GFUN / 3 Pieces

THREE PIECES Bios

November 13, 2007:
Elise Baldwin Lauren Scime, and Anne Yalon

Elise Baldwin
Flittermouse

Raised on a farm in Idaho, Elise Baldwin now resides in San Francisco. Active in the experimental music and electronic art community, Elise Baldwin focuses on solo audio/video performance and collaborative music ventures. She holds a degree in Film and Video production as well as an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College. She has a decade of experience as a sound designer, recording engineer, and video editor; often collaborating with talented musicians, dancers, performers and theater companies in San Francisco, New York and elsewhere. Baldwin has performed recently at the New York Electronic Arts Festival, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Edgetone Music Festival, the Brutal Sound FX Festival, E.S.P. Media Lounge, CalArts CEAIT Festival and the National Queer Arts Festival.

I tend to hoard sounds, both from my own recordings and archival sources. As so much of my work is about memory, archival materials give me access to a greater range of images and sounds then I would be capable of recording on my own. I use the artifacts from these sources to create temporal context in my work; the color of a certain film stock or quality of a particular audio recording contains references to other times and places. Then I abstract and mutate these sounds into something entirely different, often unrecognizable, and to my ear, more musical. I think of this process as digital composting, letting the material erode, compact and transform through time and repetition. www.clattertrap.com

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Lauren Scime

Lauren Scime is an artist currently working in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has shown her work extensively in Northern California and Western New York, and is included in the permanent collection at the Griffis Sculpture Park in Ellicotville, NY. Lauren has co-directed a non-profit gallery, and has currated several shows and events in San Francisco, CA and Buffalo, NY. She has taught workshops in digital media and web design. She received her BFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2002, and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006.

Her work varies between being serious and reflective, comedic, and grotesquely hyperbolic, but she is consistently involved in exploring the human psyche and the constructed limits we set between the self and other. www.laurenscime.com

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Anne Yalon
Without

My work focuses on loss, temporality, fragmentation and fragility. I am interested in using existing sites such as architecture and memory as markers for events. The work is a placeholder or a witness to the event. I want to capture the fragility of these sites before they disappear from my mind.

I use video, drawing and sculpture as a repository for my memory. Memories often cleave to the physical settings of events. The scars on landscape preserve the memory of the site long after the people are gone, making architecture and landscape an unprejudiced witness to an event. I use these mediums as a way to capture the invisible, a memory, an architectural structure that no longer exists, or an overwhelming feeling triggered by a site. By asking the viewer what one needs to forget in order to remember, I hope to trigger and reverberate a memory in the viewers mind. www.flickr.com/photos/adyalon

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