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Recent studio… by @zenithfoundation

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🔊👉Swipe for excerpts from video documentation of 3-channel test installation of “The Room Presumed” by @zenithfoundation

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🔊ON > Scroll 👉 for excerpts from recent live performance of "Chattering Matte" (2022) at @roulette_intermedium taken in Roulette by @zenithfoundation

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E.S.P.TV is happy to be a part of this televisual dreaming featuring our work,WORK at Pioneer Works in 2017 (a series that ages like fine wine), plus an extra feature;)

3ETV, Somerset House, London (UK), 16-19 October 2026

A multi-channel TV station exploring performance and technology online, part of 3 Evenings: Experiments in Performance and Technology.

3ETV is an international collaboration between Somerset House Studios (London), HEK (House of Electronic Arts, Basel), M+ (Hong Kong), Onassis ONX (Athens/New York) & Pioneer Works (New York), a decentralised curated broadcast exploring how performance and technology have evolved in an always on world.

A bespoke 9 channel station will allow audiences to navigate their own viewing experience from any location, moving between commissioned artist responses and provocations, artworks, experimental shorts, archival material, and live capture of the one-off performances at 3 Evenings.

Featuring

Larry Achiampong, Cory Arcangel, Rebecca Allen, Herdimas Anggara, LaTurbo Avedon, Balfua, David Blandy, Zach Blas, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Samuel Capps, Despina Charitonidi, Shu Lea Cheang, Carla Gannis, Going Away.tv, E Jane, Mark Leckey, Lauren Lee McCarthy & Casey Rees, Maya Man, Eva & Franco Mattes, Samra Mayanja, Tom Mouna, Takeshi Murata, Karyn Nakamura, Mimi ỌNỤỌHA, Nam June Paik, Wong Ping, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, Camile Sahin, Jacolby Satterwhite, Molly Soda, Shaheer Tarar, Tanat Teeradakorn, Alex Quicho, McKenzie Wark.

HEK (House of Electronic Arts, Basel): !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Esther Hunziker, Lauren Huret, Simone Niquille, Lerie Pemanagpo, Jennifer Merlyn Scherler, Robin Meier Wiratunga

M+ (Hong Kong): Guo Cheng, Ryan Kuo, Zach Lieberman, Xu Bing, Zheng Mahler

Onassis ONX (Athens/New York): Peter Burr, Nancy Baker Cahill, Sean Capone, Adam Cole, Kordae Jatafa Henry, Sean Kennedy, Sarah Rothberg, Miriam Simun, Ambrose Trataris, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Yaloo

Pioneer Works (New York): Charles Atlas, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, Cameron Granger, Jenson Leonard, ESP TV

@vict_0r @zenithfoundation @pioneerworks @esptvnyc @somersethousestudios @davideveritthowe taken in Somerset House by @zenithfoundation

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Too Much Is Better Than Too Little | Alfred Hilsberg, ZickZack & the Invention of the German Underground
Oct 8 - Nov 7
Opening: Oct 8, 6-8pm

Curated by Sukhdev Sandu and presented w/ Goethe-Institut NY

The first exhibition on music journalist, filmmaker, and punk pioneer Alfred Hilsberg and record label ZickZack ever mounted outside of Germany. More info at the link in bio.

In a series of articles for the best-selling music magazine Sounds, Hilsberg talked of German punk as an exercise in democracy: it encouraged, he believed, a do-it-yourself attitude; incited culture from below; and produced “small daily revolutions”.

Featuring photography, Super-8 films, and rare and unseen records, badges, flyers, and posters. With parallel talks and performances featuring musicians Gudrun Gut and JG Thirlwell, German "tape delinquent" Felix Kubin, East German punk historian Seth Howes, and DJ Maya Hardinge. by @zenithfoundation

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21 days ago

Well, we simply couldn’t be more excited about the most Special Edition we’ll probably ever attend much less Host in our lifetimes…. This Fri, SHAME! Presents: An Evening with CABARET VOLTAIRE….
@cabaretvoltaireband !!!

Following their show at KDC, we host beloved pioneers of sound in a most intimate of settings of our creation at a gathering celebrating them, their tour, album, and the overall massive influence they’ve had on us.
Those who acted quick will be enjoying this #VERYRARE Once In A Lifetime get together with the band/ family and friends for an unforgettable evening…

Now joining us, Guest Dj [Friend of SHAME!] : Scott Kiernan ! @zenithfoundation

As was initially disclosed, the setting is intimate and capacity limited so only those who got confirmed advanced tickets are guaranteed entry. While we are currently Sold Out for this earlier evening portion, we shall allow additional admittance As Occupancy Allows later in the night at which point there will also be reduced entry….

So, If you miss the band but still want to come for the experience, a dance, total alternative reality immersion in cold electronic sounds….. Come Try your luck after 1am. 🙃

SHAME! w Guests of Honour CABARET VOLTAIRE….
Exposition Éphémère 1 Night Only SHAME installation…
Guest Dj : Scott Kiernan [E.S.P. TV]
SHAME DJs:
L.SANGRE @lsangre & LIZ WENDELBO @xenoandoaklander
SOLD OUT!!!

Door Tickets Based On Occupancy
Reduced Cover after 1:00am $7
132 Bowery 5th Fl
@fluxlumina
Door Tickets = cc / electronic payment
FL runs a FULL liquor /wine bar we encourage as always that you support them with ca$h ! 🍷

Can’t wait to enjoy this unforgettable evening with you all! by @zenithfoundation

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23 days ago

AMOS POE: UNMADE by SEBASTIAN MLYNARSKI
WORLD PREMIERE
with select works by AMOS POE

Q&A with SEBASTIAN MLYNARSKI, moderated by DAVID FEAR

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 at 8PM
ROXY CINEMA

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT WWW.THEDOWNTOWNFESTIVAL.COM by @zenithfoundation

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24 days ago

Do It Together
Pallas Projects 1996–2026
Exhibition continues until Saturday October 24

Featuring: E.S.P. TV (Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie)
Episodes 34 & 35, 2012
Analogue video
Taped live to VHS at Pallas Projects Dublin, September 2012
Live video mix and manipulation by Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie
Presented as part of the exhibition Where is the here if the here is in there? curated by Paul Murnaghan

E.S.P. TV is a collaboration between artists Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie that utilized a mobile television studio to explore the performative nature of production and televisual language. Through installations, broadcasts, and live taping events, they have built a network of artists and an extensive archive. They held over 100 international events, including their infamous TV cabaret at Pallas Projects/Studios in Dublin in 2012, and built an extensive archive. Their mobile studio, UNIT 11 – a converted news van – toured across the US in 2015. They worked with major institutions including the Whitney Museum, New Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Queens Museum, Harvard Art Museums, and Ballroom Marfa. The project was a 501(c)3 non-profit supported by Franklin Furnace, Wave Farm, and the Augustine Foundation.

Image: E.S.P TV Episodes 34 & 35, 2012, analogue video

Do It Together is funded by @artscouncilire @dublincitycouncil & @deptculturecommssport Three people on stage against a colorful striped backdrop; center holds a microphone, left holds a bottle, right wears a patterned dress. by @zenithfoundation

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Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie join us this week for a deep dive into the history of ESP TV, their long-running multi-disciplinary avant-garde public access variety show (say that five times fast!). We talk cross-country mobile broadcasting, the joys of setting up a 501(c), and the latent spirituality of the DIY ethos. Check out the ESP TV archives at www.esptv.com/ and please join our Patreon at www.patreon.com/basecampbeta by @zenithfoundation

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Two more weekends to catch “Proximity Effects” by Nina Sobell @nina_sobell at @variousartistsnyc before the closing reception on July 26th (5pm onwards). The closing will feature one last performance of GammaTime a new iteration in Nina’s long running work with EEG technology developed with @exitrip and @_lucindajacobson . There will also be a large Zoom panel discussion with Nina and several past and present collaborators as moderated by Allen Riley @twoeggshomefriesryetoast . Open Thursdays through Sundays, 3-8 and by appointment. 19 Essex NYC 10002 by @zenithfoundation

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3 months ago

Scroll for clips from new video for "Anything" by @blackmarblenyc on @sacredbones . Warping and weaving through stacks of discs from a CD-ROM era of image classification and "training"...thanks to Michael Hernandez-Stern and to @ivanberko for the perfect guitar loan. Shot at @variousartistsnyc by @zenithfoundation

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Some moments from the first 2 years of exhibitions at @variousartistsnyc . Not enough room here to feature all of the many performances and programs. Thanks to everyone who’s shown work and shown up to be a part of it…Stay tuned for more this Fall and don’t miss our current show with @nina_sobell up through July 26.

1: Scott Kiernan “Syntax Workers”
2. Victoria Keddie “For the Record”
3. Jennifer Juniper Stratford & Erica Magrey: “Model View Controller”
4. Peter Burr, Mark Fingerhut, Matthew D. Gantt: “Natural Contacts”
5. Siebren Versteeg: “Possession with Intent”
6. Victoria Keddie: “Drift Choir”
7. LoVid: “Mycotechnology: The Work of Wires in the Age of Secondary Decomposition”
8-9: After the Watershed: Late Nite TV in Britain curated by The Colloquiim for Unpopular Culture, Colm McAuliffe and Matthew Harle
10. El presente es el futuro: The Videos of Sarah Minter, curated by Emiliano Rocha Minter and Fernando Llanos w/ Steve Macfarlane
11. Damon Zucconi: “Neurofiction”
12-13. Lary 7: “Nothing Planned”
14. “Amateur Detection” w/ Sara Hornbacher, Jonas Bers, Blinn and Lambert, Greg Zifcak, Joost Rekveld, Jen Kutler, Phil Baljeu, Anton Rickets
15-16. Nina Sobell: “Proximity Effects”
17. Deric Carner: “Ripe Like a Stranger”
18. Sudden Sway in “Just Step Sideways”
19. Bradley Eros in “Just Step Sideways”
20. Francisca Benitez in “Just Step Sideways” by @zenithfoundation

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