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 AVWC is an A/V “lounge” curated by Baltimore-based group Snacks.  The The lounge will provide continuous sound and video enjoyment for the Transmodern festivalgoers.

The lounge will be located on the 3rd Floor/Whole Gallery and will be open on Friday and Saturday evenings. 

Participating artists include: (subject to change)

Kristen Anchor (Baltimore)
Mitchell Brown (Los Angeles)
Chris Cooper (Mass.)
Drew Daniel (Baltimore)
Deven Green (Los Angeles)
ID M THeftable (Maine)
Hans Grusel’s KrankenKabinet (San Francisco)
Leprechaun Catering (Baltimore)
Melissa Moore (Baltimore)
People like Us (UK)
Martin Schmidt (Baltimore)
Swinging Chandeliers (Los Angeles)
Tarantism (San Francisco)
Karen Yasinsky + Snacks (Baltimore)
C. Spencer Yeh (Cincinnati) 

Edward Knapp creates works in fiber, flame, glass, bone, paper, and pigment, together with harvested and found materials. His pieces are grounded in traditional forms and techniques, manifesting Vision in co-creation with Spirit. He has over 15 years of experience in the divinatory arts.

Emily C-D is is a Baltimore based artist and explorer. She is a discoverer of beauty in unexpected places and makes her art from what she finds around her. In addition to her extensive explorations of Baltimore’s most dilapidated neighborhoods, Emily has traveled to such far off places as Mexico, India, and Poland. Currently living the warehouse lifestyle in Charm City, she divides her time between drawing, dancing, drumming, biking, building, painting murals, and teaching after school art classes. Emily is a big believer in the power of combined effort and for Transmodern will collabo with Can Collective and Helicopter Dude.

J. Gräf, a dynamic improvisor and stalwart of the Baltimore freek music
scene, creates vivid, compelling soundworlds using intuitive/primitive homebrewed electronics, guitar and voice. J. Gräf is one-half of the noise duos Harrius (with Chiara Giovando, two LP’s on Ehse Records) and Metalux (with MV Carbon, recordings on Hanson, Load and 5RC/Kill Rock Stars, etc). She is also known for her interactive social interventions such as The Guitars Project, in which she worked with a group older women with Alzheimer’s to produce music using electric guitars, Threshold, a piece performed at last year’s High Zero event in which the audience triggered sounds by ordering food, and her Rock Carving Oraclestra, which uses psychic channeling through stone to generate readings for selected audience members. Her recent releases include Proud Flesh, a movie soundtrack to her Western film collaboration with Chiara Giovando (ehserecords.com), a split 7″ with Zaimph as well as a split Metalux/K.K. Rampage.

Melissa Webb is saturated colors and intricate textures and light and movement and wind and gravity today!

Her favorite color is green.

She enjoys long walks in dense forests, real fake things, ruffles, and fluttering tendrils.

Turn-ons and turn-offs: She tends to fancy open spaces and unassuming places, and wants to find ways to break free from the limitations of white gallery walls, pedestals, and stages.

In her spare time she likes to collaborate with good friends, creating eye-catching public spectacles, alternate realities, and thought-provoking, interactive experiences for human beings.

http://www.bakerartistawards.org/nomination/view/Missy

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

http://www.eai.org/eai/artistTitles.htm?id=10320