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  • Other Cinema: TONY CONRAD + JOHN DAVIS + CYRUS TABAR +

    Our tri-part OPTRONICA series—OC’s semi-annual fest of Audiovisual-Fusion— opens with a tribute to recently deceased drone demigod Tony Conrad, the minimalist confederate of Faust, La Monte Young, and the Velvet Underground. Tonight we groove both on his hypnotic performances—documented by SFAI grad Tyler Hubby—and on local A/V ‘avatars’ John Davis and Cyrus Tabar, performing pieces honoring Conrad’s legacy. They collaborate on “Tony! Tony!”, a live-violin cascade of resonating overtones, amidst flickers of “Strings” instructionals. Davis also debuts an analog-synth score to the ‘found’ Super8 sci-fi anomaly ‘Silver Robot’, as well as re-tracking a mid-century Soviet-tech rarity, per his obsession. Cyrus rounds out his third with a trio of asynchronous tracks– an oneiric take on Craig Baldwin’s twin-projection “Milk of Amnesia” (world premiere), the second an homage to Kalle Lasn’s undersung “Ritual Tokyo”, and finally, a new soundscape to Jean-Gabriel Periot’s meta-memorial “200,000 Phantoms”.
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  • Formations

    Gabriela received her BFA from California College of the Arts in the winter of 2012. She paint portraits that depict nearly still figures submerged within a destabilized landscape. Her paintings grasp on what is in constant movement and change in an over stimulated environment. Gabriela aims to capture an amplified state where figures fall apart and become a part of a new landscape.  In her process of deconstructing and repainting, layers of previous paintings are still present. Her work is very process based, physical and experimental. She uses a range of brushes and squeegees to create specific marks that guide the composition of each painting. With the use of sludgy mark-making in contrast with sharp geometric shapes, she interested in the convergence of opposites where movement and stillness can exist concurrently.