B/I WNY 2010 is back and better than ever - First, we kick off festivities on Thursday, Sept. 23rd with a high-wire walk at the Liberty Building by reknown French tight-rope walker, Didier Pasquette. After we get your heart-rate rolling, it's time to increase your ART RATE. All weekend long there is over 20 art openings across WNY and more than 100 artists to see. Visit beyondinwny.org for complete artist & venue details!
OPENING RECEPTION FOR DOWNTOWN VENUES (Fri., Sept. 24 from 5-11pm): Squeaky Wheel, CEPA Gallery, El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Hi-Temp Fabrication, Hotel Lafayette (after dusk), Western New York Book Arts Center
At Squeaky Wheel you will see installations with the following artists:
Barbara Lattanzi /// song at midnight
Viewers are invited to experience a seizure-inducing, stroboscopic adaptation of Chinese horror film Ye Ban Ge Sheng's Song at Midnight (1937) using the Optical De-Dramatization Engine (O.D.E.), a custom-built image processing system designed to strip “drama” out of moving images through a computer generated process of technological image sifting. Images are re-presented as hypnotic & rhythmic streams of flickering, pixilated b&w images that can be devoured as aesthetic eye candy or scrutinized further as a technological grafting of past & present culture.
There will be an artist talk on Sat., Nov. 13 from 7-9pm to learn more about the technology & concepts for her work. www.wildernesspuppets.net/
Geoffrey Alan Rhodes /// 52 card cinema
Rhodes’ hybrid-media Augmented Reality environment, developed at York University’s Future Cinema Lab, allows users to manipulate multiple “micro-channels” of moving images in real-time using their own set of hands & a deck of cards. Used in various configurations to disassemble films such as Rambo and The Good Bad & the Ugly, 52 Card Cinema will be used in it’s original conception--to dismantle the iconic shower sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. There will be an artist talk on Sat., Nov. 13 from 7-9pm to learn more about the technology & concepts for his work. www.garhodes.com/
Jessica Thompson /// walking machine & Swinging Suitcase
Walking machine & Swinging Suitcase are interactive media works that playfully encompass mobile technologies to encourage audience participation and hands-on exploration to heighten awareness and perception of sound using arduino boards, contact mics and other media technologies to create wearable, touchable, shake-able, and rentable apparatuses that survive on active interaction between body and environment that define individual user experiences.
Join Jessica for an artist talk on Saturday, Oct. 2nd from 1-2pm to learn more about the technology and concepts for her work. She will also facilitate a hands-on BIKE HACK + SOUND RIDE Workshop on October 2nd, following her artist presentation at 2pm. http://jessicathompson.ca/
Sign up for her BIKE HACK workshop in advance at www.squeaky.org/workshops!
///////////// PLEASE VISIT WWW.BEYONDINWNY.ORG for complete listing of 2010 artists and venues.
/////////////////////////////////////////// All installations at Squeaky Wheel will be on view from Sept. 24 - Dec. 4th, 2010.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Gallery Hours: Tues - Thurs. 1-7pm, Fri & Sat. 1-5pm.
Major funding for this project is provided by the Empire State Development Corporation, The John R. Oishei Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
