SWEATSHOPPE is a new multimedia performance collaboration between Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw that works at the intersection of art, music and technology. The duo develops software to construct a totally unique interactive performance, abd creates unique ways of affecting an audience.

Whether it be as a dance driven electronic music performance that emphasizes sound reactive visuals, building interactive installations, or the fabrication of guerrilla technologies to augment public space, the duo strives towards an element of pop accessibility that is so often ignored in the technocentric world of experimental media.

Shortly after receiving a BFA in photography at New York University in 2001, Bruno Levy co-founded and managed SQUARESQUARE, a media company specializing in live video, design and motion graphics. Apple and Wired magazine both recognized SQUARESQUARE as a pioneer in video scratching. In 2003, Bruno started to work as a travel photographer, capturing everything from the Dalai Lama (in portraits) to underwater battles between hammerhead sharks and dolphins in the Marquesas, French Polynesia. In 2006, his travels led him to Nepal, where he spent his time practicing Buddhism in a monastery, working in a tattoo shop, and running a restaurant that he opened. In 2009, he returned to NYC. He is now directing and shooting music videos, painting and is part of new multimedia performance duo, SWEATSHOPPE.

Bruno Levy's clients include corporations (Sprite, Panasonic), magazines (Wired, XLR8R) and musicians (Ndea Davenport of the Brand New Heavies, RZA of the Wu Tang Clan and The Walkmen). His works have been exhibited by, among others, the Guggenheim, the SFMOMA, the MCA in Chicago, the Bronx Museum, the Jumbotron in Times Square, 111 minna, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Arts.

Homepage: brunolevy.com

Born in Louisville, KY in 1988, New Media artist Blake Shaw aka Holva has been a musician for the majority of his life. Receiving his first pair of belt drive turntables and a tiny two channel mixer as a gift for Hanukkah when he was merely ten years old, later scoring his first gig at the age of 16. People quickly began taking notice of his unique style and he began playing at raves, clubs and parties all over the southern midwest. After a while he started throwing a string of successful events in the Louisville area while working with promoters from all over.

He is currently writing software utilizing the Max/MSP programming language as part of the new multimedia project SWEATSHOPPE. Developing interactive environments and creating new platforms for artistic expression, Blake is constantly pushing the boundaries of technology and art. Residing in Bennington, VT he is studying Visual Art and Performing Art at Bennington College.

Videos: SWEATSHOPPE Vimeo Homepage Phone: (646) 236-2602
E-mail: contact@sweatshoppe.org

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