Inspired by safety guidance from the Governors Island Ferry, Grace Schmidhauser and Jay Reinier create a duo with found objects, radio waves, and misdirections. Both are young artists at the Harvestworks Art & Technology Building, where they assist with multimedia installations, and come from a background in music, sound & video art.
Location:House Fest in Nolan Park
Date: Saturday August 17, 2024
Start Time: 6:30 pm Duration: 30 minutes
Grace Schmidhauser
Grace Schmidhauser is a sound-maker currently based in Brooklyn. She is one half of the experimental rock duo Or Best Offer. She oscillates between making guitar-driven post-rock music and experimental ambient work, often at the same time. Her work centers around tactile experimentations with material, synchronicity, the spirit of play, and new age mysticism.
Jay Reinier
instagram: @jpalindrome
website: jpalindrome.com
Jay Reinier’s work tightropes the boundary between speech and sound, often taking the form of creative/critical hypertexts, performances, and installations. Inspired by posthumanist ideas, their work challenges anthropocentrism, using technology and multimedia to articulate technological, ghostly ways of being.
Reinier attended Oberlin College and Conservatory, where they studied composition and comparative literature. They received Highest Honors for his undergraduate thesis, “Demons of Analogy: The Encounter Between Music and Language After Mallarmé,” which investigates how French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé theorizes a musical poetics, and how music speaks back at this poetics. They have designed and taught four courses in Oberlin’s Experimental College which explore experimental literature and posthumanist philosophies. They currently live and work in New York City and are getting their MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College.