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99 HOOKER + PACKARD + RETRO TECH
Our peripatetic sugar bear/mad meister of Media Re-Mix  99 Hooker trundles thru town once again, here to anchor a carnivalesque compendium of lo-fi apparati, with the premiere of his Incredibly Strange Music Videos – LIVE. His real time breaking and re-making of the music-video genre is preceded by a most-curious collection of early audio technologies, including Rich DeLaup‘s Drum Buddy, Maurice Martenot‘s Music from the Spheres, and Max Fleischer‘s synchronous sound animation. The debut of Scott Alexander‘s Leon Theremin mini-pic echoes Russ Forster‘s Theremin-busking! But the real elephant in the room–like it or not–is the utterly unprecedented AI hijinx from none other than Damon Packard! Preceded by Tim Johnson‘s laserdisc riff and Gerry Fialka‘s PXL Vision exemplar, Damon‘s love-hate pak from LA is damn impossible to respond to, so surprising are his hyper-vivid visions from this audacious new kind of media. $12

A community-driven film club hosting screening events each month, featuring works by local filmmakers. Our mission is to foster connection and collaboration among like-minded film creatives, building a strong and supportive network.

Katherine Liberovskaya in person.

Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock were partners in life and art from 2001 until his death in the beginning of 2024. While each of them had their own solo practices, over the years they also worked on a wide variety of live, video and installation projects together. This program is a selection of non-narrative video-audio works created during their 22 year relationship. All video is by Liberovskaya and sound/music by Niblock except “Wind Waves / Rumble Mumble” where soundtrack is by Niblock with Francisco Janes.

– “Peindre La Peinture / Painting the Painting” (2002-2003) – 15:30

– “Four-Wheel Drive” (2008) – 5:00

– “Tilting at Windmills” (2015) – 9:00

– “LockStorm” (2020) – 13:25

– “Wind Waves / Rumble Mumble” (2023) – 22:00

Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian intermedia artist based in NYC. Involved in experimental video since the 80’s, she has produced numerous single-channel video art pieces, video installations and video performances, as well as works in other media, that have been shown around the world. Since 2001 her work predominantly focuses on the intersection of moving image with sound/music in various both ephemeral and fixed forms (projections, installations, performances), notably through collaborations with many composers and sound artists in improvised live video+sound concert situations where her live visuals seek to create improvisatory “music” for the eyes. For over 22 years she collaborated with composer/intermedia artist Phill Niblock on various live, video and installation projects. Other frequent collaborators include: Dafna Naphtali, Keiko Uenishi, Shelley Hirsch, Barbara Held, Mia Zabelka, Al Margolis (IF,BWANA), David Watson, among many others. In addition to her art work she curates events in experimental video/film, sound/music and A/V performance, notably the yearly Screen Compositions evenings at EI NYC since 2005 and, since 2006 the OptoSonic Tea salons (co-curated with Ursula Scherrer) in NYC and various nomadic locations in North America and Europe as well as on-line during the Covid pandemic. In 2014 she completed a PhD in art practice entitled “Improvisatory Live Visuals: Playing Images Like a Musical Instrument” at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She is currently the artistic director of Experimental Intermedia NYC.

www.facebook.com/liberovskaya

Phill Niblock (1933-2024) was an intermedia artist using music, film, photography, video and computers. He was born in Indiana in 1933. Since the mid-60’s he was making music and intermedia performances which have been shown at numerous venues around the world. He made thick, loud drones of music, filled with microtones of instrumental timbres generating many other tones in the performance space. He said: “What I am doing with my music is to produce something without rhythm or melody, by using many microtones that cause movements very, very slowly.” Simultaneously, he would present films / videos looking at the movement of people working.  Since 1985, he was the director of the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York – www.experimentalintermedia.org – where he had been an artist/member since 1968. He was the producer of Music and Intermedia presentations at EI from 1973 to 2023 and the curator of EI’s XI Records label until 2023. Phill Niblock’s music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode, Matiere Memoire, Room 40, and Touch labels. DVDs of films and music are available on the Extreme label and Von Archive. Until 1995 he was a professor of film, video and photography at The College of Staten Island, the City University of New York. In 2014, he was the recipient of the prestigious John Cage Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

www.phillniblock.com