KATHLEEN LAZIZA
WILLIAM LAZIZA STATEMENT
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As interdisciplinary artists we are natural pioneers because of our 
diverse art/tech training and our instinctive sensibility for collaboration.  
We have devoted nearly 25 years in perfecting dynamic signature works that 
are pure "Laziza".  These highly visual eclectic works integrate designs 
for solar windows, videoart, touch sensitive installations, cyber 
experiments, performance art and audio/visual sculptures.  Our driving 
interest for creating these types of works is to celebrate synergy by 
embracing hybrid methods.  Our innovative works tend to blur the lines
between art forms as well as between audience and performers.
  
Since antiquity people have been unabashed sun worshipers.  The sun is 
a vital source of life. Our goal with AC/DC WINDOW INSTALLATIONS is to 
open dialogue about power derived from the sun through weather based 
lighting sculptures.  Solar Roller is an offspring of another AC/DC Window
at the Micro Museum  - 123 Smith Street.  These kinetic sculptures merge 
colors while providing visual energy in co-ordination with natural cycles of
sunlight.  The visual results change each day as natural light varies. 
Intense sunlight is converted into power through a solar panel to run 
the engines of the sculpture.  Colors pulse through the rotating sculpture
making ray patterns that bounce through loops and focus on the 
background surface.  The quality of light in its angle of incidence, purity, 
haze, and color reflects the sculptures' intermittent moving patterns and 
designs. The installation can be experienced both from the interior and 
exterior. Solar Roller is operated by two power systems DC (free gift from 
the sun) and AC (utility co.) when the sun is not available.

Over the years we have generated dozens of low-tech special effect 
tools to combine with high tech image-making equipment to make our videoart
and sculptural works.  These tools include lenses, installations, and 
lighting environments.  It was out of this spirit that Solar Roller was 
invented. The dual sided lightshow environment created from this kinetic 
sculpture is recorded on videotape and used as visual content for our 
videoart experiments with the Laziza Electrique Dance Co.  (Check out
www.micromuseum.com for more details).  Solar Roller offers repetitious
patterns of organic light and color mixing that is an invigorating 
dance of chance in it's own right.  

Together people live in a global society filled with high-speed 
connections for data, voice and image transfer.  Communicating through 
pictures, the global society shows sensitivity to all forms of visual 
suggestion. The populace is increasingly on the receiving end of strong 
visual imagery often with a direct message attached, making the difference 
between art and propaganda slim.  In contrast, we do not sell audiences 
"a point of view". Our leading careers this interesting juncture where art 
forms and new technology are encouraged to mirror one another in surprising 
ways.  As a result, most of our art exploration is abstract and 
non-representational. 

We advise viewers to keep an open mind and allow our work's natural
vibrations to enter their body's keen Eco-system.  Peace