[Microsound-announce] Vancouver BC: Derek Holzer & Sara Kolster @ Video In Studios

[derek holzer]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
UPCOMING EVENTS + EXHIBITIONS

Sara Kolster and Derek Holzer
visibleSOUND/audibleIMAGE

* resonanCITY: performance
Friday, March 10th, 2006 @ 8pm

* SoundTransit.nl: presentation
Sunday, March 12th, 2006 @ 2pm

*visibleSOUND/audibleIMAGE: screening and lecture
Thursday, March 16th, 2006 @ 8pm

* Pure Data: workshop
Saturday, March 18th & Sunday, March 19th, 2006 @ 11-4pm both days


Video In Studios / Satellite Video Exchange Society
1969 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada
604-872-8337 ext. 3, event at videoinstudios.com
http://www.videoinstudios.com
Hours of Operation: Monday thru Saturday 11am-6pm


The term visibleSOUND/audibleIMAGE implies the equal relationship or
balanced
use of image and sound. Within this theme, visiting artists Sara Kolster
and
Derek Holzer explore the connections between experimental audiovisual
culture
using the Internet and open source software.

Kolster and Holzer find inspiration in the history of experimental
cinema and
electroacoustic music, as well as contemporary video and microsound
practices.
Together they explore contemporary ideas about “Live Cinema” through the
use
of Pure Data, an open source tool for manipulating sound and image.

Gathered from various locations around the world, sound and image manifest
into dream like journeys through Kolster and Holzer's live performance and
net.art projects. Visually, Kolster's work deconstructs the analog/digital
dichotomy while similarly, Holzer's digital sound treatments highlight and
enhance the phonographic sources he collects.

Kolster and Holzer reject the use of common, commercial production methods
and the default, commercial artworks that these methods often produce,
preferring instead to program their own software, build their own hardware
interfaces and actively participate in the free and open source communities
which surround these activities.

Traveling from the Netherlands, Kolster and Holzer will be performing,
presenting and teaching their practice at Video In Studios, 1965 Main
Street,
Vancouver, BC, throughout the month of March 2006.


1. resonanCITY: performance
Friday, March 10th, 2006 @ 8pm

Live audiovisual performance Both Holzer and Kolster find inspiration in
the
history of experimental cinema and electro acoustic music, as well as in
contemporary "live cinema", improv and microsound practices. Many sounds
and
images in our everyday lives slip past our notice simply because they
are too
small, or because we lack the proper receivers to pick them up.
resonanCITY is
an ongoing project to gather these microscopic sights and sounds from
various
cities, and to amplify and transform them.  Their performance work centers
around the use of photographic transparencies, found objects, field
recordings
and sparse instrumentals to create layers of interrelated sound and image.


2. SoundTransit.nl: presentation
Sunday, March 12th, 2006 @ 2pm

SoundTransit.nl is an online, collaborative soundscape project by Sara
Kolster,
Marc Boon and Derek Holzer dedicated to field recording and phonography. On
this site, you can book a sonic transit through a wide range of different
locations recorded from around the world, or you can search the database
for
specific sounds by keyword, artist, country or location. A presentation
of this
project can include an introduction to field recording and phonography, a
discussion on the importance of open licenses such as Creative Commons,
or a
technical discussion of the structure of the website.


3. visibleSOUND/audibleIMAGE: screening and lecture
Thursday, March 16th, 2006 @ 8pm

This lecture and screening, made up of "historic" and contemporary works
from
the collection of Montevideo/Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
(Amsterdam), investigates the interrelation of what has often considered
to be
two separate disciplines: sound and image.

Works shown will include:
1) Steina & Woody Vasulka: Violin Power [US][1978]
2) Steina & Woody Vasulka: BAD [US][1979]
3) Servaas: 4 Poems [NL][1981]
4) Matthew Schlanger: Lizard Hearts [US][1986]
5) Nicolas Provost: Papillon d'Amour [BE][2003]
6) Jan van Nuenen: SET_4 [NL][2003]
7) Bas van Koolwijk: five [NL][2002]
8) Derek Holzer & Sara Kolster: resonanCITY [NL] [2005]


4. Pure Data: workshop
Saturday, March 18th & Sunday, March 19th, 2006 @ 11-4pm both days

A two-day Pure-Data workshop based on Sara and Derek's working style.
$60 for members, $95 for non-members
Email event at videoinstudios.com to register.
Classes have a limited capacity.
Workshop Details: http://www.videoinstudios.com/programming_details.php


About the Artists
Sara Kolster [NL 1978] is a visual artist with a background in design.
Recently, the focus of her work shifted more towards video and film;
capturing
details from urban locations, visualizing fragments of stories of these
environments. She uses different strategies, from time-based media (video,
film, photography) to appropriated research methods belonging to different
observational disciplines (journalism, documentary & archeology).

Derek Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound artist with a background in radio and
streaming media technologies. His work has focused on capturing and
transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban
locations,
networked collaboration strategies, experiments in improvisational sound
and
on the use of free software such as Linux and Pure-Data.

Their work resonanCITY has been performed live in the US, Holland,
Brazil, former
Yugoslavia, the Baltic States and at the Transmediale 05 festival in
Berlin.
resonanCITY also took the Second Prize at the 11th International WRO
Media Art
Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland in May 2005.


Links
http://umatic.nl
http://soundtransit.nl
http://www.sarako.net
http://www.nexsound.org/ns22.html



The Satellite Video Exchange Society is financially supported by
individual donations, the
Province of BC through the BC Arts Council and the BC Gaming Commission,
the City of
Vancouver, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the labour and effort of
artists, activists and
cultural workers.



-- 
derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl
---Oblique Strategy # 35:
"Consider transitions"