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Electronic Cinema performances will take place at: ATA and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Dates and additional venues to be announced. A limited-edition DVD of the five commissions will be produced.

Sound Artists Featured in Electronic Cinema

myrmyr is Agnes Szelag & Marielle Jakobsons (aka darwinsbitch) based in Oakland, California.   With the violin and cello as their basis, the duo creates an intimate chamber music atmosphere with an arsenal of electronics and instruments.  They merge improvisation and experimental song forms to create works often inspired by their common Baltic heritage.  Since 2004, they have performed across the West and East Coasts, and in 2009 released their debut album “The Amber Sea” on Digitalis Recordings.  They are currently in production with their sophomore release, Fire Star, recorded at Shasta Mountain in April 2010.

Kadet Kuhne is a media artist whose work includes video, installation and music composition. As an award-winning filmmaker she has numerous shorts that have screened worldwide including her film Infinite Delay, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Her installations involve a combination of live processing and interactivity and explore the themes of communication, control and confinement. Kadet has multiple DVD and CD releases. Past exhibitions and performances include the Museum of Art Lucerne, Yerba Buena, LACMA, Musees de Strasbourg, REDCAT, LACE, Museum of Contemporary Art-LA, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, The LAB, The Weisman Art Museum, Highways Performance Space, the CEAIT Festival and the New York Underground Film Festival.

Tana Sprague is a sound + video artist, transfixed with micro details. With focus fluctuating between digital and organic, her work creates a space where one complements the other. Inspired by the elegant complexity of organic forms, she utilizes various electronic and digital devices to synthesize a similar enveloping intricacy. Since 2004, Tana has worked with Recombinant Media Lab, and in January of 2009 she lead the partnership development with Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and RML. In May of 2009, she became the Director of Operations at GAFFTA and RML. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts at the University of California at San Diego, where she was granted two consecutive research fellowships at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College.

Elise Baldwin is active in the San Francisco experimental music and electronic art community, Elise Baldwin focuses on solo intermedia performance and collaborative music ventures. Her work demonstrates clear predilections: a fondness for recombinant media and collage techniques, a fascination with human memory and technological forms of communication, and a historic multiplicity with regard to medium. When not reading compulsively in the bathtub, Elise can be found recording sounds in her Murphy bed closet or building software instruments. Elise holds a degree in Film and Video production as well as an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College. She has designed sound and created musical compositions for many theater and film productions, and had the good fortune to collaborate with many talented musicians, dancers, performers and theater companies in San Francisco and elsewhere. She has performed recently at SF Cinematheque, ResBox, New York Electronic Arts Festival, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Edgetone Music Festival, the Brutal Sound FX Festival, E.S.P. Media Lounge, CalArts CEAIT Festival and the National Queer Arts Festival. She has received numerous awards, including Experimental Television Center and CESTA residencies in 2007, a Harvestworks Artist in Residency in 2006, the Frogs Peak Award for Experimental Music in 2004, and a Howard Scripps Award.

Filmmakers in Electronic Cinema

Paul Clipson has shown his films internationally in various galleries, festivals and performance venues in Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Japan and Russia, as well as throughout the U.S. He works primarily in film, video and on paper, often collaborating on films, live performances and installations with sound artists and musicians. Since 2003, Clipson has collaborated on film/music performances, documentaries and short films with sound/music artists such as Tarentel, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Joshua Churchill, Brendan Murray, Robert Rich, Jim Haynes, Rosy Parlane, Marielle Jakobsons and Metal Rouge. His work has been featured in the Tanned Tin Festival, San Francisco Exploratorium, DWARS Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco Art Institute, Bay Area Now 5, the Edinburgh Film Festival, New York Film Festival and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Clipson attended the University of Michigan, studying film, painting and drawing.

Paul will produce a new work to be scored by Kadet Kuhne.

Vanessa Woods graduated with an MFA in film, with honors, from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her artwork and films have been exhibited internationally and she has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship for Film from the San Francisco Arts Commission, a Film Arts Foundation Personal Works Grant, and the San Francisco Art Institute’s MFA Film Fellowship. Woods has produced eight films that have been broadcast nationally and screened internationally, including the Education Channel, the Centre International d’Art (France), The Anthology Film Archives (New York), the Oberhausen Film Festival (Germany) and San Francisco International Film Festival. Woods is currently working on several new films, including a feature-length documentary titled Mimita, (www.Mimita.com) which follows a family of women raising their adopted child in the Bronx, New York.

Vanessa’s film will be scored by Tana Sprague.

Anthony Discenza was born in New Jersey and currently lives in Oakland, California. He received his undergraduate degree in Studio Art at Wesleyan University in 1990, and an MFA at the California College of Arts and Crafts in 2000. In addition to various individual projects, he participates in HalfLifers—an ongoing collaboration with longtime friend and fellow video artist, Torsten Z. Burns. Discenza’s solo and collaborative work has been shown at numerous national and international venues, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New York Video Festival, the Pandaemonium Festival, The Pacific Film Archive, The Impakt Festival, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He was recently included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.

Anthony’s film will be scored by Elise Baldwin.

Maia Cybelle Carpenter is an artist and curator, which allows her to build a body of research around theoretical problems that she considers in her work and to mobilize a community of other artists who also wrestle with similar questions. She positions her work against the narrative expectations of moving-image media. Through explorations of the material specificity of film and video, which produces new dialogues with philosophical and current cultural approaches to visual form. Taking identity politics beyond overt polemics, her work engages its audience in multi-layered examinations of identity through spatial experiences. She received her MFA in 2001 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Film/Video/NewMedia and her BA in 1997 from Barnard College, Columbia University in Women’s Studies and Film Studies.

Maia’s work will be scored by Kadet Kuhne.

SUE-C. (Sue Slagle) is a visual and performing artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her works challenge the norms of photography, video, and technology by blending them all into an organic and improvisational live performance setting. Employing a variety of digital tools to create an experimental animation “instrument,” Slagle synthesizes cinema from photographs, drawings, watercolors, hand-made papers, fabrics and miniature interactive lighting effects. Dark, moody, textural, and physical, her live films inherit equally from the kinetic languages of Stan Brakhage’s abstract cinema and Nicolas Schöffer’s lumodynamic scuptures. She employs the same techniques in her recorded work to emphasize the beauty of the banal street corner, public parking lot, forgotten winter beach, torn remnant of a found photograph, cast-away super 8 vacation footage, and other half-forgotten, often-unnoticed, in-between spaces in her surroundings. Slagle has collaborated with musicians such as Morton Subotnick, Luc Ferrari, Antye Greie (AGF) and Joshua Kit Clayton at a variety of international venues including the San Francisco International Film Festival, REDCAT (Los Angeles), Ars Electronica (Linz), MUTEK (Montreal), SONAR (Barcelona), MonkeyTown (NYC), and Activating the Medium (San Francisco). Her solo performances combine live imagery with a live soundtrack using her own voice, small sound effects devices and assorted electronic instruments. She currently teaches “Math & Media” at the California College of Arts (CCA) in Oakland.

Sue-C’s work will be scored by myrmyr.

About VOLUME: Founded in 2007 by Ed Patuto (San Francisco) and Robert Crouch (Los Angeles), VOLUME functions as a catalyst for interdisciplinary new media work through exhibitions, performances, events, lectures, and publications. Concentrating on the nexus of music and visual arts practices ranging from the avant-garde to popular culture, VOLUME offers unique opportunities for artists to create and present hybrid works. In the last thee years, VOLUME has presented 12 events, festivals, and exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. In addition, it has commissioned two limited-edition CD/DVDs.

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Stop & Go Rides Again premieres on Saturday September 11, 2010. With shows at 4 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. A complete list of artists represented in the Stop & Go Rides Again program are…

Kathy Aoki, Deborah Davidovits, Almut Determeyer, David O’Kane, Sarah Klein, Evelien Lohbeck, Miwa Matreyek, Tucker Nichols, Ara Peterson, Mel Prest, Jen Stark, Sjors Vervoort, Andy Vogt and Scott Wolniak. Collaborative animations by Lizzie Black, Alessandra Ausenda & Anna Maria Murphy, Paz de la Calzada & Michael Rauner, Owen Gatley & Luke Jinks, Melinda Stone & Sam Sharkey, Reed Anderson & Daniel Davidson.

The Stop & Go festival is curated by Bay Area artist and animator Sarah Klein. You can learn more about the festival at www.sarahklein.com and www.stopandgoshow.com.

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*book 1 of the Ribbons Box Set is available and can be found/ordered HERE….”Eucalyptus Grove” a book about the first Ribbons show from September of 2006. The book features the photographs of Kevin Haas from the event, the photographs of Terri Loewenthal from now, my drawings from the course of my relationship with the place, and a recording session from a recent morning spent in the grove with Joseph Childress and Mariee Sioux who performed that night.

Book 2 is in production now! It is about the Tunnel Show from the Marin Headlands….if you have images of this event and care to share them, email: ribbonspublications@gmail.com

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