[Sept 2] Sunset Meditative Performance by C. Lavender

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

[Aug 5] Off-The-Grid Music Hackathon

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

[June 30 – Aug 20] Birds don’t have Borders by Elico Suzuki

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

[June 30 -Aug 27] All That is Seen and Unseen by AutomaticRelease

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

[Aug 19] “What is the Shape of Water?” A cross-species meditation by Lisa Moren with Dr. Tsvetan Bachvaroff

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

[Sept 1 -Oct 29] LocaleS3 by Michelle Jaffe, David Reeder and Phil Edelstein

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

[Sept 1 -Oct 29]  Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling by Stephanie Rothenberg and Suzanne Thorpe

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

New Exhibition – The Process

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

More June 2023 Events!

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