Digital Afterlife by MALK (Mark Amerika and Laura Kim) Floating in the Ether, the artist’s imagination occasionally has no choice: it must ground itself in reality. But what is reality in a world where an individual’s perception, consciousness, awareness and overall sensibility is constantly being challenged by the “datafication” of… Continue reading
New Order Of Being (N.O.O.B.), Audio-visually twisting and re-purposing over-simplified neuroscience terminology disseminated through news outlets, New Order Of Being (N.O.O.B.) neurotically investigates highly controlled social media ecologies that continue to aggressively evolve and tactfully capitalize on primal human desires. As portrayed in speculative fiction writer William Gibson’s cyberpunk future, perhaps the… Continue reading
Beth Bradfish, composer/sound artist, and Connie Noyes, multi-disciplinary artist, in collaboration the Harvestworks TEAM, use micro technologies to create this interactive installation. Visual elements in the room work in unison with the soundscape to evoke both the fragility and resilience of close relationships. Elastic threads create a web-like pattern. Once… Continue reading
In a polygonal, post-apocalyptic world one man runs from a hoard of ravenous zombies. Will he escape? This video was partially made to celebrate the 100th tape on Always Human Tapes, a record label that Wurst runs. LOCATION: Governors Island, Nolan Park Building 8a DATES AND TIMES: May 25 –… Continue reading
techne_lab is a group show of artists affiliated with the techne_lab located at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. techne_lab was founded in 2002 by artist Mark Amerika and has served as an experimental art incubator for future forms of creative practice and research in the new media /… Continue reading
FLARMINGO STOPOVER invites excursionists and wayfarers to mingle with flamingos in social, fun and ecologically-ethical ways through technological embodiment and magical realism. “Dance with flARmingos: Interspecies Dance” brings you into a flamingo world as a flamingo avatar and “FLARMINGOS” lets you populate your surroundings with life-size augmented reality flamingos, pick… Continue reading
‘New Atlantis,’ created by Michael Theodore, is inspired by the writing of Francis Bacon’s 1626 book of the same title. The 4 channel work creates an immersive, contemplative sonic environment. “Psychedelic” – LA Times “In 1977, NASA loaded a spacecraft with records as a cosmic hello to E.T.s. This could… Continue reading
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch’s most ambitious work, embodies the conflicts, humor, darkness and absurdity of human, earthly and cosmological conditions. The Garden of Emoji Delights’ intention was to mash up popular historic and contemporary sign systems, and to diversify and expand the Emoji lexicon through this process. Emoji… Continue reading
TWO COMPANION PLANTS reflects on the idea of “Companion Planting” in gardening and agriculture, which promotes the planting of different crops in proximity to one another for a variety of reasons including pest control or crop productivity. TWO COMPANION PLANTS transfers this beneficial planting style into the electronic world, by… Continue reading
Eight-channel performance and iteration of Isomorph and Plastics, two suites of procedural electronic composition first released with Oxtail and Orange Milk Recordings, respectively. LOCATION: Hunter College Black Box 5th floor, Hunter North Building Enter at 69th Street between Lexington & Park Avenues May 7th 2018 – TIME 7 pm Produced by… Continue reading
