The Night Bears

The Night Bears John JA Jannone + Daniel Munkus + Sophia Remolde = Super/Spirit Heroes masquerading as NYC-based Performance/Technology Collective.

Preparing for a Singularity near You.

Charged with the task of spiritually preparing the human race for the coming of the singularity, The Night Bears masquerade as a New York City based media and performance collective. The group investigates narrow sense-apertures to locate the spaces where the divide between biology and technology will eventually dissolve. The Bears tell storie

s with subtle light in darkness, small indications of depth in flatness, tiny sounds in silence, near-stillness in stillness. They tell timeless tales of sex and death, human-machine collaboration and conflict, and universal journeys of self-discovery and transcendence. The group’s founding members — John J.A. Jannone, Daniel Munkus, and Sophia Remolde — forge their work from the interplay of their seemingly polar and contradictory, and often extreme, physical and philosophical practices. They knit their work from Butoh, Suzuki, Zen Buddhism, martial arts, and contact improvisation; and weave in shiny threads of media, robotics, coding, music, and puppetry.

05/13/2018

After a few years of pursuing separate bearly activities, two of the original bears reunited on this project:

The Night Bears newest video is now available in 日本語! Many super thanks to Fukuko Yamagamiさん for the translation, Emily ...
06/01/2014

The Night Bears newest video is now available in 日本語! Many super thanks to Fukuko Yamagamiさん for the translation, Emily Nicholas and Emily Danger Band for the haunting music!

this Bear is discovering its Seoul! (Seoul is super friendly to Bears and it feels really nice to be so well accepted.)
05/02/2014

this Bear is discovering its Seoul! (Seoul is super friendly to Bears and it feels really nice to be so well accepted.)

Looks like Gem Duridium beat The Night Bears to the tracer light phenomenon by about 65 years here.We might have taken i...
05/01/2014

Looks like Gem Duridium beat The Night Bears to the tracer light phenomenon by about 65 years here.

We might have taken it just a bit further. ;)

The Bears have friends in Tokyo!
04/16/2014

The Bears have friends in Tokyo!

04/05/2014

The Night Bears learned that translating our name was a good decision (in Japan we are 夜熊). Reason: Night Bears in Japanese is pronounced ナイト・ベアー (Naito Beaa), which is a near homophone of the much more familiar ナイトメア (Naitomea). So, not translating our name would have quite literally been a nightmare!

Come see The Night Bears any and every Wednesday night at Dassara Ramen! And have some VERY TASTY RAMEN while you're the...
03/17/2014

Come see The Night Bears any and every Wednesday night at Dassara Ramen! And have some VERY TASTY RAMEN while you're there, よ. Even though these little bears are now spread out across the world, with Sophia Remolde in Tokyo, John J A Jannone headed to Osaka next week, and Daniel Munkus holding down the fort in Brooklyn, we are together in spirit and image Wednesdays on Dassara's innovative, interactive, and ingenious video environment designed by the fabulous Ralph Jacobus of RAMENWERK. If you go to see the work, let us know, and let us know what kind of Ramen you had!

We, the Bears, had an event on 1/22 at Dassara Ramen both to present some of our new work in Dassara's innovative video ...
01/26/2014

We, the Bears, had an event on 1/22 at Dassara Ramen both to present some of our new work in Dassara's innovative video environment, and to have a little going-away-party before John J A Jannone goes to Osaka, and Sophia Remolde to Tokyo!

This new work we presented is a continuation of our Nori/Noir project, Meat&Light: using long-exposure digital photography and image processing to draw hard-boiled graphic novels live in performance. In these new video compositions where "the air was thick with nanobots," we continue the story of post-singularity private dick Morthan Meat, and the dame who might be the only hope for what is left of biological humanity.

01/14/2014

today's light drawing experiment brings an unexpected Doctor Who tribute (hint: John's favorite Doctor is the fourth one -- anyone else want to weigh in?) and some furious dragon-faced jellyfish monsters.

who is that man hiding in the shadows? let the Night Bears shed a little light...
01/13/2014

who is that man hiding in the shadows? let the Night Bears shed a little light...

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01/12/2014

the Night Bears have been stirring from their winter slumber to make some late-night video art for their upcoming event at Dassara on 1/22...let's play!

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