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BIO
Marjan Moghaddam is an award-winning; New York City based computer artist and animator. She has exhibited her computer art and animation internationally at numerous galleries and museums throughout the years and presented her work at related international conferences and festivals such as Siggraph and the New York International Video and New Media festival. She was one of the first artists to create gif89a animation on the Internet and is listed as part of the Internet Pioneer Hall.
Ms. Moghaddam has received awards of excellence in digital and computer art such as ASCII, Resfest, and CG Grand Prixe, and been featured in numerous print and TV profiles as a computer artist, most recently she was a featured artist on MOMA’s WPS1 Art & Technology show. Her artwork is featured in art catalogs and dozens of highly rated internet sites, and her work has been selected for the prestigious annual gallery of Computer Art at the international Siggraph conference numerous times. In addition to galleries such as Postmasters (NYC) and Salon D’Autumn in Paris, Ms Moghaddam has also exhibited her technology art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Orlando Museum of Art & the New York Hall of Science Museum.
Most recently Ms. Moghaddam’s groundbreaking, musically driven animations were selected for 10 different international film & video festivals, including Finalist prize for Resfest Korea, included in the Art Disk DVD for Art Basel Miami, and most recently in a special project of the Armory Show in NY. She is currently the recipient of a 2008 Brooklyn Arts Council/Department of Cultural Affairs grant for a live computer animation project. Ms. Moghaddam’s digital art is held in the collections of Prdoigy Inc., Jupiter communications, American Museum of Jazz and Northeastern University Visual Music Archives.
For more info see
http://www.marjan.com
http://www.myspace.com/marjanm
Ms. Moghaddam has received awards of excellence in digital and computer art such as ASCII, Resfest, and CG Grand Prixe, and been featured in numerous print and TV profiles as a computer artist, most recently she was a featured artist on MOMA’s WPS1 Art & Technology show. Her artwork is featured in art catalogs and dozens of highly rated internet sites, and her work has been selected for the prestigious annual gallery of Computer Art at the international Siggraph conference numerous times. In addition to galleries such as Postmasters (NYC) and Salon D’Autumn in Paris, Ms Moghaddam has also exhibited her technology art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Orlando Museum of Art & the New York Hall of Science Museum.
Most recently Ms. Moghaddam’s groundbreaking, musically driven animations were selected for 10 different international film & video festivals, including Finalist prize for Resfest Korea, included in the Art Disk DVD for Art Basel Miami, and most recently in a special project of the Armory Show in NY. She is currently the recipient of a 2008 Brooklyn Arts Council/Department of Cultural Affairs grant for a live computer animation project. Ms. Moghaddam’s digital art is held in the collections of Prdoigy Inc., Jupiter communications, American Museum of Jazz and Northeastern University Visual Music Archives.
For more info see
http://www.marjan.com
http://www.myspace.com/marjanm
Stimsim Squared @ the Visual Music Marathon
Dates:
Sat Apr 11, 2009 00:00 - Mon Mar 23, 2009
S2: Stimsim Squared:
By Marjan Moghaddam & Adam Caine
Live Animation & Music Performance
Saturday April 11th, 7.30pm-8pm
Visual Music Marathon
SVA Theater. 333 West 23rd Street
Free
S2: Stimsim Squared, is a live, improvised visual music performance by artist/animator Marjan Moghaddam and guitarist/composer Adam Caine, using laptop driven visuals alongside guitar and electronics. The visuals are ‘played’ live on stage in what Ms. Moghaddam describes as “jamming with digital painting & sculpture on a screen”. The animations range from the hypnotic dance of materially ambiguous fluid forms to roaming explorations of dazzling architectural structures and pulsing psychedelic patterns. Adam Caine’s live guitar and electronics style encompasses extremes of dissonance and rhythmic agitation contrasted with softer and more dynamic passages. The name is a reference to sensory recording and dissemination technology from 80’s cyberpunk classic Neuromancer.
The performance is part of the Visual Music Marathon, an all day event with screenings from 10am to 10pm, sponsored by the New York Digital Salon, SVA, and Northeastern University, and additionally funded by New York State Council on the Arts, Experimental Television Center and mediaThe Foundation. The event offers an encyclopedic look into the burgeoning practice of visual music, which combines animation and musical composition. This event is free and open to the general public.
http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm/schedule.html
http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/
By Marjan Moghaddam & Adam Caine
Live Animation & Music Performance
Saturday April 11th, 7.30pm-8pm
Visual Music Marathon
SVA Theater. 333 West 23rd Street
Free
S2: Stimsim Squared, is a live, improvised visual music performance by artist/animator Marjan Moghaddam and guitarist/composer Adam Caine, using laptop driven visuals alongside guitar and electronics. The visuals are ‘played’ live on stage in what Ms. Moghaddam describes as “jamming with digital painting & sculpture on a screen”. The animations range from the hypnotic dance of materially ambiguous fluid forms to roaming explorations of dazzling architectural structures and pulsing psychedelic patterns. Adam Caine’s live guitar and electronics style encompasses extremes of dissonance and rhythmic agitation contrasted with softer and more dynamic passages. The name is a reference to sensory recording and dissemination technology from 80’s cyberpunk classic Neuromancer.
The performance is part of the Visual Music Marathon, an all day event with screenings from 10am to 10pm, sponsored by the New York Digital Salon, SVA, and Northeastern University, and additionally funded by New York State Council on the Arts, Experimental Television Center and mediaThe Foundation. The event offers an encyclopedic look into the burgeoning practice of visual music, which combines animation and musical composition. This event is free and open to the general public.
http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm/schedule.html
http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/
Progressions
Dates:
Thu Sep 25, 2008 00:00 - Fri Sep 12, 2008
Location:
United States of America

Progressions:
By Marjan Moghaddam & Adam Caine
Digital Multimedia Performance
Thursday September 25th, at 7.30pm
Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts
Downtown Brooklyn Campus of LIU
Progressions is a groundbreaking multimedia performance by award winning digital artist Marjan Moghaddam and guitarist/composer Adam Caine, featuring live improvised computer animation and music, at the Kumble Theater in downtown Brooklyn. Funded in part by the Brooklyn Arts Council and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, this mesmerizing journey through visuals and music employs real time computer-driven animations that are displayed on a 30 foot video projection screen.
The visuals are ‘played’ live on stage in what Ms. Moghaddam describes as “jamming with digital painting & sculpture on a screen”. The animations range from the hypnotic dance of materially ambiguous fluid forms to roaming explorations of dazzling architectural structures and pulsing psychedelic patterns. Adam Caine’s live guitar and electronics style encompasses extremes of dissonance and rhythmic agitation contrasted with softer and more dynamic passages, united by a unique sound-palette and highly-individual melodic sense.
Together, they take the audience through a mind bending journey of shifting musical and visual terrains as a series of progressions. For Ms. Moghaddam the improvisational visual experience is influenced by the shamanic energy of Jackson Pollack’s paint dripping, while Mr. Caine's musical improvisation is rooted in the traditions of free-jazz, experimental concert music and avant-rock.
Nick Lyons and Lorenzo Sanguedolce will be opening with a short saxophone duo. Ticket holders can signup at the event for a free workshop on visual music by Ms. Moghaddam on Wednesday October 22nd, at the Media Arts Department of the Brooklyn campus of LIU, on a first come first serve basis.
Marjan Moghaddam Bio:
Marjan Moghaddam is an award winning, Brooklyn based computer artist and animator who has exhibited her work at many galleries, museums and festivals throughout the years. Ms Moghaddam’s most recent animations have been selected by over a dozen international festivals and exhibited at Art Basel Miami and the 2008 Armory show of Contemporary Art in New York City.
Adam Caine Bio:
Adam Caine is a guitarist, improvisor and composer based in Brooklyn. He has played with various groups in New York City and throughout the United States. He has performed with Connie Crothers, Paul Smoker, Daniel Carter, Ken Filiano, Glen Branca, Haale, and the New York Soundpainting Ensemble. Adam's 2005 CD, "PIPE," received rave reviews in Wire and Cadence magazine.
Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts: Downtown Brooklyn campus of Long Island University. Flatbush between Dekalb and Willoughy (across from Junior’s restaurant).
Trains: 4 or 5, or 2 or 3 to Nevins Street stop. B,M,Q, or R trains to Dekalb Ave stop.
Tickets: $7 General Public. $5 with Student ID. LIU Faculty & Staff $5. LIU students $3.
For more information:
http://www.marjan.com/Progressions.htm
http://www.marjan.com and http://www.myspace.com/marjanm
http://www.Caine.tv and http://www.myspace.com/adamnoahcaine
Box Office: http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/KumbleTheater 718-488-1624
Iterated 69 Jam Sessions at Siggraph 2006, Boston.
Dates:
Sun Jul 30, 2006 00:00 - Sat Jul 29, 2006
Iterated 69 Jam Sessions at Siggraph 2006, Boston.
A body-driven, interactive multimedia performance and jam session, using animations triggered by sound processing of live electric guitars and computer-vision-based people tracking.
Performances
Sunday July 30th, 4.30-5pm (Opening of the Guerilla Studio)
Monday July 31st, 5.30-6pm
Tuesday August 1st, 5.30-6pm
A jam session between a digital artist/animator (Marjan Moghaddam), a computer scientist (Flavia Sparacino), two experimental guitarists (Adam Caine and Michael Iannantuono), the audience of a live performance and Computer Vision software especially designed for this performance. The performance uses the art rock and experimental music of New York City based guitarists Adam Caine and Michael Iannantuono, who will be performing a 30 minute avante jazz inspired improvisational piece. The musical performance is accompanied by Marjan Moghaddam
A body-driven, interactive multimedia performance and jam session, using animations triggered by sound processing of live electric guitars and computer-vision-based people tracking.
Performances
Sunday July 30th, 4.30-5pm (Opening of the Guerilla Studio)
Monday July 31st, 5.30-6pm
Tuesday August 1st, 5.30-6pm
A jam session between a digital artist/animator (Marjan Moghaddam), a computer scientist (Flavia Sparacino), two experimental guitarists (Adam Caine and Michael Iannantuono), the audience of a live performance and Computer Vision software especially designed for this performance. The performance uses the art rock and experimental music of New York City based guitarists Adam Caine and Michael Iannantuono, who will be performing a 30 minute avante jazz inspired improvisational piece. The musical performance is accompanied by Marjan Moghaddam
Iterated 69 Jam Sessions at Siggraph, Boston
Dates:
Sat Jul 29, 2006 00:00 - Sat Jul 29, 2006
Iterated 69 Jam Sessions at Siggraph 2006, Boston.
http://www.marjan.com/Iterated69/
A body-driven, interactive multimedia performance and jam session, using animations triggered by sound processing of live electric guitars and computer-vision-based people tracking.
Performances
Sunday July 30th, 4.30-5pm (Opening of the Guerilla Studio)
Monday July 31st, 5.30-6pm
Tuesday August 1st, 5.30-6pm
A jam session between a digital artist/animator (Marjan Moghaddam), a computer scientist (Flavia Sparacino), two experimental guitarists (Adam Caine and Michael Iannantuono), the audience of a live performance and Computer Vision software especially designed for this performance. The performance uses the art rock and experimental music of New York City based guitarists Adam Caine and Michael Iannantuono, who will be performing a 30 minute avante jazz inspired improvisational piece. The musical performance is accompanied by Marjan Moghaddam
http://www.marjan.com/Iterated69/
A body-driven, interactive multimedia performance and jam session, using animations triggered by sound processing of live electric guitars and computer-vision-based people tracking.
Performances
Sunday July 30th, 4.30-5pm (Opening of the Guerilla Studio)
Monday July 31st, 5.30-6pm
Tuesday August 1st, 5.30-6pm
A jam session between a digital artist/animator (Marjan Moghaddam), a computer scientist (Flavia Sparacino), two experimental guitarists (Adam Caine and Michael Iannantuono), the audience of a live performance and Computer Vision software especially designed for this performance. The performance uses the art rock and experimental music of New York City based guitarists Adam Caine and Michael Iannantuono, who will be performing a 30 minute avante jazz inspired improvisational piece. The musical performance is accompanied by Marjan Moghaddam