Photo // Yuanyuan (Kay) He
Special guest artist Yuanyuan (Kay) He poses in one of her artistic photography pieces.
By: Evelyn Kowalski
Staff-Writer
The Performing Media Festival features audiovisual performance works that emerge with technologies by crossing disciplinary boundaries that bring out the creativity of integrated media. This year, the festival will run March 13-15.
This festival started in 2016 to showcase the work from students in the new Audio-Visual Collective, which was then an extracurricular, but is now a class (MUS-X 430, Electronic Music Ensemble).
Ryan Olivier, professor for the electronic ensemble and other music classes at IU South Bend, is hosting the festival.
“You need to experience it to understand it,” Olivier wrote in a statement to The Preface. “At the heart of our mission is to showcase audio-visual performance works, but it is also to grow a community and grow the art form. That requires engagement with the art.”
Olivier encouraged community members to come see (and hear) the works for themselves, approaching new media with an open mind.
The Performing Media Festival will take place across multiple venues.
March 13: Artist meet and greet at the Grill (5 p.m.) followed by a live performance at 7 p.m. in Joshi Performance Hall
March 14: Guest artist Yuanyuan (Kay) He keynote presentation and performances (noon to 12:50 p.m. in Joshi); screening of “Terror of Mechagodzilla” (1975) with live score played by the Audio-Visual collective (7-8:45 p.m. at Browning Cinema in DeBartolo Performing Arts Center)
March 15: Performance media screenings and artist panel (noon to 2 p.m. at the Leighton Auditorium, St. Joseph County Public Library); artist mixer and four live sets starting each hour from 7-10 p.m. (LangLab)
Through March 23: Performance media exhibit at the South Bend Museum of Art, open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to come to these events, and they are free to watch. If you want to learn more about the festival or interested in future events, visit performingmediafestival.com
