BIOS:

Phill Niblock is an intermedia artist using music, film, photography, videoand computers. He makes thick, loud drones of music, filled with microtonesof instrumental timbres which generate many other tones in the performancespace. Simultaneously, he presents films / videos which look at the movementof people working, or computer driven black and white abstract imagesfloating through time. He was born in Indiana in 1933. Since the mid-60's hehas been making music and intermedia performances which have been shown atnumerous venues around the world. Since 1985, he has been the director ofthe Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York(<http://www.experimentalintermedia.org/>) where he has been anartist/member since 1968. He is the producer of Music and Intermediapresentations at EI since 1973 (about 1000 performances) and the curator ofEI's XI Records label. In 1993 was formed an Experimental Intermediaorganization in Gent, Belgium - EI v.z.w. Gent - to support theartist-in-residence house and installations there. Phill Niblock's music isavailable on the XI, Moikai and Touch labels. A DVD of films and music isavailable on the Extreme label.www.phillniblock.comwww.experimentalintermedia.org

Katherine Liberovskaya is a video/media artist based in Montreal, Canada andNew York City. Involved in experimental video since the 80s, she hasproduced numerous videos, video installations and performances shown aroundthe world. Since 2001 her work mainly focuses on collaborations withcomposers/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, andmany others. In addition to her art practice she has concurrently alwaysbeen involved in the programming and organization of diverse media artevents, notably with Studio XX and Espace Vidéographe in Montreal, as wellas Experimental Intermedia, NY (Screen Compositions 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,2009, 2010) and the OptoSonic Tea series at Diapason in NYC.www.liberovskaya.net

Al Margolis has been an activist in the 1980s American cassetteunderground through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music, co-founderof experimental music label Pogus Productions. Active under the nameIf, Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairlyspontaneous studio constructions and more process-orientedcomposition. Currently Margolis is label manager for Deep Listening,XI Records, and Mutable Music; plays bass guitar in the legendarypunk/post-punk band Styrenes; and continues his work as If, Bwana. Hehas recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, JoanOsborne, Monique Buzzarté, Katherine Liberovskaya, Adam Bohman, EllenChristi, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jane Scarpantoni, Ulrich Krieger, DavidFirst, and Dave Prescott, among others.www.pogus.com   www.myspace.com/ifbwana