"June a sound and image installation" Exhibition

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June is a new audio-visual installation by DRAW, the duo of Nisi Jacobs and Michael J. Schumacher. June uses 23 channels of sound and multiple video projections to create an environment of potential relations between disparate events.

DRAW's activities form the basis for performances and installations involving processed video, algorithmically generated sound and live musicians. Through experimentation and dialogue, they explore in depth the relation between sound and image. Their practice involves a number of strategies, such as coupling specific sound and image sequences, using multi-channel setups for video + sound, role-switching, and exploring notational techniques.

Nisi Jacobs earned a BFA in Painting from The Cooper Union and creates multichannel video performances and installations. She is a co-curator at Diapason Gallery and collaborates with composer/sound artist, Michael J. Schumacher as DRAW (www.drawnyc.com); other collaborations have been with poet Bruce Andrews, violinist Tom Chiu, sound artist David Gailbraith and percussionist James Gailbraith (Padtech), sound artist Andre Goncalves, and percussionist Tim Keiper. Previous curation efforts include 5.1 programs for SYNCH Electronic Festival, The Phatory Gallery, and HOWL Film Festival. Jacobs has exhibited in festivals at the Jeu De Paume Museum in Paris, Tribeca Film Festival, Hong Kong Film Festival, Circulo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, Maya Stendhal Gallery, SONAR festival at the Caracas Contemporary Art Museum, CalArts Film/Video Cinematheque, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, The Alejandro Otero Museum, National Cinématheque of Spain, Manchester Metropolitan University of England, River-to-River film festival, Ear to the Earth Festival; a CD release entitled 'Weaves' includes two videos by Nisi Jacobs with six sound tracks by Michael J. Schumacher, distributed by En’tract, 2009. Past video performances include The Bowery Ballroom, Pianos, Living Room, Mercury Lounge, Williamsburg Music Hall; recent DRAW performances include Optosonic Tea with Philip White and Suzanne Thorpe, VCW Performance, and Brooklyn Arts Council with Stuart Popejoy and Sarah Bernstein.
Jacobs has helped to launch a new video scoring workshop with Adam Kendall which focuses on the development of video scoring systems, Video Composition Workshop (VCW) and teaches video editing at NYU’s Center for Advanced Digital Applications, NYU’s Department of Film, Video and Broadcasting, The Art Institute of New York City, Apple Authorized Training Center Soho Editors NYC, and has been editor for (and sometimes collaborator) with filmmaker Ken Jacobs since 2001. Among the numerous works she has assist-edited, STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH (a 4-part internationally distributed documentary) won The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award by the LA Film Critics in 2005, enjoying screenings in Brussels, Paris, Vienna, Holland, Hong Kong, MoMa, Lincoln Center, London Film Festival, and Slovenia, among others. http://www.drawtoy.com

Michael J. Schumacher is a composer, performer and installation artist based in New York City.
He works predominantly with electronic and digital media, specializing in computer generated sound environments that evolve continuously for long time periods. In their realization, Schumacher uses multiple speaker configurations that relate the sounds of the installation to the architecture of the exhibition space. Architectural and acoustical considerations thereby become basic structural elements.
Schumacher’s sound installations have been heard at Art in General, Apex Art, PS 1, The Kitchen and Sculpture Center in New York City, CCNOA in Brussels, Singuhr Gallery and Tesla in Berlin, the Museum for Applied Arts in Frankfurt , the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, Triskel Arts Center in Cork, Ireland, Transmissions Festival in Chicago, Tone Deaf in Kingston, Ontario, The Sound Art Museum in Rome, )toon Festival in Haarlem, RADAR in Mexico City, Ostrava Music Days and others. XI Records has published a DVD set of five sound installations as computer applications, playable on up to eight speakers, which may be installed on a computer to create sound environments in the home. Schumacher’s composition “Grid”, a computer generated score that unfolds in real time, has been in exhibitions in New York, Barcelona and Houston. His latest CD, "Weave", was released this year on Allon Kaye's Entr'acte.
He is the composer in residence of the Liz Gerring Dance Company. In August 2007 Schumacher and Nisi Jacobs began DRAW, an audio-video performance group. Joined by Tim Keiper, Alex Waterman, Bruce Andrews and others, they create immersive live sets based on collaborative compositions. DRAW’s website is http://drawnyc.com.
Schumacher has lectured at Bard College, The New School, The School for Visual Arts and Juilliard. He has taught piano, composition, theory and ear training privately since 1983. He currently teaches at Polytechnic Institute of NYU in Brooklyn. www.michaeljschumacher.com

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from June 05, 2010 to June 26, 2010
Saturdays in June, 2-8PM

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