July 11, 2008
8:00 pm	to	11:00 pm

EyeWash *New Amsterdam*

Friday, July 11th
at Dance New Amsterdam
280 Broadway, 2nd Floor - entrance on Chambers
8pm $8

For venue information call 212.625.8369
or email info@dnadance.org

featured video artists include:
CHiKA + Bubblyfish -view clip
VJ Nokami -view clip
Chaometric -view clip
Vanessa Velasquez + Pascal Rekoert/Flexicurve -view clip
VisualHornHonking + Rebekah Kennedy/Urban Wash Dance -view clip

Music by DJ ActivePhaze

Video of the event was shot by Marlon Barrios-Solano for dance-tech.net and DNA World. Enjoy!

This special EyeWash is hosted by Dance New Amsterdam.

Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) is Lower Manhattan’s newest home for contemporary dance. DNA is proud to present and promote artistic excellence in dance performance, education and the creation process. DNA’s mission includes professional-level training, opportunities for creation and the latest in dance performance. In DNA’s studios each week, 170 classes are taught, rehearsals are run, workshops are conducted and choreographers create. DNA is a valuable resource for the aspiring, emerging and established artist, who benefit from artistic residencies, studio and administrative office subsidies, commissions and two performance seasons that offer presentations of new dance works, many of them world premieres. For more information visit www.dnadance.org

Subway Directions:
R/W or 4/5/6 to City Hall
A/C/E 1/2/3 or J/M/Z to Chambers
2/3 to Park Place

about the artists:

CHiKA teams up with our favorite gameboy girl, Bubblyfish for an 8bit inspired audiovisual set. Chika 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. She has performed at the Museum of Modern Art, The Hammer Museum, The Mapping Festival, Mutek, San Francisco Art Institutem, Monkeytown, The Issue Project, Galapagos, Tonic, as well as private parties, festivals, events, galleries and night clubs. Since 2004, she has become very active in the experimental music and video underground scene in NYC and is a member of the Share community, a weekly multimedia open jam. Bubblyfish aka Haeyoung Kim, explores the texture of sounds in electronic music, creating 8-bit and experimental sound works. Based in NYC, Haeyoung has a backround in classical piano and has works as a composer, sound designer, and audio engineer. Her 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. 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.

VJ Nokami will be presenting his Semiosis Project. Semiotics, or semiology, is the study of signs and symbols, both individually and grouped in sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning is constructed and understood. Semioticians also sometimes examine how organisms make predictions about and adapt to their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis). Semiotics theorises at a general level about signs, while the study of the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics or zoosemiosis. Nokami has taken the fabulous study of symbols and signs over culture and historic times to the next level, using his experience to push ideas over conceptual communication sense and develop and experience new computer graphical tools and software programs to develop and produce new visuals signs and symbols and to randomly generate complex new structures of a original graphics documents.

CHAOMETRIC, an archaeologist at heart, has put a lot of effort into searching for a land lost long ago. Thanks to extensive research he has found an important book, Raumnomicon, which helped him considerably in unraveling the mystery. By further decoding the Raumnomicon, the contours of the lost realm become more defined. This vanished realm was called HELVETICA EMPIRE. A land inhabited by strange beings – OK, aliens – who lived parallel to our world. And whose mission was to study the human race. “Sometimes I am able to unlock secrets from different parts of the book. From this information, I have discovered that there are tiny wooden doors, or portals, decorated with codes, poems, star systems and drawings, already existing on the streets amongst us. By decoding certain sections of the book, the doors have become visible for all to see. These doors - whose measurements are based on those of the aliens, the unknowns – offer access to the mysteries of the Helvetica Empire. Anyone interested in this realm who sees a door walking down the street should open one and form their own opinions.” To date this year, Chaometric has discovered over 50 doors in Manhattan, from Soho to Tribeca to Chelsea, and in Venice Beach, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Belgium and Amsterdam. Early reports indicate there may have been a couple unearthed in the Nevada desert. You can find documentation on youtube.com… or flickr.com… by doing a search for Helvetica Empire.

Vanessa Velasquez directs Somnex in Luminem 2.0, a live video/dance/soundscape interaction featuring dancers whose movement and form are abstracted to various degrees to create a projected misc-èn-scene of real-time performance. A 3-way conversation among media and senses in space and time. An excerpt from the larger piece “We Hide Our Monsters Underneath Our Pillows”, a story of resolutions in the realm of vivid dreaming, this performance features dancers Josiah Guitian, Omni Kitts, and Pascal Rekoert from Flexicurve, and a soundscape selection is by DJ Ray Velasquez.

VisualHornHonking is always ready to make, mix, interact, even annoy with visuals. Part of the Mad Flat collective, VHH works with FMT to curate and produce for the Red Eye events. With Rebekah Kennedy/Urban Wash Dance they present their collaborative dance and video work Lucid Dreaming…Black Monday. This piece has been presented at many dance venues across the nation and was a part of EyeWash at the Hudson Opera House. We are happy to bring in to DNA.

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.