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When we talk about the intersection of art and technology, what usually comes up are the ways that Silicon Valley influences modes of expression or artistic practice. But scratch just beneath the surface of Bay Area media art practice and you’ll find deep, rich connections between contemporary and experimental artmaking that extend back a half century before the first tech boom.
Those histories c...
$8 Presale/ $13 Day of show: http://ticketf.ly/1RWM6LZ
Doors 7PM / Show 8PM | Cash Bar for 21+
When we talk about the intersection of art and technology, what usually comes up are the ways that Silicon Valley influences modes of expression or artistic practice. But scratch just beneath the surface of Bay Area media art practice and you’ll find deep, rich connections between contemporary and experimental artmaking that extend back a half century before the first tech boom.
Those histories connect multiple fields: film, homemade or repurposed electronics, expanded cinema, video, light and sound art, electroacoustic music, performance works and happenings, as well as analog synth music and modular signal culture. With the new UNSEEN series highlighting local artists, Gray Area is drawing connections between these wider points in the timeline of Bay Area experimentation.
On Friday Feb 19, Gray Area will present a first-time collaboration between Bay Area artists Andy Puls and the members of CTRL-Z, the sound and video performance ensemble made up of Daniel Steffey, Ryan Page and Nick Wang. The artists will present site specific work created for Gray Area’s Grand Theater.
Andy Puls is known around the Bay Area for blistering, hypnotic works that have one foot in psychedelic light shows and the other in circuit bending. He directly manipulates and “plays" old consumer electronics to create pulsing, abstract video and sound art.
Ctrl-Z performs classic works from avant garde composers like John Cage and Pauline Oliveros on a variety of instruments: traditional acoustic instruments, modular synthesizers, handmade electronics and their own software. On Friday, Daniel, Ryan and Nick will be performing solo, together and also in collaboration with Andy, when they use his generated video as their musical score. Andy will then create visuals based on the trio’s music.
Gray Area’s UNSEEN Series brings together media artists to collaborate on site specific collaborative performances between sound and video artists. The UNSEEN series is curated by artist Matt Fisher.