Adam Kendall – video
Richard Garet – music
Also on the bill - Nisi Jacobs (with Michael Schumacher, Suzanne Thorpe and Phillip White)
Moderated by Charlie Morrow
Optosonic Tea @ Diapason Gallery
8pm
882 Third Avenue
10th Floor
(Bet. 32nd & 33rd Streets)
Sunset Park, Brooklyn - $7

This is a first for me -- I'll be doing a live, improvised solo set performing both video and music.

In the words of Optosonic:

OptoSonic Tea is a regular series of meetings dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features two different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a set with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are followed by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of green tea. A third artist, from previous generations of visualists or related fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as to create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide different perspectives on the present and the future.

Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer

Adam Kendall – video
And others...
Literary Debutante Ball: Silent Auction @ Old American Can Factory
7pm - 11pm
232 3rd Street
(Corner 3rd Stree and 3rd Avenue)
Park Slope, Brooklyn - $50

In the words of One Story, the organization running the Ball:

For the past few months, we here at One Story have been working with over 30 visual artists to create original work based on issues of the magazine. All of this art has been generously donated, and will be put up for a silent auction at our Literary Debutante Ball on Friday, May 21st.

We’ve organized an online gallery of the work that has come in, featuring artists such as Lothar Osterburg, Susan Leopold and Alison Elizabeth Taylor. We’ve got everything from jewelry to photography, from ceramics to paintings—each inspired by our stories. All bidding starts at 50-70% of Estimated Retail Value. Minimum bids range from $25-$1500.

Want to bid, but can’t make it to Brooklyn for the party? Just fill out our absentee bid form and email or fax it to us before noon on Friday, May 21st. In the meantime, browse our online gallery to see how the words and images came together.

Toys' Opera:
Yoni Niv – music, trains, small objects
Elad Shniderman – music
Adam Kendall – video
2010 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2010) @ Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York

The installation version of Toys' Opera.

Toys' Opera is an installation for multi-channel video, multi-channel sound-art, and physical-computing that’s centered around a small universe of HO-scale trains, models, and miniature cameras. Controlled via software and serial-hardware-controllers, Toys' Opera creates an abstract, corrupted narrative by logically and randomly organizing procedural activity and algorithmic composition into phrases and gestures spanning and integrating the project media.

Come not just for the odd, sometimes creepy beauty, but for the cutting-edge thrill of serially-controlled devices not always doing what they're told.

Adam Kendall – video
Online Screening: Ian/Keith/Roof @ Contour Editions

"Ian/Keith/Roof" is a recent video/audio piece of mine available for screening at Contour Editions, an excellent on- and off-line media label. Please take a look. Also check out their other artists -- Lots of very good work to watch and hear.