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Bruce Tovsky

BRUCE TOVSKY is a visual/sound artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Since his early years as part of the nascent lower east side art scene, Tovsky has been scoring performance, dance works and films and showing his video works across the USA, Europe and Japan. As an audio producer/engineer, he has worked with Liquid Liquid, Y Pants, Karen Finley, and Foetus.

For the past several years he has been creating live video and sound improvisations, and has collaborated with artists John Hudak, Kim Cascone, and David Linton at venues across New York City, including Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, Tonic and his own gallery/installation space 106BLDG30 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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BRUCE TOVSKY is a Brooklyn-based visual/sound artist; since his early years in the nascent lower east side art scene he has scored performances, dance works and films and shown video works across the USA, Europe and Japan. As an audio producer/engineer he has worked with Liquid Liquid, Y Pants, Karen Finley and Foetus; in recent years he has created live video and sound improvisations and collaborated with John Hudak, Kim Cascone and David Linton at New York City venues including Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, Tonic and his gallery/installation space 106BLDG30 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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