Event Info:

Opening Reception w/ CML

Friday, April 17, 6:00 PM

To celebrate the opening of the festival a reception will be held in the café replete with funky beats spun by Troy’s own CML.

Scanner + Olga Mink:
The Nature of Being

Friday, April 17, 8:00 PM

The Nature of Being is a live audiovisual “conversation” between Scanner and Mink comprised of three channels of stunning cinematic video projection and an intense - at times haunting - live soundtrack » More Information

skfl/jenks : hooplah

Friday, April 17, 9:00 PM

In a special live event following the Mink/Rimbaud performance in the theater, EMPAC luminaries skfl and jenks (from the infamous Troy goodship crew) bring the café alive with live cinematic video and bouncy audio played and conveyed on multiple projections and sound emitting devices throughout the space that is tailor-made to delight, defy, and perhaps even make you get up and dance.

Jesse Stiles w / Strata live!

Saturday, April 18, 7:00 PM

Musician and multimedia artist Jesse Stiles performs a new live score within Quayola’s brilliant video installation Strata viewed on a massive screen suspended from the ceiling.

Quayola: Path to Abstraction

Saturday, April 18, 8:45 PM

Path to Abstraction, a performance consisting of multichannel sound and video, explores the relationships between sound and image, inspired by the true representation of sound itself: the wave- form. It consists of a continuous visual stream that retains the precise behavior of a waveform, while interpreting the music in a very unique and personal way. PTA combines together two different ways of interpreting the music,  the analytical one of computers with the intuitive of human beings.

Free + Open to the Public

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Jesse Stiles

Jesse Stiles — is a musician, multimedia artist, and designer of systems.  Stiles adopted the computer as his primary composition and performance tool at the age of 12. He has since gone on to create new electronic systems for music performance as well as performative lighting, sound design, and generative installations. Stiles’ music and artwork have been performed and exhibited internationally at venues including Lincoln Center, Eyebeam, Ars Electronica, and the American Land Museum.

Quayola

Quayola is a visual artist based in London. His work simultaneously focuses on multiple forms exploring the space between video, audio, photography, installation, live performance and print. Quayola creates worlds where real substance, such as natural or architectural matter, constantly mutates into ephemeral objects, enabling the real and the artificial to coexist harmoniously. Integrating computer-generated material with recorded sources, he explores the ambiguity of realism in the digital realm.

Working in both the artistic and the commercial field, Quayola intelligently experiment with mediums traditionally perceived as separate. Currently active as Visual Artist, Graphic Designer and Director, he constantly collaborates with a diverse range of musicians, animators, computer programmers and architects. Quayola creates hybrid works blurring the boundaries between art, design and filmmaking.