Stephan Moore is a composer, audio artist, and sound designer in New York City. His creative work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity. Recent performances and installation artworks make use of his 16-Channel Hemispherical Speakers design at ISSUE Project Room. He performs regularly as half of the electronic duo Evidence and with a variety of musicians, live-video artists, and dancers. Moore has also created custom music software for a number of composers and artists, and has taught courses in sound art and electronic music at Maryland Institute College of Art, Peabody Conservatory, Massachusetts College of Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Simon’s Rock College of Bard. He is currently the Sound Supervisor of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Madeleine Gallagher’s interest in video and visual art has existed as an exploration of physical and visual sensation, endurance, perceptual thresholds and phenomenology. Her current body of work focuses on live video processing with experimental musicians. Gallagher has exhibited and performed in a variety of alternative and mainstream spaces in New York City, Washington DC, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Knoxville, Los Angeles, London and Berlin. She teaches video and installation at The Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
With a background in classical piano, Haeyoung Kim explores the texture of sounds in electronic music. Currently, under the name bubblyfish, she has been creating 8-bit and experimental sound works. Based in NYC, Haeyoung has worked as a composer, sound designer, and audio engineer, Haeyoung’s work has been presented in various art venues, clubs, festivals, and galleries including The American Museum of the Moving Image, PS1, New Museum, Lincoln Center Walter Reed theater, and Kunsthalle Wien.
Bubblyfish’s album Peripheral v1.2.1 is released on Retinascan Records (http://www.retinascan.de). Her recent cover version of Kraftwerk’s ‘It’s More Fun To Compute’ is included on compilation album, 8-Bit Operators, released on Astralwerks. The new self release EP album Too Cute To Kill is available upon a request.
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. Chika works exclusively with MODULE8 from Gragecube in Switzerland.
Chika has performed at the Museum of Modern Art, The Mapping Festival (Geneva), the Bushwick Art Project and the clubs Galapagos and Tonic, as well as private parties, festivals, events, galleries and night clubs. Since Chika started performing live in the summer of 2004, she has become very active in the experimental music and video underground scene in NYC. She is a member of the Share community, a weekly multimedia open jam, HTTP://SHARE.DJ for more info.
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.