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Program 7 - Film / Media / Sound Performance

Light Matter is Curated by James Hansen

Sunday Nov. 3rd, 1:00 PM

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Rebekkah Palov

Rebekkah Palov has a range of experiences in artist and activist communities. She was a member of 1990s punk / indie / metal and third-wave feminist music communities in Washington, DC and Olympia WA, where she played bass guitar. Her early interest was with the materials of electronic arts, instruments and amplification. This engagement with electro-mechanical materials continued while studying experimental film and electronic music composition at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

Following her BFA she worked in professional film production in Portland OR. Rebekkah also became involved with community bike shops in Austin TX, and Baltimore, MD. While in Austin and Baltimore, Rebekkah continued to make time-based works with exhibitions at AMODA (Austin Museum of Digital Art) and Anthology Film Archives. In Baltimore she played in bands, performed in experimental theatre and exhibited video, drawing and html-css art.

Rebekkah received her MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University. Following this she became an artist / educator. At Kutztown University, Rebekkah was sole-faculty for Time-based Experimental Media where she developed new studios and curriculum. Her students have moved onto top graduate programs, solo and group exhibitions. Continuing her work as artist / educator Rebekkah ran the Electronic Media artist residencies at Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred, NY. She is currently the Principle at The-Mind-Agency LLC where she advances her established practice of working on artists projects and with artist organizations including Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester NY), Simon Lui, Larry Gottheim, Eiko Otake. Her work with the Harald Bode Archive (Now housed at ZKM Karlsruhe DE ) included guest editor for the Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s journal “eContact! 13.4 Harald Bode”.

Rebekkah is a member of electroacoustic ensembles NowNet Arts Hub and Carrier Band. Her recent practice has pivoted toward lens based video, spatial AV, and custom AV performance software.

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K/S/R - "Already in Heaven"
World Premiere

The trio of Ben Kujawski, Abigail Smith, and Justin Rhody (all three co-founders of No Name Cinema), convene from their respective locales in Northern New Mexico and Upstate New York to conduct a multi-projector and live sound performance piece involving 16mm found footage, 35mm slides covered in living mold, prepared cassettes, violin, lapsteel, flute, electronics, accordion, guitar, and more.  The trio has previously performed and given presentations at Other Cinema (San Francisco), Highlands University (Las Vegas), No Name Cinema (Santa Fe), Shapeshifters Cinema (Oakland), the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), and the firehouse (Joshua Tree).  K/S/R has also released three albums of audio recordings on the self-distributed Physical media label, and their music was recently featured on the legendary Coast to Coast AM radio program.

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Carrier Band

The Carrier Band was formed in 1998 when Pauline Oliveros, Peer Bode and Andrew Deutsch performed 3 improvisations at Alfred University and later released the Carrier CD on Deep Listening. Current members include Bode, Deutsch, and Rebekkah Palov

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