January 11
8:30 pm
Live sets by:
Angie Eng (Live video)
with Yumiko Tanaka / David Weinstein (music)
Andrew Deutsch (live visuals)
with Stephen Vitiello (music)
Invited artist:
Melanie Crean
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Suggested donation: $ 7
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Melanie Crean is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. As the former Director of Production at Eyebeam, she managed a cooperative studio that supported the production of socially based digital media. Previously, Melanie worked at the MTV Digital Television Lab, managing a team of artists designing special effects, motion capture and speech recognition systems. She has produced documentaries in Nepal, India and the United States, on subjects including women trafficking and the spread of HIV/AIDS along trucking routes in South Asia. She has received fellowships and commissions from NYFA, NYSCA, and Creative Time. She currently teaches at Parsons and Pratt, and is working on a commission for Art in General, to be exhibited in April.
Andrew Deutsch (b.1968) is a sound, video and graphic artist who lives in Hornell, NY and teaches Sound & Video Art in the Division of Expanded Media at Alfred University. He received his BFA in Video Art and Printmaking from Alfred University in 1990 and his MFA in Integrated Electronic Art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1994. He is a member of the Institute for Electronic Art at Alfred University and the Pauline Oliveros Foundation Board of Advisors and is a former member of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation Board of Directors (1999 - 2001). Since 1998 Deutsch has released over 26 CDRs of solo electronic music on his Magic If Recordings
Angie Eng
is a media artist who works in video, installation and time-based performance.
Her current work draws from her peripatetic lifestyle and inspiration
from indigenous cultures.
Eng was born in 1969 in San Francisco California. In 1993 she moved to
New York City to pursue her career in the arts. During this time she became
involved in the downtown electronic arts scene and has collaborated on
numerous video performance projects. She co-founded The Poool a live video
performance group with Nancy Meli Walker and Benton Bainbridge in 1996-1999.
Her work has been performed and exhibited at the Whitney Museum at Philip
Morris, Lincoln Center Video Festival, The Kitchen, New Museum of Contemporary
Art, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute and Roulette Intermedium. Her videos
have been included in digital art festivals in the US and international
venues in Cuba, Greece, Japan, Germany and Canada. She has received numerouse
grants and commissions: New Museum of Radio and Performing Arts, Harvestworks,
Art In General, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York State Council
on the Arts, Jerome Foundation and Experimental TV Center. Currently she
has received an Eyebeam Residency to make a project about psychogeographics
of East and West cities in Ho Chi Minh City and New york.
Yumiko Tanaka is a Japanese Shamisen player and a singer. She studied and has been performing the traditional Gidayu music. Besides traditional music, she explores and collaborates in comtemporary music, jazz, dance and theater. She worked with Yuji Takahashi, Otomo Yoshihide, Min-Xio Fen, Ned Rothenberg, Kiyohiko Semba, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Elliott Sharp, David Moss, Carl Stone, Butch Morris, Heiner Goebbels, Basil Twist and among many others. Tanaka has a Master's degree in musicology from Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. In 1991 she was awarded the Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for Newcomers for the year 1990. In 1999 she received the Committee's Special Prize at the 68th Japan Music Competition. She is an associate professor at Hyogo University of Teacher Education. In 2006, she was awarded a fellowship by Asian Cultural Council (ACC) and stays in NY for five months to research current developments in contemporary performing arts in the US.
Stephen Vitiello is a sound and media artist, originally from NYC, now based in Richmond, VA. Stephen's sound installations, objects and drawings have been presented in solo exhibitions at The Project, NY, Museum 52, London and Galerie Almine Rech, Paris. Group exhibitions include the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2006 Sydney Biennial (in collaboration with Julie Mehretu). CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion Records), Buffalo Bass Delay (Hallwalls) and two recent CDRs, Inductive Music with Andrew Deutsch (Magic If) and Untitled/Exchange with Michael J. Schumacher (A Question of Re-entry). www.stephenvitiello.com
David Weinstein,
is a composer and multimedia artist whose musical and site-specific installation
works have been shown worldwide. His musical works juxtapose sound effects,
traditional and non traditional instruments, synthetic sound, ancient
and exotic tunings, and noise. As a keyboardist Weinstein has recorded
and performed with musicians including Shelley Hirsch, Elliott Sharp,
John Zorn, Ned Rothenberg, Paul Dresher, Rhys Chatham and many others
from Arto Lindsay to Zeena Parkins. Weinstein also makes theatrical, installation
and site-specific multimedia pieces and is expert in computer assisted
audio and animation including streaming and interactive media. His multimedia
collaborations with video artist Doris Vila earned them a jury prize at
Ars Electronica in 2002 and a NYSCA grant in 2004.
Born in Chicago in 1954, David Weinstein studied music composition at
the University of Illinois with Ben Johnston and Salvatore Martirano.
A founder of the New York new music series Roulette, he co-directed the
day-to-day operations from 1978 to 1994. He has taught music, sound, and
multimedia at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Yale, and
the City University of New York. He has worked as a consultant, panelist,
curator, and organizer for arts organizations and companies from Morgan
Stanley to MTV. He is managing director at PS1 Museum. He has lived in
Brooklyn since 1979.
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