10/14 @ 8:00pm - ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: Richard Garet with special guests ALFI & WALDI

Richard Garet

For this performance Richard Garet will be presenting the latest development of his Light Field video series. These works examine process, color, motion, digital glitches, RGB phenomena, afterimage, and the sensory gaps between the eye and the mind. The techniques employed to make the work intend to push the boundaries of digital moving image and emphasize the media, digital permutations, and software processing as a pure and fundamental artistic gesture. Additional techniques utilized in various stages of the work are image scanning, analog and digital processes to treat light and image, rigorous and repetitive systems of digital corruption, degradation, and saturation of pixels. Ultimately Garet focuses not only in transposing, disembodying, and reconfiguring digital data, but also in expanding the aesthetics and possibilities of treated light, color, and motion as a physical experience. Garet will be performing a live electronic-experimental sound piece, to accompany the moving image, with a sonic system that consists of utilizing a modular synthesizer, analog gadgets, electromagnetic gadgets, light to sound real-time translations, methods of sonification applied to the modulation of the moving image that is being projected, and laptop processing. Richard Garet’s sonic approach during his live performances, like in the case of his sound compositions, propose that the listener/s engage with the work principally in a mode of active listening. However, in live situations Garet likes to emphasize the room’s physicality by activating the experiential, the sensorial, and the active-reception of the body and mind.

Richard Garet: Gap from ISSUE Project Room on Vimeo.

ALFI & WALDI:

Sonic perverts ALFI & WALDI return with “BAG IT” – an electro-acoustic set exploring the sounds your mother wouldn’t want you to hear.  ALFI & WALDI is the duo of composers Alfredo Marin and Doron Sadja whose love story began while completing their masters at Bard College. Disgusting, beautiful, unbearable – lose control, lose your mind – let ALFI & WALDI in.

Richard Garet works interweaving multiple media including moving image, sound, live performances, and photography. He completed his mfa at Bard College, and was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts Grant. He currently has an artist residency at Issue Project Room, NY, and previously completed a residency at Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Scottsdale, Arizona in 2006. Recent exhibitions and performances include: Never Can Say Goodbye at the former Tower Records Store; Sonochrome: an exhibition of recent works by Richard Garet, at the Public Trust Galllery, Dallas, Texas; Leervoll, Diapason Gallery; and previous exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Biennial Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; El Museo del Barrio, NYC; and more. His sound compositions have been published through sound based labels such as And-Oar, Non Visual Objects, Winds Measure Recordings, Unframed Recordings, Con-V, Leerraum, White_Line Editions, and Contour Editions. Additionally Garet co-curates with Louky Keijsers Koning, the monthly performance event LMAKseries, which integrates film, video, sound art, and media performance into the gallery’s mission at LMAK Projects in the L.E.S, NYC. Garet also currently directs the independent media label Contour Editions publishing works that explore the various possibilities of sound and light. http://www.richardgaret.com

ISSUE’s Artist-in-Residence program is made possible, in part, through generous support from the Jerome Foundation and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York’s 62 counties.