[sensez] Play With Fire Festival in New York

[Ana Carvalho]

If you are in NYC ...


F O R I M M E D I A T E R E L E A S E

PLAY WITH FIRE FESTIVAL

Email: playwithfirefestival at gmail.com

Web: http://www.playwithfirefestival.wordpress.com

Celebrating the breadth and depth of video possibilities through art. A
plethora of live video

editors, electronic and interactive artists, video and installation artists
who use the moving

image outside the “box”. Coming from as far as Italy, Switzerland and
Germany these artists

showcase their work with the video community in New York City.

For two weeks and in two different locations the festival hosts an array of
projects. Projects

include, Katja Loher’s video planets, a 3/4 ton “ice-stallation” by Raphael
DiLuzio, a

demonstration by Berlin based Modul8 software representative and performer,
Ilan Katin and a

night of performance featuring video artist and collaborator, Alison Childs,
the Spanish

AV(Audio/Video) perfomer, *Rafaël*. Please join us for these exciting, free
events.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:

*ART EXHIBITION*

The art space located at 1717 Troutman Street in Brooklyn, NY will exhibit
Play With Fire

installations and performances from November 7-15, 2009 alongside the
exhibition, Black

Thursday Halloween City!!!Black Friday Fireworks Stand (BTHCBFFS). The event
collectively

spans five loft spaces and hosts over 70 artists in the newly renovated
commercial building on

the Bushwick-Ridgewood border. Opening receptions will occur on November 7
from 4PM-

8PM, and alongside the BETAspaces, Arts in Bushwick event on Sunday November
8, from

12PM-6PM.

*VIDEO PERFORMANCES*

Capping off the week, the 1717 Troutman location will be transformed into a
one night only

performance! The event will run from 4PM-12AM on November 15,
2009.Performances range

from interactive installations to an explosion of visuals set to music.
Reimagining the role of

performer and audience and always using video, this event will showcase the
progressive use of

video for performance and push the boundaries of space and collaboration.

*PANELS/DEMOS*

>From November 15-21, 2009 all Play With Fire events will take place at
Harvestworks Digitial

Media Arts Center in Manhattan.

ABOUT HARVESTWORKS: Founded in 1977, Harvestworks offers an environment
where

artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media.
Harvestworks helps the

community at large to understand, assimilate, and make creative use of new
and evolving

technologies. Harvestworks creates a context for the appreciation of new
work, advances both

the art community and the public's agenda for the use of technology in art;
and brings together

innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts by fostering
collaborations across

electronic media. http://www.harvestworks.org

Sunday’s two hour demonstration of Modul8, the industry standard live-video
editing software,

will begin the series, followed by a week of artist talks considering space,
collaboration and the

interdisciplinary tendencies of video. The festival will end with a final
demonstration on

Saturday November 21, 2009 at 6 PM, of “Toy’s Opera”, a miniature
opera/multimedia

performance written for and incorporating small moving toys by
collaborative: Adam Kendall

(video; software programming), Yoni Niv (physical computing; sound) and Elad
Shniderman

(sound).

FESTIVAL DETAILS

*ART EXHIBITION*

w/Black Thursday Halloween City!!!Black Friday Fireworks Stand

Nov 7-15, 2009, 1717 Troutman St., Brooklyn, NY, 2nd Floor

Opening reception 11/7/09 4pm-8pm

BETA Spaces 11/8/09 12-7pm

Hours 12-4PM daily

*PERFORMANCE NIGHT*/Closing Party 11/15/09 4pm-12am

Featuring: Kerry Downey, Ilan Katin, *Rafaël*, Masahiro Kahata, Nick Lesley,
Alison

Childs, Near East Family, vjset by Outpt and Paris, Kinotek and
LanVideosource

Directions: L train to Jefferson stop, north 3 blocks on Troutman St.

*PANELS/DEMOS*

HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER

596 Broadway #602

New York City (at Houston St)

Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince

Sunday November 15, 2009 2PM-4PM Demonstration: Modul8 with Ilan Katin

Monday November 16, 2009 @7PM Panel Discussion: Video Performance with Ilan
Katin,

*Rafaël*, Mary Ann Benedetto (outpt) and Paris Treantafeles

Tuesday November 17, 2009 at 7PM Artist Talk:Visualizing Brainwaves with
KINOTEK

and Masahiro Kahata

Wednesday November 18, 2009 at 7PM Artist Panel: Space, Collaboration and the

Intimate Interworkings Producing Audio and Video with Alison Childs, Nick
Lesley and

members of “Toy’s Opera”.

Friday November 20, 2009 at 7PM Artist Talk: Video Sculpture, Video Painting
with

Katja Loher, Jeremy Rotsztain and Gabriel Barcia-Colombo

Saturday November 21, 2009 at 6PM Demonstration: Toy’s Opera by Adam Kendall,

Yoni Niv and Elad Schniderman

*ARTISTS INCLUDE:*

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo

http://www.gabebc.com/                      Adam Kendall, Yoni Niv, Elad
Schniderman

Mary Ann Benedetto                            http://www.hellbender.org/

http://www.outpt.net                              Nick Lesley

Ryan V Brennan                                   http://www.nicklesley.com/

http://www.ryanvbrennan.com/            Katja Loher

Kinotek
http://www.katjaloher.com

http://www.kinotek.org                         Damian Marhulets

Alison Childs
http://www.displaced-meanings.com

http://alisonchilds.com/                          Near East Family

Raphael DiLuzio
http://www.neareastfamily.org/

http://www.raphaeldiluzio.com              *Rafaël*

Kerry Downey                                      http://www.leafar.be

http://kerrydowney.com                         Jeremy Rotsztain

Masahiro Kahata                                   http://www.mantissa.ca

http://psychiclab.net                               Paris Treantafeles

Ilan Katin
http://www.parisgraphics.com

http://www.ilankatin.com/
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