August 8, 2008

7:30 pm

10:00 pm

EyeWash *Intelligentsia*

Friday, August 8
at Monkeytown 58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe) Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Seatings at 7:30pm and 10pm. $5
Space is limited, reservations recommended.
Call 718.384.1369
or email monkeytownhq@aol.com for reservations.

featured video artists include:
Potter-Belmar Labs -view clip
Gui”AUM”etriX + Musicians in Masques -view clip
R. Luke DuBois -view clip
Wetcircuit + DJ ActivePhaze -view clip

Directions from the L Train:
1. Exit at the Bedford stop (the 1st stop in Brooklyn).
2. Walk 4 blocks south on Bedford,
3. Make a right on N. 3rd St. (west)
4. Walk an additional 2 and 1/2 (west) on N 3rd.
MonkeyTown is halfway down the block on the left.

about the artists:

Potter-Belmar Labs is Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens, collaborating artists since 1999, with internationally exhibited work spanning a variety of media including interactive sculpture, installation, single-channel video, and performance. They have won top prize in three performance competitions, including the Unreal Tournament at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and most recently won first prize for installation video at Orilla#06 at the Museu de Arte Contemporáneo in Santa Fe, Argentina. This duo hails from San Antonio where Leslie teaches at The University of Texas at San Antonio’s New Media Studio Program and Jason designs exhibits for science and art museums…that is when they are not collaborating to create multimedia. PBL’s last trip to NYC was for Improvised Cinema, an exhibition at the Roger Smith Hotel in September 2007. PBL has been on our radar for sometime, since their Michigan years performing in the same scene as Dissasembler, and we are happy to finally have them at EyeWash.

Gui”AUM”etriX is the alter-ego of VJ and video artist Guillaume Clave. Based New York, USA has been involved in the trance scene since 1991 and start producing trance parties in Paris and Nice (France) in 1992 in association with T.B.E.(Trans Body Express). Since the late ’90s Guillaume has been performing as VJ for parties across the US. Guillaume is known for his signature psychedelic visual effects, which has been displayed at art galleries and video conferences in France, Spain, Mexico, South Africa and the US (including at Burning Man, Nevada) as well at The United Nations for Earth Day. For this performance he teams up with Musicians in Masques, a group of multi-instrumentalists, artists, and performers based in NY. Created in 1998 by musician/composer William Catanzaro, the group is an eclectic amalgam of musical virtuosity and a unique esthetic.

R. Luke DuBois has a resume that is totally intelligentsia. He is a composer, performer, video artist, and programmer living in New York City. His credentials include a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and teaching interactive sound and video performance at Columbia’s Computer Music Center and at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many, many artists and organizations, and was the director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra for its 2007 season. He is a co-author of Jitter, a software suite developed by Cycling’74 for real-time manipulation of matrix data. His music (with or without his band, the Freight Elevator Quartet), is available on Caipirinha/Sire, Cycling’74, and Cantaloupe music, and his artwork is represented by bitforms gallery in New York City, with a new solo show Hindsight is Always 20/20,set to open on September 12, 2008. Rumors are circulating about Luke that he is taking a position at Polytech’s IDMI and that for this performance he may have a very special guest collaborator. Are they just rumors? Only time at EyeWash will tell…

Wetcircuit (Holly Daggers) performs a set created for an India-themed costume party at Olana, the Persian-inspired exotica house built by Frederic Church in the 1870s. Church was an artist and showman who displayed his large-scale landscape painting The Heart of the Andes in cinematic style, charging admission and handing out opera glasses. The audience sat in a dark room surrounded by plants from Church’s trip to South America as the painting was dramatically revealed from behind a curtain. Olana is stuffed with souvenirs from Church’s world travels, and his paintings of distant (often invented) vistas. The house itself became a life long obsession as Church designed and decorated each room to be a showpiece of 19th century globe trotting.

www.wetcircuit.com…

EyeWash is an event where VJs and Video artists perform live-mix video, present audio visual performances in collaboration with Audio artists, workshop performance involving video and technology. EyeWash is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.