Eric Theise - A Synesthete's Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations / Ivan Liptak
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Rhizome
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.
The opening set is by guitarist Ivan Liptak.
Theise's solo set will last approximately 40 minutes, and Liptak will join him for an improvised duo to close the evening. Theise's work occasionally introduces 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.
Ivan Liptak is a guitarist from Washington, DC. He attended Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts where he studied improvisation, composition, and guitar. He currently holds a BFA in Guitar Performance from Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has studied a range of idioms with artists including Anthony Pirog, Marty Ehrlich, Amanda Monaco, Kate Soper, and Phillip de Fremery. His influences include but are not limited to Adris Hoyos, Marc Ribot, and Cindy Lee.