Max Chung creates sonic and visualization experiences that explore responsive technologies in AI and body tracking software. In his multi-media installation, metroequilibrium, Chung creates a digital instrument that captures the relationship of sound and gesture that defines an immersive embodied experience. This installation uses cameras and Google MediaPipe to create… Continue reading
[SUN] Flower Waves explores the harmonious interaction between sunflowers and Alfvén waves, demonstrating how art and science converge to reveal deeper understandings. Sunflowers, with their heliotropic movement, symbolize growth and energy, while Alfvén waves in plasma transport energy along magnetic field lines, crucial for understanding space weather and solar phenomena.… Continue reading
In this new work, Shirley transforms the traditional officer’s home into an abstraction of light and geometry. The size and circularity of “Agency (as in giving…)” create a dynamic contrast with the room’s context, sparking a dialogue between story, time, and space. This interplay prompts a reevaluation of the viewer’s… Continue reading
This is a site – specific installation at Governor’s Island, where two antique chandeliers found in the Nolan Park are rewired to illuminate the gallery using potatoes as a power source. Both futuristic and simple, the revival of the former elegant chandeliers through vegetal power suggests a compromised power grid,… Continue reading
Solstice Sunset Cross-River Bell Ringing The dailybell project is an aspirational project based on the premise that the rotation of the Earth is an inarguable fact, something we can all agree on. Anybody who is nearby this Solstice is invited to join us at sunset (8:30 PM) as we cross the East… Continue reading
Harvestworks announces three events for the third Saturday in June 2024 that will take place in our Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island. All events are free. AFTERNOON ARTIST TALK by Judy Dunaway – Time: 2:45 pm Sound artist Judy Dunaway will discuss her “Aeronaut” installation… Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence has disrupted the creative world and artists need to understand how it works and its risks and benefits. In this easily accessible introductory workshop we take the hype out of the process discussing growing trends and artistic practice, culminating in a hands-on group project. This special workshop is directed… Continue reading
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center announces the New Waves in Art and Tech, an exhibition for our Art and Technology Program on Governors Island. A group show that opens the season with studies in human perception via artworks that explore privacy, brain-computer interfaces, climate and fungal networks, Artificial Intelligence and… Continue reading
ARBORETUM is a collaboration between poet Mónica de la Torre and sound artist Hans Tammen. A series of poems written by de la Torre, inspired by some of the trees of Governors Island, are in turn processed and spatialized by Tammen. De la Torre considered the botanical and historical specificities… Continue reading
A two channel video installation comprising images and animated short loops where the artist collaborates with artificial intelligence to explore questions about the afterlife and how a machine imagines the metaphysical and the transcendental. All images are produced through generative technologies—the final artistic works—are fully created by machine intelligence without… Continue reading
