01/25 @ 8:00pm - Share

what is share?

Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday in New York City at the Issue Project Room (through December), from 8 to Midnight.

open jams and walk-in sets

audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.

video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join.

8pm, free  -  -  - 1/25/09 featured guest set (starting around 9 p.m.):

The Future Memory Project
by
Rui Costa and Maile Colbert (Portugal, US)

A house speaks for us through image and sound
A house is filled with empty rooms
And time past
And promised future
A room in a house
Coated with memory like fine dust
Dust settles into the grain
The grain creaks into the present
Calling out it’s past memory
Creaks and calls are captured
For the present’s translation
A house speaks for us through image and sound

Rui Costa is a sound artist from Lisbon, Portugal. He has been publicly presenting his work since 1997. He is a founding member of Binaural - http://www.binauralmedia.org , an arts collective dedicated to the promotion of sound and media arts in a rural context. Binaural runs an artist residency space in Nodar, a small village in the north of Portugal.
He has presented his work in many venues and festivals across Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and the United States and has closely collaborated with such artists as Maile Colbert, Manuela Barile, Iñaki Ríos, Paulo Raposo, Pablo Rega, André Gonçalves and Carlos Santos.
In 2008 Rui has been exhibiting an intermedia performance/installation entitled “La Scatola”, which he co-created with the Italian performer Manuela Barile. This project has received a major grant from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture and has been presented in several contemporary art museums (MUSAC and Centro Huarte in Spain), municipal theaters (Guarda and Barcelos, in Portugal) and sound art festivals (EME in Portugal and Hurta Cordel in Spain). As part of this project, Rui and Manuela have been giving a workshop entitled “The Amplified Expression of the Body”, in which they engage the participants in using sound as a means of characterizing and expanding the identity of a performer’s body and of the surrounding space.

Maile Colbert is a filmmaker, video, and sound artist recently relocated from Los Angeles, US to Lisbon, Portugal. She is currently working for the art organization Binaural. http://www.binauralmedia.org/
She holds a BFA in The Studio for Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art, and a MFA in Integrated Media/Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts.
She has had multiple screenings, exhibits, and shows, including The New York Film Festival, LACE Gallery, MOMA New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles, The Portland International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, the Störung Festival in Barcelona, the Teatra Municipal in Guarda, the Observitori Festival in Valencia, and has performed and screened widely in Japan, Europe, Mexico, and the States.

8pm, free

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