Two events coming up I’d like you to know about:

• I’m performing visuals with fellow VJ Chris Jordan at Monkeytown this Saturday, accompanying the music of ambient duo This Invitation. This will be an audience participation show: we’ll be handing out little, battery-powered slide projectors. Should be fun. Reservations recommended — as is the food! Come early and have a meal; Monkeytown’s got really good grub.

• Saturday, February 18th I’m teaching a workshop in video improv: it’s practice for me and free for you, a preview of the workshop I’m teaching at this year’s Dirty South Improv Festival in Chapel Hill, NC. It’ll be at the Atlantic Theater Co Acting School. Email me to let me know if you’re coming. Details: > Improv on video: How is it different from improv on a bare stage? What can you do in a video improv show that is unique to this new hybrid form? Homebrew, grassroots video improv is slowly spreading through American improve communities. Let’s spread it faster by sharing ideas and techniques with each other. In this workshop, we will explore video improv techniques employed in the Neutrino Video Projects and other experimental video longforms. Camerawork, in-camera editing, scenework and structure will be explored. If time permits we will touch on networked, streaming video performance and visual manipulation (VJ-ing). Please beg, borrow or steal* a video camera to bring to the workshop: the more cameras we have the more we’ll able to play. Improvisers and cinematographers of all experience levels are welcome.

  > * Well, maybe not steal. Please do your best to have a camera and know its basic functions before the workshop.

  > Class is limited to 15 students.