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Dear Friends of Experimental Intermedia,
Season's Greetings! and wishing you all joy and success in the coming 2026 year!
On our side, 2026 will bring us the greatest challenges we have ever faced. Indeed, we recently found out that, like many cultural organizations in these difficult times, we were not successful this year in obtaining the state funding we have been getting for the last 40+ years. Thus, as of January 2026, we will be reduced to only private donations to keep, what will almost certainly have to be a reduced program, going... over the next 12 months.
Now, as 2025 comes to its end, we turn to you, more insistently than ever, for any change you might be able to spare to help us continue presenting innovative, technologically and technically sophisticated, music & intermedia artwork, in one form or another.
So, we appeal to you, if you were inspired, challenged or moved by Experimental Intermedia Foundation's programming over the past 50 odd years, or if you performed yourself, or have come to see friends perform, or to see any of your experimental music/intermedia heroes... we hope you will consider supporting this fundraising effort. Your fully tax-deductible donation of any amount can be crucial for the survival of our programming.
You can do this now if you still want to for the 2025 year, or just get an early start for your 2025 donations if you prefer...
Donations can be made through the "Donate" button on the landing page of our website:
www.experimentalintermedia.org (PayPal) or by sending a check by mail.
And here an overview of our 2025 year:
To begin with, we - actually mainly YOU, thanks to your generous donations - have succeeded in saving all of our DATs! By the beginning of June 2025, our amazing engineer Garry Rindfuss was able to complete the transfer to digital files of all 400 DAT recordings from 20+ years of EIF concerts and events!
2025 also saw Experimental Intermedia's programs continue into their fifty-second year bringing new and exciting artworks into the world. These have promoted the practices of reputed as well as under-represented artists of all generations - from emerging young adults to esteemed elders - of most varied backgrounds and provenances.
Our March 2025 presented concerts and screenings at three different New York City locations: Harvestworks, Zürcher Gallery and Various/Artists. Concerts were by Alex Chechile (Providence, RI), Charmaine Lee, MV Carbon, Thessia Machado, and Ranjit Bhatnagar, all NYC-based, along with Eric Letourneau from Montreal, Canada. Screenings were by Benton C Bainbridge (Erie, PA) as well as the 21st annual Screen Compositions event curated by Katherine Liberovskaya featuring works by artists from Ukraine, Austria, England, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Australia and the U.S.
In April, Subtropics of Miami (FL), decided to dedicate a weekend to honor Experimental Intermedia - "EI - Subtropics Tribute" a Mini-Festival of Experimental Music and Film: a tribute to Phill Niblock, long time director of Experimental Intermedia a year after his passing, to the centennial, which was this year, of Elaine Summers who founded Experimental Intermedia in 1968, and to the work of Experimental Intermedia over the years. EIF was invited to put together the program that was presented at the Blackbox Theater of the beautiful Deering Estate in Palmetto Bay outside Miami.
The recently completed December 2025 Series had eight concerts or screenings over seven evenings at three New York City venues: Various/Artists, Harvestworks, and Fridman Gallery. Concerts included music by Al Margolis and Tom Law (UpState New York), Marcia Basett, Chuck Bettis, Ras Burnett, Tor Snyder, Dave Ross, Kristin Norderval, all NYC-based, Miguel Frasconi (CT), Mariana Carvalho (Berlin, Germany) and Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (Paris, France). A night was dedicated to a retrospective of Scott Kiernan's (NYC) video work. And EIF was especially thrilled to present, in the context of celebrations around her centennial, an evening of the early films of Elaine Summers who founded Experimental Intermedia in 1968, some of which had cinematography by Phill Niblock.
All events were in-person and simultaneously video-live-streamed from our website and audio-streamed from Wave Farm's web radio. Video recordings of all the video-live-streams remain on our website and can be viewed by anyone near or far at any time.
Experimental Intermedia Foundation also assisted in producing the second edition of Phill Niblock's annual winter Solstice concert without Phill - six hours of music and film - at Roulette NYC on December 21st.
In addition, Experimental Intermedia's label XI Records remains active. We are currently working on new releases, planned for 2026, by Julian Knowles and David First.
In gratitude,
Katherine Liberovskaya, Artistic Director
Al Margolis, President
and all the members of the EIF Board and team
Experimental Intermedia Foundation
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