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NYC LOCAL: starting Friday 9 October 2009 Harvestworks: New York Electronic Art Festival |
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what="official Harvestworks announcement"
info="http://www.harvestworks.org/cms/index.php/Newsflash/10/9-weekend.html"
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:56:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Harvestworks Announcements <announcements@harvestworks.org>
Reply-To: announcements@harvestworks.org
Subject: This Weekend at the NYEAF
This weekend at the NYEAF:
New Project Demos II
CINDY POREMBA / STEPHANIE ROTHENBERG & MEGAN MICHALAK / NORAH ZUNIGA SHAW
FRIDAY OCTOBER 9, 2009, 7PM FREE
HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER
596 Broadway #602
New York City (at Houston St)
Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince
As part of the New York Electronic Art Festival 2009, a
month-long series of concerts, workshops, and exhibitions
centered on the cutting-edge work be ing done at the intersection
of art and technology, Harvestworks will prese nt the second in a
series of New Project Demos on Friday October 9th with
presentations by new media artists Cindy Poremba, Stephanie
Rothenberg & Meg an Michalak, and Norah Zuniga Shaw.
Montreal-based digital media researcher, creator and curator
Cindy Poremb a will discuss her work with Kokoromi, a game art
collective based in Montreal that creates new experimental
computer games and programs numerous ga me-based events,
exhibitions and performances.
Collaborators Stephanie Rothenberg and Megan Michalak will
discuss their re cent multi-media work World X Diagnostics. Using
custom designed software a nd sound sculptures, public data
measuring gross national well-being is col lected from
participating users and translated into real-time sound frequen
cies through programmed algorithms.
Choreographer and arts researcher Norah Zuninga Shaw will discuss
her recen t work Synchronous Objects. Created in collaboration
with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, Synchronous Objects
(Sync/O) is a screen-based media wor k visualizing choreographic
information for the purposes of investigating d eep structure and
enriching cross-disciplinary engagement with physical int
elligence.
--
Artist Talk
PAUL KAISER & SHELLEY ESHKAR / CCRT
SATURDAY OCTOBER 10, 2009 2PM FREE
World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery
220 Vesey Street, NYC
Subway: R/W City Hall, E World Trade Center, 1,2 or 3 Chambers St.
In conjuction with the New York Electronic Art Festival
Exhibition, Rate of Change - time and space in electronic art,
Harvestworks in partnership with arts-World Financial Center
present a talk with exhibition artists Paul Kaiser & Shelley
Eshkar and the artists of CCRT Collaboration. Kaiser and Es hkar
will discuss the newly restored digital media work Hand-drawn
Space's (1998), a virtual dance installation created with Merce
Cunningham that presents 3D hand-drawn figures performing
intricate choreography in a vir tual space. CCRT will discuss
their work Orbital Drop (Lander), a hypothetical space probe,
flung to the furthest reaches of space to observe and transmit
information and images from alien worlds while performing
scientific research.
Rate of Change - time and space in electronic art
Featuring Merce Cunningham with Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar,
Celeste Boursier-Mougenot, Hisao Ihara, Julia Heyward, Eunjung
Hwang, Jessica Ann Peavy, Christine Sugrue and the CCRT
Collaboration.
September 29 96 October 24
Open Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, Noon - 4PM, FREE
World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, 220 Vesey Street, NYC
Produced by Harvestworks and presented by arts>World Financial
Center which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City
Authority, Brookfield Properties, and Merrill
Lynch. www.artsWorldFinancialCenter.com
--
Around New York City
PERFORMANCE/ARTIST TALK: Jarryd Lowder and Julie Fotheringham.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 7-9 PM
SVA MFA Computer Art 133 W. 21 St., 1st floor, Room 101.
Jarryd Lowder is an artist working with electronic audiovisual
media primarily for live performance. Julie Fotheringham
performed as a dancer/acrobat in Cirque du Soleil before coming
to New York to make her own work.
--
New Project Demos III
ALEX CHECHILE / DAVID HINDMAN / JOSEPH REINSEL
SUNDAY OCTOBER 11, 2009, 3PM FREE
HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER
596 Broadway #602
New York City (at Houston St)
Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince
The New Project Demos series continues with Sunday October 11th
with presentations by Alex Chechile, David Hindman, and Joseph
Reinsel.
Alex Chechile will discuss his recent project Data Decay/Rebirth,
a series of performances and recordings that use various forms of
computer data, inc luding visualizations of biofeedback
(brainwaves/heartbeat), still images, and video as a source
materials for generating sound.
David Hindman will discuss his Harvestworks Residency project,
the Public G uitar-Controlled Video Game Competition. He will
focus on the guitar as an H.I. device and the implementation of
the video game PONG using Max/Msp/Jit ter. A brief performance of
guitar-controlled PONG will include collaborato r Evan Drummond
as the ensemble Modal Kombat.
Baltimore-based media artist Joe Reinsel will show and discuss
three recent 5.1 surround-sound single-channel video works:
Resonations, Threshold circuit 1, Threshold circuit 2.
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway, Suite 602
New York, NY 10012
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