Trace - live video performance with Philip Samartzis (2008) watch an excerpt

JOLT and West Space present

SONIC BODY
sonic installations and video works by, through and for bodies

Brandon LaBelle (USA)
Philip Samartzis & Marcia Jane
Bruce Mowson
James Hullick

October 1-4 2008 at West Space
Level 1, 15-19 Anthony Street, Melbourne
HOURS Wed-Fri 12-6, Sat 12-5

OPENING Thursday October 2, 6-8pm
•• with performance by James Hullick at 7pm (no entry fee) ••

CLOSING Saturday October 4, 5pm
•• with performance by Philip Samartzis & Lizzie Pogson ($5 entry) ••

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Brandon LaBelle (USA) is an artist and writer working with sound and auditory issues. He is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum 2006), and Professor at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway. http://www.errantbodies.org/labelle.html

Marcia Jane is a video and film artist based in Melbourne. Her interests lie in flickering, pulsating, rhythmic abstraction; and audio-visual sensory experiences. Marcia lectures in visual art at Swinburne University and studies at RMIT’s School of Art. http://www.permutations.net

Philip Samartzis is an internationally acclaimed electro-acoustic maestro and teacher to many of Melbourne’s most successful sound artists through his work at RMIT. His current practice is dominated by the use of field recordings as source material for sonic works. http://www.microphonics.org “one of the leading lights of Australian experimental music” Rare Frequency 2006

Bruce Mowson is a Melbourne-based sound and video artist. He has conducted research into the phenomenon of absorption in audio-visual media though a series of exhibitions and performances and teaches at RMIT University. http://www.brucemowson.com

James Hullick is an installation artist, composer, pianist and electro sound-artist. Hullick is also Artistic Director for JOLT. http://www.jameshullick.com “...a highly reduced transparent psychogram, that shocks as much as electrifies the listener” Reutlinger Nachrichten (Südwestpresse) 2007

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by JOLT Arts Inc
joltarts.org
westspace.org.au

Marcia Jane’s installation is supported by RMIT Union Arts.

BIO

Marcia Jane is a video and film artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Marcia lectures in visual art at Swinburne University where she studied multimedia and film before going on to Media Arts at RMIT’s School of Art. Her current video work involves images of her personal spaces and environments, streets and spaces encountered every day. Intensive editing is a means to process and rethink this material: images are abstracted and structured in new graphic and rhythmic relationships. The effect is kinetic, prismatic, experiential. Marcia has performed live video in collaboration with Philip Samartzis at The NOW Now Festival 2008, exhibited generative video installations in her solo show Intercept at First Site Gallery 2007 and the collaborative show Cluster at VCA Gallery 2008. Her single-channel video works have screened at Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne, Institute of Modern Art Brisbane and the Melbourne International Film Festival.

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Forthcoming
Live performance with Philip Samartzis, Sept 25, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Sonic Body group show with Brandon LaBelle, James Hullick, Bruce Mowson and Philip Samartzis, Oct 2, West Space, Melbourne

Solo and collaborative
Cluster, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne 2008 with Dave Brown, Marc Rogerson, Philip Samartzis
Surface (Melbourne), Federation Square, Melbourne 2008 with D-Fuse
Live Feeding, Melbourne 2008 with Philip Samartzis
The NOW Now Festival, Wentworth Falls 2008 with Philip Samartzis
Intercept, First Site Gallery, Melbourne 2007

Group
Experimental Shorts Programme, Melbourne International Film Festival 2008
Exquisite Creature, TAPE Space, Melbourne 2008 live animation performance with Christina Tester and Dinesh de Silva
Transcode, PB Gallery Swinburne University, Melbourne 2008 with Kate Gifford, Rusalka Johnston, Tim Lewis, Phip Murray, Paul Quinn, Paul Rodgers
Tract, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne 2008 with James Geurts, Cherie Green, Dominic Redfern
TAPE DVD #3, TAPE Projects, Melbourne 2007
Girls Boys Machines, ACMI Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne 2007
Geek Chic 2.0, Loop, Melbourne 2007
OnePlusTwo, Horse Bazaar, Melbourne 2006
DotMov, Arthouse, Melbourne 2006
lab.3000 Digital Design Biennale, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne 2004
Screenlife, ACMI Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne 2003

Education
2008--  BA Fine Art (Media Arts) Honours, RMIT
2006-2007 BA Fine Art with Distinction (Media Arts), RMIT
2002-2003 Advanced Diploma of Arts (Electronic Design & Interactive Media), Swinburne University of Technology TAFE

Employment
2008--  Tutor, BA Fine Art (Media Arts), RMIT
2007--  Lecturer, Visual Art, Swinburne University of Technology TAFE
2004-2007 Lecturer, Multimedia Design & Screen, Swinburne University of Technology TAFE
2003-2006 Project and technical assistant, Julie Shiels (public artist)
1998-2004 Multimedia designer (full-time and freelance)