UNSEEN series | Resonant Luminance
Gray Area’s UNSEEN Series presents site-specific, collaborative performances by Bay Area artists and explores current practices in immersive media, including expanded cinema, video and sound art, experimental music and technology. The UNSEEN series is curated by Oakland artist Matt Fisher.
Tickets: $8 Presale / $13 Day of Show / $15 Door. Cash bar available to those 21 years and older.
Schedule:
8:00 Doors
9:00 Show
Resonant Luminance is a collaborative video and sound performance consisting of Kuhne’s live sound and video, Resonant Shift, paired with its image conducted and interpreted via live camera through Holt’s Glass System videosculptures. Merging cross-sensory investigations of intangible phenomena and perception, this collaborative piece is an interpretation of time and multi-dimensional reality through incandescent glass forms. The conversion of the visible spectra into audible frequencies creates a resultant tonal score of architectural spaces that can be heard physiologically by way of vibration. Following will be a collaboration between Abandoned Footwear on hardware and modular synth and Sarah Rosalena Brady on visuals. Abandoned Footwear is the duo of Jay Fields and Michael Buchanan, ambassadors to Oakland’s weirdo techno underground. They will be presenting multi-channel surround music in collaboration with Sara Brady, whose exploration of abstraction and generative practice informs her code based and interactive visuals.
Artists
Allison Leigh Holt is a cross-disciplinary artist living and working in Oakland, CA. Using hybrids of sculpture, video, installation, and performance she pursues a dialogue between divergent ways of experiencing, comprehending, and describing reality. Holt has received numerous awards from institutions including the U.S. Department of State (Fulbright Fellowship, Indonesia), Djerassi Artist Residency Program, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the David Bermant Foundation, Cemeti Art House (Indonesia), the Experimental Television Center, Kala Art Institute, and the North Dakota Museum of Art. Currently, she is a finalist for a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Her work has exhibited internationally, notably at SFMOMA, Stanford University, Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Cemeti Art House (Indonesia), Axiom Gallery for New and Experimental Media (Boston), San Francisco Cinematheque, the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the Urban Screens Conference (Melbourne), and the Yogyakarta International New Media Festival. She has presented at cellsBUTTON(s) and Video Vortex conferences in Indonesia, the Cultural Studies Association Conference, the 20th Annual Science of Consciousness Conference, and Imagining the Universe: Cosmology in Art and Science at Stanford Arts Institute. At the 47th UND Writers Conference in 2016, she will be in conversation with theoretical physicist Brian Greene and science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. Holt is Vice President of San Francisco Cinematheque’s Board of Directors, and mentors/teaches experimental media to individuals on the autism spectrum. She studied at The Evergreen State College (BA) and Massachusetts College of Art (MFA).
Kadet Kuhne is a visual and sound artist who generates synthetic stimuli as an investigation of subjectivity through systems of control and technological mediation. With a preoccupation of what constitutes consciousness, Kadet aims to prompt visceral, even pre-verbal emotional and physical responses to the invisible forces of particles and vibration that construct all matter. Taking form in video, installation, album releases, performance, interactivity, 3D printing and 2D print, Kadet’s works have been presented nationally and internationally at select venues such as the Museum of Art Lucerne, de Young Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Contemporary Art Center Villa Arson, Antimatter Film Festival, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Krowswork, LACE Gallery, Crossroads Film Festival and Highways Performance Space and Gallery. Kadet received a Masters in Integrated Media and Music Composition in Experimental Practices from the California institute of the Arts in 2004. Based in Oakland, CA, Kadet has collaborated with Bay Area artists Mary Franck, Allison Leigh Holt, Suki O’Kane, Paul Clipson and Gregory Dawson, and has remotely developed projects with Alba G. Corral, mem1 and Krystof Pesek. She works as an Adjunct Professor in Media Arts alongside owning a post-production sound studio, Audible Shift, and is the President of San Francisco Cinematheque’s Board of Directors.
Abandoned Footwear is the alias of musicians Jay Fields and Michael Buchanan. Michael has been writing electronic music for over 15 years with the collaborative projects Nommo Ogo and Seacrypt ; and his solo project Identity Theft. He has released music on Record Label Records, Katabatik, Oraculo and Falco Invernale. Jay has been producing and performing music as Exillon since 2003, with releases on Ad Noiseam, Detroit Underground, Tigerbeat6, Zod Records, Puzzling Records, Terminal Dusk, and Component Records. Together, they play a skewed form of “abandoned house” music using an entirely hardware synth and drum machine based system.
Sarah Brady is a media artist and filmmaker that uses concepts of shamanism through art and technology. Her works offer activations through light frequencies, color, motion, interactive media, sound frequencies, and generative algorithms. She uses creative coding, video, 16mm, and slides to explore the nature of perception and media representation. Her work has been presented SOMArts Cultural Center, Fylkingen (SE), San Francisco Cinematheque, Gray Area Art and Technology and the deYoung Museum.