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Sara Kolster and Derek Holzer visibleSOUND/audibleIMAGE

* resonanCITY: performance Friday, March 10th, 2006 @ 8pm

* SoundTransit.nl: presentation Sunday, March 12th, 2006 @ 2pm

*visibleSOUND/audibleIMAGE: screening and lecture Thursday, March 16th, 2006 @ 8pm

* Pure Data: workshop Saturday, March 18th & Sunday, March 19th, 2006 @ 11-4pm both days

Video In Studios / Satellite Video Exchange Society 1969 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada 604-872-8337 ext. 3, event@videoinstudios.com http://www.videoinstudios.com Hours of Operation: Monday thru Saturday 11am-6pm

The term visibleSOUND/audibleIMAGE implies the equal relationship or balanced use of image and sound. Within this theme, visiting artists Sara Kolster and Derek Holzer explore the connections between experimental audiovisual culture using the Internet and open source software.

Kolster and Holzer find inspiration in the history of experimental cinema and electroacoustic music, as well as contemporary video and microsound practices. Together they explore contemporary ideas about “Live Cinema” through the use of Pure Data, an open source tool for manipulating sound and image.

Gathered from various locations around the world, sound and image manifest into dream like journeys through Kolster and Holzer's live performance and net.art projects. Visually, Kolster's work deconstructs the analog/digital dichotomy while similarly, Holzer's digital sound treatments highlight and enhance the phonographic sources he collects.

Kolster and Holzer reject the use of common, commercial production methods and the default, commercial artworks that these methods often produce, preferring instead to program their own software, build their own hardware interfaces and actively participate in the free and open source communities which surround these activities.

Traveling from the Netherlands, Kolster and Holzer will be performing, presenting and teaching their practice at Video In Studios, 1965 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, throughout the month of March 2006.

1. resonanCITY: performance Friday, March 10th, 2006 @ 8pm

Live audiovisual performance Both Holzer and Kolster find inspiration in the history of experimental cinema and electro acoustic music, as well as in contemporary "live cinema", improv and microsound practices. Many sounds and images in our everyday lives slip past our notice simply because they are too small, or because we lack the proper receivers to pick them up. resonanCITY is an ongoing project to gather these microscopic sights and sounds from various cities, and to amplify and transform them. Their performance work centers around the use of photographic transparencies, found objects, field recordings and sparse instrumentals to create layers of interrelated sound and image.

2. SoundTransit.nl: presentation Sunday, March 12th, 2006 @ 2pm

SoundTransit.nl is an online, collaborative soundscape project by Sara Kolster, Marc Boon and Derek Holzer dedicated to field recording and phonography. On this site, you can book a sonic transit through a wide range of different locations recorded from around the world, or you can search the database for specific sounds by keyword, artist, country or location. A presentation of this project can include an introduction to field recording and phonography, a discussion on the importance of open licenses such as Creative Commons, or a technical discussion of the structure of the website.

3. visibleSOUND/audibleIMAGE: screening and lecture Thursday, March 16th, 2006 @ 8pm

This lecture and screening, made up of "historic" and contemporary works from the collection of Montevideo/Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (Amsterdam), investigates the interrelation of what has often considered to be two separate disciplines: sound and image.

Works shown will include: 1) Steina & Woody Vasulka: Violin Power [US][1978] 2) Steina & Woody Vasulka: BAD [US][1979] 3) Servaas: 4 Poems [NL][1981] 4) Matthew Schlanger: Lizard Hearts [US][1986] 5) Nicolas Provost: Papillon d'Amour [BE][2003] 6) Jan van Nuenen: SET_4 [NL][2003] 7) Bas van Koolwijk: five [NL][2002] 8) Derek Holzer & Sara Kolster: resonanCITY [NL] [2005]

4. Pure Data: workshop Saturday, March 18th & Sunday, March 19th, 2006 @ 11-4pm both days

A two-day Pure-Data workshop based on Sara and Derek's working style. $60 for members, $95 for non-members Email event@videoinstudios.com to register. Classes have a limited capacity. Workshop Details: http://www.videoinstudios.com/programming_details.php

About the Artists Sara Kolster [NL 1978] is a visual artist with a background in design. Recently, the focus of her work shifted more towards video and film; capturing details from urban locations, visualizing fragments of stories of these environments. She uses different strategies, from time-based media (video, film, photography) to appropriated research methods belonging to different observational disciplines (journalism, documentary & archeology).

Derek Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound artist with a background in radio and streaming media technologies. His work has focused on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in improvisational sound and on the use of free software such as Linux and Pure-Data.

Their work resonanCITY has been performed live in the US, Holland, Brazil, former Yugoslavia, the Baltic States and at the Transmediale 05 festival in Berlin. resonanCITY also took the Second Prize at the 11th International WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland in May 2005.

Links http://umatic.nl http://soundtransit.nl http://www.sarako.net http://www.nexsound.org/ns22.html

The Satellite Video Exchange Society is financially supported by individual donations, the Province of BC through the BC Arts Council and the BC Gaming Commission, the City of Vancouver, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the labour and effort of artists, activists and cultural workers.