Author: Fara

BOTBORG : Extreme Improvised Synaesthesia
Jeff Donaldson and Scott Sinclair
live analog video and audio compositions

Botborg is an international audio-visual performance group that fuses and rewires raw electronic signals to create intensely visceral experiences of sound-color synaesthesia. Using a complex array of custom electronics, Botborg create totally live multi-sensory assaults of interdependent color and rhythm, pushing the limits of technology to invoke the maximum possible stimulation of their audience’s mind and body. Botborg work with a level of experimentation and improvisation that places them in a territory outside traditional musical or cinematic formats, where the boundaries between art, science, and philosophy mutate until they are rendered meaningless.

Botborg demonstrations often include very loud sound played in combination with very fast flashing/strobe light using the largest sound systems and projection screens available.

Botborg has hosted live demonstrations at many prestigious music, film, and media festivals throughout Europe and Australia. Botborg’s films are distributed by Lightcone (Paris, France).

Jeff Donaldson is a New York-based artist originally from Corpus Christi, Texas. Through the utilization of hardware-hacking techniques, broken image files, binary data and unorthodox digital processes, the artist seeks to draw a link between current technological culture and ancient art forms. Donaldson’s work has exhibited internationally including at Museum of the Moving Image, NYC; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio De Janeiro; The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, UK; Leap, Berlin; Transmediale, Berlin; Isetan, Tokyo; White Box, NYC; Art in General, NYC; Eyebeam, NYC; PLANETART, Amsterdam; and iMAL, Brussels among many others.

Scott Sinclair is an audiovisual artist, performer, and programmer. Scott creates work that involves aggressive and humorous collages of different media to form highly interdisciplinary outcomes – from computer music and video art to vocal improvisation and custom-made costumes. Sinclair has a long history in improvised music, in combination with new audiovisual practices and the echoes of expanded cinema. He creates work for performances, recordings, screenings, installations, print, and the web, which has been previously toured Europe, Australia, Japan, Russia, and North America. Scott Sinclair lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

http://www.botborg.com
http://www.myspace.com/botb

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlM5jPIoUcM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgUohA319-I

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Tooth: the sea the other day two years ago or so it seems. A three channel 16mm and multiple audio tape players.

Tooth is an artist that works in film, sound, performance and other time-based disciplines. His performance work primarily concerns itself with the phenomenology of trance states and their function within a collision of cultural, political and personal realities.

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Stephanie Sherriff :   FF33CC + 6600CC +0066CC + FF9933

improvisational
composition

abstracted
memory

pixels / paint / color

impressionistic
meander

temporal
ever-changing
mix

digital video
tiny cameras / sound / software

Stephanie Sherriff is an interdisciplinary sculptor, performer, and media artist currently residing in the Bay Area. Her most recent work explores formal and temporal qualities of color, texture, and motion through experiments with electricity, water, found objects, low-fi digital video camera footage, sound, scents, and software. She received a BA in Studio Art from San Francisco State University where she was a recipient of several awards including Excellence in Video, the Joseph Illick Award for Best in Show, and the Christine Tamblyn Memorial Scholarship.

http://www.ssherriff

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Visual Aids: Using obsolete technology to re appropriate visual imagery as a entirely new form of art, Visual Aids provides live projected video art which is accompanied by live electronic based soundscapes produced by Ic PcP.

In the late ‘70s, legendary iconoclast Brian Eno gave a seventeen-year old named Martin Bisi a loan to build a recording studio in a decrepit old factory in the uninhabited depths of Gowanus, Brooklyn. Eno set about recording his classic ambient record ON LAND in the studio he paid for, which was known as BC. Very soon, BC was ground zero for everything from the birth of hip hop to noise rock and everything in between. Decades later and still going strong, Martin and his studio are up against a challenge they never foresaw – a changing neighborhood and a city that very may well have priced out its creative class. Featuring incredible footage from a who’s who of underground and above ground luminaries including Afrika Bambaata, Sonic Youth, Whitney Houston, Herbie Hancock, John Zorn, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Swans, Cop Shoot Cop and many more, SOUND AND CHAOS is an essential documentary about a time, a place, and one of the great scenes in modern music. Directed by Ryan Douglass & Sarah Leavitt. 2014. Digital. 72 minutes.

Ticket Link: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/770689

Event Link: http://film.noisepop.com/events/2015/2/25/sound-and-chaos

WEST COAST PREMIERE!

Q&A WITH DIRECTOR ERIC GREEN HOSTED BY DENNIS THE MENACE!

In 1985, during the height of the music video craze, a free music video UHF-TV channel appeared in the Boston market, only to disappear from the airwaves after 18 months. Nearly 30 years later, the fans remain and memories of this channel have formed an important place in 80s nostalgia. Life On The V: The Story Of V66 is the story of that channel, V66. Dennis “The Menace” Scheyer was a co-host of the Sunday night Dance/Rock/Artist Interview show on Boston’s #1 radio station KISS-108, Boston when Arnie “Woo Woo” Ginsburg and John Garabadian started V-66, so he knows the story intimately. Some 30 years later he’s still supporting musicians with two syndicated radio shows (www.menaceattic.com) and as Founder/Creative Director of a new content/engagement/radio thing called PopCult that is not run by computers or algorithms.

Q & A with Dennis “The Menace” Scheyer, San Francisco-based syndicated radio host who was on the air KISS-108, Boston in the 80’s when V-66 was on the air. (FYI; John Garabedian and Arnie “Woo Woo” Ginsburg who founded V-66 were from KISS-108 too!) Directed by: ric Green. 2014. Digital. 96minutes.

Ticket Link: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/770601

Event Link: http://film.noisepop.com/events/2015/2/24/life-on-the-v-the-story-of-v66