[Frameworks] Visual Music/Animation Screening Series, Aug 14-16 at CVM No. Cal Symposium

[C Keefer]

 Please share or forward to interested parties: A 5 program Screening
Series presented in northern California in August (in conjunction with the
CVM Symposium).


For Immediate Release:



*CVM Symposium 2018: Exploring and Preserving Visual MusicAugust 14-16,
Sonoma County, CAIn association with Sonoma State University*

* centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium
<http://centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium> *

*18 talks/presentations, 5 screenings and 2 receptions *

The *CVM Symposium 2018: Exploring and Preserving Visual Music* explores
the theories, histories and practices of Visual Music. It features two days
of talks and presentations from international scholars, researchers,
curators, archivists, students and artists, plus a special Closing Event.*
The accompanying screenings* series presents 5 programs of historic and new
visual music work, including rare and restored films by Oskar Fischinger
and Len Lye, and new work from international artists.

Center for Visual Music is pleased to present this symposium in association
with Sonoma State University at their Rohnert Park campus in Sonoma County,
CA. Opening and closing receptions are off-campus; the closing event and
screening August 16 is in collaboration with Sebastopol Center for the Arts.

Topics explored during the event include: audiovisual art, music
visualization, Oskar Fischinger, Norman McLaren, color organs, mapping
musical scores, 1960s psychedelic light shows, art history & visual music,
sonification, IML & visual music performance, hybrid analog/digital live
performance, oscilloscopes, preserving video processing instruments, John
Cage, James Whitney and much more. Also featured are several video
spotlights, including never-seen footage of Barbara Fischinger
demonstrating Oskar Fischinger's Lumigraph.

Program info, schedule and registration info are at
centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium
<http://centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium>

*Details on the Screening Series:* The 5 program Screening Series from CVM
includes rare films by Len Lye; the return of the popular Optical Poetry:
Oskar Fischinger Retrospective, a program of Treasures from the CVM Archive
in 16mm, a program of Oskar's Legacy: Films Influenced by Fischinger
(Spinello, Bute, Chris Casady, Michel Gagne, Jeff Scher, Eric Leiser,
Neubauer and more); a program of Restorations, Rarities and Discoveries
(restored films by Fischinger, Lye, Belson, Bruce Conner, Dockum, Lebrun
and others), a program of New Visual Music featuring the US premiere of Max
Hattler's new film* Matter and Motion;* and films by contemporary artists
including Steve Woloshen, Robert Seidel, Sean Capone, Bret Battey, Oerd van
Cuijlenborg, Richard Baily, Paul Prudence, Paul Fletcher, Sabrina Gross,
Kurt Laurenz Theinert, Michel Levy, Steve Wood and others).

A special Screenings Pass is available now, 4 screenings for $20 (early
bird price, for those not attended the Symposium); 4 screenings are also
included in the full Symposium Registration. SSU students receive free
admission to the Tues and Wed events, with their SSU ID and advance
registration. Screenings details at:  centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium/
screenings.html


*Details on the Symposium's Closing Event August 16:  *
*Special Event: Visual Music Screening, Discussion and Reception*
Screening, 2pm: *Treasures from the CVM Archive* (in 16mm film). Introduced
by curator/archivist Cindy Keefer
followed by a panel discussion, What is the Future of Visual Music?
Plus a wine reception (5-7 pm). This screening features newly restored and
rare 16mm prints from CVM Archive, by masters of Visual Music Oskar
Fischinger, Mary Ellen Bute, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, Jordan Belson, Jules
Engel, Jud Yalkut and more. This special event is presented by Center for
Visual Music, in collaboration with Sebastopol Center for the Arts. This is
a separate ticketed event, tickets are limited.

Thanks to: SSU Film Studies, Sonoma Film Institute, Sebastopol Center for
the Arts, Brad and Mary Glanden, David Magness, Kit Smyth Basquin, Len Lye
Foundation, Conner Family Trust, Jackson Family Wines, Bananas at Large,
Santa Rosa; and Creative Sonoma.  CVM thanks all the artists, estates and
archives that provided films for this series.

CONTACT cvmaccess (at) gmail dot com

Tickets available through Eventbrite

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cvm-symposium-2018-exploring-pr
eserving-visual-music-tickets-45091049543?aff=es2


Center for Visual Music

www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium
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