Igor Vamos, associate professor of electronic media and culture jammer-- along with Andy Bichlbaum--has premiered their new movie, THE YES MEN. FIX THE WORLD and received media attention for holding a faux news conference on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Read MoreArts In Print & Performance
| |
Curtis Bahn, Ph.D. Recording Field, H features several firsts: the first recording bringing together Pauline Oliveros and interface; the first video documentation of interface and their unusual instruments; the first video documentation of the sonic character pieces Streams and Pikapika; the first duo connecting shakuhachi and the bowed-sensor- speaker-array; finally, the first DVD released by Deep Listening Publications. The odd-numbered tracks are electronic improvisations, created spontaneously with custom-made instruments. The even-numbered tracks feature Tomie Hahn as two radically contrasting sonic characters; in "Streams" each gesture of the dreamlike apparition recalls bodies of water, technology, a flow of information, transmission, and liquid states; as Pikapika, Tomie embodies a spunky character influenced by anime, Japanese dance, and bunraku. In both pieces Tomie wears a sensing device developed by Curtis Bahn. This interface enables Tomie to negotiate full control of all aspects of the virtual soundscape structure with her movements. Contact: Curtis Bahn |
| |
Risk/Riesgo is a bilingual collection of artwork, essays, and photography from Mexican and American artists. Their pieces deal with cultural and political exchange between Mexico and the United States, and address why their artistic lifestyles carry dangerous risk. From the Introduction: "While this book includes topics such as border issues, it does not focus on one political area of U.S./Mexican exchange. Of course, we are all in debt to writers/artists like Coco Fusco and Guerillmo Gomez-Pena for their contributions to there areas of research. Risk is a collection of works by artists from Mexico and the U.S., but it represents only a handful of artists, mostly from New York City and Mexico City, whose work related to this theme of Risk. Hopefully there will be more exchanges in the future with artists from regions outside these centers." Contact:Kathy High |
| |
Witness to the Future 1998 Branda Miller "Witness to the Future" is an extraordinary portrait of the transformation of "ordinary" citizens into environmental activists. Miller's camera captures the casualties and champions of three diverse commodities hard hit by unnatural disasters. In Hanford, Washington, down wind from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, we learn from Tom Bailie about home after home decimated by disease and birth defects, including his own, because of radioactive gases released from the plant. In California's San Joaquin Valley Marta Salinas describes how the farm workers and their children have-been exposed to Iarge doses of pesticide, how it has sickened them, and what they are doing about it. In Louisiana's ìCancer Alleyî, the particulates from the petrochemical and oil industries has increased the cancer rate substantially in this predominantly Afro-American community, until Wilfred Greene comprehended what was happening and blew the whistle. These major ecological and community disasters created by industry have largely been ignored by the state and national authorities, and it is only the persistence of concerned citizens turned activist and the courage of whistle blowers within the plants that led to positive action. Contact: Branda Miller |
|
Deep Listening: A Composer's Practice 2006 Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, meditators and anyone interested in how consciousness may be effected by profound attention to the sonic environment . Deep Listening® is a practice created by composer Pauline Oliveros in order to enhance her own as well as other's listening skills. She teaches this practice worldwide in workshops, retreats and in her ground breaking Deep Listening classes at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Mills College. |
|
Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture Through Japanese Dance 2007 Tomie Hahn A compelling ethnography of traditional dance and bodily knowledge How do music and dance reveal the ways in which a community interacts with the world? How are the senses used in communicating cultural knowledge? In Sensational Knowledge, ethnomusicologist and dancer Tomie Hahn uncovers the process and nuances of learning nihon buyo, a traditional Japanese dance form. She uses case studies of dancers at all levels, as well as her own firsthand experiences, to investigate the complex language of bodies, especially across cultural divides. Paying particular attention to the effect of body-to-body transmission, and how culturally constructed processes of transmission influence our sense of self, Hahn argues that the senses facilitate the construction of “boundaries of existence” that define our physical and social worlds. In this flowing and personal text, Hahn reveals the ways in which culture shapes our attendance to various sensoria, and how our interpretation of sensory information shapes our individual realities. An included DVD provides visual examples. Contact: Tomie Hahn |
|
Composer Neil Rolnick Releases Two CD's in 2005/2007 2005/2007 Neil Rolnick on Digits has once again surrounded himself with some of the best performers of new music, and integrated their musicality with the world of digital sampling and processing. Pianist Kathleen Supové takes her own digits, as well as those of the computer, on a wild ride in the title track. Peter Eldridge, of the a capella jazz group New York Voices, delivers a heartfelt rendition of Making Light Of It, Rolnick's setting of six poems by Philip Levine. The Paul Dresher Ensemble's Electro-Acoustic Band takes a virtuoso romp through Bush era politics, in Plays Well With Others. And Rolnick himself revisits one of his signature pieces from the 1980s, A Robert Johnson Sampler. These digits don't just count, they sing. On Shadow Quartet Rolnick surrounds himself with some of the best performers in new and experimental music. The hard-swinging New York City string quartet Ethel plays the title track with soulful lyricism and a powerful rhythmic drive. Todd Reynolds's violin virtuosity is an easy winner in Fiddle Faddle, and Joan La Barbara brings her unique vocal elegance to questions about your body which you always wondered, but never thought to ask. Add to that the Quintet of the Americas and poet Tyrone Henderson, and you've got a lively and diverse mix of pieces with great performers and smart, sophisticated computer interactions. Contact:Neil Rolnick |
|
The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art 2001 Mary Anne Staniszewski "What is omitted from the past reveals as much about a culture as what is recorded as history and circulates as collective memory." Contact: Mary Anne Staniszewski |