For Immediate Release

December 14, 2013

Kathleen Laziza

(718) 797-3116

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR VISUAL MUSIC

AT MICRO MUSEUM®

William Laziza Introduces his new line of

Video Jewelry at Micro Museum

Saturday December 14

About Visual Music:

Visual Music is animated spatial harmonies of color notes, designs and concatenated sequences travelling with rhythm across, into and beyond the void of a screen, revealed by time and captured by memory. Visual Music can consist of multiple kinds of visual images such as abstract art, animation, photos or videos sequenced for artistic presentation rather than for story telling.

About Video Jewelry:

Video Jewelry is technological adornment. Utilitarian vehicles of communication and entertainment are transformed into fashion accessories by presenting them on bodies or clothing facing out and showing visual music. Video jewelry consists of two elements the vehicle and the essence. Similar to traditional jewelry where vehicles of precious metals and stones provide the structure for patterns and meaningful symbols to provide the shapes and forms which glisten in ambient light. This first piece of Video Jewelery introduced today gets its structure from a commercially available device and its essence from Visual Music created by William and Kathleen Laziza. Unlike traditional jewelry its content is ever changing, it can be re-programmed in infinite ways to suit the personal tastes of the wearer and it provides its own light. Check back to the Micro Museum® site routinely to keep up with development of devices and download of video jewels.

Play the movie above on your smartphone to see the first Video Jewel:

This Video Jewel, a 5 minute excerpt from a 1 Hour and 27 minute video art piece which is featured in this press release, is designed to be viewed on a small screen device that would typically be worn as adornment at a party, special occasion or ceremony. Additional demo pieces both in fast and slow motion like this one are being prepared and will be available shortly.

About the Artists:

William and Kathleen Laziza have been collaborating interdisciplinary artists for nearly 3 decades. They specifically build interactive audio/visual/media installations and create performance art that use video and special effect lighting. They founded Micro Museum in Downtown Brooklyn and regularly present works of art by guest artists and collaborators.

About Micro Museum®:

Micro Museum currently highlights the interactive, media and visual art by Kathleen and William Laziza in a multi-year program entitled ABOVE & BEYOND. The museum features Kathleen's Paintings and Assemblages and William's –Videoscopo, an interactive sound responsive videoart installation as well as other kinetic or interactive sculptures and paintings including the Lumiano a prepared piano that lights up as it is played.

Micro Museum began as a brainchild of Kathleen Laziza when she invented it on Smith Street in 1986. She worked in the neighborhood through NYC Housing Authority, PS 261, PS 29, SBLDC and Brooklyn Heights Playground Committee plus exhibiting works of fine art in many genres that brought visitors to Brooklyn as a pioneering cultural destination. Under her curatorial direction over 1,000 contemporary artists exhibited their works from 2002 – 2010. Including annual presentations of the International Not Still Arts; or exhibits by Euart, guest co-curating with Reflects-Arts’ Juliette Pellitier, Luca Curci; Artists-in-Residence with Benoit Maubrey’s Berlin-based Audio Gruppe and The Contemporary Ballet Theater, ongoing musical training with Musician’s General’s one-on-one instrument lessons and professional theater/dance rehearsals on the 2^nd floor. After the closing of Signature Power in May 2010, the Lazizas are dedicating time and space to their touch sensitive and visual works of art that are open for viewing every Saturday from 12 – 7 PM. Admission is $2 per person. http://www.micromuseum.com

How to get to Micro Museum®:

Located at 123 Smith Street between Dean and Pacific Streets. F & G Trains to Bergen Street, walk direction of traffic less than 2 blocks from the station. B75 & B 65 to Smith Street and Bergen. Driving: Take Brooklyn Bridge and travel straight off the bridge, past Atlantic Ave, 2 blocks to Dean Street make left and make another left turn on Smith. There is meter parking in the area.