For Release on or before Sept 28

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Kathleen Laziza (718) 797-3116

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“PICTURING YOU & PARTY”

Sept 28 starting at 7 PM (sharp)

Micro Museum is hosting a rare open to the public party including video performances and live music with refreshments on 2nd floor of the multi-dimensional art center now in its 28^th year at 123 Smith Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Benton –C Bainbridge will create live video portraits of William Laziza, Nanette DeCillis, Kathleen Laziza, John LaMacchia and guests. Plus John LaMacchia and Willliam Laziza will amplify their long-term collaboration by making visual music together as a part of Micro Museum’s “Videoscopo” installation.

Chronically inspired by Andy Warhol, curator Kathleen Laziza is creating a free-wheeling art experience as a tribute to his Exploding Plastic Inevitable (EPI) events including aspects of his relationship with the Velvet Underground. Laziza says “Inspiration for this event has been building for a long time but I resisted until we had the right collaborators in Benton –C Bainbridge (video portraitist), John LaMacchia of Crooked Man (guitarist) and William Laziza (video installations). Volunteers are grilling kielbasa (and other delicious goodies) to re-imagine one of Warhol’s famed stories where he cooked bacon during a Halson fashion show. The goal is to overload the senses with art, music, video, foods and drinks”. Tickets are $15 in advance at http://www.micromuseum.biz/tickets.html or $20 at the door. All admission includes one free drink, a variety of tasty snacks and raffle drawing for your own portrait at 9:30 PM. Micro Museum is also honoring Nanette DeCillis for her 15 years on Smith Street as ArtsCetera.

Made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts' Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (www.NYSCA.org www.eARTS.org).

Benton-C Bainbridge

is a Bronx artist who has made video as a painterly and performable medium for 25 years. Using custom digital, analog and optical systems, Benton-C's movies contribute to a dialog in an emerging global language.

Benton-C has shown his work on 5 continents in venues and events including SFMoMA (San Francisco), Hayden Planetarium (NYC), Lincoln Center, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Teatro Colón CETC (Buenos Aires), EMPAC (Troy, NY), Sonic Light (Amsterdam), Dallas Video Festival, Madison Square Garden, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, Museum of Modern Art, Eyebeam (NYC), CELCIT (Managua) and LUX2006 (Sevilla).

Currently, Benton-C Bainbridge is creating video installations and 'electronic paintings', including slow motion portraits. Bainbridge recently completed the projections design for two new operatic performances: for Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays, a multimedia lecture on the composer Gabriel Von Wayditch (Guinness Record holder for world's longest opera) and (with ongoing collaborator Minou Maguna) John King's "Galileo Galilei" in Argentina.

Please visit benton-c.com and glowingpictures.com

John LaMacchia

is a Brooklyn born musician, artist and founder of Rising Pulse Records; an underground record label that focuses on releasing high quality vinyl. He began playing the guitar at the age of twelve and it continues to be his main instrument to this day. Besides the guitar he also plays bass guitar, keyboard, synthesizer and programs drums, and music using multiple music programs such as Reason and Cubase. LaMacchia is mostly known for his work with bands and projects such as Candiria, Julie Christmas, Spylacopa and Crone.

More recently LaMacchia has formed Crooked Man, who is currently playing regional dates on the east coast and writing material for their first full length release. LaMacchia's sound and style varies from project to project. Incorporating different styles of heavy metal and punk, blues, Americana, electronica, ambient, and jazz fusion, he continues to experiment and grow as a song writer and composer.

Along with music, visual art has also played a major role in his life. At a very young age John began drawing and continues to produce work under the moniker "WILL" with pen, pencil, paint and other mediums such as photography and graphic design

Kathleen Laziza

is an interdisciplinary artist who began her artistic career as a painter then turned her attention to various forms of what became known as the Laziza Electrique Dance Co. (1977 – 2010) as a director, designer, performer, and collaborator with William Laziza in the development of low-tech special effect instruments for video art and dance. She resumed painting in 2010 and is presenting her first multi-dimensional solo show at Micro Museum in a program called XXV – OMG! until 2014.

Bound for NYC in 1981 she created a diverse network of artists contributing to her mixed media video works. Her videodance “Waterbug Water Lily” was presented at the Museum of Natural History and described in the lead article in Leonardo Magazine (1996) for the International Society of Arts, Science and Technology published by MIT Press entitled "The Intersection of Dance, Technology and Performance Art". In 2001 her project “The Crystal Box” was selected to be DCTV’s first cyber artist in resident. She continues to produces flash mob events in NYC. Her most recent performance art work involved 44 people. Called “Spring Fever” and documented by NY Times famed fashion photographer Bill Cunningham April 7, 2013.

Laziza is aficionado of entrepreneurial training. Acted as President of the Brooklyn Dance Consortium producing concerts at Brooklyn Academy of Music and Prospect Park. Completed businesses studies with Arts and Business Council, Brooklyn Economic Development Corp, Columbia University's Art Leadership Institute while systematically solidifying Micro Museum's artistic impact regionally, nationally and globally as its Executive Director and Senior Curator. Micro Museum is happily and strangely famous.

William Laziza

is a force of nature. He and has extensive professional expertise in global telecommunications through his satellite communications systems engineering work with voice, data and video since the 70s. Currently he is a broadcast systems engineer at CUNY-TV and interdisciplinary artist by night. He is the master builder at Micro Museum and nurtures collaborations with others.

While in Austin Texas he was an independent video producer instrumental in the “start-up” phase of one of the America's first public access TV channel. Moving to NYC in 1981 Laziza continued his interest in video production, he had a part of the formation of NYU's Interactive Telecommunication Project and later edited a public access TV program called SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION on BCAT from 1994 – 2004. Past collaborations: Laziza Electrique Dance Co., Unity Gain and the International Not Still Art Festival.

Downtown Community Television selected Laziza to be their first Cyberartist in Residence in 2001 where he designed a live cyber, cable simulcast performance event that included a cyber broadcast bounce between Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan and Sacramento CA. The New York Times selected his inter-active installation, “The Videograph” for their Millennium Section as an example of "Art of the Future". He is a member of the NE Solar Energy Coalition and SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers).

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