The IEA was delighted to host FLATSITTER, a collaborative team of Kyle Marler and Jax DeLuca, from October 15-24th, 2014, to participate in our visiting artist program. FLATSITTER is an interdisciplinary collaboration that incorporates video, software programming, performance and installation. Based out of Buffalo, the team often performs live-cinema at DIY spaces and exhibits installation works at the sites of locally owned businesses.

FLATSITTER primarily focused on three projects. First was DISCREET UTOPIAS: Live Cinema Performance, which saw Jax and Kyle recording live performances generating and processing their previously recorded material through our analog video and sound equipment, such as the Sandine and Doupfer modules. Related to the above project, DISCREET UTOPIAS: Virtual Reality Performance w/ Oculus Rift was a study in taking the above concept of live cinema performance into a virtual reality space via the emerging technology of the Oculus Rift. Finally, FLATSITTER worked on generating sound for editing a short film project entitled //Ladybug, which centers around footage and audio captured at the Erie County Fair. This film was being prepared in 5.1 Surround Sound for entry into a Buffalo film competition.

Below are a collection of images produced during FLATSITTER’s residency:

The Institute for Electronic Art’s Visiting Artist Program is sponsored in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.