Please join us for an evening of performances at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. This evening is in partnership with BMOCA and Kiah Butcher, curator, Media Live. Come early to check out the exhibition before it is gone. Performances co-curated by Cherish Marquez and Sharifa Lafon.
From the exhibition:
“Technology as awareness, awareness as empathy, empathy as healing, healing as change.
From our earliest stone tools to the advent of AI, technology is a catalog of human innovation. MediaLive explores the synergies between art and technology as instruments of positive change for our collective future.”
Door: 6:00 pm
Performances: 6:30 pm
Cost: Cost: Pay from Your Heart*, free for BMoCA members.
Featuring:
Debora and Jason Bernagozzi
Lanx Borealis
Ben Coleman
Meca’Ayo (Tameca L Coleman)
Elle Hong
Kevin Sweet
Zoid Hæm
Debora Bernagozzi works primarily with the mediums of video, photography, and fiber. Her ongoing body of video work consists of gestural, abstracted pieces that are more resonance than representation. She creates her work through a hybrid analog/digital method utilizing real-time video and audio processing techniques. She creates single channel pieces and installations, as well as doing live video performances, sometimes alongside her husband, artist Jason Bernagozzi. Her creative process is experiential, with video as well as with documentary photography and fiber art, including lacemaking.
She received her BFA in Video from the Atlanta College of Art in 1999 and her MFA in Electronic Integrated Art from Alfred University in 2002. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally, including at the Denver Art Museum, Burchfield Penney Museum, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival. She was awarded artist residencies at the Experimental Television Center, Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center, and in Kuala Lumpur. Her essays “Video Synthesis: Waveforms, Disruptions, Transformations, and Anti-Obsolescence” and “Signal Culture: Experimental Media Art, Community, Preservation, and Play” were published in both English and Polish inVideosyntezy 2, a book accompanying Intermediale Festival of Audiovisual Forms, Legnica, Poland. Her video performance work was referenced in the National Endowment for the Art publication Tech as Art: Supporting Artists Who Use Technology as a Creative Medium.
Inspired by residency experiences that were transformational for them both personally and artistically, Debora and Jason Bernagozzi, along with Hank Rudolph co-founded Signal Culture, a nonprofit organization that provides residencies, resources, and exhibition opportunities for artists, researchers, and innovators working in experimental media art. She serves as Executive Director while continuing to make and exhibit her own work.
Jason Bernagozzi is an artist whose work examines and critiques the codes embedded within the psyche of media culture. Their work uses the real-time features of video and electronic media as a way to engage with interdisciplinary concepts as a dialogical system of emerging languages. Bernagozzi’s work has been supported through numerous grants and awards from organizations such as the New York State Council for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and has been exhibited nationally and internationally at exhibitions such as the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruk, Germany; the Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques in Marsaille, France; the Ilman Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea and the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Jason is also a co-founder of the experimental media art non-profit organization Signal Culture and is currently an Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Colorado State University.
Lanx Borealis is a Canadian-Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist and musician who performs under the stage-name Lanx Borealis. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado and is finishing her BFA in Arts Education. Paint, sound, video, and performance are her primary mediums which she intertwines in her creative practice. Her current work reflects her research into audio/video art, feminism, and folk magic.
Ben Coleman is a British multi-disciplinary artist residing in Denver, CO. His practice is rooted in sound and performance making, but often plays with other media, including music, text, video and installation.
Coleman grew up in theatre and music, forming his first bands in London while studying contemporary performance. Moving to the US in 2006, he dedicated some eventful years to musical projects- later returning to performance alongside new roles as composer, sound designer and installation artist. His practice now embraces curatorial projects, and frequent collaboration with dancer/choreographers, visual artists, and theater practitioners.
His work has been presented by institutions including the High Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, MCA Denver, Understudy, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Contemporary, Redline Contemporary Art Centre, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Gibney Dance, Dashboard, Georgia Institute of Technology, Flux Projects, Zuckerman Museum of Art and Emory University.
Coleman’s work has been featured by Hyperallergic, Wire Magazine, Vice, Pitchfork, The Denver Post, Southwest Contemporary, Arts ATL, Burnaway and NPR. He is a resident alumnus and board member at Redline Contemporary Art Centre, Denver.
Visit him and his work at www.bencolemansounds.com
Elle Hong is an antidisciplinary artist currently based in Cheyenne/Ute/Arapaho Territories (Denver, CO). She holds an MFA in Choreography with a Graduate Certificate in Emergent Technologies & Media Arts Practice from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a BA in Dance & Sociology from Wesleyan University. Elle provides dramaturgical support for artists Helanius J. Wilkins (“The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging”) and LA Samuelson (“Telegraph Valley”), and has toured as a performer for Michelle Ellsworth (“Evidence of Labor”; “Post-Verbal Social Network”). Current research interests include improvisational processing as making, ease/effort, being/nothingness, dis/embodiments of femininity, and risk. Ultimately, she aims to feel radically present while in a state of complete dissociation, or, is trying to embody the moment/train for the times. Her work uses dance as a primary text for transcending the (representational) limitations of the body.
"Kevin Sweet, PhD is a multimedia artist and educator currently serving as Assistant Professor of Design and Interactive Arts: Immersive Experiences, at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is an avid collaborator working across the sciences, philosophy, community-based arts-research and education. From developing sonic planetaria to XR community practices in ancestral resilience, his work centers around the potential for narrative and refiguration through embodied forms of creative play."
Zoid Hæm is a renaissance artist born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and currently living in Denver, Colorado. He uses the medium of art to tell the great myths of life. Zoid is currently receiving a dual master’s degree in art and business from CU Boulder. He is also the founder of Void Art Haus, a design studio which produces art centered community events focused on creating places for people to rest, learn, and commune. Zoid has recently published his book titled Poems Can Fly, which is his first collection of poems and short stories. Zoid’s performance art combines the use of poetry and technology to explore new realms of communication to create thoughtful cathartic experiences in the hopes of inspiring others to share their stories.
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