National Projects, Commissions & Collaborations
BREAKDOWN: A SAMPLE-BASED OPERA
Commissioning institution: American Composers Orchestra
Premier: February 20, 2009, Carnegie Hall
Role: Film/Video Artist, Director and Co-Producer
18 minutes
Presented in concert with the American Composers Orchestra, George Manahan, conductor.
This work has been acquired by New York University Bobst Library for their collection.
BREAKDOWN THE REMIX
VIMEO REMIX AWARD WINNER 2010
Premier: October 8, 2010, SVA Visual Arts Theater, New York
Role: Film/Video Artist, Director and Producer
10 minutes
A remix of the above work with original music, Breakdown parodies the mass media's distortions in such historical periods as America's McCarthy era, when corrupt powers manipulated public opinion to build support for their political, military and economic excesses. The film uses thousands of fragments of 1950s pop-culture and mass-media images, sampled from public-domain sources, to demystify propaganda through humor while simultaneously warning of its continued power to distort and endanger.
After “Breakdown” won the 2010 Vimeo Award for Best Remix, the online version has been viewed almost 2 million times.
L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT BY IGOR STRAVINSKY
New York Philharmonic
Premier: May 12, 2005, Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall
Xian Zhang conducting
Created "Memories of a Dead Princess," performed live in concert with the New York Philharmonic performances of "Histoire du Soldat" by Igor Stravinsky. Worked with designer Doug Fitch cinematographer Kitao Sakurai and ballerina Valeria Madonia. Out of respect for union considerations, portions of the material on the above link have been re-cut to Kasumi's original music.
This work now exists - with original music - as a 5 minute remix of the film that was created for The New York Philharmonic as a short film entitled "Memories of a Dead Princess."
BEATS OF BASQUIAT
2 hour, single channel live videoart performance
Commissioning Organization: Starbucks
Presenting Institution: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
February 11, 2006
This performance, attended by 6,000 people, was the final event of a four-part series in conjunction with the exhibit “Basquiat,” an exhibition that examined and explicated the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). The imagery I chose for this performance was evocative of themes found in the works of both Basquiat and Grandmaster Flash.
KINETIC SHADOWS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA / CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
BING THEATER
ROLE: VIDEOARTIST
PREMIERE: MAY, 2002
COMMISSIONING ORGANIZATION: INTERNET 2 CONSORTIUM
14 minutes
Kinetic Shadow is a collaborative work for multi-channel videoart and 6 dancers. The piece, choreographed by Gary Galbraith of CWRU and the Martha Graham Dance Company, was simultaneously performed in Cleveland and Los Angeles with cast members in each location using Internet2 technologies to broadcast the live video streams and the surround sound live audio. For this piece, I created video art that was projected on the bodies of the dancers as well as three large screens that were part of the set.
http://hc04.commongroundconferences.com/ProposalSystem/Presentations/P001084
Sponsors: American Fiber Systems, Audio-Technica US, Barco, Callahan Foundation, Cicso Systems, Dell Computers, Netgear, Qwest Communications, Spring Corporation, Star Valley Solutions, Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems Division The videoart portions were presented at the Cisco Global Higher Education Summit in California
Commissioning institution: American Composers Orchestra
Premier: February 20, 2009, Carnegie Hall
Role: Film/Video Artist, Director and Co-Producer
18 minutes
Presented in concert with the American Composers Orchestra, George Manahan, conductor.
This work has been acquired by New York University Bobst Library for their collection.
BREAKDOWN THE REMIX
VIMEO REMIX AWARD WINNER 2010
Premier: October 8, 2010, SVA Visual Arts Theater, New York
Role: Film/Video Artist, Director and Producer
10 minutes
A remix of the above work with original music, Breakdown parodies the mass media's distortions in such historical periods as America's McCarthy era, when corrupt powers manipulated public opinion to build support for their political, military and economic excesses. The film uses thousands of fragments of 1950s pop-culture and mass-media images, sampled from public-domain sources, to demystify propaganda through humor while simultaneously warning of its continued power to distort and endanger.
After “Breakdown” won the 2010 Vimeo Award for Best Remix, the online version has been viewed almost 2 million times.
L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT BY IGOR STRAVINSKY
New York Philharmonic
Premier: May 12, 2005, Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall
Xian Zhang conducting
Created "Memories of a Dead Princess," performed live in concert with the New York Philharmonic performances of "Histoire du Soldat" by Igor Stravinsky. Worked with designer Doug Fitch cinematographer Kitao Sakurai and ballerina Valeria Madonia. Out of respect for union considerations, portions of the material on the above link have been re-cut to Kasumi's original music.
This work now exists - with original music - as a 5 minute remix of the film that was created for The New York Philharmonic as a short film entitled "Memories of a Dead Princess."
BEATS OF BASQUIAT
2 hour, single channel live videoart performance
Commissioning Organization: Starbucks
Presenting Institution: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
February 11, 2006
This performance, attended by 6,000 people, was the final event of a four-part series in conjunction with the exhibit “Basquiat,” an exhibition that examined and explicated the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). The imagery I chose for this performance was evocative of themes found in the works of both Basquiat and Grandmaster Flash.
KINETIC SHADOWS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA / CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
BING THEATER
ROLE: VIDEOARTIST
PREMIERE: MAY, 2002
COMMISSIONING ORGANIZATION: INTERNET 2 CONSORTIUM
14 minutes
Kinetic Shadow is a collaborative work for multi-channel videoart and 6 dancers. The piece, choreographed by Gary Galbraith of CWRU and the Martha Graham Dance Company, was simultaneously performed in Cleveland and Los Angeles with cast members in each location using Internet2 technologies to broadcast the live video streams and the surround sound live audio. For this piece, I created video art that was projected on the bodies of the dancers as well as three large screens that were part of the set.
http://hc04.commongroundconferences.com/ProposalSystem/Presentations/P001084
Sponsors: American Fiber Systems, Audio-Technica US, Barco, Callahan Foundation, Cicso Systems, Dell Computers, Netgear, Qwest Communications, Spring Corporation, Star Valley Solutions, Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems Division The videoart portions were presented at the Cisco Global Higher Education Summit in California
