2025 Sponsored Projects

Commissioned Works/Special Projects is our program offering financial and administrative assistance to individual artists. We act as a fiscal agent for those artists applying for grants from federal and state programs and private foundations. Through this program we help develop collaborative projects between artists and assist with the presentation of… Continue reading

Ivana Dama [Assistant to the Director]

Ivana Dama is a sound artist and researcher whose work explores the nonverbal expression of experiences shaped by social and political conflict, through sound studies and sonic memory. She earned her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University after graduating from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture. Her work—including audio-video installations,… Continue reading

Support the Future of Harvestworks!

Start the New Year on the Right Tone! Support for Harvestworks is support for experimental sound and visual artists. After working with 13,850 artists – the stage was set for our Art & Technology Program on Governors Island that welcomed 4,300 visitors. Please consider making a year-end contribution, and thank… Continue reading

[Dec 12] Kevin Ramsay + Yuma Uesaka

Harvestworks is pleased to partner with Experimental Intermedia’s December 2024 Series to present Duo Daxophone / Electronics with Kevin Ramsay and Contrabass Clarinet Yuma Uesaka. A night of improvised performance with through composed miniatures as a base utilizing concatenative synthesis, granular synthesis techniques to blend spontaneous improvisation with noise. DATE:… Continue reading

[Dec 16]Jenn Grossman: (im)material resonance

Harvestworks is pleased to partner with Experimental Intermedia to present Jenn Grossman. A night of (im)material resonance — First, a live performance rendition of her multichannel sound object installation: Fenestra (Transparencies), made of acrylic panels and surface transducers; We listen through physical surfaces, like a sonic skin, a connective membrane.… Continue reading

[Nov 30 and Dec 1]  音園 Oto Zono

The literal meaning of Oto Zono in Japanese is “Sound Garden,” here it is translated into a performance concept cultivating diverse experimental music/sound. New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, a vibrant garden and forest of aural culture.  Not to mention the strata of city… Continue reading