Wednesday, 4/23
7:00 - 10:00pm
$10 - 25 donation
15 guest max for workshop

Learn the fundamentals of live performance with video feedback and video synthesis with Andrei Jay. We will learn about the technology, techniques, and history of video synthesis tools as well as what kind of stuff is available and practical for folks getting started today. The format will be a mixture of hands on experimentation, lecture, and discussion so please be prepared to be on your feet and ask lots of questions. This workshop will be great for total n00bs looking for a way in as well as experienced video heads curious about some of the more occult and obscure aspects of video signals.

Andrei Jay is a mathematician, video artist, toolmaker, and educator currently based out of New Haven, CT. They have guest lectured and/or led workshops on video art and video synthesis at a wide variety of institutions including NYU, Wesleyan, SVA, CalArts, Synth Library Portland, University of Oregon, Temple University, Public Space One, Feed Media Art Center, Hamilton College, Syzygy, and Phase Space. They've designed a suite of open source video synthesis tools for regular old computers as well as raspberry pi and jetson nano SBCs, created hours of questionable video feedback edutainment on youtube, helped start scanlines.xyz, a video art message board, polyphase portal, a video art centered online educational collective, and helped run Phase Space, a DIY video art community center in Brooklyn, from 2019 through 2023. Their art practice has centered around using what they know about complex systems and nonlinear dynamics to create powerful real time video art tools out the technology that the modern world has deemed electroscrap.