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chiaki : visual
artist, founder of 8/4 series
Chiaki(chiaki watanabe)
is a New York based visual artist/designer. With diverse
interests in the fields of performance media and experimental
music/film, she creates abstract video/animations
- "motion paintings" that combine aspects of minimalist
and organic aesthetics. She has been experimenting with
interactions between visuals and sounds extensively with
various types of sound. Chiaki explores synesthesia - cross
sense modality and vintage media with new technology to
create a hybrid collaborative art form. She seeks to blur
the boundary between sub culture and pop culture. She has
performed live visuals at various live video venues, including
New York Video festival, Unitygain TV(NY), Viper new media
film festival(CH), ICA Cinema - VJ Culture(UK) and the X-fest
experimental video festival(NY). She also has collaborated
live visuals with musicians working on the forefront of
the electronic music scenes in New York at The Kitchen,
Knitting Factory, Remote Lounge, Galapagos, Tonic, Dance
Theater Workshop and The Tank. Her works range from live
audiovisual performance to mixed media installation, video,
and motion graphics. Has exhibited in US, Europe, and Japan.
Her background is in multimedia design(in entertainment
media includ. MTV Networks, CBS, News corporation) and performing
arts in US, Europe and Japan.
www.nicknack.org
8/4 vol.1 artists >>
Giles Hendrix : visual
artist
Giles
produces and mixes video for live performances and
installations. His work has been featured at AMODA,
X-FEST, and UNITYGAIN. In January 2002, his short "Internet
Video" was
exhibited in Times Square in New York City as part
of the CBS Spectacular Open Air Shorts program. His
four performance videos for Bob Mould's Summer 2002
tour exposed his talent to a larger audience. Daytime
means Giles is busy at webslingerZ, but at night you
can find him mixing video in New York at (Sub)Tonic,
OpenAir, Remote & Volume.
www.gesture.org
Bit Shifter
: game
boy musician
Bit Shifter explores
low-bit, high-energy music composed and performed
on a Nintendo Game Boy. The result is a deliberately
and unapologetically fun foray into the unique and
evocative soundset traditionally reserved for video
game sound effects and background music, all done
on a console generally misperceived as being technically
limited. Made possible by the independent and covert
development of custom-made musicmaking software cartridges,
Bit Shifter's music adopts the playfulness inherent
in the familiar Game Boy soundset and subverts it,
repurposing it into the service of new and unexpected
idioms. Bit Shifter's debut CD _Life's A Bit Shifter_
is available on 555 Recordings, and he has additionally
released music with 8bitpeoples, Intikrec and Relax
Beatme.
www.bitshifter.cc
Nullsleep : game
boy musician
A recent graduate from
the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied
Science where he studied computer science and music,
Nullsleep has tried to bring these two areas of study
together in his work. In 1999, together with friend
Mike Hanlon from Detroit, he cofounded the 8bitpeoples,
a collective of artists interested in the audio/video
aesthetics of 8bit computers and videogames. In the
time since, Nullsleep has released a number of recordings
through 8bitpeoples, ranging in style from the mixture
of urban field recordings and processed arcade samples
of the Click Bleep Click EP to the chiptune rock found
on The Gameboy Singles 2002. Some of his most recent
work has included programming music on the Nintendo
Gameboy and Nintendo Entertainment System platforms.
He has also become more active in hardware hacking
projects. Examples include modifying NES cartridges
and participating in the design and construction of
the Zynth80, a polyphonic midi-controlled analogue
synthesizer based around the Z80 microprocessor.
www.8bitpeoples.com
8/4 vol.2 artists>>
Paper rad : media art collective
Paper Rad is composed of Jacob Ciocci, Jessica Ciocci and Benjamin Jones. Their painting, music, performance, animation, web art and drawing interweave to generate an extraordinarily compelling body of work. They infuse the familiar and the comfortable with unexpected shifts of meaning. Their art has been described as “Blakean”, and like Blake they divine a cast of characters with a desire for transcendence. Using a vibrant palette, they explore transformation through the use of myth and playful, meta-ironic humor. Paper Rad has screened, performed and exhibited at the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (2003); Tate Britain, London (2003); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2003); the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2003); Deitch Projects, New York (2003); The New York Underground Film Festival (2003); Ocularis Cinema, Brooklyn (2003); Team, New York (2003); Daniel Reich Gallery, New York (2002). Paper Rad has been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Art Review, Mute, Vice, Issue and Select. They will be included in the forthcoming book, “Internet Art”, edited by Rachel Green and published by Thames and Hudson (2004), and will participate in the 2004 Liverpool Biennial.
www.paperrad.com
Chris Burke (aka Glomag) : game boy musician
Glomag (Chris Burke) makes music on gameboys and computers. His performances have taken him to Paris, Vienna, and Brussels where he performed in a giant, translucent video sphere with media artists Lab[au].
In New York he has played at numerous clubs and galleries, including The New Museum's Zenith Media Lounge, The New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center and Monkeytown. He has four pre-Glomag CDs out including "All Wave Super" with his previous band Glorified Magnified. His compositions have been presented at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Rhizome's Digital Happy Hour at The Kitchen, The American Center in Paris and on television and radio in the US and France. He has a BFA in film from NYU's School of the Arts and is a self-taught musician.
www.glomag.com.com
bubblyfish : game boy musician
www.bubblyfish.com
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