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On the evening of Saturday, May 30th, we proudly presented a series of collaborative performances between projection artists and musicians and sound artists. Featured performances included collaborations between media artist C.G. [create good] Ryan and sound artist Ben New, media artist Krista Faist and musician Alex Burgoyne, and video artist Nikki Swift and media and sound artist Matt Swift; projection services provided by Mural Remix.
About the artists:
Moving image artist Krista Faist’s virtual and electronic works explore forms of aesthetic over-stimulation that lead to expansiveness of imagination and wonder, much like that experienced in childhood when one visits a candy shop. As a child, she had a strong desire to see all colors and textures at once, including colors never seen before. With each project, she sets out to re-capture this feeling of simulated desire and satisfaction. She believes that this desire to satiate our hunger for wonderment with consumerist impulses is innately human, and her aim is to bring this incongruence to light via her immersive, audio reactive, and VR works.
Alex Burgoyne is a saxophonist/composer/arranger based in Columbus, Ohio. He received a BM in saxophone performance from the Capital University Conservatory of Music and an MM in saxophone performance from Ohio University. He is involved with numerous projects, including Gault, Turtle Boat, the Alex Burgoyne Quartet, Flogo Shaggins, New Basics Brass Band, and Small Songs, among others.
As individual artists and a collaborative team, Nikki and Matt Swift have been creating various audio visual artworks for over 20 years. Their work ranges from the personal experimental documentary to highly structuralist exploratory workflows that break the very tools used to make their creations. More recent works have focused on the political, including the history of democracy and communication, the exploitation of the environment, and human memory versus technological recordings. This performance will include some of these themes pairing the two artists together to create an ephemeral unique live performance containing audio and visuals produced from various sources combining the analog and the digital.
C.G. RYAN is a media artist and scenic designer who creates playful, surreal imagery that she mixes in real time with live music to create vistas of inner and outer space, layering tangibility with the imaginary. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts: New Media from CCAD, and collaborates with musicians and directors to create transportive, immersive experiences for audiences at live events and in theatrical productions. For this performance, C.G. collaborated with sound artist Ben New in a new work titled “NOW WHAT”, exploring internal and external mixed messages.
Ben New is a multidisciplinary sound artist, musician, and painter based in Columbus, Ohio. He is a graduate of the Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD) with a BFA in Fine Art. His work spans therapeutic soundscapes, noise, experimental-ambient music, and multimedia art. He frequently creates binaural soundscapes, therapeutic meditations, and experimental pieces and his discography includes projects like Desolation, Conjured Years, and Binaural Blessings.He has showcased his sound baths and ambient audio at venues such as the Columbus Museum of Art.
MURAL REMIX is a collective of digital artists that transforms spaces with beautifully designed projection experiences. Mural ReMix both creates and curates digital arts events on both intimate and monumental scales.