Peter Berdovsky (Zebbler)
zebbler@glitchcrew.com
www.zebbler.com
(617) 271-4709
Founding member of Glitch. One artist; many arts.
Zebbler's Video Demo Reel (Quicktime, 52mb) Experience
RedBull North America, Digital Media Specialist, September 2007 - current.
Vermin Street Records, Creative Director, January 2008 - current.
Video Editor / Multimedia Performance Artist, DBA, Boston, MA April 2005 - current.
Teacher’s Assistant, Arlington Children’s Center, Arlington, MA February 1999 - July 2002
Education
Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, completion with distinction in 2006)Distinctions/Awards
Top 20 International VJs 2007 poll by London-based DJ Magazine (debuted in 12th place)
Best Boston Artist of 2007 (official selection by Improper Bostonian Magazine)
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship panelist (selected as an expert to award the New Genres Fellowship for 2006)
Graduation Distinction, Massachusetts College of Art, 2006
Winner of the Massachusetts College of Art All School Show Award for 2004 (second place)
MassArt Merit Scholarship Foundation Award, 2000
Skills
Ability to create complex multimedia from scratch, including video pre and post production, 3d modeling, high level audio recording and editing, interactivity (physical or software sensors), web and graphic design, managing event production and execution, live video performance.
Past live video performances and installations include:Matters and Dunway, Middle East Club, Cambridge, MA, March 24th 2008 (custom video TV installation and VJ performance)
Come Home, Good Life Bar, Boston, MA, March 8th, 2008 (full show production, custom HD a/v performance)
Nightclub and Bar Show, Red Bull booth, Las Vegas Convention Center, February 26-27, 2008 (custom live video performances)
Frostbyte Auction, GlitchLoft, Boston, MA, February 9th, 2008 (custom HD a/v performance)
Ebu Gogo, AS 220, Providence, RI, December 31st, 2007 (live video performance)
Starry Night, Cyclorama, Boston, MA, December 31st, 2007 (Custom video / projection installation)
Flight Club, Club AURA, Portland, OR, December 12th, 2007 (custom a/v performance)
A Night Of Music, Pozen/Massachusetts College of Art, December 8th, 2007 (live video performance)
GlitchGiving 2007, Space X, Boston, MA, November 24th, 2007 (custom HDVideo-surround sound performance, a/v system installation)
Surya Dub, Club 6, San Francisco, CA, October 27th, 2007 (live video performance)
ReMixer Zebbler Performance, Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA, October 26th, 2007 (custom HDVideo-surround sound performance)
Halloween Mashup, Club 58, Quincy, MA, October 20th, 2007 (live video performance, video mashup of a live RedSox game)
Flight Club, Austrian Embassy, Washington DC, October 18th, 2007 (custom a/v performance)
Priscilla Ball (A private Harvard University affair), Artists for Humanity Epicenter, Boston, MA, October 12th, 2007 (custom live video performance)
Flight Club, The Venue at Playmakers, Fargo, North Dakota, October 6th, 2007 (custom multi-channel a/v performance)
Flight Club, Crobar, Chicago, September 18th, 2007 (custom multi-chanel a/v performance)
Infected Mushroom/Alex Grey show, Axis, Boston, MA, September 7th, 2007 (live video performance)
New England Culture Festival, Historic Downtown Lowell, MA, September 1st, 2007 (live video performance)
Flight Club, Roxy, Providence, RI, August 31st, 2007 (custom multi-chanel a/v performance)
Hanslick Rebellion Show, Middle East, Cambridge, MA, August 5th, 2007 (custom live video performance)
Kodiak Bar, Anchorage, Alaska, July 29th, 2007 (Live Custom HD Surround Sound Performance)
Sheila Wyne's Art Studio Party, Anchorage, Alaska, July 28th 2007 (Live Custom HD Surround Sound Performance)
Rally In The Alley, Club 58, Quincy, MA, July 20 and 21 2007 (Live video performances)
Firefly Festival, woods, VT, July 5-8 2007 (Live Custom HD Surround Sound Performance)
++ Residency, Axis, Lansdown, Boston, May - June 2007 (custom live video performances)
Tension Residency, Phoenix Landing, Cambridge, MA, January-February-March-April 2007 (live video performances)
Mash-Up Madness, Club 58, Quincy, MA, March 31st, 2007 (custom live video performance)
Bouncement with Ghislain Poirier, Beat Research's DJ C and DJ Flack, Zebbler/Sean Stevens, Linwood Grill, Boston, MA, March 30th, 2007 (Multimedia/Video performance)
Projection System Installation, Club 58, Quincy, MA, winter 2007 (2 custom projection screens, 2 projectors, 2 cameras, custom switch box)
Impractical Marshmallow Toasting Device, location X, spring 2007 (Custom multi-projector installation, a/v multi-screen performance, head of the VJ team)
SMGU reunion at Circle, Cambridge, MA winter 2007 (live video performance)
Artists For Humanity Epicenter (private events), Boston, MA, 2 Events in December of 2006 (multichannel Live Video Performance)
Tension 1 Year Anniversary, Phoenix Landing, Cambridge, MA , 12.06.2006 (live video performance)
Little Black Dress, Avalon, Boston, MA, 11.29.2006 (live video performance)
Glitchgiving's presentation of Glitch 2, Glitchloft, Charlestown, MA, 11.25.2006 (3 screen surround sound video sync, collaboration with tbalis and Travis of Glitch)
MRDRCR MDDNSS, Darpp32, Charlestown, MA, 10.28.2006 (a most brutal live video performance to Square)
A Nightmare In Quincy, Club58, Quincy, MA, 10.28.2006 (live video performance)
LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad, Venue, Boston, MA 10.08.2006 (live video performance)
DJ Krush, Underbar, Boston, MA 09.10.2006 (live video performance)
Fall Residency (September - October 2006) at the Roxy and Underbar, Boston, MA (multi-screen live video performances)
Tension's Compression Event, Phoenix Landing, Cambridge, MA, 08.23.2006 (custom live video performance)
US Tour (Summer 2006 - custom live video performances, lighting for Ozric Tentacles (UK):
16.06.06 - FRI ~ Rex Theatre, 1602 East Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA
17.06.06 - SAT ~ Revolution Hall, 417 - 425 River Street, Troy, NY
19.06.06 - MON ~ Higher Ground, 1214 Willston Road, South Burlington, VT
20.06.06 - TUE ~ Webster Theatre, 31 Webster Street, Hartford, CT
21.06.06 - WED ~ B.B. Kings Blues Club, 237 West 42nd Street, New York, NY
22.06.06 - THU ~ The State Theatre, 220 North Washington Street, Falls Church, VA
23.06.06 - FRI ~ Recher Theatre, 512 York Road, Townson, MD
24.06.06 - SAT ~ NEARfest, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, 420 East Packer Ave. Bethlehem, PA
25.06.06 - SUN ~ Alley Katz, 10 Walnut Alley, Richmond, VA
27.06.06 - TUE ~ Bogart's, 2621 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH
28.06.06 - WED ~ Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Road, Cleveland, OH
29.06.06 - THU ~ Newport Music Hall, 1722 North High Street, Columbus, OH
30.06.06 - FRI ~ Park West, 322 West Armitage Avenue, Chicago, IL
01.07.06 - SAT ~ Magic Stick, 4120 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI
02.07.06 - SUN ~ Shank Hall, 1434 North Farwell Avenue, Milwaukee, WI
03.07.06 - MON ~ The Music Mill, 3720 East 82nd Street, Indianapolis, IN
07.07.06 - FRI ~ Ogden Theatre, 935 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, CO
08.07.06 - SAT ~ 8150, 143 East Meadow Drive, Vail, CO
09.07.06 - SUN ~ Aggie Theatre, 204 South College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO
10.07.06 - MON ~ The Black Sheep, 2106 E. Platte Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO
11.07.06 - TUE ~ The Depot, 13 North 400 West, Salt Lake City, UT
13.07.06 - THU ~ Crystal Bay Club & Casino, 14 Highway 28, Crystal Bay, NV
14.07.06 - FRI ~ Santa Cruz, CA
15.07.06 - SAT ~ The Fillmore, 1805 Greary@ Fillmore, San Francisco, CAAmalgamate, Middlesex Lounge, Cambridge, MA 05.17.2006 and 02.26.2006 (Live video performances)
Fab Fashion Event, Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center, Boston, MA, 04.21-22.2006 (Custom 2 channel video projection and live video performance)
Hello Neighbor 2006, Pozen Center, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA 04.14.2006 (Performance of Glitch 2, a 3 projection surround sound sync)
Super Psypocket, Milky Way, Jamaica Plain, MA 03.24.2006 (custom live video performance with Superfiction)
Saturday Nights @ Mantra, Boston, MA, March 2006 (live video performances)
Phantasmagoria, Pozen Center, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 12.09.2005 (Presenting "I wash my tv in fear", a 4 Channel Live Video Sync with an additional channel of live video feed projection)
RealTime, WonderBar, Allston, MA 12.03.2005 (Presenting "I wash my tv in fear, a 4 Channel Live Video Performance/Installation)
LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad, Bill's Bar, Boston, 09.13. 2005 (tech assistance, live video performance)
Heist performance, Red Fox Inn, Bondville, VT, 08.27.2005 (custom made rehearsed live video performance, graphic design and documentation assistance)
Firefly Festival, VT, July 2006 (co-creating a live video (Glitch) theme camp, live video performances, outdoor video installatons)
Goldie performance, The Modern, Lansdowne, Boston, 2005 (floating video window projection installation, live video performance, tech assistance)
4 20 Show, Color and Talea, Nikulydin, Bootyjuice, Bill's Bar, Boston, 2005 (tech supervision of the visual artists, live video performance)
Lotus performance, Bill's Bar, Boston, 2005 (live video performance, upgrade and installation of custom-made screens)
Big ASS Show, N181, Mass College of Art, Boston, 2005 (heading the video installation section of the show, rear-projected sculptural installation, video presentation)
Beat Research 1 Year Anniversary, Enormous Room,Cambridge, 2005 (Live video performance)
Art of the Can, 2 chanel video projection installation with custom made screens at Artists for Humanity EpiCenter, Boston, 2005 (documentation video)
Hello Neighbor, video installation and live video performance with DJ Flack, Massart, Boston, 2005
I Heart Breaks, Circle show at Spontaneous Celebrations, Boston, 2005 (tailor-made* live video performance)
Color and Talea, Odeon, DJ Lucas Lejune performance, Bill's Bar, Boston, 2005 (tailor-made live video performance, creation and installation of custom-made screens)
DJ Flack and DJ C performance, Enormous Room, Cambridge, 2005 (live video performance)
The Only Way to Escape the Flux is to Be Still, Massart Auditorium, 2004 (experimental live video performance, winner of 2004 All School Show award)
Red Bull Sound Labs gala opening, Phoenix Landing, Cambridge, 2004 (tailor-made live video performance)
D.J.Modi performance, Milky Way, Boston, 2004 (live video performance)
Electronic Concerto, Massart, Boston, 2004 (installation and orchestration of tailor-made 4 channel live video performance)
Reshuffled, Massart, Boston, 2004 (experimental video projections)
I Wish You Could Talk, Berklee, Boston, 2004 (video presentation)
Pozen Gala Opening, Pozen Center, 175 Studio, Pozen Gallery, Courtyard. Massart, 2004 (3 channel live video/audio performance/feed)
Tremont Tea Room Afterparty, Tremont Tea Room, Boston, 2004 (orchestration and tech of live video performance for Jambient Project, video presentation)
Halcyon, NYC, Feb.15th, 2004 (live video performance with vjs ADD and Joshua Goldberg)
Iron Pour 2004, Mass College of Art (outdoor video team orchestration and live video performance/feed)
An Tua Nua, Boston (several live video performances in 2004)
Mogwai performance, Buffalo NY, 2004 (live video tailor-made to Mogwai's set)
DJ Krush performance, Axis, Boston, 2004 (tailor-made live video performance)
Ming+FS performance, Axis, Boston, 2004 (live video performance)
Multiple live video performances at Circle, Spontaneous Celebrations, 2003-2004
Plush New Year @the RedTail Loft, Boston 2003-2004 night (tailor-made live video performance)
Leonids @the RedTail Loft, Boston, 2003 (live video performance and an experimental video installation)
Sleep is Good, Massart, 2003 (experimental live video performance w/ Star St. Germain)
Psychedelic Pajama Party, Massart, 2003 (tailor-made live video/audio performance, video screenings)
Mookomor performance, O'Brians, Boston, 2003 (live video performance)
Various performances in Worcester, New York, Boston, Cambridge, Lawrence, Providence from 2000-2002 with “The Collective”
Event Production Repetoir*:GlitchGiving 2006, Glitch Loft, Charlestown, MA, Nov. 25th 2006
Glitch Camp (a live video theme camp), Firefly Festival, VT, July 2005
All School Show Closing Party, (featuring Color and Talea), Pozen Center, Mass College of Art, Boston, 2005 (rigging the sound, providing and supervising the sound equipment, running the sound board)
Big ASS Show, N181, Mass College of Art, Boston, 2005 (heading the video installation section of the show)
Hello Neighbor, Massart, Boston, 2005 (a sprawling 5 room interdisciplinary video/audio/3d/2d show)
Electronic Concerto, Massart Auditorium, Boston, 2004 (intelligent dance music concert with 4 channels of live video projections)
Reshuffled, Massart Student Life Gallery and Student Center, Boston, 2004 (an experimental art event: 2 neighboring galleries filled with a maze of paintings, jazz/improv musicians spread through space, live painting on canvas and human form, live video feeds)
Iron Pour 2004, Massart Courtyard, Boston, 2004 (outdoor live making andcasting of iron set to electronic music created by taking an audio feed from melting microphones attached to the furnaces, bands, fire dancers, multiple channel live video performances from a scaffold tower)
Bling Bling, Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, 2004 (prom for massart students and friends, bands, djs, video projections, prom king and queen - set in a lush setting of a hall in the heart of Copley Sq.)
Pozen Gala Opening, Pozen Center, 175 Studio, Pozen Gallery, Courtyard. Massart, 2004 (Private Gala Opening of the newly renovated spaces for the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massart, a multi-space fundraiser which included mice making music, live iron making/casting, a lush dinner, fashion show, dance performances, multiple bands, light show, catering, 3 channel live video projection/feed, speeches by the massart president and guests)
Psychedelic Pajama Party, North Hall and 175 Studio, Massart, Boston, 2003 (an all-night psychedelic event which included screenings of psychedelic movies, rambling poetry, abstract performances, drum circle, djs, ambient music performances set to sunrise, fluorescent installations, dancing and, of course, vegan waffles for the ones who braved it till dawn)
Emergence, Tower Gallery, Massart, 2003 (a festival of interactive and robotic art)
Lightning Bolt/Iron Pour Show 2003 with Dreamhouse, Neptune, Noxagt, USAISAMONSTER, Lighting Bolt, Massart Courtyard, Boston, 2003 (outdoor show with multiple bands set to a fiery background of creating iron from ore and pouring it into molds, fire dancers and fluttering flesh of hundreds halloween-decorated college students)
Do It Till You Drop, North Hall and 175 Studio, Massart, Boston, 2002 (an experimental 2 day eclectic art festival, including hardcore bands, experimental rock, cooking presentations, interactive sculpture installations, electronic music, dance, 2d and 3d art)
* Tailor-made term means that the visuals were shot/edited/animated or in any other way created for a specific show, staying true to the show's music and theme.
* Event production repetoir includes both shows where Zebbler was the main producer and a co-producer. Shows, after all, are not made by one person. Deepest thanks to all who made them possible.All institutional education:
1986-1987 - Grandichi School, Belarus, USSR.
1987-1996 - School #10 (English Language Focus), Grodno, Belarus.
1990-1993 - Grodno Music School (Focus on percussion and saxophone), Grodno, Belarus.
1994 - 10 day exchange course at Levanger School, Levanger, Norway.
1996-1998 - Arlington High School, Arlington, MA, USA.
1997 - A course in black and white photography, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, USA.
2000 - 10 day art course at Haystack School of Arts and Crafts, Deer Island, ME, USA.
2003 - Mass College of Pharmacy (Course in Human Development), Boston, USA.
2004 - Boston Conservatory (Ear Training Course), Boston, USA.
2005 - Harvard Medical School (Stem Cells - Hope Beyond the Hype Seminar), Boston, MA, USA.
2005 - MIT (Regarding Evil - conference on Evil and its place in contemporary life), Cambridge, MA, USA.
2005 - Harvard Medical School (Seminar on Genes and Behavior), Boston, MA, USA
2000-2006 - Bachelor of Arts and Sciences from Studio for Interrelated Media at Mass College of Art (Focus on video and show production), Boston, MA, USA.
Video Works
1999
- Whipped Cream Day Dream (Dreamy musical celebration of whipped cream and the persuasive power of sex, presented on the Arlington Cable Access Channel).
- The Meaning Of Life (Whimsical poetry and interviews with animate and inanimate objects, presented on the Arlington Cable Access Channel).
2000
- City Scream (Violent protest against sleepwalking).
- Spoon (Exploration of a gateway to parallel dimensions).
- Patricia (Analog tape scratch of a turbulent male-female confrontation - on fire).
2001
- Emily (Playing with broken glass).
- Meat Bouqet (Animated gory habits of a neanderthal artist)
2002-2004
- International Man of Mystery (A political portrayal of Lukashenko, "the last dictator of Europe").
- Green Phoenix (A modern-day fairy tale of nature vs. city)
- I Wish You Could Talk (Bizarre groove based psychedelic human interaction/dance Derek Frankel music video)
- Shallow Eyes (A music video for Japanese singer Mayu, beautiful reminder of the ocean of human potential within us all)
- The Gently Brothers Taster (Promotional video depicting the skills of two legendary djs)
- City/Forest (A video for Mogwai's performance at Buffalo, NY, depicting gradients between subtle movement and explosive bursts, paralleling the city to the forest)
- DJ Krush DVD (A DVD of DJ Krush's performance at Axis, Boston)
- Space Invaders - Boston (Hilarious video bits of Space Invaders attacking Boston)
- Dwane (Part of Emotional Landscapes series, a non-linear video of human expression potentials).
- Mask 02 (Video collage of digital depictions of eyes and mouths).
2005
- Dreams (Music videos for DJ Modi, an audio-video dreamscape, exploring the realms of beauty, fear and evolution)
- Silence (A music video for Japanese singer Maria, tormenting lyrics with a lush ocean backdrop of the Philippines)
- I Wash my TV in Fear (13 minute 4 channel video meditation on mass media's fear inducing approach to broadcasting news, sound collaboration with t.b.alis)2006
- Glitch 2 (a 20 minute 3 channel surround sound video sync, a psychedelic preview of a meditation on VJ culture, collaboration with tb.alis and other videographers, musicians, vjs and techies)
2007
-Bucket of Ice (an HD surround sound glitch remix of Madonna's Die Another Day video)
-Lament (a custom HD surround sound/performance war protest piece)The following is a more in-depth look at the artist (provided courtesy of norajean)
Zebbler
zebbler@glitchcrew.com
www.zebbler.com
(617) 271-4709
Founding member of Glitch (www.glitchcrew.com). One artist; many arts." Some of the beautiful insanity of the events is my urge to be eclectic and experimental, starting with an idea in my mind that is sort of like a certain taste I can imagine, then mapping out a recipe for acquiring the taste and finally 'baking the cake and eating it'. Freedom to create art events from scratch is beautiful."
Zebbler, 2004
His repertoire includes performance art, painting, animation, video design, sound design and performance, installation art, and sculpting. Born Pukalo-Berdovskiy Piotr Leonidovich, in Belarus, Soviet Union, dec. 22, 1979. Zebbler came to the U.S. as an exchange student in 1996. In 2000 he was granted political asylum, began attending the Studio for Interrelated Media program at Massachusetts College of Art, and began his adventures in live video and show production.
As an actor and a video artist he performed with the poetry group known as “The Collective” in New York, Boston, Providence, Worcester, Lawrence from 2000-2002. By 2002 a live-video collective Glitch was being born. 2003-2004 found Zebbler as a member of Eventworks, a student-run organization founded in 1977 that provides shows and events involving various traditional and cutting edge genres of art for the MassArt community and general public. Current projects include producing music videos for DJModi, Mayu (www.mayudreams.jp), Maria (www.mariamaria.jp) and producing music with the band Superfiction (www.superfiction.com)
In 2004 Zebbler received MassArt’s All School Show Award for an experimental live video performance called The Only Way to Escape the Flux is to Be Still. His live vj sets can be described as visual psychedelia with strings of emotional and conceptual meanings with a focus on the wholeness of the experience for the viewer, where the beginnings and the ends of the show are carefully attended to and the emotional/intensity states of the viewer are well considered. Zebbler often collaborates tightly with the performing musician(s) to specifically tailor the video to fit the musical personality.
