Transmission Artist
MELISSA DUBBIN AND AARON S. DAVIDSON
Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson have worked collaboratively since 1998. Their projects are multi-disciplinary in nature and include practices in video, sculpture, sound, performance and works on paper. Dubbin and Davidsons current projects dissect the formal and structural aspects of filmmaking, and skew information sets, re-presenting bodies of knowledge in altered contexts.
Recent projects include developed instruments for sound and image improvisation, music boxes that sonify Braille, a player piano using barcodes as a score, and drawings and animations focused on the relationship between war maps, weather maps and migration patterns. Their installation Last & Lost Transmissions, featured in Airborne at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2005) consisted of two low-watt temporary radio stations re-broadcasting last and lost messages.
Dubbin and Davidson have exhibited internationally at the 2004 Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Espace Paul Ricard, Paris; and the New York/Québec Interlacé Festival. Their work has shown throughout the United States including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, the Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, New Mexico, E-Flux Video Rental (EVR); The Museum of Art & Design, New York City; New Sound New York Festival, The Kitchen; Bronx Museum of the Arts; and Smack Mellon Gallery, New York City. In 2005/06 they were artists-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Councils Workspace Program: 120 Broadway, New York City, and New York University Visiting Artists.
LINKS
Works
- Radio Action III (AD034) (Dispatch Series Release) free103point9 Transmission Artists, 2008
- Crossed Circuits (Dispatch Series Release) Various Artists, 2005
- Last Transmissions (Radio/Sound Work) April 9, 2005
- Scape 2 (Dispatch Series Release) Various Artists, 2004
- Dado Blade (Dispatch Series Release) Aaron S. Davidson, Jared Ashburn, Melissa Dubbin, and Shawn Onsgard, 2003
- Radio Action I (Dispatch Series Release) Various Artists, 2003
Exhibitions & Events
- Radio Action III: Online Radio Program, June 18, 2008 – Aug. 30, 2008 (Curated by free103point9 in collaboration with Barbara Held)
- Radio Action III Performance & CD Release , Aug. 7, 2008: 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
- Electric Lab, Sept. 20, 2007 – Nov. 17, 2007
- Spectral Evidence, Jan. 17, 2007: 7 p.m. – March 3, 2007
- The Golden Hour, Sept. 13, 2006: 11 a.m. – Oct. 28, 2006: 7 p.m.
- Radio Festival, Aug. 5, 2006: 2 p.m. – 10 p.m.
- free103point9 @ Observatori Festival, May 5, 2006 – May 7, 2006
- ScopeOnAir, March 10, 2006 – March 13, 2006
- The Poseidon Adventure, Oct. 12, 2005 – Nov. 18, 2005
- Against Nature, July 20, 2005: 6 p.m. – July 26, 2005: 9 p.m.
- Crossed Circuits, April 23, 2005 – June 6, 2005
- Airborne, April 9, 2005 – June 4, 2005
- Radio 4x4: Gwanju Biennale, Sept. 11, 2004
- Scape 2, April 24, 2004: 8 p.m. – May 22, 2004: 11 p.m.
- Tune(In))) The Kitchen, April 22, 2004: 7 p.m. – 11 p.m.
- Dado Blade CD release, Sept. 26, 2003: 8 p.m. – 11 p.m.
- Tune(In))), March 1, 2003: 8 p.m. – 2 a.m. (Curated by free103point9)
- free103point9 Benefit, May 21, 2002: 8 p.m. – 11 p.m.
- Outer Limits International Film & Video Series Closing Party, June 17, 2001: 9:30 p.m.
ARCHIVE
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Audio
- Radio Action III CD release performances at New Museum_080708, Aug. 7, 2008. Performances from (in order) Tom Roe; Damian Catera; Tianna Kenndy; George Positive, Samuel Dishy, Maxwell McDonald, Aaron Reed, and Kevin Smith; Joshua Fried and Todd Merrell; LoVid and Howard Huang; and The Dust Dive and Latitude/Longitude. All performerances inspired by recordings for free103point9's Radio Action III CD, with free103point9 Transmission Artists using radio somehow in their works. (audio/mpeg, 33.1 MB)
- Melissa Dubbin + Aaron S. Davidson, April 24, 2004. Drone in key of d at 60 bpm for Scape 2 at Flux Factory (audio/mpeg, 2.6 MB)
- Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson Last Transmissions. For Airborne show at New Museum. (audio/mpeg, 7.0 MB)
- Music from the first karate lesson (audio/mpeg, 5.5 MB)
Video
- Radio Action III CD release video performances at New Museum_080708 Live performances from (in order) Tom Roe; Damian Catera; Tianna Kennedy; Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson's group that included George Positive, Samuel Dishy, Maxwell McDonald, Aaron Reed, and Kevin Smith; Joshua Fried and Todd Merrell; LoVid with Howard Huang; and The Dust Dive and Latitude/Longitude, all performing for the CD release at the New Museum. Video footage courtesy of the New Museum. (video/mov, 1.1 GB)
Image
- Dado Blade (AD012) Cover (image/jpeg, 12.8 KB)