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 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.

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.

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.

As part of onedotzeros’s live multi-sensory identity, troika have been commissioned to create an installation that represents onedotzero_adventures in motion and the theme citystates. Taking the form of a modern digital zoetrope, this cylindrical drum displays a multitude of audio-visual outputs to stunning effect. audio by autobam.

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 Sometimes familiar, sometimes ambiguous, this performance transforms and mutates across the borders of recognition: footsteps become rhythm; wind becomes melody, as cinematic images reflect, compliment and contrast the soundtrack. Their goal is towards building an emotional relationship to the projections and sound, a work that seeks a departure from the familiar digital paths, striking the heart, the soul, and the mind.

The Nature of Being is a performance guided by contemplative sound and image, creating an abstract story yielding to a state-of-flux- cinematic experience. By use of immersive projections, panoramic views and surround sound, sensuality is re-imagined, reinterpreted, connecting multiple realities in a multi-angled perspective, merging and juxtaposing various points of views.

Scanner - British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations of the experimental terrain have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen.

Olga Mink works as a media-artist and filmmaker in the Netherlands. In 2002 she finished her Masters Fine arts at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Her work ranges from conceptual approaches in digital media, to audiovisual performances, interactive installations, animation-design, and educational programmes. She likes to explore and research the boundaries within interdisciplinary media and arts. Always pushing the envelope to create and experience something new and unique. In 2003 she has been commissioned to develop a permanent interactive installation for a newly build cultural centre in the South of Holland. She curates events in new media and live cinema performance.

Over the course of a single match (Villareal vs. Real Madrid, April 2005), 17 film and video cameras captured every move — every step, every squint, every strike — of legendary footballer Zinedine Zidane. Directors Phillipe Parreno and Douglas Gordon have used their documentation to create a modern portrait that is equal parts performance, athletic event and intensely personal reverie.

Via a surround mix of audio, viewers in EMPAC’s Theater will be immersed in this poignant examination of the human condition of the athlete and of athlete as performer.

As guitar distortion washes from the stage, the murmur and roar of avid fans pans and circles the audience, punctuated here and there by the sharp bark of Zidane’s advice to his teammates or his amplified breath in full sprint.

Set to a soundtrack by Scottish post-rock phenoms Mogwai, the filmmakers present a spectacular meditation on the joys of both physical virtuosity and spectatorship.

Much of the actual match is relayed only in Zidane’s expression and posture — a watchful patience, a sudden explosion — though occasional subtitles offer hints at the star’s thoughts, lending poetry to motion.

THERE IS STILL TIME..BROTHER is The Wooster Group’s first interactive 360-degree war film. Standing inside a 360-degree projection screen, the audience is surrounded by the film’s bewildering narrative space, where the action can only be seen and heard clearly through a virtual peephole that scans the circle, controlled by a member of the audience. The film’s host attempts to articulate the aesthetic implications of this shrunken-panoramic cinema space while massively outnumbered British troops battle the French for control of Fort Calypso. Grotesquely enlarged children’s toys vie for attention with politically-minded bloggers and unsavory YouTube videos. Each time the piece is viewed, a new narrative experience is spun out, threading together a unique sequence of revelations. The audience becomes immersed in a process of discovery whereby the very choice to look or turn away actually creates the story.

THE WOOSTER GROUP is a collective of artists who make new work for the Theater. Under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte and with its associates and staff, the Group has created over 40 works for Theater, dance and media. For more than thirty years, The Wooster Group has cultivated new forms and techniques of theatrical expression reflective of and responsive to our evolving culture, while sustaining a consistent ensemble and maintaining a flexible repertory.

Elizabeth LeCompte has directed all of The Wooster Group’s productions since the founding of the company in 1976.

Jeffrey Shaw has been a leading figure in new media art since its emergence from the performance, expanded cinema and installation paradigms of the 1960s to its present day technology-informed and virtualized forms.

For three weeks, acclaimed lighting designer Jennifer Tipton turned the EMPAC construction site into a dynamic light sculpture, that could be viewed intimately from nearby streets as well as from a distance across the Hudson and beyond. Commissioned by EMPAC, Tipton used recent innovations in lighting to illuminate the EMPAC building. Well known to dance and theater audiences alike as one of the most accomplished lighting designers, this was Tipton’s first site-specific lighting installation. 

In dance, Tipton has collaborated with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jiri Kylian, Dana Reitz, Jerome Robbins, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, and Dan Wagoner, among many others; her work in the theater has garnered two American Theater Wing Awards, an Obie, two Drama Desk Awards, and two Tonys.

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak. —Andre Breton, 1924 - Surrealist Manifesto

An evening of surreal music videos by the likes of Björk, Beck, The Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Amon Tobin and Aphex Twin …all viewed from the comfort of cozy couches at the Heffner Alumni House. In the past decade, the structure of the short snappy music video has not only become fodder for the likes of the commercial MTV set, but a goldmine for major artists and film directors to work with – and within – the limitations of the specific structure of the music video clip. Consequently, many music videos have begun to look more like an art form reminiscent of the short film genre than a commercial product. Please note‚ Entr´acte (1924) a 13–minute surreal film by René Clair will precede the compilation of music videos‚ so be sure to arrive on time e to catch the dreamy ancestors of contemporary music video.

The Video Lineup

Sky Starts Falling

Music: The Doves

Director: Reuben Sutherland

Courtesy: EMI Records and Joyrider Films

E Pro

Music: Beck

Director: Shynola

Courtesy: The Directors Bureau and Interscope Records

Tribulations

Music: LCD soundsystem

Director: Dougal Wilson

Courtesy: DFA Records and Colonel Blimp

Just Briefly

Music: Daedelus

Director: Dada Kingz

Courtesy: Ninja Tune/Plug Research

Will The Summer Make Good For All of Our Sins?

Music: Múm

Director: Marc Craste

Courtesy: studio aka

Fortress

Music: Pinback

Director: Elliot Jokelson w/ Loyalkaspar

Courtesy: Touch and Go

4 Ton Mantis

Music: Amon Tobin

Director: Floria Sigismondi

Courtesy: Ninja Tune

Human

Music: Carpark North

Director: Martin De Thurah

Courtesy: EMI Denmark

Destroy Everything You Touch

Music: Ladytron

Director: Adam Bartley

Courtesy: Exposure Films, Universal - Island Records and Emperor Norton Records

Triumph of a Heart

Music: Björk

Director: Spike Jonze

Courtesy: Atlantic Records

What Else is There?

Music: Röyksopp

Director: Martin De Thurah

Courtesy: Wall of Sound and Academy Films

Come to Daddy

Music: Aphex Twin

Director: Chris Cunningham

Courtesy: Warp Records

Rebellion

Music: The Arcade Fire

Courtesy: Spy Entertainment

Hyperballad

Music: Björk

Director: Michel Gondry

Courtesy: One Little Indian Records

Hayling

Music: FC Kahuna

Director: Lynn Fox

Courtesy: Colonel Blimp