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On the evening of Saturday, August 30, we proudly presented A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations between Eric Theise and The Hut Improvisers.
About A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations: Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, in collaboration with The Hut Improvisers. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Orphaned labels. Free-floating symbology. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals. Glitches from crowdsourced data. #ASynesthetesAtlas
About the artists:
Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Using performance, video, and works on paper he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, the Light and Space movement, and visual poetry as fresh explorations through the realm of digital cartography. Since its Lisbon premiere in 2022 he’s given forty-some performances of A Synesthete’s Atlas, during which he manipulates projected digital maps in collaboration with improvising musicians, across North America and Europe. His animation, If Map #5, appeared on the eight story high display that crowns San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower throughout February 2024. His concerns include perceptual pleasure and fatigue, geographies of the natural and built environment, and subverting the presumed objectivity and authority of maps.
The Hut Improvisers is comprised of:
Etiyen Esteff- Rhodes, synths
Bryan Stewart- electric bass, synth
Chris Weldon- cimbalom, gongs, found objects
Gerard Cox- drums, piano, percussion
Billy Wolfe – saxophone, clarinet