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Manipulated Image #5: Live performance by Rand and Rudy, Plus Videos by Miller and O’Finn
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Peter Rand (Albuquerque)http://www.myspace.com/vjpeterrandhttp://www.vimeo.com/3886834 Peter Rand's obsession with film and video began with a super-8 camera, a cassette four-track, and a movie about washing dishes. Since then, he's completed countless short videos, documentaries, and media presentations; In early 2004, he got his hands on a video mixer and a set of projectors and started VJing in and around Washington state. Now, a professional VJ and resident to New Mexico, Peter focuses on bringing a poignant narrative to his work in new media. In general, Peter’s art can be considered eclectic, both in concept and design. Some pieces are rooted in traditional cinematic techniques, while others incorporate the usage of physically interactive spaces and apparatus. Some are meant to promote social awareness, and some are meant for his mother. He teaches art to underserved populations in and around Albuquerque, and is in the process of completing a collection of sound films. |
Paul Rudy (University of Missouri at Kansas City)http://www.paulrudy.comPaul Rudy (1962) is a life-long student whose music encompasses the desert, the kitchen, inside, and outback, to chamber and orchestral. A fascination with sound has led from instrumental works to radio programs in London and Aspen Colorado, to interactive, installation, and cinematic works, with, and without visuals. Rudy has received awards from the Guggenheim (2008), Fulbright (1997) and Wurlitzer Foundations, Sounds Electric ’07 Competition (1st Prize), Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition (including a 2008 commission), EMS (Sweden 1st Prize), Citta di Udine (Prize ex aequo), SEAMUS, Meet the Composer, the American Composer’s Forum, SCI, National Music Teacher’s Association and the Missouri Music Teacher’s Association. He promotes the music of living composers by curating concerts Internationally and lectures widely on the analysis of non-notated sonic art, sound in film and timbral practice. He teaches at the University of Missouri at Kansas City where he received the 2008 Kauffman Award for Artistic Excellence. He has an avid interest in bicycling, hiking, camping, and mountaineering. In 1994 he completed the Colorado Grand Slam after climbing all 54 of Colorado's 14,000 ft peaks and still hopes some day to go above 20,000 ft. Rudy’s Healing Journey CD’s In lake’ch and Kuxan suum are available on iTunes. |
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Donald O'Finn (NYC)http://www.donaldofinn.comO'Finn's videos have been exhibited and screened at various cult venues, as well as the Hershhorn Museum of Art in Washington D.C., and both Lincoln Center and the Anthology Film Archive in N.Y. City, performing with the multi media audio-visual collective known as rev.99. "Since 1982 I have used TV and video imagery samples as found objects to repurpose, constructing what I call 'narratives from appropriated material.' I consider my product much closer to poetry or painting, than to film or TV." Village Voice - BEST Of/2001-2008: |
