Share with guest Instant Places (Laura Kavanaugh+Ian Birth)
what is share?
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday in New York City at the Issue Project Room (through December), from 8 to Midnight.
open jams and walk-in sets
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free – – – 3/29/09 featured guest set (starting around 9 p.m.):
Instant Places: Brooklyn
We’ll be making multichannel sound and live video performances using sounds and images we record along the Brooklyn waterfront.
Instant Places: Biography
Laura Kavanaugh and Ian Birse create improvised and composed audio/video artworks through site-specific action, using computer performance systems of their own design. In their practise they combine a commitment to independent activity that is local and micro-scale with the global reach of internet dissemination.
From 1997 to 2002 Kavanaugh and Birse traveled throughout Canada and Europe, making installation and performance works for festival venues and art galleries. In 2003 they began Instant Places, a series of location-specic works which have been presented across Canada, Australia, and Japan.
Major festival projects and commissions include: Europe (Krakow Audio Art 2001, LEM Barcelona 2002, Backupfest Weimar 2002), Australia (Biennale of Electronic Art Perth 2004) and Canada (Festival international de musique
actuelle de Victoriaville 2003, Images Toronto 2004, Vancouver New Music 2003, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony 2006).
During the fall and winter of 2006/2007 Laura and Ian crossed Canada with a media artlab called Removable Room, arriving at the west coast in
February to make The Fortress of History for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and OPERATOR, a noise opera at the Western Front. In September
and October 2007 they were based in Ontario for public projection projects at the LOLA festival in London and the Guild Inn, Scarborough.
From a base in Tokyo they spent February—April 2008 presenting performance/installations at centres across Japan, and travelled to Chicago in May to make MOVIE PALACE, a series of intermedia works centred on the historic Congress Theatre building.
Most recently they have presented a public projection project in Toronto called CITIZEN, video transfigurations of snapshot portraits of residents, and premiered a performance for 12 speaker sound array and live
video called HEAD! SMASHED! IN! BUFFALO! JUMP! at SoundPlay 2008.
Visit their project archive at http://www.instantplaces.ca
8pm, free
For more info please visit:
http://issueprojectroom.org/
http://share.dj
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