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ALGIS KIZYS is a sound artist, composer, musician and director. He has performed with Swans, Foetus/Jim Thirlwell, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Glenn Branca, Of Cabbages And Kings, Lydia Lunch (Retrovirus/Teenage Jesus), Bag People, Problem Dogs, the Termites, amongst others. He has worked with visual artists such as Eve Sussman, Simon Lee and Matthew Barney with Jonathan Bepler. His film credits include Gus Van Sant, Eve Sussman, David Jacobson and Matthew Barney/Jonathan Bepler, with Simon Lee on an interpretation of Ted Hughes’ “Crow the Life and Song of the Crow” entitled “Where Is The Black Beast?”, and sound design/music for Eve Sussman’s “whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir” which is the permanent collection of the Smithsonian. He is currently involved in several improvisational music projects, the Triangles (an ambient comedy broadcast installation trio), the Hallicrafters (a shortwave radio duet, with Eric Hubel, using live shortwave signals and test equipment to create real time soundscapes), and is constructing a version of Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape” as a film/installation. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.