SFPC Performance Night
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Co-curated by Nitcha Tothong, Tiri Kananuruk and Sebastian Morales
As part of SFPC's seven-year retrospective and celebration, join us on Saturday, January 18th from 6 -10.30 PM for a performance night with numbers of SFPC alums and teachers.
- 6 pm - 9.30 pm: Artist and Machine by Susie Fu
- 6.30 pm - 7.00 pm: Merce Cunningham Centennial Solos Choreography by Merce Cunningham by Cori Kresge
- 7.15 pm - 7.45 pm: Marco by Christo Allegra
- 8.00 pm - 8.15 pm: Pincelations: Sound poems from latent spaces and hidden states by Allison Parrish
- 8.30 pm - 9.00 pm: KoalaTokki by Yeseul Song and Michael Simpson
- 9.15 pm - 9.23 pm: What even is the colour of C? By Phil Schleihauf
- 9.30 pm afterward: Algorave Livecoded Compositions by Char Stiles and Dan Gorelick
A suggested donation of $ 10 goes to cover performers, support the exhibitions and other expenses. No-one turned away for lack of funds.
Stars
Allison Parrish is a computer programmer, poet, educator and game designer whose teaching and practice address the unusual phenomena that blossom when language and computers meet, with a focus on artificial intelligence and computational creativity. She is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she earned her master's degree in 2008.
Cori Kresge is a NYC based dance artist, teacher, bodyworker, and writer. She currently performs and collaborates with multiple artists for stage and film and is a featured dancer in the Cunningham 3D film by Alla Kovgan. She teaches movement classes and workshops regularly at SFPC and Gibney Dance Studios.
KoalaTokki is an audio-visual performance group consisting of the group's co-founders, Yeseul Song and Michael Simpson. KoalaTokki use live-coding as a fundamental part of their creative collaboration and in their performances the duo use of a collaborative live-coding system making this transparent to the audience.
Christo Allegra creates artwork at the intersection of information design, dynamic media, and narrative spaces. Allegra writes code within the Processing framework and other technologies to create data driven and generative art.
Susie Fu I am a Chinese-American new media Artist-Engineer based in New York. I use my dual identities in opposition and collaboration. I observe humanness on the extreme ends of the scale: intimately individual, and collectively uniform. I explore the subjective self through manufactured mirages and performances. I use non-human automation to reflect and summarize the collective.
Phil Schleihauf (they/them) is a queer artist, facilitator, and recovering software developer, thinking about how to challenge cultural narratives that touch their own experience. Their work is a means of introspection and an invitation to others, using sound, light, and electronic hardware, to meditate on human perception and connection.
Algorave is made from “sounds wholly or predominantly characterized by the emission of a succession of repetitive conditionals“. These days just about all electronic music is made using software, but with artificial barriers between the people creating the software algorithms and the people making the music. Using systems built for creating algorithmic music and visuals, such as IXI Lang, puredata, Max/MSP, SuperCollider, Extempore, Fluxus, TidalCycles, Gibber, Sonic Pi, FoxDot and Cyril these barriers are broken down, and musicians are able to compose and work live with their music as algorithms. This has good and bad sides, but a different approach leads to interesting places. Algoraves embrace the alien sounds of raves from the past and introduce alien, futuristic rhythms and beats made through strange, algorithm-aided processes. It’s up to the good people on the dancefloor to help the musicians make sense of this and do the real creative work in making a great party.
Promo visual by Nitcha Tothong
Made with support of ARTECHOUSE