07/30 @ 8:00pm - Micah Silver + Backbreakerneckbrace

Backbreakerneckbrace is a collaborative effort between video artist Dawn Bendick and audio/visual artist Michael Haleta, which continually works with collaborators to fully realize their structured audio and video endeavors. Timing and synchronization are key elements in their work placing the audio and visuals in a constant exchange of information within pre-composed time constraints. 
 
They have shown their work at numerous shows and events including, Tonic, NY, NY, Art Scape, Baltimore, MD, Transmissions Festival, Chicago, IL, the Back-Up Festival (Bauhaus), Weimar, Germany, and at the Whitney (Graduate Program Film Series), NY, NY.

Micah Silver is an artist, composer, and curator working in music and its intersections with other areas of cultural production. Shows of his work have been mounted by the Jersey City Museum in a mini-retrospective called BE STILL. TAKE UP AS MUCH SPACE AS POSSIBLE. by Artspace New Haven, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, The James Joyce Centre in Dublin Ireland, The Place in St. Petersburg, the 2008 MATA Festival in NYC, among others. His current project is a commissioned installation-opera titled The End of Safari for Mass MoCA, which opened in April 2009.
 
As a curator and co-conspirator in the work of other artists, Silver has been Associate Curator at Diapason Gallery for Sound in New York from 2003-2006, Administrator of The Earle Brown Music Foundation from 2002-2006, Director and Conductor of the Wesleyan New Music Ensemble, and currently Curator for Music at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer. Silver is a member of The Earle Brown Music Foundation and Diapason Gallery for Sound Board of Directors.