Behind a small stage, Jamie Pittinos’ large-scale photographic work, The Augment, will hang as a backdrop for experimental video and performance art. The Augment is comprised of over 100 portraits, distorted using chemigram techniques and scanography performed by the models themselves.
The headlining performer is Screen Tear, a live video act engineered by Jolyne Kraepel, which will be projected onto Pittinos’ installation, acting as a final level of collaborative distortion. In addition to Screen Tear, Yvonne Pruneau, a talented composer and one of the models appearing in The Augment, will perform. Local noise music act Legs of The Fly will also perform, alongside more experimental film projections. It is a night of artists supporting artists amidst chaos.
Based in Detroit, MI, Jamie Pittinos creates photographic work with distortion, anonymity, and physicality at its core. Jamie’s practice transmits control from the photographer to the medium itself, breaking the classical photograph at every level. Similarly, Jolyne Kraepel’s Screen Tear integrates live video with electronic noise, feeding conventionally incompatible signals into each other, creating chaos. Electronic devices of a wide variety are brought to their breaking point by misread signals, causing erratic behavior otherwise impossible during their intended use. Both artists get their hands dirty, testing the limits of their chosen machines. The result is not merely a glitch, but a window into willful subversion. Peer into a broken invention, gaze upon the product of labor, feel the reverberations in your skin.