April 13, 2008 at 1:00 pm · Filed under Design, Music
I first encountered the work of Bay area artist David Kwan at last month’s LISTEN/VISION 02 event, where I experienced Solaris, an audiovisual piece focused on the diaphanous reverberations of muted light forms.
Kwan, who teaches at Mills College in Oakland, is now taking part of Interplay, a new exhibition at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley:
Terra Firma is a complex video installation deployed by an automated system that “composes” a continuously changing landscape derived from video footage. The footage is generated from four different video sources that project images of empty landscapes to create a single on-site landscape in the gallery. Kwan’s visual continuum of shifting permutations creates a sort of “non-place” suggestive of our own interior psychological space. For the viewer, these images can provoke a nostalgic memory of our archetypal landscape. (description via Kala’s website)
Interplay
Featuring works by: David Kwan, Nora Pauwels, Bartosz Posacki and Steve Reich
- April 17 - May 24, 2008
- Reception: Thursday, April 17, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- Gallery Talk with the Artists: Tuesday, April 29, 7:00 pm
- Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri, 12-5:30 pm; Sat, 12-4:30 pm
March 14, 2008 at 8:23 pm · Filed under Music
Overlap.org and Volume Projects announce LISTEN/VISION 02, an evening of immersive sound and video art at the San Francisco Art Institute on Friday, March 21, 2008.
LISTEN/VISION 02 is part of a unique series presenting *unreleased* audiovisual compositions. These exclusive pieces — specifically commissioned from an international pool of contemporary artists — are not available anywhere on CD, DVD or on the Internet.
Featured Artists:
GREGG KOWALSKY – “Rosebud for Red Magus” – 2006 – 18:17 min.
Gregg Kowalsky resides in Oakland, California where he completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College. Kowalsky’s compositions range from drone and noise pieces to the psychedelic, which are highly influenced by the thick, humid air of South Florida where Gregg lived for most of his life. He is interested in filling the spaces his music occupies through dense, live mixes. He has composed for film, dance, acoustic ensembles and sound installations. Gregg’s debut full-length album “Through The Cardial Window” was released on the Kranky label in Spring 2006.
http://ossobucco.net/
DAVID KWAN - “SOLARIS” - 2006 - 10:07 min.
Kwan has presented work at the Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist Television Access, The Lab, and Mission 17 in San Francisco; Jack Straw New Media Gallery in Seattle; Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart; and Baracke am Deustchen Theater in Berlin. He received a BA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College where he teaches music, art and intermedia. http://www.meridiangallery.org/davidkwan2003.htm
CHIKA and I8U - “Infinity02″ - 2008 - 30:38 min.
CHIKA is a visual 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. I8U is a sound artist based in Montreal, Canada. Her work reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet.
http://www.imagima.com
SAWAKO – “untitled” – 2006 – 15:18 min.
Sawako is a Tokyo/NYC-based sound sculptor who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. She culls sounds from everyday life — field recordings, instruments, vocal and electronic sounds — and sets them floating in a digital space imbued with organic textures. Her unique sonic world has been called “post romantic sound” by Boston’s Weekly Dig.
http://www.12k.com/sawako.html
Previous events: http://overlap.org/tag/event
Friday, March 21, 2008
7-9pm
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut St. San Francisco, CA 94133
$5 Public, Free for SFAI students
