JiKU - Live AV set by CHiKA with Tricot (Merche Blasco and Thessia Machado) Translated from the Japanese as “space-time", JiKU (jeekoo) is an audiovisual, experience. JiKU energized a dormant location, as the artist manipulates the space based on the real time reactions of the individuals inhabiting it. CHiKA is an interactive visual artist and an educator. She creates a minimalist geometric visual narrative in sync with the sounds of live music performance in addition to interactive projection mapping installations that explore the relationship between visual, light, sound and public audience. Her work has been shown at the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Art and Design, the Hammer Museum, San Francisco Art Institute, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, Museo Regional de Guadalajara, Matadero Madrid, Theatre Maisonneuve, Biennial in Venezuela, eBay, New York University, Cooper Union, The School of Visual Arts, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, Millennium, Mapping Festival, Dumbo Arts Festival, MOD Festival, Blip Festival New York, Blip Festival Tokyo, Mutek, Nuit Blanche, Metropolitan Pavilion, Music Hall of Williamsburg, The Gramercy Theatre, S.O.B.’s, and among other places.
	CHiKA IMAGIMA * OpticalGLAMOUR www.imagima.com TRICOT: Mercedes Blasco http://half-half.es/ Thessia Machado www.thessiamachado.com