra Thompson.
In addition to our collaboration on the performance, Matthew
Ryals and I also worked together recently on a
music video
for one of the tracks of his new album,
Impromptus in Isolation.
