Signals & Otherwise

KLEX Presents: Artists-In-Residency Jason and Debora Bernagozzi (USA)
Join us for an audio-visual performance night @ FINDARS!
Also featuring: Koji Tambata, Kok Siew Wai, Yong Yandsen & Wong Eng Leong.

Date & Time: 8pm, Friday, 13rd January 2012
Venue: FINDARS, 25-2, Jalan Metro Wangsa, Desa Setapak, KL (above 99 SpeedMart & Smart Hotel)
Free admission, donation are welcome.

SIGNALS is a collaborative performance with video by Debora Bernagozzi and sound by Jason Bernagozzi. The video, which uses no source footage, was created during Debora’s final residency at the Experimental Television Center by using analog video feedback in combination with the Paik-Abe Raster Scanner (better known as the wobulator). During the performance, an additional layer of live digital video feedback is being combined with the recorded through a Jitter process. The audio is a combination of live and recorded processed sound.

Jason Bernagozzi is a video, sound, and new media artist experimenting with the significant features of time-based media as an evolving world language, addressing concepts concerning the liminal states of language, memory and perceptual experience. Jason received his Master of Fine Arts in Electronic Integrated Art from Alfred University in 2010. His work has been featured nationally and internationally at venues such as the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabruk, Germany and the LOOP Video Art Festival in Barcelona, Spain. Jason is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Digital Media and Animation at Alfred State College in Alfred, NY.

Debora Bernagozzi is a video artist and photographer. Her ongoing body of video work consists of gestural, abstracted videos that are more resonance than representation, created through a hybrid analog/digital method utilizing real-time video and audio processing techniques. Her photography has a documentary focus. Bernagozzi received her BFA in Video from the Atlanta College of Art in 1999 and her MFA in Electronic Integrated Art from Alfred University in 2002. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally. Debora is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.

Jason and Debora are married and currently reside in Rochester, NY

Websites
Jason Bernagozzi http://seeinginvideo.com/
Debora Bernagozzi http://deborabernagozzi.com/

ความมืดสีขาว (Kwaam-muud-siik-khaw) White In The Darkness (2011) Koji Tambata (Video, Japan) with Yong Yandsen (Improvised tenor sax, Malaysia)

Juxtaposing images in concerning music as movements like cubists such as Picasso or Braque . Emphasizing colors like fauvist such as Matisse. To get organic movements and to reach the final result with process as the abstract expressionists, like Pollock. Aware of the medium itself as the avant-garde filmmakers, like Conrad or Kubelka. Love for aphorism as human tendency like filmmaker Godard. All are going toward natural growth in respect of Taoism or Zen Buddhism. This collaboration is going to be the second trial with music improviser, Yandsen Yong, who has the intensity and lyricism like Kaoru Abe. After deconstruction by video editing, there is a kind of reality in fragments of Yandsen's playing appearing like geologic stratum. The past images have some kind of intensity which cannot be created anymore as the same as the present images. It is precious in this manner. And new images will be appearing from 'between the past and now'. Title ความมืดสีขาว (Kwaam-muud-siik-khaw) in Thai, White In The Darkness in English is a Zen Buddhism phrase which means “knowledge that cannot stop suffering and greed”. Blocking the eyes and the heart to see and to understand it, one cannot reach enlightenment. This awareness will continue into the emptiness.

Koji Tambata is a video artist with a deep interest in film, music, performance and philosophy. He gained a Bachelor of Art in Media Study at SUNY Buffalo, and his Master of Fine Art in Electronic Integrated Arts at Alfred University. He has lived in USA for about 10 years. During his stay in Buffalo, New York, he was known as “the musician who plays the video camera” in the art circle and he was always seen videotaping musicians at concerts. Koji has produced a series of solo multimedia concerts called “Music Works” since 1996 with live video, video installation, improvised and free jazz music and performance. He has participated in various festivals and events including In/Beyond Western New York, Notthatbalai Art Festival (Malaysia), (E)merging: Western and Southern New York Media Art Exhibition, CLICK! Buffalo, Artists & Models amongst others. He has collaborated with Kok Siew Wai, Yong Yandsen, Tony Conrad, Steve Baczkowski, Jonathan Galove, Hylozoa, Eliav Brand, King Sunshine, Knowmatic Tribe Sound System and more. Koji is currently living in Thailand.

Yandsen Yong plays the saxophones, clarinet and flute. Yandsen was the veteran lead vocal and band leader of rock band Moxuan in late 1990s. He then ventures into a new direction in music – free jazz and improvised music. Yandsen is the woodwind player of Klangmutationen, where it has released albums through Utech Records (USA) and Dream Sheep (Italy). Yandsen has collaborated with various artists and musicians including Goh Lee Kwang, Ng Chor-Guan, Kok Siew Wai, Darren Moore, Brian O’ Reily, Thierry Monnier, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Damo Suzuki, Abang Guard and more. He has played in the Kuala Lumpur Contemporary Music Festival, Mosaic Festival Singapore, Choppa Eclectic Improvised Music Festival (Singapore) amongst others. Yandsen is a member of the Experimental Musicians & Artists Cooperative Malaysia (EMACM), co-founder of Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur (SiCKL), and co-director of Sama-sama Guesthouse Mini Alternative Art Festival.

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