Thursday June 30 * 7pm * MASKS, VAX REQUIRED * TICKETS
Real time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, accompanied by stalwart local improvising musicians Jim Ryan and Darien Baiza. An evening of street grids, rivers, islands, and curiosities from the built environment. Saturated colors. Glitches in crowdsourced data. Orphaned information and free-floating symbology.
Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through video and realtime performance tools he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, op artists, and the light and space movement as new possibilities in the realm of digital cartography. Theise is returning to the US after a residency at Hangar (Lisbon) where he worked on single channel videos in his series of If Maps in addition to evolving the Carto-OSC toolkit for realtime performance which is at the core of this evening's event. Theise's 16mm films have screened across the United States and Canada, also France; he’s held residencies at Signal Culture (New York) and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and he’s received grants in support of his work from the Interbay Cinema Society, Bay Area Video Coalition, and Film Arts Foundation.
Jim Ryan is a jazz inspired, free-form multi-instrumentalist who has performed for several decades in Paris, France, the San Francisco Bay free improv scene, and currently in the Washington D.C. Area. He plays winds, brass and small percussion.
Darien Baiza is an exploratory multi-percussionist who is currently residing in the Baltimore area.