24.06. 2012

SONICAUDIOVISUALSERIES – episode VIII – curated by Manuela Benetton & Liebig12

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 Videographe in Montreal, as well as Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) and the OptoSonic Tea series at Diapason in NYC. more under: liberovskaya.net

AL MARGOLIS has been an activist in the 1980s American cassette underground

through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music; was co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions, which he continues to run.
Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition.

He has collaborated with video artist Katherine Liberovskaya on a number of videos and installations as well as performed with her on
numerous occasions. more under: pogus.com

BILLY ROISZ lives and works in Vienna/Austria.

Since late 1990s, dealt intensively with video and sound. Her work focuses on the links and gaps between visual and auditive perception.

Roisz questions the interaction between sound and image, the interchangeability or unity of the electromagnetic signal in the generating machines which creates image or sound. more under: billyroisz.klingt.org/about