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Aurora Picture Show and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts present a media archeological dig right from the heartland of Texas featuring artists including Luke Savisky, Potter Belmar Labs and Graffiti Research Labs. As part of our annual Media Archeology multimedia festival, these artists will host site-specific media events that explore the past and the present through tools that have been manipulated and repurposed such as film, light, sound, and live performance.

The final night of the festival will feature Luke Savisky of Austin. 2010 Media Archeolgy Festival - Texas Focus:  E/X With Luke Savisky.  Saturday, September 18, 8PM-10PM. Location: Buffalo Bayou East End Silo Site, 490 N. Live Oak. FREE Admission.

Along the bayou on the darkest edge of downtown Houston, the enormous, looming cylindrical shapes of four abandoned grain silos will be brought alive by “E/X,” Luke Savisky's site-specific multi-projection performance installation at the Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s East End site. His recent large-scale interactive work, “Eye of Texas” (pictured) was projected onto the 85ft tall Green treatment plant water tower and awestruck audiences in downtown Austin for the First Night festival. For “E/X,” projected faces and bodies of performance participants will move through and interact with the shapes of the silos within pulsing layers of color and motion imagery created for the project by Savisky. Live imagery, original film footage and found elements from his 16mm, 35mm and digital archive will combine to evoke themes of defense, confinement, emergence and transformation.

Accompanied by a soundscape composed by ambient masters, Stars of the Lid, the resulting experience will be sure to create a haunting, otherworldly scene against the glimmering urban skyline of Houston.

This project made possible in part by The Creative Capital Foundation. Grab a cupcake from Frosted Betty Bakeshop or enjoy a sample of Saint Arnold brew as well.

Luke Savisky is an Austin-based multi-media artist. His performances transform and respond to the natural and architectural environments through the use of analogue film media projection with 16mm and 35mm film. For his project, I/Tx (The I/Eye of Texas), an interactive projection of viewer's eyes glows on an 85ft water tower in downtown Austin, TX. Savisky was chosen as official media artist for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including: Creative Capital, The Texas Filmmakers Production Fund, the Austin Film Society's 1st D. Montgomery Award, and the 2007 Austin Table of Critics Award for Best Individual Project.

2010 MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY FESTIVAL: TEXAS FOCUS September 16-18, 2010 In collaboration with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts The best treasures are found in your backyard. Aurora Picture Show and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts present a media archeological dig right from the heartland of Texas featuring artists including Luke Savisky of Austin, Potter Belmar Labs of San Antonio and Graffiti Research Labs of Houston. As part of our annual Media Archeology multimedia festival, these artists will host site-specific media events that explore the past and the present through tools that have been manipulated and repurposed such as film, light, sound, and live performance.

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