20 March 2025, 7 pm

Samia Halaby, Kevin Nathaniel - Kinetic Painting Group

Free admission, no booking required
Performance as part of the international conference Jean Tinguely Revisited. Critical Re-Readings and New Perspectives

Samia Halaby, author of the Kinetic Painting program, and director of the Kinetic Painting Group presents a performance with multi-percussionist Kevin Nathaniel Hylton who performs using acoustic instruments many of which have an African origin. Her interactive program is written in C language, for an IBM compatible Personal Computer as an instrument of artistic form and reflects a particular aesthetic. It allows the artist to use a variety of sets of shapes, lines, colors as spontaneously as a brush can be dipped in a puddle of paint; and incorporate in real time the idea of movement and rhythm in her digital paintings

The live interaction with sound enriches the artistic inquiry as new paintings are cognizant of the unique relationship of sound and vision. Conversely, the painterly material influences the musician. His work takes forms, which rely on the nature of sight. As a result, continuous rhythms are often abandoned to create an incidence of sound, which imitates vision. At times rhythmic shifts take place to reflect a shift in visual atmosphere.

The performance will be followed by a Q&A with Samia Halaby and the curator, Dr. Sandra Beate Reimann.

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