MV Carbon and Seth Cluett
Monday, October 19, 2009 at 8 pm

LMAKseries is a monthly screening and performance in the gallery’s L.E.S space. On Monday October 19, MV Carbon and Seth Cluett will perform. The following events will take place on Monday, December 7, 2009 and Monday, January 4, 2010.

LMAKprojects is pleased to present live, as part of the second LMAKseries of this year, the works of MV Carbon and Seth Cluett on Monday October 19th at 8:00pm.

LMAKseries furthers LMAKproject’s aim to integrate film, video, sound art, and media performance into the gallery’s mission and its vision of the contemporary landscape. One particular interest of the series is in exploring the ongoing inter-relationships between digital media, film, and music, whose practices may incorporate improvisation, computer processing, live interaction, narrative, sculptural and spatial aspects in ways that open our conception of both art practice and reception

M.V. Carbon is a sound artist and painter who is best known for her non-traditional approach to music. She plays cello through electronics, uses tape machines, field recordings, electronic processes, analog synthesis, frequency, tone and texture to induce physical commotion. She is interested in using music to represent the structural decomposition and fragmentation that occurs within architecture, landscape, human physiology, and perception.
Seth Cluett is an artist, performer, and composer whose work ranges from photography, and drawing to video, sound installation, concert music, and critical writing. Engaging the boundary between the auditory and other senses, his work is marked by a detailed attention to perception and to sound's role in the creation of a sense of place and the experience of time. The apparent tranquility of Cluett's work - at once gentle and un-nerving - is concerned with the rapidly shifting sensory landscape of technological development and urbanization.

MV Carbon displayed her paintings and installations at institutions and galleries like D’Amelio Terras, NY; McCaigwelles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL; Salon Invisible, Chicago, IL. She has performed in venues like The Stone, Lehman Maupin, Location One all in New York City; Issue Project Room and Glasslands, both in Brooklyn, NY; PS 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY; Sound Lab, Buffalo, NY; Nefertiti Jazz Club, Gotenberg, Sweden; Lades, Copenhagen, Denmark; The Tate Modern, Turbine Room, London, UK and Tesla in Berlin, Germany.

Seth Cluett's work has been shown and/or performed internationally at institutions and festivals such as Kill Your Timid Notion at Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland; the 10th Rencontres Internationales, Palais de Tokyo Museum, and GRM in Paris; Hebbel am Ufer Theater in Berlin; the Osage Art Foundation in Hong Kong; The Kitchen, WPS1/MoMA, Issue Project Room, and Diapason Gallery in New York; the Institute for Contemporary Art, Studio Soto, and Mobius Artist Space in Boston; the Betty Rymer, Heaven, Artemisia, and Deadtech Galleries in Chicago; and the Deep Listening Space in Kingston, NY. He has created dance and theater works with DD Dorvillier/Human Future Dance Corp, Hélène Lesterin/Atlas Dance, and Jen Mesch. His work is documented on Errant Bodies Press, Sedimental, Crank Satori, BoxMedia, Stasisfield and Wavelet Records. He has published articles for The Open Space Magazine, Leonardo Music Journal, 306090, Earshot, and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.