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Harvestworks is pleased to present 2007 and2008 Artists In Residence Ximena Diaz and Derek Franz, who will presenttheir work, Typologies and Differentiations and Tactile Light Sculptures atHarvestworks presentation room (596 Broadway, #602, in SoHo). Thursday, July 24 at 6:30pm
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center is pleased to present 2007 and 2008 Artists In Residence Ximena Diaz and Derek Franz, who will present their work, Typologies and Differentiations and Tactile Light Sculptures at Harvestworks in our presentation room (596 Broadway, #602, in Soho). Ximena Diaz’s Typologies and Differentiations, a multimedia installation inspired by Borges' Analytical Language of John Wilkins, presents an arbitrary human classification system based on whimisical categories chosen by the artist. Such fictional ethnical demarcations invite the audience to reconfigure the anonymous through an analog interface that recalls the eminent disenchantment of modernity and its unfilfilled dreams of equality and development. The project starts with the video documentation of random people walking on the streets of Union Square. Carefully observing the physical and cultural typologies of the people passing by, she has grouped them in 6 categories, forming an arbitrary classification system. After organizing the groups in separate video clips, she reconstructed an empty background of the same panoramic view that would allow her to make people appear or disappear. BIOGRAPHY: Ximena Diaz has a MFA in Digital Media from Rhode Island School of Design and has taught in the US and exhibited extensively in her native Bogotá, Colombia. Ximena’s work was shown at Eyebeam, New York City. She was an Artist in Residence at Harvestworks in 2007. http://www.ximenadiaz.com/ Derek Frantz works with circuit boards that explore energy relocation and ergonomic visual expression, as well as LED light boards and resin nail grids controlled by hand gestures. He will also show electrified pinball boxes and a steel reed vibration checker column of light influenced by the artist Harry Bertoia's sound sculptures. Derek will be displaying these items for audience interaction via conductive gloves and will play music derived from a few of these objects via camera feed into two MAX computers. BIOGRAPHY: Derek, graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz, is a teacher and artisan from California. Schooled in philosophy, electronic music, and computer art: he enjoys engineering meticulous and delicate machine systems to highlight the complexity at the threshold of elemental interactions.
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