TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
1) PERFORMANCE ART
SET UP: Photographer is surrounded by "forest" of televisions, with dvd players playing historic footage: Kennedy Assassination, Martin Luther King speeches, John Lennon interviews, 9-11 and other terrorism, school shootings: Columbine, Virginia Tech.
The photographer is choosing images as footage goes by, enlarging, cropping and editing what he/she wants to see and remember. The digital camera is sending images to a large projection on stage.
NON-PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION
An installation that acts as a metaphor for the fear created by media will be designed site-specific with available resources: televisions, projectors, dvd players and electricity.
LECTURE
TOPIC: Post-Genre Art and Music Classification
The world of art and music has long been studied and analyzed and categorized by critics and historians.
Though useful for organization of bookshelves as well as libraries, our world today faces metadata that are becoming more and more granular.
In my talk, I'd like to explore how audio and visual stimuli get re-interpreted in new sounds and visions in a truly multimedia, cross-disciplinary jam session.
As a performing artist/composer in the post-modern, globally-networked digital world, my music is made up of deconstructed bits and bytes of existing phrases that are re-manipulated and molded anew like reconstituted foodstuff. And like space food, the grains of musical flavors are full of distortions and skewed as they re-emerge in their new context. The completed music defies classification, and can only be described with "tags" in a word cloud.
For example, if I were to "tag" the performance, "Beatles", "star spangled banner", "We Shall Overcome", "war", "marching soldiers", "guns", "assassination" would all be appropriate metadata providing a rich description of the resulting art. However, these disparate group of words does not lend itself to a "musical genre" that woudl fit neatly into any category found in library systems.
In my jam sessions, artists of all media, genres and styles meet to create sonic and visual gestures in an improvisational session that can be likened to hyperlinking randomly through the www. Dancers can move and make shapes, video artists can project and manipulate, painters can throw paint, with musicians both accompanying and leading, pushing and being pulled in an amorphous mass of creative energy.