Eye Wash Wednesday, June 25th, NYC

[holly]

The summer heats up with more Eye Wash this Wednesday, June 25th at FREIGHT.
And it is still FREE!

Check out the lineup below and for more info, visit:
http://FORWARDmotiontheater.org

EYE WASH Wednesdays
at FREIGHT
410 West 16th Street (bet 9th and 10th Ave)
NYC
9pm to 1am
*FREE*
subway: A,C,E, or L train to 14th Street and 8th Avenue
bus: M11 or M14 to 15th Street and 9th Avenue

The line-up for June 25th includes:

GILES HENDRIX (http://www.gesture.org) is working overtime after his regular gig at Sub-Tonic on Monday, presenting at VideoGrindhouse on Tuesday, and showcasing at EyeWash on Wednesday..., does that make him a triple threat? *whew* When does this guy sleep?! Visit his website to sample his apparently bottomless-coffeecup of visual talent.

In addition to their new afterhours residency at mega-club Webster Hall on Friday
nights, FEEDBUCK / GALORE (http://www.feedbuckgalore.com/) are East Coast reps for Edirol, makers of the "must have" V-4 video mixer. This duo have been pixelating the New York scene for over a decade and aren't afraid to mix activism with a healthy overdose of glamour! Who says politics aren't pretty? You show 'em, Missy!

VJ SPUTNIK (http://stage.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/%7Eda509/) grazes the atmosphere and falls to earth for the first time at EYE WASH.? His work has a quality of gossamer urgency ? and if this is a contradiction in terms then come see for yourself.

The down 'n' dirty Detroit style of DISASSEMBLER (http://www.dis-assembly.com/) has added visual gravity to DeLa Soul, Diesel Boy, and last year's Caffeine tour. He's popping in as a surprise guest tonight, so... Surprise!

DJ this week- our resident Zemi17.

This series is a relaxed and social cocktail atmosphere in a bar/restaurant
equipped with plasma screens, CRTs, and video projectors. You can enjoy
mixed video, meet VJs and video artists, and see the latest in live video
art.?

Happy Viewing!

Eric & Holly

http://www.forwardmotiontheater.org/Works/EyeWash/EyeWash2.jpg

[blackwatch]

looking fwd to it!!!

http://www.blackwatchstudio.com/skull.gif

[holly]

Eye Wash made "Pick of the Week" in the New York Press:

In New York City This Week

WED. 6/25

Eye Wash

Choreographer Eric Dunlap and media artist Holly Daggers have grafted technology to biology for Forward Motion Theater since 1995. Their latest project, Eye Wash, is a biweekly event where invited VJs bathe a bar/restaurant in Chelsea Market with loops and layers of high-impact motion graphics, video, and animation. This week features Giles Hendrix, Feedbuck/Galore and VJ SpuTNiK. Go to forwardmotion.org to view some mind-bending clips. And don?t miss the FMT VJ reel?Daggers is a knockout in a nurse?s uniform. Freight, 410 W. 16th St. (betw. 9th & 10th Aves.), 212-242-6555, 9, free.

...Well, they got our website url wrong.:mad: I guess you can't have everything.

[saccade]

holly, what's the exact order? i want deon for a later afterparty, and i have to be somewhere around 10-10:30... i want to check out the space for my jul 9 slot, and how it feels.

[holly]

Don't worry. We're putting Disassembler on first and then sending him out the door. Normally we do a multi-jam thing at the start as a warm up and then go into individual sets, but this time we'll do the opposite and save the multi-jam for the end. Ok?

The order has often been in order of who shows up to call dibs first:p

[krezrock]

Nice Job. Keep it up!!


Originally posted by holly
Eye Wash made "Pick of the Week" in the New York Press:

In New York City This Week

WED. 6/25

Eye Wash

Choreographer Eric Dunlap and media artist Holly Daggers have grafted technology to biology for Forward Motion Theater since 1995. Their latest project, Eye Wash, is a biweekly event where invited VJs bathe a bar/restaurant in Chelsea Market with loops and layers of high-impact motion graphics, video, and animation. This week features Giles Hendrix, Feedbuck/Galore and VJ SpuTNiK. Go to forwardmotion.org to view some mind-bending clips. And don?t miss the FMT VJ reel?Daggers is a knockout in a nurse?s uniform. Freight, 410 W. 16th St. (betw. 9th & 10th Aves.), 212-242-6555, 9, free.

...Well, they got our website url wrong.:mad: I guess you can't have everything.

[saccade]

Don't worry. We're putting Disassembler on first and then sending him out the door. Normally we do a multi-jam thing at the start as a warm up and then go into individual sets, but this time we'll do the opposite and save the multi-jam for the end. Ok?
right on. see you at 9!

[skyvat]

Sorry I missed this - I had a confilicting gig.

How'd it turn out?

[littlecatalyst]

holly-- you know what i think would be interesting??
if you folks @eyewash got peoples permission to record their sets, and then put out an EyeWash series on DVD.
(of course the VJs must be using original content) i think that would be sooooooo cool

(ps: is it ok to tag-team there?)

[holly]

Disassembler is the nicest guy! He brought a largish keyboard to midi-control, a Ti-Powerbook with VDMX and a Dell (best of both worlds) with Resolume (he pronounces it "rez-ah-LOOM", I've been calling it "ri-ZAHL-yum"...). Brought a V4 and the Missus as well.:) Tight and clean, beat-driven (not AVS I don't think, just talking style) in that "metalheart(?)" vein of lines and angles, videostatic and sudden blinks of color. Great stuff, abstract and confidant. Then Josh (saccade) came and whisked him away to a hiphop event.:(

Sputnik came with only MotionDive3 (we'd asked everyone to scale back because of limited set-up time) and it was the best MD I've ever seen. Obviously he works and works on his footage because it was so tight and prepared! I had described his look as "Gossomar Urgent" and afterwards I was like, "See? See what I mean?" Beautiful imagery, close-cut to just the important stuff, hardly any loops over 3 seconds but so effective to convey just the impact without developing past the climax. I vividly remember Bridgette Helm reeling in a split-second of horror flanked by blurry motion and traveling.... Like a gorgeous nightmare.

Giles played with all text and reference material (white-on-black), but used VDMX to distort, repeat, spin, and float them like patterns and textures over one another. It was like info-grafix on ecstacy. Impossible to describe how organic they felt, and the obvious technical nature of the source made a great contrast. Very "male" content, treated musically and playfully. Like Robert Moog manipulating a stack of technical manuals.... He's in his element and it shows. Totally tops.

Missy Galore scaled back her content to just a few powerful sequences and groups of images. She's hooked up with Edirol and is using a P7 (their clip player) and her set was essentially just 4 mini-sets of congruent clips: One of a carnival at night all blurry lights and spinning rides (ugh! Kicking myself for seeing little carnivals all over L.I. and not realizing the visual potential there)..., one a dreamy fantasy of a girl lost in the woods and peeking in a dark cabin window..., one of abstract vivid color blobs that bumped and jockeyed for position: Pure eyecandy (I asked her how she did it and it had something to do with shaking 35mm slides in front of the camera lens and video feedback...), and one set that was all Japanese print ads for dolls and fetishporn that strobed together like the back pages of a very twisted Japmag. In the past I've honestly thought that their sets have been a little too much footage and not enough organization (...and the kitchen sink, and a hockeypuck, and a dragqueen, and a...), but this was so evolved and confidant. Each mini-set had it's own emotional resonance (girl content) and she stuck with it long enough to let it sink in and really groove on your mind. They use no software at all, just cameras and video hardware. It was a fantastic presentation.

James (Infopocapypse) was holding court and showing his new software and keeping us all in stitches the way only a programmer can get (all adamant and blinder-focused on only one topic and offended that anyone would think differently). His new app looks sweet, but I had to tease him: "Where's the cute Japanese buttons?" to which he just stares at me open-jawed. Chris (Exeris) rolls his eyes and says "You Mac users!":p

Despite the space being freakos (we gotta move this thing to the east village, the managers there are really working my nerves ? they asked me to tell the DJ to "play something with words", grrr, and Zemi promptly put on the most filthy-mouthed MissKitten song, heh heh) and booking other parties on top of us so we had to ask everyone to "scale back", I think it was the best EyeWash I've seen and heard yet! We missed you, Skyvat! How was MIXOLOGY FESTIVAL? Never did figure out who Blackwatch is.... Say hi next time, ok?

[holly]

Hey, Lil'Cat. Sorry I haven't gotten back to you yet. Day is crazy and now I've just written this long ass review so I gotta write you later. EyeWash DVD is in the works! Funny you mention the tag-team cause I was just talking with Eric about ways to spice up the event and do a battle of some sort! Maybe in the fall when we move the party to a more willing venue.... I'll write you later, ok? Your PM box is full!

[skyvat]

Thanks for the compleat description :) I hooked up with Josh and Dissasembler later on at the "bling-bling" event. Yr right - Deon's a good guy and his style was so groovy with the blaring HipHop and even better with saccade's feedback mixed in. I'm sorry I missed the other artists - sounds like a good night. But yes, I hear you when you say you want a new venue. :rolleyes:

Mixology was good though very much on the avant garde improv side of things. Most memorable were Anney Bonney's lovely treament of vintage 60s sci-fi movies/NASA footage and Kato Hideki/Nic Collins doing a livecam tabletop set shooting a large piece of tinfoil spinning around on a turntable. Pretty cool!

Oh BTW I am reprising Kijk & Luister set with Isabelle on Friday night at the same venue. The program only mentions Isabelle but I'm a last minute addition. Also on the bill is jeremy Bernstein (monster max programmer and co-author of Jitter!) and Viduo.

Is Littlecat planing a trip down to Eyewash? You should come down LC, I want to meet you.

Battles?:zzz: