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PEEL @ MUV music and digital arts festival, Florence (Italy), June 3rd 2010

surabhi — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:03:59 +0000

MUV Florence 1-6 June 2010

PEEL will be shown at Videozone as a part of MUV music and digital arts festival along with 13 other selected videos from the Celeste Prize Network.

MUV is an event that explores a world of languages that intersect: digital arts and electronic music. The festival, now in its sixth edition, is edited by the cultural organization events and MUV Intooitiv. The event is characterized by a multitude of disciplines: electronic music concerts, DJ sets, video performance, multimedia and interactive installations, video contest, international workshops, meetings, video review and production. Video images and music, in continuous interaction, contribute to originate a dynamic and interactive entertainment with strong involvement of the public. Besides socio-cultural aspect of music, live performance is therefore of the testimony of actual contamination of the music with the different art forms.

http://www.firenzemuv.com/2010/muv.php

Work of Women Artist: BArCuMT @ GAFFTA

surabhi — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:22:36 +0000

LOCATION:
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
55 Taylor Street
Thursday, March 11th
7PM – 9:30PM

* Visda Goudarzi (Stanford CCRMA), will present Fosotomo/Gestonic/Neuroklang a video-based interface for the sonification of hand gesture for real-time timbre control. The goal of the system is to survey the space of musical possibilities and generating computer music using human movements. The system is build up on top of chuck and processing and uses simple frame difference as the metric.

* Julia Ogrydziak (Black Square, Capacitor, MIT) will present her recent work with the K-Bow

* Composer Cheryl E. Leonard will discuss how she creates music with natural objects, materials and sounds. She will demonstrate several of her unique natural-object instruments, including ones constructed with materials, such as penguin bones and limpet shells, that she collected in Antarctica last year.

*Surabhi Saraf will present her recent audio/visual works. She is interested in the dense, layered structure of sound with a focus on creating dynamic physical experiences. Her short performance will involve live singing and digital manipulation of the sound.

BIOS:

VISDA GOUDARZI is a computer musician interested in research in software for computer music, human-computer interaction, gesture-based interfaces, computer graphics, sonification, sound synthesis, and the application of new media in art. She is currently a researcher at Stanford working on an audio-visual feedback device in the Department of Oncology. She received her MA in Music, Science, and Technology at CCRMA in 2009. She also holds an MS in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, which she earned in 2008. Visda began her studies at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran before relocating to Vienna in 1998.

CHERYL E. LEONARD is a composer, performer and instrument-builder whose music investigates sounds, structures and materials from the natural world. Her recent works cultivate stones, leaves, wood, water, ice, sand, shells, feathers and bones as musical instruments. Leonard uses microphones to explore the intricate worlds of sound hidden within these instruments and develops compositions that highlight the unique voices they contain. Many of her projects involve constructing one-of-a-kind sculptural instruments, which are played live onstage. Cheryl also enjoys creating site-specific works and collaborating across artistic disciplines. She has written numerous soundtracks for film, video, dance and theater, and designed sounds for exhibits at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Cheryl holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MA from Mills College. Her music has been performed worldwide and featured on several television programs and in the video documentary Noisy People. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, ASCAP, American Composers Forum and Meet the Composer. Leonard has been awarded residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Villa Montalvo and Engine 27. Recordings of her music are available from NEXMAP, Unusual Animals, Pax, Apraxia, 23 Five, Old Gold, the Lab and Great Hoary Marmot Music. www.allwaysnorth.com www.musicfromtheice.blogspot.com

SURABHI SARAF is a new media artist whose work brings together elements from experimental sound art, classical music, choreography and video art. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009 with an MFA in Art and Technology. Prior to that, she obtained her BFA in Painting from MSU Baroda (India) in 2005. Surabhi is the winner of Art vs Design (2009) organized by Artists Wanted, New York and presented her work at the announcement reception at the New Museum, NY. Her work PEEL is the Winner of Celeste Prize (2009), Italy and was exhibited at Alte AEG Fabrik, Berlin. Surabhi’s collaborative work with Nadav Assor, was presented at the NETMAGE 10 International Live Media Festival, Bologna, Italy. Her video Peel was also shown at the 13 International Video Festival, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Vojvodina, Serbia. Surabhi is the recipient of the International Graduate Student Scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her solo and collaborative works have been presented at the Links Hall, Looptopia and Sullivan Galleries in Chicago. She has shown at the Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi and was a part of Peers student residency program at Khoj International Artist Association New Delhi in 2006. Surabhi currently lives and works in San Francisco.

Surabhi@ 100 Performances for the Hole – Take Two

surabhi — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:09:20 +0000

100 Performances for the Hole – Take Two is the second incarnation of 100 Performances for the Hole, the event features 100 two-minute performances created for and around an old mechanics pit in the floor of the gallery. SOMArts is proud to be partnering with Bay Area Video Coalition (BVAC) to broadcast this event to their cable access channels 76 and 29. This unique event and may never be recreated, so don’t miss out!

SOMArts Cultural Center has a unique space, among other attributes, it houses a large mechanics pit in the floor of its main gallery. On March 6th, for one night only, this pit will be transformed into a unique platform for performance. Anyone is invited to submit a piece for this exhibition. Your proposal will be reviewed by a special jury of artists, curators and visual arts professionals, consisting of Kevin Chen, Peter Foucault, Justin Hoover, Jackie Im, Lex Leifheit, Lucy Kalyani Lin, and Jennifer Locke. After the live event, documentation of all the pieces will be exhibited in the gallery for the duration of the month. 100 Performances – Take Two is all about live art. It is about using the gallery as a space for experimentation. This show treats the gallery space as a laboratory as opposed to a repository, and requires the energy of the public in order to make it happen. Any type of performance is allowed, from dance, to spoken word, to games and songs, to body art, and awkward gestures. If you can think it you can make it happen. There are only two rules.

What: 100 Performances for the Hole – Take Two
When: March 6 from 5:58 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Where: SOMArts Cultural Center Main Gallery

Surabhi with Jakes Bejoy @ CCRMA Winter Concert 2010

surabhi — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:44:03 +0000

An evening of electronic music of all kinds at CCRMA’s quarterly concert. This time featuring, in no particular order, a wild band of percussion robots, a two dimensional harp, beating phaser filters, networked dinosaurs, a computer guided improvisation quartet, a fan (yes, just one), multichannel music and more…

Music and performances by Mark Applebaum, Edgar Berdahl, Juan Pablo Caceres, Johan Chowning, Diane Douglas, Mark Goldstein, Visda Goudarzi, Rob Hamilton, Max Matthews, Jonathan Norton, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Alain Renaud, Jakes Bejoy and Surabhi Saraf.

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/ccrma-winter-concert-2010

Surabhi Saraf and Nadav Assor collaboratively known as NASSA will be performing at Netmage 10 International Live Media Festival, Bologna, Italy. Jan 21st-23rd 2010

surabhi — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:19:18 +0000

The tenth edition of the Netmage festival (Bologna, 21,22,23 January 2010) will present, in the historical castle of Palazzo Re Enzo, an unpredictable scenario of contemporary audiovisual research featuring live media, live cinema, concerts, performances, sound and visual installations.

Netmage festival, focusing on multi−media design, electronic arts and cutting−edge style, works as a meeting point for video−makers, multi−media and visual artists, musicians and performers from Europe, North America and Asia. In its ongoing investigation, Netmage presents some of the latest trends in live media. Together with research on essential aspects of perception and the intersection of visual and acoustic phenomena, the festival introduces a very wide range of approaches.

Featuring: Rachida Ziani/Dewi de Vree (F/NL), Francesco Cavaliere/Marcel Türkowsky (I/D),Harappian Night Recordings (UK), The Hunter Gracchus (UK), Lee Hangjun/Hong Chulki (KR), My Cat Is An Alien (I), Ectoplasm Girls (S), The Magic State (S), Be Maledetto Now (I), Richard Lainhart(USA), Cluster (D), Canedicoda (I), Nassa (Nadav Assor/Surabhi Saraf) (USA), Andrê Gonçalves(P), Es (Fin), Margareth Kammerer/Andrea Belfi/Stefano Pilia/Daniela Cattivelli/Michaela Grill(I/D/A), Carlos Casas (E), Vincent Dupont (F), Nana April Jun (S), Aaron Dilloway (USA).

See hereunder the complete programme of Netmage 10 (including the following sections: Mangrovia, Live Media Floor, Elektrolab, Cemetery and Performing Arts).

Netmage festival was conceived and created by Xing, a cultural network operating in Italy and abroad, with the purpose of planning, supporting and promoting products and events characterized by an interdisciplinary approach toward the issues of contemporary culture.
Artistic direction: Daniele Gasparinetti, Andrea Lissoni. Performing Arts: Silvia Fanti. International Live−Media Floor: Lino Greco, Riccardo Benassi.

Netmage 10 is supported by: Regione Emilia−Romagna, Comune di Bologna, Ambasciata del Regno dei Paesi Bassi, Culturesfrance. Media partners: The Wire, Mousse, Edizioni Zero, Blow Up, Nero, Alias, Il Manifesto, Città del Capo−Radio Metropolitana, Radio Città Fujiko.

Netmage 10
venue: Palazzo Re Enzo − Piazza Nettuno Bologna − Italy
headquarters: Xing − Via Ca’ Selvatica 4/d Bologna − Italy
info: tel +39.051.331099 info@xing.it
press: pressoff@xing.it
www.netmage.it | www .xing.it

Festival’s Introduction:

Impossible to keep still. On the other hand, it would seem essential to stop, to take a moment, reflect. If the flow is unstoppable, how is it possible to keep it framed? Netmage 10 attempts to confront this apparent contradiction by postulating it as a condition: continue moving while staying still, and its reverse. At ten years of research it’s no longer a question of unstable dispositions or interstitial post-disciplinary forms such as live media or the rivulets of practice between visual and performing arts, nor between more or less visionary, escapist or tormented cinematic audiovisual hazards. The cycle of research, begun with Netmage 08, hypothesized the existence of a constellation of imaginary. In 2009 the form of that drawing had evolved, enough to catch a glimpse of a galaxy. In 2010, we can say that if a universe of imaginary exists, it is definitely moving. Beyond whatever expansion is or is not demonstrated with the existence of dark matter, it certainly is not the case that the universe of Netmage 10 is pervaded by space and an oneiric, ambiguous, not entirely occidental character. In this way, complex operating theaters and measured chemical experiments produce sonic environments and transduced visions of rituals and magic, alternating with natural landscapes inhabited by alien presences, and dark atmospheric backdrops vibrating with sudden flashes. The manipulation of subtle materials, evocative and transmutational processes. The figure that inhabits and resonates more than others in Netmage 10 is probably the wake. The wake is something like the visible ghost of an event: not a temporal condition, such as an echo, that appears more or less immediately afterward; rather something that indicates an object, testifies to its movement. That is why the visual identity of the festival is in this sense exemplary: layers upon layers of images and sounds that unwind, generating completely unexpected and unusual forms and music, rendering the base – that is, the background – recognizable. And if the metaphor of this glimmering, ceaseless movement is simply too obvious, in its profundity it is impossible not to recognize unsettling streams of exotic animals, prides of elephants in migration, wakes of transmutating bodies. These animals, like the multiple sounds that accompany the migration, are in inexorable movement. It is principally this solution that Netmage in its tenth edition is searching for: other worlds, other sounds and visions, respecting the tension between what has been and what takes place within us – and it is undeniable how much that internal has been extraordinarily dilated in the last decade. The imaginary is never ideal, absent of references. It is above all the place where something occurs or is acted upon. It can be thought of as a palace, a city or village, but also as an unreachable, mythical elephant cemetery, hidden in who knows what shadowy cone between Asiatic and African continents. The imaginary, finally, is a site of representation but above all of projection. Which is why, in absence of the great framed images, we concentrate on their margins, on the wakes of occurrence. We will therefore not stop to project, in this shared, evolving necessity.

http://www.netmage.it/2010/program.html

http://vimeo.com/netmage

Peel at the 13th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA at Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia. Dec 11th-13th 2009

surabhi — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:16:55 +0000

http://www.videomedeja.org/

Peel, Voted as the Winner of Celeste Prize 2009 in Berlin on 26 Sept.2009

surabhi — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:15:22 +0000

Celeste jurors Adrienne Goehler, Victoria Lu, Mark Gisbourne and Claudio Sinatti selected the works and names of the 46 ‘Celeste Prize 2009′ finalists, their works were exhibited in Berlin 25-28 September, and on 26 September 2009 the artists themselves voted one winner in each of the different categories.

http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:27351/

PEEL selected as the finalist of Celeste Prize, will be exhibitied in Berlin from 25-28 Sept.

surabhi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:24:43 +0000

http://www.celesteprize.com/works/pg:en09/pre:en09vid/tipo:f/ord:voto/

PEEL @ Without Borders Festival: Conjunction, Lord Hall Gallery, University of Maine, Orono

surabhi — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:57:38 +0000

Surabhi on http://www.artistaday.com/ , 23 July 2009

surabhi — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:05:53 +0000

http://www.artistaday.com/