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Press Contact: Carol Parkinson 212-431-1130 x 12
The cost for the entire weekend is $65 or $50 for students, members, and seniors. Single day tickets (available at the door) are $25 per day general admission or $20 per day for students, members, and seniors. A special 2 day pass willl be offered for $45 or $35 for students, members and seniors. Participants may register at the opening performance. Tickets are no longer available through our webstore or over the phone. Just buy tickets at the ticket counter at the symposium.
About Eyebeam Program is subject to change.
Leesa and Nicole Abahuni are artists and twins based in New York who collaborate on investigations of the senses through electronic installations and performances. Their mechanical counterparts have exhibited and performed locally, nationally and internationally. Their awards include the 2006 Harvestworks Artist In Residence, 2006 Location One Artist in Residence, Finishing Funds Grant from the Experimental Television Center, and the Alumni Award from the School of Visual Arts. Jamie Allen makes interactive sound and sound makers with his head and hands. He has degrees in Music Composition and Engineering from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He is presently designing interactive systems and interfaces for museums and galleries, as well as teaching interactive and robotics at the Pratt Institute and musical interface design at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Department. For over two decades Benton-C Bainbridge has pursued moviemaking as a Zoe Beloff works with a variety of cinematic imagery: film, stereoscopic projection performance, interactive media and installation. She has worked with artists from other disciplines including composer John Cale, sound artist Ken Montgomery and the Wooster Group.
Kevin Cunningham is a writer, director, designer, producer, inventor and entrepreneur based in New York City. He is the author, designer and director of many multidisciplinary artworks and over the last 10 years has focused on large scale live multimedia performance works. He has worked with Lincoln Center, the Signature Theatre, Bang On A Can, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater and the Kitchen. He is currently Executive Artistic Director of 3-Legged Dog Media and Theater Group. Gideon D'Arcangelo is an interactive media designer at ESI Design with a special focus on technology and musical experience. He reports on music and technology for "Marketplace," "Weekend America" and "The Next Big Thing." He teaches "New Interfaces for Musical Expression" (NIME) at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. In the 1990s, he worked with Alan Lomax on the Global Jukebox, an illustrated database of world song and dance. New Media artist/choreographer Beliz Demircioglu has showcased her work nationally and internationally. Her latest interactive installation was exhibited at the United Nations Headquarters. For her latest multimedia dance piece “Vantage Point” Beliz and her collaborator Jamie Allen received full sponsorship from Baryshnikov Dance Foundation and NYU. Toni Dove writes, directs and produces interactive video installations and performances that engage viewers in responsive and immersive narrative environments. Her work has been presented in the United States, Europe and Canada as well as in print and on radio and television. Her current project under development is Spectropia, an interactive cinema performance for two players that also exists as a feature film. R. Luke DuBois is a composer, programmer, and video artist living in New York City. He is a co-author of Jitter, a software suite developed by Cycling'74 for real-time manipulation of matrix data. His music with his band, the Freight Elevator Quartet, is available on Caipirinha/Sire and Cycling'74 music. Arthur Elsenaar is an artist and an electrical engineer. He used to run his own pirate radio station, and built radar-controlled kinetic sculptures. His recent artistic work employs the human face as a computer-controlled display device. Scott Fitzgerald has a Master's Degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. He teaches at ITP and other computer arts programs in New York City, and has provided support for artists like Toni Dove and Leo Villareal. He is, first and foremost, an analog device. Based in New York City, GREAT SMALL WORKS productions consistently reinvent ancient, popular theater techniques: toy theater (Papiertheater), mask and object theater, circus, sideshow, and picture-show (cantastoria) to name a few. Great Small Works members are John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplin, Jenny Romaine, Roberto Rossi, and Mark Sussman. Multimedia artist Julia Heyward has received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her major works include “360”, a music video, “No Local Stops”, “Mood Music” and “Miracles in Reverse." An interactive DVD version of “Miracles in Reverse" was completed in 2003. Heyward is currently working on two interactive works that form a triptych with “Miracles in Reverse,” entitled “Nothing Random Access Memory.” Janene Higgins' videos and digital media have been presented at numerous festivals and galleries worldwide. Using laptop, mixers, tapes, and camera, she developed a technique for live video performance, and has collaborated with many of New York's pre-eminent composers and improvisors of new music. More at http://www.echonyc.com/~myrakoob/ Huge Harry is a speech synthesis machine, designed by Dennis Klatt at the MIT Speech Laboratory. Currently, he is the president and spokesmachine of the Institute of Artificial Art in Amsterdam. Huge Harry is an ardent advocate of the complete automatization of all art production. Elizabeth LeCompte is the founding member and director of the New York-based experimental theater company, The Wooster Group. She has been constructing film and theater pieces since 1975. George Lewis, improvisor-trombonist, composer, and computer/installation artist, is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. A 2002 MacArthur Fellow and a member of the AACM since 1971, Lewis's work is documented on more than 120 recordings, and his published articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes. Zachary Lieberman's work uses technology in a playful and enigmatic way to explore the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible. He creates performances, installations, and on-line works that investigate gestural input, augmentation of the body, and kinetic response. He is currently working on a concert-performance, "Drawn," in which live painted forms appear to come to life, rising off the page and reacting to the world around them. LoVid is a performance and installation project by Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus which scrambles ordinary TV output into hyperkinetic audiovisual abstraction using homemade electronic devices, repurposed analog toys, and low-res video loops. LoVid has performed and exhibited extensively, including: NY Underground Film Festival, The Kitchen, CoCA, ICA, and The New Museum. LoVid's 2005 awards include NYSCA and ETC's Finishing Funds as well as artist residencies at Eyebeam, Harvestworks, and RPI. LoVid is a free103point9 transmission artist. Stephan Moore is a Brooklyn-based composer, sound artist, and programmer. He performs with a wide variety of musicians, dancers and live-video artists, and co-curates a series of concerts at the Issue Project Room using his multi-channel array of hemispherical speakers. He is also the Sound Supervisor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. http://www.oddnoise.com/ Ikue Mori is a composer/improvisor/performer who moved from her native city of Tokyo to New York in 1977. She is currently working with “Mephista” with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, a quartet with Kim Gordon, DJ Olive and Jim O’Rourke, duo project with Zeena Parkins, trio with Haco and Aki Onda and Hemophiliac with John Zorn and Mike Patton. Dafna Naphtali is a singer, sound artist/improviser and electronic composer coming from a genuinely eclectic background of music-making. She performs and composes using her own custom Max/MSP programs for sound processing of voice and other instruments. She co-leads the digital chamber punk ensemble, "What is it Like to be a Bat?" with composer Kitty Brazelton. www.whatbat.org The North American flutist Jane Rigler has considerable experience as an interpreter of contemporary music. Her performing experience encompasses ensemble work, flute and electronics, computer interactive improvisation and interdisciplinary experimental works. Composer Marina Rosenfeld is based in New York City where her music includes large-scale, multi-player performances involving custom playing techniques, graphic scores, visual elements, costumes and improvisation by both musicians and non-musicians. Her work also includes electro-acoustic sound installations for multiple speakers; and solo and ensemble compositions involving acoustic instruments, turntables and electronics. Ben Rubin is a media artist based in New York City. Mr. Rubin's exhibitions include shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, and the Skirball Center in Los Angeles (in a show organized by the Getty Museum). Rubin's Listening Post (2002, with statistician Mark Hansen) won the 2004 Golden Nica Prize from Ars Electronica. Mr. Rubin teaches at the Yale School of Art, where he was appointed critic in graphic design in 2004. Remko Scha is an artist and a computational linguist. He performed with an automatic electric guitar band ("The Machines"), designed an image generation algorithm ("Artificial"), and developed a theory about language-processing ("Data-Oriented Parsing"). Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha jointly developed a series of automatic performance-pieces and video-installations which involve computer-controlled facial expression, algorithmic music, and synthetic speech. Sha Xin Wei, Ph.D. Director, Topological Media Lab (http://topologicalmedia.concordia.ca/ ) Canada Research Chair, Media Arts and Sciences Associate at Concordia University where he creates experimental technologies for responsive media and performance. Scott Snibbe is a San Francisco-based media artist best known for works that allow viewers to interact with projections and sculptures that meaningfully respond and react to their presence. His work has been widely shown internationally at venues including The Whitney Museum, SFMOMA, London's ICA and Ars Electronica. With choreographer Dawn Stoppiello, composer/media artist Mark Coniglio is co-founder of Troika Ranch, a New York City based dance theater company committed integrating forms of dance, theater and interactive digital media. Stoppiello's choreography reflects her keen interest in visual rhythm, kinetic complexity and non-linear motion and Coniglio invents custom instruments and software specifically for use in the performance of his music. They are currently working on motion tracking that links Eyes Web with the Isadora software.
Christina Yang is an independent art historian, curator and writer who has taught at CCAC, Hunter College, and SVA. As Curator of Visual Art and New Media (1999-2004) of The Kitchen, Ms. Yang’s curatorial practice focuses on the commissioning, presentation, and contextualization of multidisciplinary works of art particularly in new forms blending video, performance, new media, sound, and installation.
images courtesy of (from left): Sally by Toni Dove, Central Mosaic by Scott Snibbe, Early IRCOM photo by George Lewis, and William by Toni Dove |