Spirit Tours: Siebren Versteeg and David Hardy

Siebren Versteeg, a multimedia artist, born in New Haven and a Chicago resident for several years has recently transplanted to New York. He received his MFA at the University of Illinois, Chicago and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute. Recent shows include Rhona Hoffman Gallery, National Museum of Art in the Czech Republic, Exit Art, Chicago Cultural Center, Eyedrum, Gallery 400 and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. For more info: http://siebrenversteeg.com/

 

" Transmission Polvo"
video tracking installation and sound performance by Chris Brown and Guillermo Galindo

Performance Saturday October 8 from Noon-6pm

Chris Brown’s music has evolved within the intersections of many different traditions and styles. Following early training as a classical pianist, he was influenced by studies of Indonesian, Indian, Afro-American, and Cuban musics, and then took off on branches provided by the American Experimentalists in inventing and building a personal electronic instrumentation. Chris Brown's most recent works involve extending the experiences of interactive electronic music into new performance venues including audience participation. His recent project, the " TRANSMISSIONS" series, is a collaboration with composer Guillermo Galindo using four FM radio transmitters to interact with an audience carrying portable radios; it was premiered in May 2002 at the Bienal de Radio in Mexico City. He is a featured composer, performer, and/or producer on over 30 recordings of new music. These include CDs of his own compositions on labels including Tzadik, Centaur, Sonore, Ecstatic Peace, Sparkling Beatnik, and Artifact Recordings. He has published articles on his innovative approach to live electronic music in Computer Music Journal and the Leonardo Music Journal. He also authored the article "Pidgin Musics", on hybrid musical cultures, in the compilation volume" Arcana: Musicians on Music", published by Granary Books. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at such institutions as STEIM in Amsterdam, Institute for Studies in the Arts (ISA) at Arizona State University, and the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. Since 1990 he has also taught electronic music, composition, world music, and contemporary performance practice at Mills College, in Oakland, where he is a Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music. For more info: http://www.cbmuse.com

Guillermo Galindo's composition works spans from the field of orchestral and symphonic composition to the domains of musical computer interaction and digital sound. His music has been performed in major festivals throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia. During the last eight years Galindo has been composing music for the San Francisco based Asian American Dance Performances Unbound Spirit Dance Company. He has also worked as a sound specialist at the California Library of Natural Sounds at the Oakland Museum. Galindo has written music for more than 20 independent films, multimedia projects and has designed sound for radio, museum dioramas and sound installations. For more info: http://www.galindog.com/

Polvo will also participate in the 3rd Annual 18th St. Pilsen Open Studios on October 22-23 from 11am-7pm. The 3rd annual 18th St. Pilsen Open Studios will take place during Chicago Artists' Month this October. Over 30 spaces, 60+ artists from Carpenter to Western and from 16th St. to Cermak, will open their studios to the public. Maps will be available at all spaces and there will be shuttle buses to take you from studio to
studio. During this event artist Laura Predny will do a mini-exhibit. For more info: http://www.pilsenopenstudios.com