PARTICIPATION Performance: Lowend Combining acoustic and electronically generated sounds to produce patterns that are both intentional and unintentional. I like to be surprised. Lowend is a solo project that uses acoustic instruments to make sounds that are converted to an electric signal via microphones and then altered with various effects pedals. Artist Location: Los Angeles […]
PARTICIPATION Performance: Lost Transmission Heavy drones, electronic fragments, noise. Forged in the flames of self-help folk wisdom and Californian techno-optimism, Lost Transmission improvises heavy drones and electronic fragments, at times warmly meditative or punishingly frightening, always encouraging a conversation with the self. The duo hails originally from Los Angeles and Detroit. Artist Location: Los Angeles, […]
PARTICIPATION Installation: The Sound Of The Machine is a projected video art display accompanied by aesthetically relevant sound. The Imagery showcases hyper reflective sculptures of abstract machinery. This includes alien technology with nearly recognizable features such as wires, buttons, and antennas. One notable machine resembles that of a television. This is shown in a video […]
PARTICIPATION Performance: iChing is a series of live experiments that playfully combines divination, electronic music, and collective ritual. Performances draw on the I Ching – an ancient Chinese divination system based on elemental relationships observed in the natural world. Each reading begins with a randomly generated six-note melody, which is then translated into an I […]
PARTICIPATION Fever Dream II invites the viewer into a vibrant, multisensorial and emotive exploration of climate change, climate anxiety, environmental phenomena, sense of place with relation to land and water, perception. Julia Edith Rigby has performed at LEAF Festival in Lafayette, Colorado (2024), LOW End in Omaha, Nebraska (2023), and the Atlantic Center for the […]
PARTICIPATION Culkinator This piece explores the engineering of child celebrities through the eyes of an alien observer. Johanna Hauser grew up in Austin, Texas. After studying German literature at Bard College, she pursued a Masters in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. A collage artist at heart, Johanna’s practice hinges on working with […]
PARTICIPATION Points Becoming is part of an ongoing series of animations that feature simple shapes and stick figures that when seen together form a larger dream-like narrative about the trials and tribulations of life. These animations explore the relationship of an imagined past and future, taking into consideration the years of the pandemic and the […]
PARTICIPATION Brief:case James Allen 2024The performance involves a salvaged brief case that has been modified into a battery powered glitch instrument.The hardware application was initially used for outdoor cassette recordings that were a short duration from two to five minutes long.The case has been outfited with a two perforated steel cheese plates for mounting FX […]
PARTICIPATION Performance: Insufficient Despair This performance will explore the use of multiple speakers and sound sources to create a multimedia experience. Ryan Gan aka Insufficient Despair is a noise/experimental sound project centered around repurposed and modified media and mediators (no-input mixer, modified turntable, and 16mm film and projection). Gan is influenced by feedback pioneers such […]
PARTICIPATION Installation: This Statue Contains a God will simulate an encounter with a trapped magical being, one who when free would be able to create mountains or bring down the moon, but appears before the viewer trapped and powerless within a corporeal form/prison. The statue will look somewhat like a damaged antique Roman statue or […]