Please note, this event will be held at Experimental Intermedia!

Tuesday, April 15th

8:30 pm

OptoSonic Tea

Live sets by:

- Naval Cassidy & Michael Evans
- Caspar Stracke & Hahn Rowe

Invited moderator / respondent:

- Carol Parkinson

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Suggested donation: $ 7

Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre Street, 3rd Floor
New York NY 10013

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about the artists:

Naval Cassidy has been an instant cinema and sound performer for over fifteen years. Working solo, or with groups like Stackable Thumb and The Hands of Orlak, he has been a consistent presence in New York's live video and performance scene. Through his special blend of video performance, Instant Cinema, Naval pulls delirious visions out of discarded broken objects, simply by placing each one under the watchful eye of his surveillance cameras.
www.navalcassidy.com

Michael Evans is an improvising drummer/percussionist/ thereminist/ composer whose work investigates and embraces the collision of sound and theatrics. Besides being a drum set player, his work with unusual sound sources includes found objects, homemade instruments,various digital and homemade analog electronics. He has worked with a wide variety of artists nationally and internationally.
www.michaelevanssounds.com

Caspar Stracke is a German visual artist, based in New York City. His video and installation works have been shown in institutions such as MoMa and The Whitney, ZKM Karlsruhe, ICC Japan, Yerba Buena SF, Rena Sofia Madrid, among others. He has exhibited in int'l film and media art festivals throughout North and South America, Europe and East Asia.
Caspar occasionally performs live video with Gabriela Monroy under the name MOSTRA and has performed with many NY sound and performing artists such as DJ Olive, Active Phaze, David Linton, qpe, Firehorse, Benton C-Bainbridge, and Matthew Ostrowski, among many others, Longer collaborative projects include video design for dance performances by Koosil-ja Hwang (DanceKumikoKimoto, 1994 - 2001) film performances with Julie Murray (Panoptical Motor, 1995 - 97) and video collaborations with Terre Thaemlitz. (2002 - 3). He is a recipient of a Rockefeller Media Artist Fellowship and a Bessie Award (with Benton C-Bainbridge.)
www.videokasbah.net
www.m-o-s-t-r-a.com

Composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Hahn Rowe has lived in New York City for over 25 years working with people/groups such as Glenn Branca, Hugo Largo, David Byrne, Jim Thirwell/Foetus, Mimi Goese, and Antony and the Johnsons. He is active as a composer for film and dance/theater and is currently performing solo concerts on violin, digitally transformed in realtime.

Carol Parkinson - An arts administrator/artist whose professional services include arts panel participation at the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She has been the Director of Harvestworks since 1987 and has been involved in the programming and development of the organization since 1982. Previous to that date she was employed by the Dia Art Foundation as assistant to composer LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela. During her employment at Harvestworks, she has organized panelists, participated in the review of applications to the Harvestworks Artist-In-Residence Program and most recently, co-produced the city-wide The New York Electronic Art Festival.
She is a founding member of TELLUS, the experimental audio series and continues to support and distribute experimental and innovative work in the digital media arts. Her primary interest is in the development of experimental electronic sound art and emerging technologies.
Her educational backround includes a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin at Madison with supplementary education at Skidmore College and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City.
As a composer she has performed at Roulette, the Kitchen and White Columns and has done soundtracks for video artists Louis Grenier and Julie Harrison. She has been published in Ear magazine, the Village Voice and High Performance Magazine. EGrants and awards include a NYSCA media grant for a collaboration with video artist Julie Harrison.

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