6th Annual Transmodern Festival - Live.Art.Action

“Comprised of Jim Fetterley and Rich Bott, Animal Charm’s tapes are mind-bendingly inventive experiments in uncanny, surreal montage that defy logical analysis. [Their work] is a tour de force of incongruous juxtapositions, startling dislocations and ingenious visual rhymes assembled from the banal detritus of late night TV.” –Gavin Smith, 1998 New York Video Festival

http://www.animalcharm.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/therealanimalcharm

The art made by Baltimore artist Dan Deacon is about community and how to organize and inspire it. From founding a now well-known art collective (Wham City), to organizing and running an annually sold-out DIY music festival (Whartscape), to conceiving, planning and curating a massive 60 person/30 band tour (Baltimore Round Robin Tour), it’s clear to see that community and bringing people together is the major theme of his work.

Bromst, Deacon’s ground-breaking new album, is the embodiment of that way of thinking. Dan will be performing Bromst with the Dan Deacon Ensemble at the 2009 Annual Transmodern Festival.  This event will act as a record release for his exciting new work, as well as a celebration of his Baltimore base & home and his commitment to on-going ecstatic, collective creative action.

For the last three years Dan Deacon has been working on Bromst. Fusing together the growing intensity of his live performances with his background in electro-acoustic composition, the outcome is a collection of pieces that are intense and epic and at the same time down to earth and welcoming.

Bromst embodies the same energy and excitement as Spiderman of the Rings, however the craftsmanship and composition on Bromst have a wider scope and richer palette.  Unlike the completely electronic Spiderman of the Rings, the instrumentation on Bromst is a mixture of acoustic instruments, mechanical instruments, samples and electronics. The player piano, marimba, glockenspiel, vibraphone, live drums, winds and brass give Bromst a much richer tone than his previous work.  The intricate and complex parts, skillfully executed by the performers, are woven together into a rich, dense, noisy dance pop that has become Dan Deacon’s signature sound.

Julia Oldham lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her recent exhibitions include solo shows at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL; The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA; Art in General in New York, NY; and Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. Her work has been supported by the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs; Artadia, the Fund for Art and Dialogue; and Art in General in New York.

Julia was born in Frederick, Maryland in 1979 and grew up in both Maryland and New Hampshire. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2001, and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Chicago in 2005.

Kelley Bell is an animator, graphic designer, and educator who is often willing to make mistakes and other interesting experiments. The animation shown on Friday evening at the H&H Building, “Garden of Earthly Delights” brings new life to the work of
Hieronymus Bosch, and our notions of good, evil, and the places we live in.

  Pedestrian Service Express

   On Sunday, Kelley Bell presents the Pedestrian Service Express, a new convenient way to navigate the artists and  events at Pedestrian Service Exquisite. It’s a new form of mass transit that has absolutely no negative impact on the  environment, and provides several different routes and lines to experience the day at your own pace. Also includes transfer points to the Light Rail and Kathryn Williamson’s specialized light rail tour. Ongoing for the whole Sunday festival!

Mark Brown is a Video & New Media Artist presently living and working in Baltimore. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art; majoring in Interactive Media with a concentration in Video.

Mark Brown currently works with local art collective Wham City and the presently forming and mutating Baltimore Humans group; with whom he recently toured exhibiting video works and performing experimental electro-acoustic improvised audio/visual compositions with Baltimore Artists Shaun Flynn and David Zimmerman. He also regularly collaborates with Baltimore artist Kari Altmann; with whom he helped form the experimental curatorial project Netmares Netdreams (http://www.netmaresnetdreams.net).

please visit http://www.mcbrown.info for more information and selected works.

Shana Moulton creates evocatively oblique narratives in her video and performance works. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Moulton plays a character whose interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny.

Shana studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, where she received her MFA. Moulton has also recently attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, and studied at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Her videos and Performances have been screened and exhibited internationally and she currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

shanamoultonweb.com

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