Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, in collaboration with Zyanya Yax, saxophones, and Chino Ortega, bass. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Auditory roundabouts and redirections. Orphaned labels. Free-floating symbology. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals. Glitches from crowdsourced data.
The performance will last 50 minutes and will occasionally introduce strobing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers.
Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through video, performance, and works on paper he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, the Light and Space movement, and 60's light shows – with the occasional injection of letterform experiments inspired by visual poetry – as new possibilities in the realm of digital cartography.
Zyanya Yax is a musician from Guadalajara, Mexico. She participates in different local music projects and has toured nationally and internationally. She has experimented with forms ranging from Balkan and Klezmer to Free Improv.
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Chino Ortega is a trained musician who understands sound as an element to explore different narrative possibilities. He is a member of the projects Tabula Raza, Chiasma, Proyecto 3010, SOP, LATEROR, AFEG GALO, Tirantes, among others. He also records, mixes and masters musical projects and multimedia art, runs the recording, mixing and post-production studio Sismo Studio and the independent music label Helicoidal Records, as well as being the curator of the Helicoidal Sessions concert series. He has taught at various institutions in Guadalajara and Mexico City.
