Inside Out Artist Statement Update January 2014

"Inside Out" Presents TRANSFORM, William and Kathleen Laziza's Kinetic Visual Art Sculpture.

In 2011 Kathleen and I selected NYC’s most famous location Times Square as a catalyst for TRANSFORM a visual art sculpture. In this work the video is lifted up off the screen and transformed into multiple reflections of itself. Each of the reflections is driven by the kinetically moving imagery from Times Square which ranges from billboards to taillights. The moving camera aspect of the work drives the imagery over the mirrored transformers to create complex visual harmony of lines and stripes and smears reflected back into shapes of cones, trapezoids, squares and triangles.

Inside Out Artist Statement July 2013

"Inside Out" Presents Videokinesis, William Laziza's Kinetic Visual Art.

Last December, I decided that it was time to share my images and vision by presenting "Video Heaven", a Videokinesis work to New York for free via  "Inside Out", a new display system at Micro Museum 123 Smith St. Two projected images, framed by Micro Museum's windows and textured by a curtain and tattooed by colored gets, emerge  to create a widescreen presentation to the general public for the street and sidewalk most every night from dusk to 10pm and sometimes later.  This work will continue to be presented at Micro Museum for the foreseeable future or as long as the projector bulbs last. (update) – The bulbs lasted until the end of December! -

Videokinesis pushes the boundaries of traditional, static wall art through the use of video processing, lenses and reflectors to create instruments that make moving abstract visual art suitable for framing.  The work has three forms, the first is the creative and very active birth through instruments making visual music during sessions or at performance art events, the second is its media life of further processing and distribution made possible through re-processing of recordings and uploads, the third is in the eye and memory of the beholder.  

Over the past 35 years, I, William Laziza have set up many equipment configurations to make Videokinesis instruments for jam sessions and numerous performance art events.  Most of the setups to create moving visual images on video have been torn down to make room for the next, fortunately, some of these still operate and are on display at Micro Museum.  Recordings to extend the media life from a number of these events have been combined into  "Video Heaven" a looping presentation that provides the Videokinesis presented by Inside Out.

The experience of seeing a family of Videokinesis images day after day reveal a new way of experiencing visual art.  One tends to see snippets, only a few seconds at a pass.  The two images are two different slices of time that compliment and contrast with each other, continuously changing within a frame without a time frame.  It is not to be watched, it is to be experienced.  After a few visits,  the Videokinesis becomes familiar.  Frequent visitation results in one catching a familiar motif, after a while reflections on the same imagery under different circumstances, invoke the harmony of the celestial spheres and then the depth and breath of the work is understood in a way that the recipient can enjoy and cherish.

William Laziza

Technical Director Micro Museum

Contributing to the course of modern art by demonstrating and defining new perspectives of graphic art.  

e-mail:  tech@micromuseum.com

web:  http://www.micromuseum.com/

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