William and Kathleen Laziza, The Founding Artists of Micro Museum are delighted to present an evening of their work "Performance and Pixels" on January 9 @ 9 PM * January 10 @ 8 PM and

January 11 @ 3 PM Admission is $10 with Seniors/Students (with ID) $5.

When you enter Micro Museum to see "Performance and Pixels" - it begins with "The Kissing Installation", which features 5 pieces of "interactive" gym equipment situated in a room where there are 4 large television monitors with images of Boerum Hill residents blowing kisses at YOU. You can even contribute your own kiss!

The live concert portion of the program includes their unique signature work of performance art called Mixology . In this work William and Kathleen Laziza incorporate original audio/visual instruments: The Videograph, Chromophone, Light Lines and Invalid TV, as well as lighting tools that animate a staged area with movement, light and color. Set to distinctive excerpts of Pink Floyd's UMAGUMA, this 30 minute piece works simultaneously to create layers of optical surprises. Mixology is a hypnotic interdisciplinary work that defies category. The Lazizas have created parts of this work over their 25 year collaboration, which began in Austin Texas. The name "Mixology" refers the Laziza's unique collection of interactive installations and performance art.

The conclusion of the "Performance and Pixels" program features a screening of The Crystal Box. The Laziza's tour du force collaborative work with the Laziza Electrique Dance Co, Downtown Community Television and music by Ghosts of the Canal. This work was the results of a 3 months residency where William Laziza was testing a new piece of broadcast equipment called "The Globecaster. The Lazizas concept was to take their videoart and map in onto 3d shapes. The last 7 minutes of this 30 minute work is a live performance with an audience present and 8 sources of video including an "interborough bounce" from Micro Museum to DCTV in Lower Manhattan. The live broadcast mix was transmitted over cable channels in Manhattan, streamed live over the internet with 100 viewers in Sacramento, CA. Aside from the technological acrobatics The Crystal Box is a visually textural work that utilizes three original Laziza visual instruments: The Videoscopo, Tower of Power and the Water Table Obscura.

Together they are pioneers in several frontiers, most notably in 1986, they settled at Micro Museum and systematically built a thriving art center that services a 1,000 artist a year --now --- on trendy Smith street. They maintain a long list of accomplishments. Highlights include being selected by the Rockefeller Foundation as a "Community Asset" (1997-2000); becoming the First Cyberartists in residence at Downtown Community TV (2001); providing inaugural programming for BCAT, Brooklyn's public access tv station (1994); receiving the leading article in Leonardo Magazine published by MIT Press (June 1996); and collaboration with renown world beat percussionist, Cyro Baptista (2003).

Attached are images of: Kathleen Laziza in Mixology; Natalie Taylor in The Crystal Box;

Allison Twyford in The Kissing Installation