TAKE A RIDE this Tuesday July 17th, 2012 at 7PM
to eL Paper’s and Fluid’s
Subway Issue
launching
eL Paper Magazine, The Subway Issue
and Fluid New Media Lab,
Mashup Train Ride, Interactive Projection
featuring Poetry, Performance,
Interactive Projections and Music
Music by Recycled Brain. Poetry readings by Montana Ray, Peter Longofono and Yarisa Colon. Monologue by Laura Riveros.
Featuring artwork by Christiano, Fiestoforo, Chicoma, Maria Paz Contreras, Matti Havens, James Prez, Kate Broitman, Kae Lazo, Sine Die, Ezequiel Mazariegos, Sebastian Parada AKA Ses.
eL Paper Magazine is an independent publication with a handmade aesthetic that strives to create an open, creative dialogue between visual artists, writers and the public at large. Each number is organized around a particular subject. eL Paper was born in 2009 as part of Local Project independent programs. Issue #0 was part of the “Alternative Histories” exhibition, at “Exit Art” in Chelsea in 2010. Last summer, we published issue #1, which was launched with a celebration incorporating poetry reading, live music and a one-day exhibition. In these first two issues, we have published the work of thirty artists and writers based in the boroughs of NYC. We now want to continue publishing on a regular basis and we are happy to count on a grant from Brooklyn Arts Council to release two new issues this year. The theme of the forthcoming issue is “subway”. We will publish 1,000 copies and, taking a cue from the “cartoneros” of Latin America, 100 covers will consist of an original artwork on cardboard by Brooklyn artist and guest co-curator James Leonard.
The Mashup Train Ride – Interactive Projection is a software application developed by Fluid New Media Lab during the course of 8 weeks, in a workshop lead by teaching artists Sofia Paraskeva and Gabriel Roldos. Participants Ellen Pearlman, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulus, Carlos Martinez, Miroshlava Palvacini, Elizabeth Schwabe, Thelmo Cordones, Adriana Velazco and Paulina Ramirez, created video clips that relate to the experience of blending people from different cultures in or around trains. We used Pure Data, a real-time graphical dataflow programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing, to create an interactive software application that mixes videos when the environment sound levels are high (ex. a train passing). The art piece combines the video clips and the computer software in a projection that relates to the mashup of events someone can experience in a train ride. This project was made possible, in part, with funds from the “Decentralization Program”, a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts, and additional support from Local Project Art Space.