BinAural/Visual
at
Rabbithole Studio
Thursday, April 24 2014
730pm-1030pm
$5
at
Rabbithole Studio
33 Washington Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
F train to York Street or E train to High Street
performance by
| foci + loci |
foci + loci use video game technology to build immersive, electroacoustic performance spaces, combining virtual and real instruments in live performance and installation. The duo of Tamara Yadao and Chris Burke design virtual sound spaces that can be “played” as instruments. They have performed/exhibited in New York at Babycastles, The Stone, Secret Project Robot, Game Play Festival, Postmasters Gallery and other venues in the US and Canada.
http://www.tamarayadao.com/foci-loci
performance by
| Amanda Long |
On display: the artworks of
| Dean Russo - Arts and Animals |
www.deanrussoart.com
Presented by
I/O - Chip Music NYC
iochipmusic.com
I/O Chip Music’s sister show, BinAural/Visual is a showcase of mixed media art and music. The aim is to provide a space and audience for artistic and experimental endeavors of mixed media artists, chip musicians and visual artists.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES (in alphabetical order)
CHRIS BURKE is a visual artist, writer and composer currently working mostly with immersive video game systems. He writes and directs This Spartan Life, the award-winning "talk show in game space" which Wired Magazine called "a mash-up of the Charlie Rose Show and Doom." As a musician and composer, Chris has numerous releases including Idioglossia on Mode Avant and All Wave Super with his band Glorified Magnified on Sire/Warner. Armed with two Nintendo Game Boys, he has performed around the world as glomag, with releases on 8bitpeoples and Astralwerks. Chris studied film production at NYU and and worked with some of the most creative talents in contemporary film, including directors Robert Altman and Lucio Fulci. He wrote the musical score for seven independent features including Toxic Avenger, Shock Troop, The Refrigerator and others.
AMANDA LONG is a sculptor investigating light, color, perception and human behavior. Her video and film installations have been exhibited at Mono No Aware (2011-2012), Bring to Light Nuit Blanche NYC (2011), the Dumbo Arts Festival (2011), the Mattress Factory Museum (2009-2010) and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (2009-2011). She received a MFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University and a BFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her kinetic video sculpture, Lighter and Lighter, was the recipient of the University Film and Video Association’s Carole Fielding Grant (2010). Amanda currently lives and works in Long Island City, NY.
TAMARA YADAO investigates meaning in conceptual methods of sound-making, movement, improvisation and failure. She has spoken about microsound, the “glitch” and failure in improvisation at Diapason Gallery and about Mashup culture, game sound and virtual instrument construction at the New School, NYU Poly, the Museum of Arts and Design NYC and PhilaMOCA for 8static chip music showcase. Her investigations of sculptural sound-making have informed the construction of virtual instruments in her game art duo with Chris Burke called foci + loci; awarded a 2013 New York State Council on the Arts grant to develop their full scale game art performance installation ‘Bal(l)ade’. In New York, some places her work has been exhibited/performed include Babycastles, the Brick Theater, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Museum, Conflux Festival, Downtown Music Gallery, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, the Hackers on Planet Earth conference, the Kitchen, free103.9′s NOISE! festival at the Ontological Theater, Secret Project Robot Gallery, the Stone, Symphony Space and Zebulon. She also writes structured music on a Game Boy DMG under the moniker Corset Lore and co-curates the word/text/music/sound performance series, TXT FST with WFMU dj Kurt Gottschalk.