September 26
8:30 pm
Live sets by:
Gill Arno (mpld)
Luke DuBois
Invited artist:
Gerd Stern
Suggested donation: $ 7
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Gill Arnò
(mpld)
mpld is Gill Arnò's mixed media performance project. Its focus
is on the relationships that can be established between sound, image,
light and space, considered in their phenomenological and conceptual dimensions.
Memory, territory, identity and the sense of belonging are recurring themes,
approached trough the use of various found materials that are assembled
combining analog empiricism with the abstraction of digital hyperreality.
The photoacoustic continuum of mpld's amplified slide projection slowly
flows into the performance space carrying fragments from unidentified
places and times. Fades and cuts play with memory's subjective persistence,
as light and darkness keep carving out each one from the other. The mechanical
sounds of this projection are tapped and processed to become its own soundtrack.
Color, density, texture, frequency become simultaneous qualities of the
light and the sound, as they are explored in a way somewhat analogue to
the distorted enlargement of a magnifying glass. Born in Milan (Italy),
Gill Arn˜ studied art and typography before moving to NYC in 1997. Since
then he has been designing record covers and art directing small record
labels, as well as creating multi-dimensional environments as part of
underground parties and mixed media experimental events. Gill has been
involved since 1998 with many of NYC's labels and event organizers, including
Soundlab, Broklyn Beats, theAgriculture, Seasonal, Phonomena. Luke DuBois
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Luke DuBois
Luke DuBois is a composer, programmer, and video artist living in
New York City. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia
University, and teaches interactive sound and video performance at Columbia's
Computer Music Center and at the Interactive Telecommunications Program
at New York University. He has collaborated on interactive performance,
installation and music production work with many artists, most recently
Toni Dove, Todd Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, and Michael
Gordon, and was a staff programming consultant for Engine27 for the 2003
season. He is a co-author of Jitter, a software suite developed by Cycling'74
for real-time manipulation of matrix data. His music (with or without
his band, the Freight Elevator Quartet), is available on Caipirinha/Sire,
Cycling'74, and Cantaloupe music, and his artwork is represented by bitforms
gallery in New York City.
Gerd Stern
Gerd Stern is a poet and visual artist. A founder of the communal arts
group USCO in the '60's, he and USCO exhibited installation art and toured
multi-media peformances in the U.S.and abroad. A major psychedelic art
show "Summer of Love" just closed after three months at the
Kunsthalle, Vienna and before that at the Schirn Museum, Frankfurt and
the Tate Museum, Liverpool. With three pieces of USCO's work "Summer
of Love" will open at the Whitney Museum of American Art late May
2007 and several other USCO pieces will be in the 30th anniversary exhibition,
"Art of the Sacred" opening October 2007 at the Centre Pompidou
Paris. Gerd Stern has a number of published volumes of poems and has written
for numerous publications. He currently lives in Northern New Jersey.
USCO was a communal group of artists, poets and engineers, working out
of their studio in an old church building in New York State's Rockland
County, that toured museums and universities in the United States and
abroad during the 60s with their media productions and kinetic installations.
Their work helped to define the burgeoning psychedelic scene of that era
and was twice featured on the cover of LIFE magazine.Ê Their 'Down By
The Riverside' exhibition and performances at the first media Discotheque,
'The World', were well-documented on television, radio, in articles and
in such books as Douglas Davis' Art and The Future and Richard Kostelanetz's
The Theatre of Mixed Means.
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