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Micro
Museum, founded in 1986, is an interdisciplinary art center servicing over six hundred working artists. Micro
Museum is located at 123 Smith Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Our clients are award winning actors, dancers, directors,
performers, musicians, clowns, belly dancers, literary and
media artists who are producing work for audiences all over
the world. Our visual artists have gained the attention of NY
Times, Time Out NY, Daily News, ARTnews, INNew York Magazine,
NHK Enterprises (Japanese Satellite TV), Videography Magazine,
Brooklyn Eagle, Courier News, Brooklyn Heights Press, and
FLAUNT Magazine.
Micro
Museum is the recipient of the 78 RPM
record collection from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and
archive for 100's of videotapes featuring NYC's finest
cutting edge artists. Micro
Museum produces a broadcast TV program featuring new artists called
"Spontaneous Combustion". The "Spontaneous Combustion" series has aired monthly on Brooklyn Community Access
Television since 1994. In 2001, Micro Museum artists were
selected to be Downtown Community Television's 1st
Cyberartists-in-residence.
In 2004 Micro Museum was registered as an official trademark with the US Patent and Trademark Office. We are now ®!
Micro Museum Board and Staff
Thanks to our funders!
Critics say:
NY Newsday " The Lazizas are
industrial strength artists."
NY Times " Micro Museum is a
high-tech fun house"
Flaunt Magazine " Future art
house filmmaker take notes!"
Time Out NY " NYC's coolest
outpost."
Brooklyn Rail " The Lazizas' are wickedly inventive."
Micro Museum offers continuous special thanks
to Materials for the Arts and all the artists, technicians, crew and staff who make this
facilitiy possible.
We are seeking direct donations: Make checks out to PAWI (Promote Art Works, Inc.) 123 Smith St. Brooklyn NY 11201. All contributions are tax deductable and blessed 200 times over.
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Founding Directors:
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 has nurtured
dozens of collaborations with music and media artists since moving to NYC 20 years ago. His recent collaborations include UNITY GAIN a live videoart broadcast on Manhattan Neighborhood Network Sundays at 1 am. The New
York Times selected his inter-active installation, The Videograph, for their Millennium Section
published on Jan.1, 2000 as an example of "Art of the Future". He is a member of the NE Solar
Energy Coalition and (ASCI) Arts & Science Collaboration, Inc. Downtown Community Television
selected the Laziza's to be their first cyberartist in residence. He designed virtual digital
environments, mixed them live with 5 cameras, 3 dancers, 2 pre-recorded video sources, 5 visual
instruments and 1 webcam transmission as a part of their new work "The Crystal Box". Mr. Laziza is responsible for the Solar Powered Kinetic Sculpture AC / DC Window in the Second floor.
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. 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. Her videodances were the subject of the leading article in Leonardo
Magazine (June 1996) for the International Society of Arts, Science and Technology published by
MIT Press entiled "The Intersection of Dance, Technology and Performance Art". Her videodances have aired at Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center Public Library for the Performing Arts. She conducted their
premiere work for the 2001- '02 season, "The Crystal Box", in a live audience environment with 8
different feeds that were simultaneously broadcast as streaming video over the internet and through
cable distribution in Manhattan. In 2002 she graduated from Columbia University's Art Leadership Institute.
About PAWI
In 1993 Promote Art Works, Inc. was created to accommodate the special needs of artists William and Kathleen Laziza and a unique "family" of artists that have grown around its creative enterprises and community spirit. PAWI sponsors 4 main projects SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, public access broadcasts since 1984; Micro Museum, physical and virtual exhibit space since 1986 + ground floor location on Smith Street since 2002; Whole Arts with free art classes in a Brooklyn Heights park since 1989 and the Laziza’s prolific artistic expressions and collaborations since 1976.
Additional Bios for Staff and Advisors
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