Friday March 28th 2014, 7PM
Artist Talk
Preservation of analog archives and audiovisual recordings through E.S.P. TV and Cannibal Mécanique
@ STUDIO XX – 4001, Berri (corner Duluth) space 201
Cost: $5, *FREE* for members.
Studio XX is pleased to present, as part of Wired Women Salon #12, an evening presenting the work of New-York based artist Victoria Keddie, and co-founder of E.S.P. TV, an organization dedicated to promoting the performing and media based arts.Her presentation will particularly focus on the preservation of analog archives and the audiovisual recordings produced through projects such as E.S.P. TV and Cannibal Mécanique. Excerpts of each of these will then be projected during the evening.
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E.S.P. TV runs a multi faceted organization that acts as a live studio broadcast, a program on public access television, and a theatrical performance. All events are taped live with a crew of cameramen, sound engineer, and video mixing team using analog broadcast media. Tapings of E.S.P. TV are in front of an audience with live green-screening, signal manipulation and video mixing. The show is then edited and produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television (MNN), to be aired every Tuesday night at 10PM. After airing, the episodes are posted online at www.esptv.com for later viewing. Our core mission is to preserve public broadcast as an outlet for transmission based art, as well as showcase the ongoing use and ability of analog media in a digitally run world.
E.S.P. TV has worked with various venues including: Storefront for Art and Architecture, New Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Printed Matter, Millennium Film Workshop as a part of INDEX Festival, Clemente Soto Velez Center (NYC); Interstate, Present Company, The Schoolhouse, La Sala, 285 Kent, Vaudeville Park, Spectacle Theater, Roulette (Brooklyn, NY), Franklin Street Works (Stamford, CT), Liminal Space (Oakland), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Queens Nails Projects (San Francisco), General Public (Berlin) and Pallas Projects (Dublin).
Cannibal Mécanique is a marriage of analog electronic sound, audio feedback, video feedback, and live choreography.The purpose for the live movement is to act as both conduits and agitators to both sound and video signals. Using body movement in a magnetic field, once can witness a play of energy(ies) through color, light, and sound. This all becomes further manipulated by feedback as a kind of body echo. The live element is essential to the success of the work. This is to be a continuing investigative series involving the human and the machine, taped live.
Victoria Keddie is a multi disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She works in varying media involving audio / visual signal generation, magnetic field recording, and broadcast.
Keddie has programmed events internationally, with a focus on experimental sound, live cinema, and transmission based arts. As an archivist, she focuses on preserving analog experimental sound and radio collections. She is the co-director of E.S.P. TV, a nomadic organization that curates analog-based live broadcast events and exhibitions, as well as a series on MNN cable access. She is the founder of Optics O:O, an archival film program that investigates hybrid filmmaking techniques with early video and software systems. She is a founding member of the film based collective, Optipus.
She has exhibited and performed at such venues as, Electronic Intermix, The Kitchen, New Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Museum of Arts and Design, Canada Gallery (New York City), Museum of Moving Image (Queens), Microscope Gallery, Spectacle (Brooklyn), Liminal Space (Oakland), Silent Barn (Brooklyn), Pallas Projects (Dublin), General Public, (Berlin).