Goliath Visual Space will celebrate eight years of innovative projects
with a final public event to be held at its space at 117 Dobbin
Street, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn before closing its doors and transitioning
to a nomadic project-based organization. RE-ZONING features a fundraiser
to benefit Goliath, with donated artworks available for sale, followed
by Outro, an improvisational performance evening by sound and media
artists. Come early and stay late!
BENADDICTION 2006: Fourth Annual Fundraiser for Goliath Visual
Space
7
pm
Benaddiction will feature over 50 artworks donated by artists, exhibited
in the gallery and available for immediate sale on the night of
the event. Cash and personal checks will be accepted. All proceeds
will benefit Goliath Visual Space and its 2006 season of itinerant
projects and exhibitions. Keep an eye out in the second half of
2006 for our new projects, in unusual locations.
Outro: Performance Event
9 pm – midnight
Outro celebrates Goliath's ongoing commitment to electronic and
media arts by presenting the work of a variety of artists working
in live video, electronic music, design, and electro-acoustic composition.
Outro explores different facets of the live image and music culture
thriving in NYC today, paying special attention to the role of collaboration
and improvisation in live media performance. Featured artists include
audio artists Nick Lesley, Zack Layton and Zachary Seldess, visual
artists Andy Graydon, Chika Iijima and Richard Gare, and audio-visual
artists Lance Blisters, ilan katin + Geoff Matters, Richard Garet,
WvS and more.
Can’t make the event but would like to help? Send donations
to Goliath Visual Space, 117 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 by
March 30, 2006.
Checks may be made out to Goliath Visual Space, Inc.
For more information and directions, visit our website: www.goliath777.com
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OUTRO: Artist Bios
Andy Graydon is an artist and filmmaker
based in New York City. His work focuses on the problems and potentials
in the interaction of sound and image. Taking the form of videos,
live video mixes, sound works, media objects and installations,
his work explores the boundary zones between performance and exhibition,
“liveness” and mediation, presence and deferral. Recent
media performances include shows at Participant Inc gallery, Galeria
Galou, The Dumbo Arts Festival, Millennnium Film Workshop, The Tank,
The Lehman College gallery, Monkeytown and Tonic. He is currently
the visiting artist at the Center for Computer Music, Brooklyn College.
www.andygraydon.net
Chika Iijima is a live computer visuals
artist working within New York’s expanded cinema community
and VJ scene. Her videos implement geometric minimalist patterns
and original graphics in unique, repetitive combinations. She works
exclusively with Module8 (from Gragecube in Switzerland) software
that, as a Beta tester, she was among the first to use in the USA.
She has performed at the Museum of Modern Art, The Mapping Festival
(Geneva), the Bushwick Art Project, Galapagos and Tonic, as well
as private parties, festivals, events, galleries and night clubs.
Chika was born and raised in Japan and moved to New York in the
early 90s, working as a graphic designer until she began her experiments
in time-based media. Chika also collaborates with electronic musicians
and DJs on several projects.
www.chiklet.com
LANCE BLISTERS are Geoff Matters (Midi guitar and vocals)
and Ilan Katin (video). Like a cyborg Johnny Cash sent from the
future to prevent it, Lance unleashes a torrent of apocalyptic audiovisual
propaganda on those within blast radius. Jungle, breakcore, punk
and noise, photos video and illustration, singing and songwriting
are mashed up into a potent weapon of shock and awe, and used to
smash the state. 22nd Century protest music, wargasmic revolution.
Richard Garet is a sound artist, a
video artist, and a painter whose sources of inspiration are nature’s
processes and the relationships between nature and human beings.
He explores the communicational, affective, and the sensory aspects
of various mediums, their constant intrusion on our senses, and
how they affect our perception. Although his work suits a standard
gallery environment, many of his other activities as an artist explore
the various practices of experimental sound and video performance.
All of his works explore ways to expose visitors to visual and physical
acoustic sensory perception. http://www.ruccas.org/index.php?Richard%20Garet
Zach Layton is a New York-based composer and improviser versed
in biofeedback techniques, psychoacoustics and perception. His work
investigates complex relationships created through the interaction
of simple core elements such as sine waves. His interest in biofeedback
led him into the research of music produced by the human brain and
the construction of a homemade Electroencephalograph (EEG) which
he now uses in performance.
Zach's work has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony
and at the International Congress for Performance Art in Berlin,
Neue Berliner Initiative, Bushwick Arts Project, The Ontological
Hysteric Theater, DUMBO Arts Festival, Monkeytown and many other
venues in New York and Europe. He is the curator of Brooklyn's monthly
experimental music series "Darmstadt: Classics of the Avant
Garde" which features leading composers and improvisers from
around New York City. www.zachlaytonindustries.com.
Zachary Seldess, a recent transplant to New York from his
hometown of Chicago, is currently pursuing a PhD in composition
at The Graduate Center CUNY, where he studies with Amnon Wolman.
In Chicago, Zachary worked as a performer, composer, private teacher
and adjunct professor at Wilbur Wright College and Harold Washington
College. He holds a BM in composition and classical guitar and a
MM in classical guitar from Northwestern University. He has studied
composition with Alan Stout and Michael Pisaro and guitar with Anne
Waller. He is currently adjunct faculty at Brooklyn College.
As a composer, Zachary has collaborated with artists in many mediums
including theater, musical theater, film, painting, and poetry.
His work has been published in Antennae, a biannual print journal
of experimental poetry and music. Currently, Zachary is most interested
in interactive media, particularly the Max/MSP/Jitter programming
environment. He works at The Graduate Center’s New Media Lab,
with ongoing projects using this and other software programs.
WvS, a New York City-based sound organizer
and software engineer, studied classical composition & computer
music in Europe and the US, wrote software for robotic systems,
composed orchestra and ensemble music, conceptualized computer controlled
interactive performances, lectured at IDEA, resided at Harvestworks/PASS,
managed Knitting Factory Records and worked in Technical Director
and Chief Technology Officer positions in
the corporate world for many years.
Apart from occasionally advising the European Commission on aspects
of GRID and distributed computing, he is currently trying to reveal
musical truths via autonomic computer generated "onkyo"
streams that are inspired by contemporary concepts of AI, cellular
automata, chaos theory and analog systems modeling.
http://iwvs.am
Goliath
Visual Space is a not-for-profit, artist-run organization in Greenpoint,
Brooklyn established to provide a fertile and creative environment
for artists and to foster knowledge and communication about the
arts. Since its establishment in 1999, Goliath has presented the
works of 112 emerging and unrepresented artists from 16 countries
in over 30 solo and small group exhibitions. In addition to its
exhibition schedule, Goliath presents an ongoing series of readings,
performances and talks.
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