Tickets: $8 Presale / $13 Day of Show / $15 Door. Cash bar available to those 21 years and older.
Schedule:
8:00 Doors
9:00 Show
Artists:
Wobbly: http://www.detritus.net/
Wobbly/
Bill Thibault: http://www.vjlove.com/
Kerry Laitala: http://kerrylaitala.net/
Cyrus Tabar: http://www.cyrustabar.com/
Gray Area’s UNSEEN Series presents site-specific, collaborative performances by Bay Area artists and explores current practices in immersive media, including expanded cinema, video and sound art, experimental music and technology. The UNSEEN series is curated by Oakland artist Matt Fisher, and presented in 8 channel surround sound with audio engineering by Recombinant Media Labs’ Alaric Burns.
In July, Kerry Laitala and Cyrus Tabar will perform Transfixing triptych (2016) a three channel meditation on domestic traps and sabotaged relationships using a mix of archival and 21st century imagery. Breathing new life into ‘Transfixed‘ (2005) a film investigating a family romance, Laitala expands the limits of the frame by melding its images with flashes of graphic renditions of fossil forms and a science film about the sun as a harbinger of heat. Bridging the gap between past and present, a series of thought pictures transcribe moments of cautionary pleasure. Cyrus Tabar will be live mixing vinyl records through to produce a lush terrain of sound for Laitala’s complex and chromatic projections.
In addition, Laitala will screen Orbit (2006), a 16mm film work with live manipulated soundtrack. Orbit takes one into the realm of the mistake.... a playful pulsation of misregistered images made when a lab accidentally split the film from 16mm to regular 8. The handmade soundtrack comprises flutterings of optical noise reverberating to the splices of the film. Crackle! Pop! We enter through the oval window, while the Gravitron spins eternally.
Following Laitala and Tabar, we will have a multichannel surround collaboration between
Wobbly and Bill Thibault. Growing out of his work with primitive feedback oscillators as a member of the group Negativland, 'Monitress' is an artwork where the audio inputs of 24 iOS devices are routed in various configurations, causing selfplaying chain reactions as they listen to each other to either process the audio, or convert the signal to MIDI information to drive a synth app's output. The resulting sounds are frequently uncontrollable, but also very intimate, and audibly born out of his increasingly personal relationship with the mobile device. In performance this piece runs anywhere from 20 to 180 minutes. Frequent collaborator Bill Thibault will be providing generative visuals including procedural geometry and captured 3D point clouds.
Cost: $8 presale / $15 door