Boyce is a video artist and musician who lives and works in San Francisco. His audio/visual works investigate the liminal regions of human perception through kinetically charged, visceral abstractions. His work exploits inherent plasticity of electronic sound and image through the use of customized analog and digital tools with which he has developed a formal language informed the history of structural and psychedelic filmmaking. He has performed and exhibited at galleries and film festivals such as the Scope Art Fair, New York (2009) The Luggage Store, San Francisco (2009), New York Underground Film Festival, New York (2008), Deitch Projects New York (2008), The Stone, New York (2008), Center For Contemporary Art Glasgow, Glasgow (2007), Galerie Alt Neu Brukte, Frankfurt, Germany (2007), the Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2006), the Aurora Picture Show, Houston (2006), Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (2006), Monkeytown, New York, (2006) Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco (2005), Yerba Buena Center For the Arts (2004).
Ray Sweeten b.1975. Audio origins begin with antiquated tape experiments based on recorded correspondences between his late father and brother. In ‘89 he studied classical piano and theory at the University of Rhode Island. In ‘93 Sweeten entered the TIMARA program (Technology In Music And Related Arts) at Oberlin Conservatory. In ‘98 he acquired a residency at Fabrica, spa.Italy, where he collaborated with Michael Galasso (ECM), Robert Wilson, Chieko Mori (Tzadik). He also produced music for MTV Japan and Italy, Benetton, and performed frequently throughout Italy and Europe solo and with FabricaMusica, a collaborative ensemble comprised of musicians from diverse cultural and musical backgrounds. Ray moved to New York City in 2000 to work for Children’s Television Workshop where he provided music for CD-Rom/Web games, cell phones and broadcast television. He received the Van Lier Residency for experimental electronics and oscilloscope graphics. He was also a member of the Plantains, a multi-media synth-pop outfit, and released work on Suction Records, Kinetic Media, They Shoot Homos Don’t They, Ghostly, and Colette. Sweeten has performed and screened at The Kitchen, Monkey Town, Millennium Film Project, The New York Underground Film Festival, CinemaTexas, Liverpool Biennial, Pacific Film Archive, Chicago Filmmakers, Aurora Picture Show and Angel Orensantz.
This event made possible, in part, through funding from:
Media The Foundation, Inc.