[NetBehaviour] Steina Vasulka - OptoSonic Tea @ Experimental Intermedia NYC - Saturday, October 15th, 9pm

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Steina Vasulka - OptoSonic Tea @ Experimental Intermedia NYC - Saturday, 
October 15th, 9pm

Saturday, October 15th
9 pm

OptoSonic Tea


A very special OptoSonic Tea

We are most thrilled to present:


Steina Vasulka

live video and music


Suggested donation:
$ 7

Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, NY 10013
212 431 6430
(Please note: there have been some problems with the building...
the audience can not be more than 75 people and we have to stop
admitting people at that number.
After 10 the street door is most likely to be locked and there is no
buzzer or intercom...)

OptoSonic Tea is a regular series of meetings dedicated to the 
convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual 
component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore 
different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide 
projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways 
they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features 
two different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform 
a set with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are 
followed by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a 
cup of green tea. A third artist, from previous generations of 
visualists or related fields, is invited specifically to participate in 
this discussion so as to create a dialogue between current and past 
practices and provide different perspectives on the present and the future.

Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer


OptoSonic Tea is partly funded by the Experimental Television Center.
The Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds program is 
supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.


About the artist:

Steina Vasulka

Steina was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1940. She studied violin and
music theory, and in 1959 received a scholarship from the Czechoslovak
Ministry of Culture to attend the State Music Conservatory in Prague.

Woody and Steina married in Prague in 1964, and shortly thereafter she
joined the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. After moving to the United States
in 1965 she worked in New York City as a freelance musician. She began
working with video in 1969, and since then her various tapes and
installations have been exhibited in USA, Europe and Asia. Although her main
thrust is in creating Video Tapes and Installations she has recently become
involved in interactive performance in public places, playing a digitally
adapted violin to move video images displayed on large video projectors.

In 1971 she co-founded The Kitchen, an Electronic Media Theater in New York.
Steina has been an artist-in-residence at the National Center for
Experi-ments in Television, at KQED in San Francisco, and at WNET/Thirteen
in New York. In 1988 she was an artist-in-residence in Tokyo on a U.S./Japan
Friendship Committee grant. She has received funding from the New York State
Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller
Foundation, the American Film Institute and the New Mexico Arts Division.
She received the Maya Deren Award in 1992 and the Siemens Media Art 
Prize in 1995.
In 1993 she co-curated with Woody the exhibition and catalogue,
Eigenwelt der Apparatewelt (Pioneers of Electronic Art) for Ars Electronica
in Linz, Austria. In 1996 she served as the artistic co-director and
software collaborator at STEIM (Studio for Electronic Instrumental Music) in
Amsterdam. In 1996 Steina and Woody showed eight new media installations at
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, an exhibition repeated in Santa Fe a
few months later. Her installation, titled Orka was featured in the
Icelandic Pavilion at the 1997 Venice Bienale. In 1999 she showed three
installations in three countries: "Nuna" in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
"Textures" in Reykjavik, Iceland and "Machine Vision" in Milano, Italy. She
created two installations for the Art Festival 2000 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
In 2001 she was invited to festivals in Norway, Russia, Estonia, Portugal,
Montreal, England and Italy. Between July and October of 2002 she realized
four installations in four locations in her hometown of 22 years, Santa Fe,
NM.
http://www.vasulka.org


for more information about OptoSonic Tea please visit:
http://www.diapasongallery.org/optosonic.html