Join bespoken and the International Contemporary Ensemble for Part II of a free, four-part online series focusing on the intersection of technology and art. Each session will have different speakers discussing their artistry and practice across four disciplines – moving image, audio engineering, live-sound, and video – and how their work intersects within each area. How does technology and art come together in performance? How do we begin to work across disciplines? The series is not only educational but also a platform for empowerment, breaking down the barriers to using technology in an artist’s practice, & specifically for women & gender non-conforming artists.
After hearing from each artist about their artistic journey, we will go into two topic-specific breakout rooms - sound and video - spaces for more detailed questions related to each area and getting to know each other better. Please feel free to bring questions related to your own work/projects you are working on!
Presented by bespoken and the International Contemporary Ensemble.
Speakers: Bang Geul Han, Interdisciplinary Digital Artist; Lily Wen, Producer, Engineer; Irazema Vera, Music Producer, Recording/Mixing/Live Sound Engineer, Sound Artist; Adele Fournet, Music Producer, Video Ethnographer
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Adele Fournet, Bang Geul Han, Irazema Vera, Lily Wen
ADELE FOURNET, Music Producer and Video Ethnographer
She/Her/Ella
Adele Fournet is a music producer/engineer and video director based in Brooklyn. She is also a music scholar and holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from New York University. She writes about the intersections of gender, technology, labor, and aesthetics in popular music production. Adele has received support for her research from Fulbright, the NYU McCracken Foundation, Humanities New York, and the NYU Center for the Humanities. Adele’s women-led media organization, Bit Rosie, supports the work of female and gender nonconforming artists. The Bit Rosie web series (www.bitrosie.com) is an inaugural component of the NYU library's first music-related video streaming web archive.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitrosie/
BANG GEUL HAN, Interdisciplinary Digital Artist
She/Her/Hers
Bang Geul Han (South Korea, b.1978) is an interdisciplinary visual artist working across video, performance, text, and code. Her work ponders and probes the sociopolitical and cultural dimensions of body, language and gaze with special focus on storytelling in digital milieu. Her work has been shown in venues including The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum, NURTUREart, National Sawdust, A.I.R. Gallery, and reviewed in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Brooklyn Rail. Han is a recipient of a number of artist residencies and fellowships including Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace program, A.I.R. Fellowship, and MacDowell Colony. She is Associate Professor of Design and Digital Media at the College of Staten Island / CUNY.
Photo: Steven M Pedersen
IRAZEMA VERA, Music Producer, Recording/Mixing/Live Sound Engineer, Sound Artist
She/Her/Hers
Irazema Vera is a composer, sound artist, music producer and recording, mixing and live sound engineer. She has been doing this professionally for over 13 years, producing musical endeavours for others as well as her own. Vera has versatile experience working around the world: from recording and producing for an independent label specialised in traditional Peruvian music to working as the resident live-sound engineer at an experimental music venue in Auckland, NZ and freelancing, recording jazz music projects in France and The Netherlands. She has participated as a mentor and speaker in different workshops and events to empower women in music and music technology. Irazema majored in Music Technology and has a particular interest in all aspects about composing with sound. Her personal music interests and work as a sound artist include indigenous music traditions and soundscapes from around the world, mainly Aymara and Quechua in the southeast of Peru, where her heritage is from.
Instagram: http://instagram.com/ira_ze_man
LILY WEN, Producer, Engineer
She/Her/Hers
Lily Wen is a NY-based producer, engineer/mixer and label owner. Her love for eclectic sounds began behind the counter at the Brazilian record store Tropicália in Furs on the LES. After a stint at Nonesuch Records, she joined the vinyl project Dust & Grooves and started spinning sets around the city. In 2015, Lily launched her label Figure & Ground and went up to Toronto to study recording with Dennis Patterson. She returned to New York and started assisting on sessions at Shahzad Ismaily's house studio Figure 8 Recording, which she now calls home. It was there that she produced and co-engineered Combo Chimbita's debut album Abya Yala in 2017 on her label, which recently marked its tenth release. She has since worked with Marc Ribot, Kneebody, Esperanza Spalding, Damien Rice, La Force, Nick Murphy, Sinkane, Now vs. Now, Denzel Curry and Bill Frisell, to name a few.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/figureandgroundrecs/
Photo: Flo Wen
Performances and commissioning activities during the 2019-20 concert season are made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, A.N. and Pearl G. Barnett Family Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc., Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Amphion Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Pacific Harmony Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, mediaThe foundation inc., The Casement Fund, BMI Foundation, as well as public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council for the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The International Contemporary Ensemble is the Ensemble in Residence of the Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE.