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OP ON SCREEN INTERACTIVE Two generations of women artists Hosted by the New York Public Library Presented by Lower East Side Performing Arts Awarded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Fund for Creative Communities
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| Sofia Paraskeva | Rainbow Resonance - Thursday, October 15, 6PM | |
 Sofia Paraskeva: Work in progress |
The Rainbow Resonance installation is a "computer vision" interactive art project that generates the mapping of colors to musical compositions through equivalent sound frequencies according to a software program created by the artist. This revolutionary program uses motion tracking technology as input. This piece was shown at the Interactive Telecommunications Program Spring Show 2008 at NYU and will be exhibited at the New York Hall of Science in Queens from September through November 2008. In Rainbow Resonance, the audience is encouraged to participate in a playful performance that engages the body to produce colorful images and sounds, as simple vertical and horizontal movements trigger sounds. Anyone can potentially create a personal experience within the installation. Sofia Paraskeva is an artist who experiments with interactive media, film and video. She explores sound and visuals in the context of leading edge technology. She is currently a graduate student at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University, developing computer vision projects and wearable musical instruments such as a musical glove. Web site: http://www.sofiart.com
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| Lesley Flanigan | Voices for Speakers - Saturday, October 17, 2PM | |
 Lesley Flanigan in performance |
Voices for Speakers is a 30' performance for custom-made speakers producing musical feedback sounds combined with vocalizations to create an immersive sound environment of intersecting tones, melodies, and rhythms that relate speaker amplification and the human voice to dimensions of space and communication. Sections of the piece focus on individual noises and sounds, and others are more musically composed. Lesley Flanigan is an artist and vocalist with a Masters in new media from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University. Leslie's recent projects have been presented at The Bent Festival in LA and NYC, at the ICMC 2007 in Copenhagen, the NIME 2008 in Genoa, and the ISEA 2008 in Singapore. She collaborates with many artists and composers on interactive projects including current work with R. Luke DuBois and Matthew Ritchie. Two web sites:http://lesleyflanigan.com http://seseyann.com. | |
| Elodie Lauten/Sofia Paraskeva/Khoi Bao Le | The Trickster - Thursday, October 22, 6PM | |
 Khoi Bao Le rehearsing |
The Trickster is an offshoot from Lauten's new work The Two-Cents Opera. It is a performance piece involving interactivity between movement, music, and image projections where a multifaceted and playful character performed by Khoi Bao Le (a young choreographer from Viet Nam in training at Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance). unexpectedly triggers sounds from his own movement and costume details, and whose image is projected on screen. Within a sound environment of pre-recorded electro-acoustic music by Elodie Lauten, the performer initiates with his movement a new layer of interactive sound samples in an improvisational framework programmed in MAX by Sofia Paraskeva. Elodie Lauten is a classical and experimental composer whose work has been presented by the Lincoln Center Festival, the New York City Opera, WNYC, The Kitchen, the Performing Garage, the Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama, the Soho Baroque Opera, Downtown Music Productions, AFMM, Interpretations, the SEM Ensemble, The Whitney Museum, and at the Paris Museum of Modern Art. Her current discography includes 27 titles to-date, on both independent and major labels. She has taught on the composition faculty at New York University. Web site: http://www.elodielauten.net. | |
| Arleen Schloss/Emma Zakarevicius | Echolations - Saturday, October 24, 2PM | |
 Arleen Schloss: "A" Sculpture (Big Red) |
Arleen Schloss & Emma Zakarevicius will present a collaborative performance piece for voices and electronic echolations (vocal manipulation by state-of-the-art electronics). The piece investigates the primitive desire with alphabetic sanskrit vocal sounds and digital techno-poetics (signs) in live performance as a mode of communication and connection. Arleen Schloss is a performance art pioneer, video artist, sound poet, curator, and founder of the A's Salon in the late 1970, which became one of the most influential places in the Downtown art and music scenes. Schloss has exhibited and performed extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the U.S. including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Emma Zakarevicius is a multi-disciplinary artist whose primary interest is how meaning is transmittable through various artistic mediums in order to incite communication, connection and participation. She is a performer, singer/songwriter and visual artist currently enrolled for a Masters in Media Studies at The New School. | |
Acknowledgements: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Fund for Creative Communities, The New York Public Library and generous individuals supported this series.
Directions
to NYPL Hamilton Fish Branch - 415 Houston Street at Ave D
Subway: F train to Second Ave stop, walk 4 blocks
Bus: M14D to Houston and Ave D,
M9 to Houston & Ave B, walk 2 blocks
