Fold @ Say Something, Gallery E6, San Francisco
// February 11th, 2011 // No Comments » // News
17th Feb, Fold will be screening @ Gallery E6 for the closing ceremony of Say Something, San Francisco.
FOLD@ The 5th International Streaming festival, the Hague, Netherlands
// November 30th, 2010 // No Comments » // News
1st-5th December 2010 FOLD will be screening at the The 5th International Streaming festival, the Hague, Netherlands
This year’s novelty is that the première of the 5th edition will consist of a film competition. The Left Field Award will be given to the most prominent artist with visual, conceptual and artistic excellence. The winner will be announced on the opening of the festival at the Paardcafe, in The Hague – 1 December 2010.
From the 1st till the 5th, this five day videoart extravaganza will screen around 150 experimental, underground and obscure videos from more than 125 independent artists from all over the world. The festival takes place once a year, and this year it will have its official opening at the PaardCafe in The Hague – the Netherlands as well as at the [.BOX] in Milan – Italy.
FOLD@ Espacio Enter, Canary Island, Spain
// November 30th, 2010 // No Comments » // News
25th-28th Nov 2010 Fold will be shown at Espacio Enter; International Meeting of Creativity Innovation & Digital Culture in Canary Islands, Spain.
ESPACIO ENTER is a project created and directed by ART TECH MEDIA , non-profit international cultural organization. Its aims are the creation, organization, promotion and direction of different events for the development of the Arts and the Digital Culture, to prompt and to fortify the alliance among Art, Science, Technology, Innovation and the Society, the cross debate, the reflection and the elaboration of proposals and contents by means of the philosophy of open code, that impact positively in the creation of the Knowledge Society.
ART TECH MEDIA is a Meeting Platform for all sectors linked to art and new media for reflecting upon, analysing and debating across disciplines for the preparation of proposals related to cultural policy, coordination and optimisation of resources, artistic production and research and their promotion at a global level.
www.artechmedia.net
FOLD@ Big Screen Project, New York
// September 30th, 2010 // No Comments » // News
October 1st- Fold will be show as a part of Big Screen project in New York on a large 30 ft. x 16.5 ft. HD Format LED screen located at the 10,000 sq. ft. public plaza behind a new 54-story multi-use building on Sixth Avenue between 29th and 30th Street in New York City.
A real space where people, media and culture connect
The Big Screen Project is an innovative presentation model for video, film, live and interactive content. It consists of a large 30 ft. x 16.5 ft. HD Format LED screen located at the 10,000 sq. ft. public plaza behind a new 54-story multi-use building on Sixth Avenue between 29th and 30th Street in New York City. The content shown is eclectic ranging from the best in the arts, cinema, and new media to highlights in sports and video gaming. The vision is to expose the general public to fresh cultural content and to raise awareness for inspirational aims on subjects ranging from the ecological to the humanitarian. Our team of curators collects the best of global cultures in participation with content partners such as art institutions, film festivals, ecologically and humanitarian minded not-for-profits.
The screen shows a diverse schedule of daily programming organized into conceptual blocks.
The aspiration is for the The Big Screen Project to become an art and edutainment destination continuously evolving with its audience and galvanizing Upper Chelsea with thought-provoking tapestries of contemporary media.
OCTOBER 9th PERFORMANCE + OVERLAP COMMUNITY EVENT
// September 20th, 2010 // No Comments » // News
October 9th- Performance and video by Surabhi Saraf @ Twin Space
Presented by Overlap.org with Christopher Willits performance + a community discussion about urban gardening.
+David Petrelli – dj set
All event Info here – http://bit.ly/cw100910
October 9th, 2010 – 5pm – 11pm.
@ Twin Space – 2111 Mission St. San Francisco:
: this event is ALL AGES ::
FOLD premieres @ ROOT DIVISION on Sept-8
// August 19th, 2010 // No Comments » // News
INTRODUCTIONS 2010
This exhibition features painting, drawing, photography, sculpture & video by 12 emerging artists living and/or working in the Bay Area. Chosen from over 150 submissions, jurors Nathan Larramendy, Stephanie Hanor, and Susan O’Malley decided on each artist for both the formal and conceptual strength of the work presented. The goal of Introductions 2010 is to create exposure for emerging artists in San Francisco by showcasing their artwork. This exhibition is part of Root Division’s ongoing Second Saturday Exhibitions Series in which we present a unique event or exhibition opening on the second Saturday of each month. The goal of the series is to present engaging and high quality artwork, thereby nurturing the accessibility & appreciation of Bay Area visuals arts & artists.
Juried by:
Stephanie Hanor – Director, Mills College Art Museum
Nathan Larramendy – Associate Director, Catharine Clark Gallery
Susan O’Malley – Artist; Curator, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Stephanie Hanor – Director, Mills College Art Museum
Nathan Larramendy – Associate Director, Catharine Clark Gallery
Susan O’Malley – Artist; Curator, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 11th, 7-10 pm
Exhibition Dates: September 8th – 25th, 2010
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays – Saturdays, 2-6 pm (or by appointment)
ARTISTS:
Mark Benson
Iris Charabi-Berggren
Chris Fraser
Dana Hemenway*
Pete Hickok
Hyun Sun Jo*
Carling McManus
Mimi Moncier
Surabhi Saraf
Julie Sutherland
Glenn Tramantano
Daniel Yovino
*Root Division Resident Artist
ROOT DIVISION GALLERY
3175 17th Street (at S. Van Ness)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.863.766
www.rootdivision.org
PEEL @ MUV music and digital arts festival, Florence (Italy), June 3rd 2010
// May 14th, 2010 // No Comments » // News
MUV <music and digital art festival> 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
// March 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // News
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
// March 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // News
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
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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.