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Tobias Rosenberger & Elad Shniderman:

BREATHING CITY, a video and sound installation.

Saturday November 17 & Sunday November 18

Every day 2 - 6pm.

Breathing City is a video and sound installation comprising of 4 TV screens and surround sound system. The video screens display an 8 minute cycle depicting urban surroundings, captured by computer controlled robotic cameras, accompanied by a musical composition for 6 breathing voices edited for surround sound. The multitude of elements produces a contrast of unity and multiplicity: the 6 voices unite into a single enfolding sound; the four screens show a single object in different moments in time and from different perspectives, so that the singular disintegrates into a multiplicity. However, the manipulation is performed in temporal succession avoiding repetitiveness. The robotic camera movement contrasts with the human motion, opposing the animate with the inanimate, the city life and the living city.

Breathing City is a collaboration between Elad Shniderman (Sound) and Tobias Rosenberger (Video) and has been exhibited in the last "Les Intranquilles" festival in Lyon, France and in Alfred Gallery Tel-Aviv Israel.

Tobias Rosenberger is a student at the "Institute of Applied Theatre Studies" in Giessen and lives and works in Frankfurt/Main. Recent artistic projects & collaborations include "Antigone" (2003, Festival Junger Talente, German-Chinese co-production), "Esquisse" (2005, Internationale Musiktage Darmstadt), "Fascia" (2006, Frankfurter Positionen, Schauspiel Frankfurt), "Bypass" (2006, Luminale Frankfurt), "Breathing City" (2007, Lyon, Les subsistances, Goetheinstitut, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv) and "Sana'a - City of Light" (2007, The German-French Cultural Project 2007, for the German and French embassies in Yemen, under the patronage of the Yemeni minister of culture and the major of Sana'a). http://www.bab-al-yemen.de

Born 1977, Elad Shniderman is an Israeli musician based in NYC Elad Studied music composition in the Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University with Mr. Ruben Seroussi and at brooklyn Conservatory with Prof. Douglas Cohen.His repertoire includes contemporary and experimental compositions for different instrument with or without a computer.

· Elad participated in several multi-media projects, among which: · Instrumentation for string orchestra, arabic instruments and vocals, performed in the festival "Sound in the Desert", Sde-Boker. · "Two brothers" -Film soundtrack. Collaboration with Itay Tzfira. Directed by Maria Magriel, which participated in the Wolgin Awards contest in the Jerusalem film festival 2007. · "Elad and Omer" - film soundtrack. Film directed by Udi Hermony screened in Berlin · "Breathing City" - a multichannel video/sound installation. Collaboration with Tobias Rosenberger. exhibited in the festival "Les Intranquilles" (Lyon, Les Subsistances, Goethe Institute).

HARVESTWORKS Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway, Suite 602 (at Houston St)
New York, NY 10012
Tel: 212-431-1130
http://www.harvestworks.org
Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleeker, W/R Prince