The Founding Directors

Kathleen Laziza

is an interdisciplinary artist who began her artistic career working as a painter but quickly turned her attention to performance art in the late 1970's, now she is turning back to painting. 2010 rerpresents her first composite show at Micro Museum. Meet her at the museum when you come to see "Above and Beyond" on Saturdays until 2013.

She moved to NYC in 1980 where she began the Laziza Electrique Dance Co, an experimental network of artists needed to create her mixed media works. She became the President of the Brooklyn Dance Consortium in the early 1990s producing concerts at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Prospect Park, and dozens of ad hoc places throughout Brooklyn. Her videodances were the subject of leading 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" for their Women and Technology series. She is aficionado of entrepreneurial training. Completed businesses studies with Arts and Business Council, Brooklyn Economic Development Corp and Columbia University's Art Leadership Institute while systematically solidifying Micro Museum's artistic impact regionally, nationally and globally.

William Laziza

is a systems engineer by day and an enterprising artist by night. He is the master builder for sculptures and media installations on display at Micro Museum. He nurtures dozens of collaborations with music and media artists having started some of those relationships in Austin Texas as one of the America's first public access TV engineers over 30 years ago. He was a part of the formation of NYU's Interactive Telecommunication Project with recent collaborations: Unity Gain and the International Not Still Art Festival. Downtown Community Television selected the Laziza's to be their first cyberartist in residence in 2001 where they made THE CRYSTAL BOX. He designed the live performance to be a cyber, cable simulcast event that included a 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 an active member of the NE Solar Energy Coalition and Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and employed as Executive Engineer for CUNY-TV. He continues to be media mentor and troubleshooter for emerging artists.

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