Phillip Stearns a.k.a. Pixelform (US), Jamie Allens Circuit Music (CA), Chung-Han YAO (TW), Jo Kazuhiro (JP)
The term “audio-visual” means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. The multimedia gallery installation artist and the video-jockey in a dance club have developed techniques that begin with the desire to fuse visual and audible experience.
In recent and international performance practice, we recognize a move towards the use of material, non-representational approaches to this impulse.
“In a world of ever more powerful technology, it [is] downright inspiring to experience the sort of communication that [can] be accomplished with a simple on-off switch.” - Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com Massive Light Boner (MLB) is a project which brings together a set of contemporary performance artists with an interest in the possibilities of minimal and maximal use of white light and noise aesthetics.
Hosted by STEIM (www.steim.org) and organized by Jamie Allen (www.heavyside.net/), the project is firstly an ensemble performance project featuring a collection of conceptual noise/white-light performance works together for the first time, live. Further, the project will culminate in a body of research, highlighting and documenting the approaches and motivations of an emerging and radical performance form.