Katherine Liberovskaya + André Éric Létourneau + Carver Audain + Doug Van Nort

www.liberovskaya.net

Katherine Liberovskaya is a video/media artist based in Montreal, Canada and New York City. Involved in experimental video since the 80s, she has produced numerous videos, video installations and performances shown around the world.

Since 2001 her work mainly focuses on collaborations with composers/sound artists mainly in live video+sound performance. Among these: Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat), Zanana, Hitoshi Kojo, Tom Hamilton, David Watson, Anne Wellmer, David First, and many others.
 In addition to her art practice she has concurrently always been involved in the programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with Studio XX and Espace Vidéographe in Montreal, as well as Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
2009, 2010, 2011) and the OptoSonic Tea series at Diapason in NYC.
www.liberovskaya.net

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André Éric Létourneau (born September 25, 1967) is a French Canadian performance artist, author, musician, composer and curator based primarily in Montreal, Canada. André Éric Létourneau's art manoeuvers and performance work involve many media that are used simultaneously along with practices from other fields (such as science, sociology, psychology, community works, etc). Since the 1980s, Létourneau has presented intermedia works in international performance art festivals, galleries and museums such as the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre, the The James H.W. Thompson
Foundation in Bangkok, Tallinn Art Center, Madrid Abierto Biennale, Biennale de Paris, Biennale d'Afrique de l'Est, la Sorbonne, Musée de la Pointe-à-Callière. He taught and gave workshops in many institutions such as Université du Québec in Chicoutimi, Union des artistes and SciencesPo. in Paris.


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Carver Audain (b 1981) composes music in the Acousmatic tradition, which, as defined by French composer and theorist Pierre Schaefer, refers to "a sound that one hears without seeing the causes behind it."

Materially, he produces audio using digital signal processing and editing techniques on a variety of environmental and instrumental recordings. He is a self taught pianist, his earliest works are explorations in harmonics utilizing the piano, electronic organ, guitar and cymbal. In a live setting, he manipulates and structures these materials into situation-specific compositions. Sonically, he produces an array of slowly shifting sound fields that merge and transform within their physical surroundings.

He has presented works in a variety of locations, from living rooms and lofts to galleries and venues such as Aviary, The Red Room, Pyramid Atlantic, Mirkwood Estates, The Bank, Floristree, 119 Gallery, Studio Soto, Santos Party House, Roulette, and ISSUE Project Room. He has participated in a number of festivals including Flestivus, Sonic Circuits, Plays Well With Others, and Floating Points. He was the first recipient of ISSUE Project Room's Emerging Composer's Commission grant, care of the Greenwall Foundation. He has collaborated or shared a stage with Andy Hayleck, Ben Owen, C. Spencer Yeh, Forbes Graham, Rafael Toral, Stephan Moore, Bruce Tovsky and Tommy Birchette, amongst others.

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Doug Van Nort is an experimental musician whose work explores the sculpting and radical transformation of his sonic environment, as well as interaction with/through machines. His instruments are custom-built electro-acoustic systems and digital processes, with an ear towards noise, immersion and free improvisation. Van Nort, a former Montrealer, performs solo and in the trio Triple Point with Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch, and recently with Francisco López, Chris Chafe, Al Margolis, Kathy Kennedy, Ben Miller, Anne Bourne and Judy Dunaway among others. His music can be found on the Deep Listening, Pogus and Zeromoon labels and his writing in Organised Sound and the Leonardo Music Journal, among other channels.