A virtual reality piece that is a walking simulator filled with impotent paper-doll tanks. It was inspired by the game, “World of Tanks,” a shooter which depicts historically accurate battles in Eastern Europe. However, East Meets West simply lets you explore the landscape, which is nonetheless littered with ghosts of… Continue reading
Merging her practices as an electronic musician working with spatial audio and as a sound healing practitioner, C. Lavender will present a meditative sunset performance outside the Harvestworks building on Governors Island to provide listeners with a moment of tranquility during sunset. This electro-acoustic performance will feature brainwave modulating digital… Continue reading
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in collaboration with Music Community Lab and Institute for Public Architecture proudly presents Off-the-Grid Music Hackathon. An innovative event that invites music enthusiasts to create music outdoors, far from the confines of electrical outlets and internet access. Located on Governors Island, this hackathon challenges participants… Continue reading
Elico Suzuki’s (suzueri) installation project Birds don’t have Borders aims to question the framework of transmission and migration between living beings such as humans and birds, and invisible media such as sound and light. Opening time: Friday June 30th Closing August 20, 2023 Open to the public: Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11… Continue reading
All That Is Seen and Unseen is an interdisciplinary, installation opera which investigates the multifarious effects of technology on our collective human consciousness. The work confronts the dangerous erosion of truth and trust in our society, which is rapidly intensifying due to advancing A.I., computational propaganda, deepfakes, and other tools… Continue reading
The audience enters a pitch-black room with tens of thousands of invisible organisms in a bulb-like aquarium. They’re invited to speak, and if they do their voice excites the bioluminescent dinoflagellates into illuminating. The microbes create a blue glow of bubbles shaped from the pitch and volume of the voice… Continue reading
LocaleS3 is sound as kinetic plastic sculptural material to be formed with the dynamic properties of location, size, direction, motion, movement. In a dark room, the artists animate & orchestrate interactive virtual sound objects with vocalizations & sound compositions, distributed in space. Visitors become involved accomplices playing the room as… Continue reading
Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling (Version 1) is a multimedia installation focused on the listening body of the heroic oyster. A water filter, sea level mitigator and food source, the oyster is a vital member of our ecosystem that senses safe settlement habitats through sound. Using field recordings, generative data,… Continue reading
This Weekend! Location for All Events: The Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island. All ages. All free. The Process – Opening June 30 The Process: an art and tech exhibition featuring All That Is Seen and Unseen_ by Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons with Zach Layton, Duo Mezzo (Inversion) by Woody Sullender, Cathedral-64 by… Continue reading
Saturday June 17 Location for All Events: The Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island. All ages. All free. Saturday June 17, 2023 @ 7 pm. Performance with Anaïs Maviel, Rashaan Carter, and Mimi A. Experience meditative, minimalist and texturally rich music made of electric & acoustic bass, modular synthesizers, harmonium, percussion,… Continue reading
