Brett Balogh

ARITST STATEMENT: 

NOOSPHERIUM 

Since the inception of radio as a broadcast medium, the earth has been covered by an increasingly dense network of airborne communications.  AM, FM, SW and other portions of the radio spectrum represent a medium through which a re-imaging of space is possible.  This hertzian space is not defined by surveyed boundaries or geographic constraints but, rather, by field strengths, mass-media service areas, and consumer markets.  The overlapping spaces defined by these broadcasts can be collectively referred to as an envelope of thought around the world, or Noosphere.

Noospherium aims to render this sphere of human thought as an immersive sonic environment, providing a pansonic, panoptic view of simultaneous broadcasts.  The space of the installation can then be thought of as as a phrenologic observatory to this sphere of human thought where a real-time composition puts as many signals as possible into conversation within the space, allowing one to characterize the nature of our collective thoughts through chance occurrences, spurious juxtapositions, and the dynamic spatialization of sound.

BIO: 

Brett received his MFA in Studio from the Department of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his B.A. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology, teaching courses in architecture, computer-aided design and manufacturing, do-it-yourself broadcasting and acoustics. He is a founding member of the experimental sound performance collective, Clairaudient and performs with the Chicago Phonographers. Brett is also a Free 103.9FM transmission artist, a member of the World Listening Project and the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. 

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Joshue Ott

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Artist Statement

New York-based visualist Joshue Ott creates cinematic visual improvisations, performed live and projected in large scale. Working from hand-drawn forms manipulated in real-time with superDraw, a software instrument of his own design, Ott composes evolving images that reside somewhere between minimalism, psychedelia, and Cagean chance, delivered with an inescapably human touch. Supple yet digital, ephemeral but instantly memorable, Ott renders sound into vision, yielding an immersive multi-sensory experience that is at once immediate and synergistic, a unique visual narrative born in the moment.

Performing with musicians from all genres between classical and avant-electronica, Ott's visuals have been featured at Unsound festival NY, Mutek, Communikey, the Plateaux festival in Poland, the San Francisco International Film Festival, Yuri's Night Bay Area, Le Cube (Paris), the Playgrounds Audiovisual Art Festival (Netherlands), Boston Cyberarts, and the 2006 Ars Electronica Animation Festival. He has performed with the American Composer's Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; with Son Lux at MASS MoCA; with Gina Gibney Dance at the Baryshnikov Arts Center; and frequently at venues throughout New York City, including Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette, the Knitting Factory, and the Stone.

Benton-C Bainbridge

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Artist Statement

I was basking in one of NYC's great pleasures-Summerstage- floating along with the interweaving lines of guitar and mandolin at a performance of jazz and Indian classical music. And then one of New
York's great headaches burst our bubble - we all cringed as a car alarm went off and blared its discordant two-tones. John MacLaughlin's fingers paused as he turned and shared a smile with U. Shrinivas and
then began plucking a lazy, daydreaming mimic of the siren. The audience laughed and was drawn back into the music as its fabric shifted to accomodate the rude guest until it went silent.

'Impromptu' means 'done without planning or rehearsal' but the Latin root "in promptu" means 'in readiness' - a more or less opposite meaning which lays bare the underlying reality; spontaneous creation requires a lot of preparation.

When dancers talk the conversation always comes around to the classes they've taken that week. Musicians, we know, constantly rehearse to maintain fluency. And exhibitions of painters and sculptors often include numerous quick sketches, 'studies' which feed into a final product, however improvised the final work may appear.

Constant study is also key to my practice.

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