Art Jones and Macaque

Art Jones and MacaqueBenton C BainbridgeLoVid’s custom instruments - Coats of EmbraceLoVidVJ syn_crow

EyeWash *Signal2Noise*

Friday, June 23rd
at Monkeytown 58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe) Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Seatings at 7:30pm and 10pm. Live-mix video til 1am, $5
Space is limited. Call 718.384.1369
or email monkeytownhq@aol.com for reservations.

featured video artists and collaborators include:
Benton-C Bainbridge -view clip
Art Jones & Macaque -view clip
LoVid -view clip
VJ syn_crow -view clip

Music by DJ ActivePhaze and DJ Duane Reade

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.
Monkey Town is halfway down the block on the left.

About the artists:

Benton-C Bainbridge is a Bronx-based artist working with video as a painterly and performable medium. Using custom digital, analog and optical systems, he seeks to capture music’s human abstraction in moving images. Benton-C has VJed, performed, screened, streamed, broadcast and installed video world wide over the wires and airwaves and in museums, galleries, planetariums, clubs, colleges and festivals including the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the Hayden Planetarium (NYC), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Teatro Col—n CETC (Buenos Aires), Mercat des les Flores (Barcelona), American Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), The Kitchen (NYC), Boston Cyberarts Festival, Sonic Light (Amsterdam), Dallas Video Festival, Madison Square Garden (NYC), Wien Moderne (Vienna), Inventionen (Berlin), CELCIT (Managua), MTV Networks (worldwide) and Hotwired (World Wide Web). Bainbridge co-founded the live video ensembles NNeng, The Poool, 77 Hz, Lord Knows Compost, and Stackable Thumb to compose and improvise cinema. Benton-C has collaborated with Abigail Child, Bill Etra, Beastie Boys, 99 Hooker, Hoppy Kamiyama, Johnny deKam, and Venetian Snares amongst hundreds of other artists and performers. For this performance at EyeWash, Benton-C will present a two channel, two camera, two ipod, two hand live video mix.

Macaque and Art Jones will present “Anchored and Docked�? an audio visual improvisational narrative and love letter to and about the urban environment. Our protagonist moves through a relationship with the sea, with the pavement, and with her lovers, real and metaphorical. Lyrical and audio elements are used to establish an internal reality and personal mythology. They are repeated, re-contextualized and morphed with the visual themes to create a multi-layered story. Art Jones is an image/sound manipulator working with film, digital video and hybrid media. His films/videos, CD-ROMs, live audio/video mixes, and installations often concern the inter-relationships between popular music, visual culture, history and power. As a VJ he has performed with a variety of musicians and artists, including Soundlab, DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, DJ T-Ina, Amiri Baraka, Femmes with Fatal Breaks and Alec Empire and Phillip Virus. He has recently completed a trilogy of music videos and a CD-ROM, and continues to perform at various locations in Chicago and New York. He is from the Bronx, New York, and lives and works in New York. Macaque is Chris Hart (programming and beats) and Evers (vocals and melodies). Macaque’s sound is a unique blend of pop sensibilities, noise, textures and the histories and mysteries of urban music. Sweet melodies wind over deep bass and stylish beat structures.

LoVid breaks out family style, performing with Coat of Embrace, a wearable version of their AV synthesizer. Created in 2006, the instrument is inspired by early experimentation with image processing as well as current trends in DIY and hacker culture. Coat of Embrace is functionally related to LoVid’s previous AV synth, Sync Armonica, and draws on concepts and feel developed in the VideoWear, while getting middle ages preliterate, real old school.

VJ syn_crow is Ryota Suyama, a New York based VJ obsessed with trance / techno-themed visual. Since his first exposure to Japanese VJ scene in 1998, he has been involved in New York art scene to develop his own style of visual. Currently he is working for artist Ruslan Karablin to produce SSUR clothing line as well as other art projects. Although he has been out of VJ routine for 2 years, he is now more motivated than ever to blast the audience with his clean cut, intense visual.

EyeWash is presented by Forward Motion Theater, Inc. a 501(c)3 non-profit organization since 2001, and is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.