Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}
Experiment #30:
Eye Heard Throughout
SATURDAY, JUNE 6th
7pm
Featuring:
Amira Hanafi
Noé Cuéllar in collaboration with
Ian Hatcher, Joseph Kramer & Meredith Zielke
NEW LOCATION
at the Orientation Center
2129 N. Rockwell
(corner of Milwaukee/Rockwell
left side of the Congress Theater building)
suggested donation $4
NOÉ CUÉLLAR is a sound designer and photographer originally from Laredo, TX, graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago this spring. His work comprises composition, text and musical elements. variety of his work has been performed or exhibited at the Third Coast International Audio Festival, New Music at the Green Mill, Looptopia(Chicago); Neighborhood Public Radio/Whitney Biennial (NYC); Megapolis Audio Art and Documentary Festival (Boston); Sound Art Space (Laredo, TX); among others. Cuéllar frequents collaborations with poets, filmmakers and performers, and also strives to present Sound as an independent medium.
AMIRA HANAFI lives in Chicago. She has exhibited work in Chicago galleries, published visual poetry in Diagram and Sleepingfish, organized multi-vocal readings of her texts, performed with the Clairaudient sound collective, and dispersed handmade books and multiples including Palm Reading, Mesostis, and Trinities. You can read her work in the new issue of American Letters & Commentary.
IAN HATCHER is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work in realtime networked writing has been performed and presented at the Electronic Literature Organization conference in Washington, the Electronic Literature in Europe conference in Norway, and Brown University. He is also the primary composer and accompanist for the Moving Architects dance company, and collaborates widely on projects with other interdisciplinary artists in Chicago and elsewhere. (http://clearblock.net/)
JOSEPH KRAMER is a multi-instrumentalist from the Ozark plateau where he performed with and helped organize the close/far family of music groups. He is currently living in Chicago and pursuing a graduate degree from the School of the Art Institute. Recent work has focused on an exploration of space through transmission, interference, and gentle feedback performed on modified consumer electronics.
MEREDITH ZIELKE is an award-winning independent filmmaker and audio producer, having undertaken topics such as the effective process of dialogue in confronting the Israel/Palestine conflict ("Zeitouna"), prismatic notions of body in Ecuador ("La Curación"), nautical illustrations of Restless Leg Syndrome ("Jib Halyard") and alternatives in hierarchical public education ("Our School"). Meredith filmed and edited documentaries as well as experimental shorts have been screened at film / multimedia festivals and anthropological / ethnographic conferences. She often films commission work in support of non-profit efforts and has instructed audio/video documentary courses at the Detroit Film Center, Mess Hall [Chicago], and in Loja, Ecuador.
Red Rover Series is curated by Lisa Janssen and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.
Email ideas for reading experimentsto us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com
The schedule for events is listed at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries
