A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise & The Hut Improvisers
Columbus, Ohio, United States
The Old First Presbyterian Church
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. Driving beats. Orphaned labels and free-floating symbology. Auditory roundabouts and redirections. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Sounds symphonic and screeching. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals. Glitches in crowdsourced data.
This performance will last approximately 50 minutes and will occasionally introduce strobing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers.
Bios
Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through video and realtime performance tools he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, the Light and Space movement, and 60's light shows, occasionally injecting letterform experiments inspired by visual poetry, as new possibilities in the realm of digital cartography.
Since its Lisbon premiere in April 2022, Theise has performed A Synesthete's Atlas in collaboration with local musical improvisors in dozens of East Coast, West Coast, Midwest, and Rocky Mountain cities; it’s been described as anti-cinema, post-cinema, and pre-cinema, as well as truly radical cartography.
The Hut Improvisers are:
- Etiyen Esteff- Rhodes, synths
- Bryan Stewart- electric bass, synth
- Chris Weldon- cimbalom, gongs, found objects
- Gerard Cox- drums, piano, percussion