OAS Node #1 @BAT HAUS: 8/17 Friday - Launch day, "Art Holography: Exploring New DimeNsionality" with Eric Leiser, 6-9 PM

Launch of Occupational Art School Node #1

Occupy with Art, Art for Humans and Bat Haus are pleased to present an evening with multimedia artist Eric Leiser. Eric's latest show "Hologalactic" at All Things Project at The People's Church of Greenwich Village was curated by Sam Kho and Susan Joyce (Fringe Exhibitions) and featured new holograms, sculptures, moving images and paintings. Next week the artist will be traveling to Japan to attend a screening of his work at the Hiroshima International Animation Fi lm Festival.

Film still by Eric Leiser
Evening program:

• 6PM: Introduction to OAS Node #1 at Bat Haus, by co-organizer Paul McLean
• 7PM: Presentation by Eric Leiser: "Holography: Merging the Real and Virtual for the 21st Century"
• 8PM: Q&A + Mixer

WHAT IS OAS Node #1?
The Occupational Art School is an Occupy with Art/Art for Humans 3-month residency project in Bushwick. OAS will host classes on Wednesdays and Fridays each week through October 2012, and 2-3 special events each month, exploring a broad spectrum of artists and arts. The course will be offered at reasonable rates, payable through gifts and barter as well as the usual modes of exchange, with special discounts for Bat Haus members.

WHAT IS BAT HAUS?
Bat Haus believes that community, productivity, and creativity are fostered in a true workspace where members share resources, share space, and share respect. We welcome people from every discipline to try us out.

Hologram by Eric Leiser
ARTIST BIO:
Eric Leiser is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, animator, puppeteer, writer, holographer and curator working in the LA, New York and London [+]. He has created 3 animated/live action feature films and 25 shorts as well as works that integrate painting, animation, puppetry, holography, sound and live performance/installation.

Leiser is interested in how animation transforms perception when it is combined with live action space creating a fantastical/spiritually surrealistic quality.

Eric's solo work has been exhibited at MASS MoCA, Istanbul Modern Museum of Art, Thessaloniki Center for Contemporary Art, Ruben H. Fleet Space Center in San Diego, California , (V & A) Victoria and Albert Museum, The MIT Museum,(BFI) British Film Institute, Anthology Film Archives, LA Film Forum, San Francisco Film Society, Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles, California; Goldsmiths, University of London; School of the Arts Institute of Chicago; Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China, Live With Animals in New York City, Bourne Hall in Hastings, East Sussex, England along with international group shows. His holograms have been featured in in publications, such as National Geographic Magazine.

Leiser's films have screened at festivals worldwide, including the Annecy International Film Festival, Hiroshima International Animation Film Festival, Istanbul International Animated Film Festival, San Francisco International Animated Film Festival and EXIS Experimental Film Festival (Seoul, Korea).

Eric has made 25 short films (eight of which appear in the DVD release Eclectic Shorts by Eric Leiser) and three features > 1) Faustbook, released April 25, 2006 by Vanguard Cinema, and Imagination, released theatrically in the US, internationally in summer 2007 and on DVD in February 2008 by Vanguard Cinema; 2) Imagination, which was featured in the May 2008 issue of Animation Magazine; and 3)"Glitch in the Grid," which was released theatrically in the US and Internationally in October 2011 and in February 2012 on DVD through Vangaurd Cinema.

He is the founding member of Albino Fawn Productions along with his brother and collaborator, musician/composer Jeffrey Leiser.

Eric is an alumni of CalArt's Experimental Animation program.

www.albinofawn.com

Contact: artforhumans [AT] gmail [DOT] com [Paul McLean]

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www.occupywithart.com
www.batha.us
www.occupationalartschool.com
www.occupationalartschool.tumblr.com
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