Documentation of a series of four presentations around composition within live audiovisual performance as documentation of the process of development, with Benton-C Bainbridge, Adam Kendall, Katherine Liberovskaya and Andrea Parkins, moderated by Ana Carvalho. Continue reading
Are you a musician looking for some new tricks? How about being able to trigger a drum loop with a wave of your hand? Or getting your DJ set to play a slow jam — but only when the computer senses that people are needing a breather on the dance… Continue reading
Arduino sent us a pre-release of their new kit. The kit includes everything you need to get started and improve your skill set. You get a variety of sensors, motors, LEDs, an LCD panel, Uno board, breadboard, and a bunch of other stuff to help get you started. Also included is a book full of projects that can be made with the included parts. Continue reading
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 their work. Continue reading
In “5 basses”, five double basses are amplified and feedbacked with each other. The strings and the bodies of the basses resonate with their ambient surroundings, thus creating an interactive drone in which the basses are controlled both by their acoustic vibrations and their environment. Seemingly simple acoustic/physical principles take… Continue reading
With inspiration drawn from a research trip to White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, Laura Vitale will create a temporary audio-visual installation from very large balloons, amplified with contact microphones. When agitated, the balloons vibrate with low rhythmic tones reminiscent of vintage sound effects. The hanging, slow movement and… Continue reading
Strange Attractor, the dynamic multi-dimensional collaborative venture of five artists, did create an extended sound performance using experimentation with technology, combined media, text, chance operation, random structures and found objects, as part of “Cage Transmitted”: 12 evenings of performance is a series of performances and lectures organized by Norte Maar… Continue reading
In connection with Victoria Vesna’s card game launch the day before, Harvestworks hosts a book launch and symposium for Xiaoying Juliette Yuan’s major publication project “Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts”, edited by Victoria Vesna, Christiane Paul and Margot Lovejoy in collaboration with Beijing BeePub Publication and the… Continue reading
This card game is designed for four people at a time who play from the point of view of a dog. By making it an interactive game, Victoria Vesna, Siddharth Ramakrishnan and Adeline Ducker engage the audience and evoke curiosity, and begin a dialog about the human sensory world in… Continue reading
WE WILL REOPEN THE INSTALLATION THIS TUESDAY: A small coupling of works combining both obsolete and new technologies, then reassembled to represent obsolete fables, folklore, literature, philosophy, mythology, and music. As responses to such stories inspired by the observation of human behavior, symbolic animals, objects and mechanics are used to… Continue reading
