Mari Kimura is at the forefront of violinists who are extending the technical and expressive capabilities of the instrument. She will perform a recent commission by composer Michael Harrison, and one of her own compositions using her prototype motion sensor system MUGIC. Tickets: $20 / $15 students/seniors Location: Tenri Cultural Institute,43A W 13th… Continue reading
New artworks in the Artworks and Experiences Exhibition include Life This In Find We, a found object player piano roll, reinvented as an improvisational interactive musical device. Over 12 feet long, the paper roll can be performed on by touching the “digital” holes which were originally designed to actuate the notes… Continue reading
New artworks at the Artworks and Experiences exhibition on Governors Island will include this 3 channel animated video installation exploring the catastrophic and dystopic through a lens of an imagined future or a forgotten past. Sci-fi tropes of utopia and dystopia are fragmented through broken narratives, rearranged, distilled, warped, layered… Continue reading
2018 Workspace Resident Laura Splan will present new work in progress at the Harvestworks TEAM Lab Artworks and Experiences Exhibition on Governors Island. Material Expressions incorporates moving sculpture and sound triggered by biosensors monitoring the artist’s heart rate as she knits. The project is part of a series of performances… Continue reading
Lemon Bomb Face is an ongoing series of mechanized light paintings where words are hidden and revealed by two types of light: ultraviolet and daylight. I Win Well is part 2 of the series. The linear-motion mechanism carries a dual light fixture back and forth across the face of a… Continue reading
Wednesday, June 27th, ISSUE and Harvestworks present acclaimed sonicist, composer, and biologist Francisco López and sound artist Beth Bradfish. June 27, 2018 @ 8 pm ISSUE Project Room 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tickets: $15 / $12 ISSUE Members + Students Lopez is making a rare New York… Continue reading
Tuesday, June 26th, ISSUE and Harvestworks present acclaimed sonicist, composer, and biologist Francisco López and composer, performer, and kinetic installation artist Michael Theodore. June 26, 2018 8 pm ISSUE Project Room 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tickets: $15 / $12 ISSUE Members + Students Lopez is making a rare… Continue reading
Avant-garde composer John Cage wrote a piece in 1960 titled Cartridge Music. This concept was this: a cartridge from a phonograph pickup is dismembered, the needle replaced with “all manner of unspecified small objects.” Pipe cleaners, matches, feathers and wires were sounded against surfaces, walls, bodies and floors in order… Continue reading
The subwoofer, a powerful instrument responsible for transmitting the visceral energy of pop, hip-hop, and dance music is in this piece repurposed as a performer. Such a powerful engine, capable of shaking entire neighborhoods is reduced to performing a $1 slide whistle- an often comical children’s toy. Subwhistle is a… Continue reading
Harvestworks hosts artists open studios, an exhibition of digital media art and a workshop / research room to share how artists use new and emerging technology with the public on Governors Island. This year our partners include the TECHNE_Lab and the Streaming Museum. On August 31, 2016, we will open… Continue reading
