Joshua White, renown light show artist, creator of the Joshua Light Show for the Fillmore East in NY and Gary Panter, groundbreaking artist famed for the design of Pee-Wee's Playhouse television show join forces to present a series of live light bending performances.
The rear projected performances use many direct, refracted, filtered, reflected and interrupted light sources to interpret multilayered prerecorded music or live improvisation. The effect is hypnotic and relaxing: an immersive color and shape experience which often inspires vivid daydreams.
Each show is different and hand made and is generated by the obsessive affection each artist shares for light abstraction and, by a longtime love they share for moving light around in space.
Some of the light sources and light bending apparatus they use date back to the Fillmore East. Everything else including ideas, equipment and the other light show performers are new.
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Light Show by Leo Villareal
Leo Villareal is an artist who lives and works in New York City. He has had solo shows at the Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid and at Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC as well as numerous exhibitions at museums in the US and internationally, including PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, and the Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France. Upcoming projects include a permanent light installation in a new federal courthouse in El Paso, Texas, designed by architect Antoine Predock. Villareal's work will be included Visual Music 1905-2005, an historic survey exhibition that will open in February 2005 at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and travel to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC in June 2005 and in Extreme Abstraction to be presented at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York in July, 2005. He studied installation sculpture and video at Yale University and went on to the Interactive Telecommunicatons Program (ITP) at New York University where he specialized in virtual reality, simulation and interactive television. Villareal spent 2 years as a member of the research staff at Interval Research, a private think tank in Palo Alto founded by Paul Allen. In 1994, Villareal attended the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada and has returned every year since. He is a founder of Disorient (www.disorient.com), one of Burning Man's largest camps which features large scale interactive music, light and video installations. www.villareal.net
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Anakin Koenig
Anakin Koenig is an artist involved in performance-sculpture. He creates inflatable structures ranging from 1000 to 50,000 cubic feet. Some of those transient pieces become instruments/environments for performances by artists and members of the audience; others such as the Breathing Chandeliers series are kinetic objects lit from the inside by hundreds of lights. Recently, he collaborated with Pierre Huyghe to create an inflatable environment for a project in Antarctica. He is currently consulting with MIT's MediaLab on inflatable design. Regular collaborators include Leo Villareal, Disorient, Davis Burns and members of the Flyvision collective. Based in New York, he founded Anakin Koenig Airways in 2001 and received his PhD from NYU in 2004. An obsessive documentation of his work is available at www.AKAirways.com.