PROJECT[BLANK]’s Salty Series

February 11, 2023, at Bread & Salt
1955 Julian Ave., San Diego, CA 92113
8:00 pm, $10 suggested

SPACE TIME is pleased to present a program of “illuminated music,*” featuring various methods of real-time image and sound manipulation. The program will begin with a screening of Studies by video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka. “The Vasulkas' investigations into analog and digital processes and their development of electronic imaging tools, which began in the early 1970s, place them among the primary architects of an expressive electronic vocabulary of image-making.” In 1971, The Vasulkas founded The Kitchen in NYC, which has served as a model for multidisciplinary arts organizations, including Space Time and Project [BLANK].

*The term “illuminated music” is taken from another video synthesis pioneer, Stephen Beck.

STEINA and WOODY VASULKA are major figures in video history, technical pioneers who have contributed enormously to the evolution of the medium. The Vasulkas' technological investigations into analog and digital processes and their development of electronic imaging tools, which began in the early 1970s, place them among the primary architects of an expressive electronic vocabulary of image-making. Applying an informal, real-time spontaneity to their formalist, often didactic technical research, they chart the evolving formulation of a grammar and syntax of electronic imaging as they articulate a processual dialogue between artist and technology.

The Vasulkas immigrated to the United States in 1965, and began their collaborative exploration of electronic media in 1969. In 1971, they co-founded The Kitchen, a major alternative exhibition and media arts center in New York.

Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, NY.

HELIXHAND (ASH CAPACHIONE) is a motion designer, filmmaker and audio visual artist. They began recording found sounds, noise and experimental electronic music in their hometown of Boston, MA after finding sonic influence in New England’s sacred and haunted spaces. Helixhand explores themes of queer identity and vulnerability, and revisions spiritual connectivity, ritual and folklore via an audiovisual practice. They perform and improvise live with computer-based and hardware electronics, machine generated video and composite, animation and live action video. Helixhand’s works in motion design, sound and video have been performed and exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Museum of Science and Technology (Boston), Anthony Greaney Contemporary Art Gallery (Boston), Museum of Museums (Seattle), SEASON Gallery (Seattle), San Diego Art Institute (San Diego), A Ship In the Woods (San Diego), SXSW, Decibel Fest, and Discwoman Fest.

For this event, they’ll perform a live audio visual piece, using digital film, machine generated imagery and animation, with improvised sound loops and found samples.

KEVIN ALLEN SCHWENKLER is an NJ-derived, San Diego-based musician. Voice and laptop are his primary instruments. Kevin, collectivities in the field of desire, arises through collaboration, improvisation, and scholarship. Kevin participated in learning at Hampshire College and Mills College. He is a Ph.D. candidate at UC San Diego in Integrative Studies.

He will be playing live electronics and audio-modulated processing of a series of still images.