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Foreign Correspondence 003

Roxy Farman, Yiyang Cao, Coagulative Necrosis, Sanne Van Hek, Joe Wakeman, VX Bliss

Featuring Mike Sidnam

Foreign Correspondence is a series focused on international contemporary video art, including film, video synthesis and expanded cinema. Episodes premiere on Manhattan public access Channel 4 and via Harvestworks’ live You Tube Channel. Each episode will be archived and available for later viewing. 

Friday, January 22nd 2021

Time: 9 pm

Location: Harvestworks YouTube Channel

Featuring work by:

about the artists

Roxy Farman is an artist and musician from New York City. She is one half of the music duo Wetware.

Yiyang Cao is a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in China. Through moving image, participatory sculptural environments, and live performances, her work investigates the rhetorics of time in new media.

Coagulative Necrosis is a Harsh Gore Noise band from New York.

Sanne Van Hek (1979-2020), a Dutch artist, principally a musician but a dabbler in radical thought of various forms, created the music in this video on a software instrument she designed herself, The Sannetron, recorded live Oct 2013 at Bimhuis, Amsterdam NL. The video was made in 2020 as a tribute to her, a beloved friend. Her music, writings and works of all kinds live at sannety.com.  

Joe Wakeman is a video artist, director of many music videos as well as the feature films The Shoplifters (2019) and They Read By Night (2015) He is currently a board member with the Millennium Film Workshop and is in pre-production on a new feature.  http://josefwakeman.com/

VX Bliss (Ginny Benson) is an intermedia artist who explores techniques of audiovisual collage. She utilizes synthesis, sampling, and thrift electronics to create immersive compositions and live performances. She has toured extensively under the moniker VX Bliss, and has presented work at New York institutions including Lincoln Center, Pioneer Works, Electronic Arts Intermix, Roulette Intermedium, and The Museum of Modern Art. She lives and works in Queens, NY.

This episode is curated by Mike Sidnam, an engineer and multidisciplinary artist born and raised in the North Shore of Staten Island, NY. He has had work shown in various unfinished commercial buildings, house basements, unwelcoming music venues and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

The series is produced by Dylan A. Marcheschi, a New York based multidisciplinary artist working across a range of audio/visual arts, including film, sound art, expanded cinema and animation.

Roxy Farman

Roxy Farman is an artist and musician from New York City. She is one half of the music duo Wetware.

Yiyang Cao

Yiyang Cao is a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in China. Through moving image, participatory sculptural environments, and live performances, her work investigates the rhetorics of time in new media.

Coagulative Necrosis

Coagulative Necrosis is a Harsh Gore Noise band from New York.

Sanne Van Hek

Sanne Van Hek (1979-2020), a Dutch artist, principally a musician but a dabbler in radical thought of various forms, created the music in this video on a software instrument she designed herself, The Sannetron, recorded live Oct 2013 at Bimhuis, Amsterdam NL. The video was made in 2020 as a tribute to her, a beloved friend. Her music, writings and works of all kinds live at sannety.com.

Joe Wakeman

Joe Wakeman is a video artist, director of many music videos as well as the feature films The Shoplifters (2019) and They Read By Night (2015) He is currently a board member with the Millennium Film Workshop and is in pre-production on a new feature. http://josefwakeman.com/

VX Bliss (Ginny Benson)

VX Bliss (Ginny Benson) is an intermedia artist who explores techniques of audiovisual collage. She utilizes synthesis, sampling, and thrift electronics to create immersive compositions and live performances. She has toured extensively under the moniker VX Bliss, and has presented work at New York institutions including Lincoln Center, Pioneer Works, Electronic Arts Intermix, Roulette Intermedium, and The Museum of Modern Art. She lives and works in Queens, NY.

Mike Sidnam

Mike Sidnam is a an audio-visual artist and engineer from Staten
Island, New York currently based in Brooklyn. His work has been showcased at
Microscope Gallery, MOMA PS1 Print Shop, the Center for Performance Research, and
most recently the Whitney Museum, where his collaborative piece “name“ was screened
at the museum in 2018 and is now held in the permanent collection.

Dylan A. Marcheschi

Dylan A. Marcheschi is a New York based multidisciplinary artist
working across a range of audio/visual arts, including psychoacoustics and expanded
cinema. His video work is focused on audio-reactive generative feedback systems of
just intonation and microtonal harmonic drones. He studied history and art at
Columbia University and completed his MFA at Hunter College. He teaches Film and New
Media at the City University of New York, and currently hosts the long-running
Afternoon New Music show on WKCR. His work is supported by the Brooklyn Arts Council
and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and has been presented by the
American Composers Forum and New Music USA.