Working with Bob Holman, Sahar Muradi and Steve Zeitlin — we had an impromptu poetry event on steam at 63rd St. and Park Avenue in Manhattan. The PoeMobile’s last ride, with readings by: Kewulay Kamara, Nikhil Melnechuk, Annie Lanzillotto, Ké Kamara, Bob Holman, Steve Zeitlin, Sahar Muradi CAMERA/SOUND/EDITING Gretta Wilson Jake Rosenberg This was an…
Lovingly crafted projections for Mellish’s band in Philly.
I helped create this installation for Andrew Ratcliff in Long Island City, Queens. This is year round permanent installation, turning on at sunset. Read more at Candela.nyc (photo by: Beyti Barbaros)
Projecting with Sofy and Zarah for Plan 23, at the Knockdown Center.
Projecting protest signs from recent demonstrations, onto white signs in front of Cooper Union. Bob Holman officiating, with poetry by Ani Difranco and Bob Holman. Pen America with City Lore outside Cooper Union from Chris Jay on Vimeo. Photos by Enki Andrews
I created an installation for the 10 year anniversary of Optosonic Tea, at Pioneer Works in Red Hook. opto 10 time hd from Chris Jay on Vimeo. Photo Gallery (flickr)
Projections refracted off of eight separate mirrors were improvised on with three musicians for this regular audio video series. March 2017 session – 3/25/2017 – 7 PM EST – $10 Saturday @ The Three Jewels NYC 61 4th Ave, 3rd floor (btw E9th St. & E10th St.) New York, NY 10003 RANJIT BHATNAGAR [self-made instruments] RICHARD…
Ezekiel Honig’s new record, “A Passage of Concrete” release party, including Thomas Holdebrand and Borne. Joshue Ott and I contribute the lumens. 6pm – 9pm Gibney Dance Center, 280 Broadway 53A Chambers, Ground floor studio FB invite
Sofy Yuditskaya and I rocked the projections for this annual benefit supporting activist legal defense lawyer Wylie Stecklow. This took place in the Lower East Side at Angel Orensanz. Fatfriday Benefit 2017 from Chris Jay on Vimeo. Photo by Stephen Olker
Benefit concert for pipeline activists ResistSpectra.
I helped with live video at Dixon Place for Jamie Leo‘s production “A Long Day in a Bad Shirt (Dispose of Properly)”.We use an iphone and a face-swap app, layered with Jamie’s designs and content. A Long Day in a Bad Shirt Dixon Place Wed Sept 7 7:30ET 161A Christie St NYC 10002
Zarah K (Lady Firefly) and myself provided projection accompaniment for an evening at the arts space, “Laundry King”, in Livingston Manor, NY. NFS - http://nfsband.tumblr.com/ Matt Werden – Pedal Steel Zarah Cabañas – Drums, Vocals GUESTS WvS – Synths, Drones Dok Gregory – Effects, moods http://acres.space/houseguest/ Plan 23 - http://plan23.net/
Live projections for an evening of music at Livingston Manor, NY. NFS joins House Guest and Plan 23 to bring experimental electronic music to the Laundry King on Saturday, August 27. Plan 23 delivers sonic explorations into uncharted spaces. Encompassing a sonic spectrum from dark-ambient to noise, drone to electronic they are redefining psychedelic music…
Continue reading Laundry King Gallery Show, Livingston Manor
Studio Industries produced this event, where we time-travelled through the past, into the future of protein during an 8 course meal. My role was to create the projections surrounding the attendees, giving the impression of the different periods. Future Market Dinner Series
Projecting with Ω▽OSLICE at Soundance space in Williamsburg 281 North 7th Street (buzzer 7) Williamsburg, Brooklyn Beer and wine! Also on the bill is The Dream Lovers with slides by Dan Efram, Vanessa Paige (dance), and more.
Part of CREATIVE TECH WEEK – FRI, May 6th, 9pm – 2am Brainwaves modulate live sound & video in real-time. As part of Creative Tech Week New York’s sonic explorations group PLAN 23 presents: “PSYCHEDELIC IMMERSION THEATER” – an extended, immersive, audio-visual experience. During the performance electrode sensors will measure the musicians’ brainwaves in real-time,…
Interactive installation at Cadence 23, a warehouse space in Queens. This is a reflecting pool of waves across a triangle screen, where visitors are welcome to interact with the water, creating patterns of light and movement. The installation is part of the group art/performance month titled “Cadence 23”. Facebook info Cadence 23 is a convergence…
a celebration of music, movement, and visual art Short set with Socks & Sandals at this event. Remember Monkeytown? Their space was the best venue in town for projection art, and losing it was a real NYC-breaks-your-hearts moment. But it’s back! Cantina Royal, the restaurant serving executive chef Julio MM’s unique interpretations of Mexican cuisine,…
I contributed live projections for these great bands at an evening in Greenpoint. BLACKRAT BRINGS a FREE SHOW of LIVE :: ANALOG :: DIGITAL :: WORDS :: NOISE :: BEATS :: AUDIO featuring: SEEJ projections all night DREAMCRUSHER genderqueer, thrash, xvx, visceral SEWER RATS BK gabberjazz animetal tekrøk – duo set Ω▽ OHMSLICE Bradford Reed…
THURSDAY MARCH 17TH BLACKRAT BRINGS a FREE SHOW of LIVE :: ANALOG :: DIGITAL :: WORDS :: NOISE :: BEATS :: AUDIO featuring: SEEJ kinetic installation projections DREAMCRUSHER genderqueer, thrash, xvx, visceral, vomit SEWER RATS BK gabberjazz animetal tekrøk – duo set Ω▽ OHMSLICE Bradford Reed (percussion via modular synthesizer) & Jane LeCroy (vocals) SPEAK…
Continue reading Dreamcrusher SEWER RATS BK Ω▽ Ohmslice Speak Onion Godxss Dr Iver Seej
Sofy Yuditskaya and I projected at the Angel Orensans foundation. Sofy wanted to trace the architecture, so we mapped the altar facade in the space to great effect.
Projections for a full night of bands at Tender Trap in Greenpoint, incluing Vic Thrill, Himalaychian Indo Celtic Freek Folk Music, Sewer Rats BK, Tekrok Gabberjazz Animetal, The Icebergs, DJ Small Change, Megmanmusic.
Projection accompaniment with three musicians at this cozy event, including David Linton, Jeanann Dara, and Wolfgang von Struermer. NOW IN ITS SECOND YEAR! The October session of this monthly audio-visual event will present electro-acoustic live sound by Jeanann Dara [viola + effects], David Linton [analogue electronics], WvS [digital synthesis + iOS devices] and live visuals…
Projection accompaniment with dear friends Plan 23 at the Brooklyn Wildlife Festival.
Some images and timelapse from the World PEN festival this evening in Bed-Sty Brooklyn. DCIM103GOPRO ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 6
For the Figment Alpha event at Ramblewood this year, I set up a tent with two projectors and computer. As people walked by, they would enter a phrase or question onto a tree trunk.
This was for the Gemini & Scorpio New Years Eve party, where I provided the video backdrop for the evening.
Jon Sands and Chris Jordan have brought together a group of artists, collaborating on creating an evening of animated mixed media poetry performance for Boston’s first Nuit Blanch, Illuminus. The project, titled, “Incidental Wordsâ€, is a roving performance of poetry by three of the East Coasts most relevant spoken word artists: Jon Sands, José Olivarez,…
Projections on the old movie houses in the Bronx, with Casita Maria organizing the event. Live music of the era, along with Tito Fuentes movies, and other Latin stars, projected on the original movie houses.
This was our final Words on Walls event, which I was a part of for over two years. The program involved leading workshops with youth poets, projection mapping their words to site-specific walls through the city; then performing the poetry in time with the projections. This was our “best of” celebration, wrapping up this amazingly…
THE LIGHT FROM BELOW is a site-specific interactive light and sound environment in the cavernous Fort Jay munition magazines addresses our collective culpability in fueling the military industrial complex. The works present phases of a cannon’s ‘life-cycle’ – sale, manufacturing, deployment, firing, and consequence. Visitors interacting with elements are exposed to the corporeality of war…
The installation, Tower Epoch, part of the STEAM (Stem+Arts=Steam) exhibit at ArtsWestchester, is on view from May 20 – August 16, 2014. Artist Reception: May 10, 2-4pm. This exhibition explores the intersections of science, technology, engineering, math and creativity. Inspired by the STEM to STEAM dialogue in education, this exhibition presents artists using the interdisciplinary…
I have a light sculpture in this group show at Central Booking on Ludlow, opening Feb. 6 2014. The piece, titled, “Tower Epoch”, is composed of timelapse footage projected, reflected, off mirrors. The footage was captured in 2013 from the Queens Plaza Clock Tower. I’ll also be on a panel discussion Art & Science Panel:…
This is a new site specific installation that captures the movement of a swing and creates an immersive visual experience. Momentum amplifies the sense of weightlessness experienced at the apex of change. This was part of the Monitor Digital festival in Guadalajara, Mexico. This whole project is a collaboration between many people, without who’s support…
I art-directed and project managed this projection mapping installation overlooking the High Line titled, “Crystalline Time”. This was an outdoor projection installation on the Taconic building at 837 Washington, designed as a compelling visual treatment to the construction scaffolding. The design goal was to raise interest and buzz about the building for a future client base.…
Revitalizing a disused pair of silos in Flint Michigan, Silo Swing encourages visitors to take a ride on the seven-story kinetic light installation. The installation incorporates reflective wind-catching materials that create a light display on the two large silos both during the daytime and at night. This interplay of scale and weight, through light and…
Written, conceived, and directed by Liron Dan, Kelvin Daly, and the Ensemble Movement: Fibi Jane, Jacqueline Ha, Craig Whitehouse, Madi McKay, Emily Rubin, Noa Lembersky, Liron Dan Music: Zemi 17, Dok Gregory, Shamos Dan, Kelvin Daly Real time Light Sculpture by Chris Jordan At THE HIVE, 20 Cook St., Brooklyn, (thehivenyc.com) near the JMZ at…
Continue reading The Museum of the Transition from the Unreal to the Real
Annie sits atop street corner mailboxes and performed stories that happened on those corners, while projecting her her words on nearby buildings where those memories took place. passeggiata letteraria (lit walk) of L is for Lion Thurs May 9 6pm Act One: Dinner and Performance in Jimmy’s 43, 43 E 7th Street. 7:30pm Act Two:…
Devotion Gallery 54 MAUJER ST BROOKLYN NY 11206 | 1-718-576-1107 February 1st – February 11, 2013 Reflections on Impact from Chris Jay on Vimeo. Mixed-media installation using reflections and projections that evokes a meditation on the impact of humanity on the environment. Visitors are encouraged to toss a penny into the pond, causing ripples through…
The installation projects silhouettes of people photographed in Queens, in a queue, moving across the four faces of the clock tower. The rate of movement correlates to the population growth for the city of New York. A light flashes in the tower at the approximate rate of species extinction on the planet. Ie: its estimated…