March 27
8:30 pm
Live sets by:
- Janene Higgins(
video mix) with Mari Kimura (violin and interactive computer )
- Jennifer Reeves (dual 16mm film) with Anthony Burr (music)
Invited artist:
- Toni Dove
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Suggested donation: $ 7
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Janene Higgins'
videos and digital media have been presented internationally at numerous
festivals and galleries, including The 2006 New York Video Festival; Documenta
in Kassel, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon; City of Women Festival,
Slovenia; The Chelsea Art Museum, NYC; MAD '03 in Madrid; Art Institute
of Chicago; Experimenta Festival in Buenos Aires; and at The Impakt Festival
in The Netherlands. She developed a technique for live video performance,
and has collaborated with many of New York's pre-eminent composers and
improvisors of new music, including duo performances with Elliott Sharp,
Ikue Mori, Alan Licht, Okkyung Lee, Aki Onda, Nurit Tilles, and Zeena
Parkins. Higgins is a frequent artist-in-residence at the Experimental
Television Center, and is a recent recipient of their Electronic Arts
grant. She has given workshops on her approach to video performance at
A.I.R. Gallery and the Chelsea Art Museum, NYC, and at the Watson Festival
at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.echonyc.com/~myrakoob
Mari Kimura:
Hailed by The New York Times as "a virtuoso playing at the edge,"composer/violinist
Mari Kimura is widely admired for her revolutionary extended technique
"Subharmonics" and for the solo performances of diverse programs including
her works with interactive computer music. She has won numerous awards
both in her native Japan and in the U.S., and has been invited to give
solo performances in international festivals around the world including
Spring in Budapest, Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, International
Bartok Festival, Festival Cervantino in Mexico, ISCM World Music Days,
and at IRCAM, Paris. Ms. Kimura's works have been supported by grants
including Jerome Foundation, Arts International, Japan Foundation, the
New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation of the
Arts. Since September 1998, Ms. Kimura has been teaching a graduate class
in Computer Music Performance at The Juilliard School in New York City.
http://www.marikimura.com
Jennifer Reeves
(b. 1971, Ceylon) is a New York-based filmmaker whose films have shown
the world over, from the Berlin, Sundance, Vancouver, London, Toronto,
New York, and Rotterdam International Film Festivals to Princeton, MOMA,
and the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Reeves' debut feature film THE TIME WE
KILLED (2004) won the FIPRESCI Critics prize at the Berlin Film Festival,
Outstanding Artistic Achievement at OUTFEST, and Best NY, NY Narrative
Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival. The Village Voice Film Critic's
poll honored TWK with votes for: Best Film, Best Cinematography, and Best
Performance. As director of TWK Reeves was nominated for a 2005 Independent
Spirit Award.
More Info: www.jenniferreevesfilm.com
As a clarinetist,
Anthony Burr has enjoyed a distinguished career as an exponent
of contemporary music performing, often solo, with many leading groups,
including Elision, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Sospeso, and the Chamber
Music Sociey of Lincoln Center. Among the composers with whom he has worked
are: Alvin Lucier, Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, and Magnus Lindberg.
Burr has performed widely outside the classical arena with artists including
Jim O'Rourke, John Zorn, Mark Feldman, Chris Speed, Jim Black, Ikue Mori,
Tim Barnes, Ted Reichman, Mark Dresser, and Briggan Krauss. As a composer
Burr has specialized in the creation of epic scale mixed media pieces
often in collaboration with other artists. Burr has produced and/or engineered
records for Charles Curtis, La Monte Young, and Ted Reichman. New releases
include the music of Alvin Lucier on sigma/antiopic and a trio album with
Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega.
More info: www.gardenvariety.org
Toni Dove
is an artist/independent producer who works primarily with electronic
media, including virtual reality , interactive video installations, performance
and DVD ROMs that engage viewers in responsive and immersive narrative
environments. Her work has been presented in the United States, Europe
and Canada as well as in print and on radio and television. Projects include
Arxheology of a Mother Tongue, a virtual reality installation with Michael
Mackenzie, Banff Centre for the Arts (see the book "Immersed in Technology"
from M.I.T. Press) and an interactive cinema installation, Artificial
Changelings, which debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival, and was part
of the exhibition: Body Mécanique, at the Wexner Center for the
Arts, Ohio, at the Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona State
University International Performance Studies Conference, in "Wired" at
the Arts Center for the Capital Region in Troy, N.Y., Book-Ends Conference.
Her current project under development is Spectropia, a feature length
interactive movie performance for two players also to be released as a
linear feature film. It previewed as a work in progress at Lincoln Center
in Scanners, the New York Video Festival 2006. A DVD ROM, Sally or the
Bubble Burst, an interactive scene from the Spectropia project is distributed
on the Cycling '74 label and has toured as an installation.
Dove has received numerous grants and awards, including the Rockefeller
Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Langlois Foundation, New York
State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation
for the Arts, The LEF Foundation, and the Eugene McDermott Award in the
Arts from M.I.T.Ê
http://www.tonidove.com
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