Kanta Horio is one of a new generation of unique performing artists in Japan. He builds various junk gadgets and contraptions with and without electronic devices and presents sound/visual performances with a laptop computer. www.media.t-kougei.ac.jp/~horio/
Zachary Lieberman’s work uses technology in a playful and enigmatic way to explore the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible. He creates performances, installations and on-line works that investigate gestural input, augmentation of the body, and kinetic response. Lieberman is one half of the creative group Timema.
o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) performs her new piece ‘Suds Dreams’. It is a composition with 4 cycles of development spun through multi-channel sound system, inspired by an ‘open 24 hrs laundromat’ in Bushwick, Brooklyn. ‘Suds Dreams’ is a study of space, functionality, life, and the act of cleansing, through audible & inaudible sound. Visual elements may accompany this piece.