Category: Art and Technology Program on Governors Island

[Aug 30 – Oct 27] [SUN] Flower Plasma by Victoria Vesna in collaboration with plasma physicist, Walter Gekelman and biomedical engineer Haley Marks.

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[SUN] Flower Waves explores the harmonious interaction between sunflowers and Alfvén waves, demonstrating how art and science converge to reveal deeper understandings. Sunflowers, with their heliotropic movement, symbolize growth and energy, while Alfvén waves in plasma transport energy along magnetic field lines, crucial for understanding space weather and solar phenomena.… Continue reading

[Aug 30 – Oct 27] Plasticity: Tears for Lost Frequencies by Monica Duncan and Senem Pirler

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Tears for Lost Frequencies is a performative installation that explores our complex relationship with plastic through the act of improvisation.  Our intention is to highlight plastic as a matter that cannot be separated from the “natural”: a material everywhere and becoming our “nature” and our “uninvited” collaborator.  In Tears for… Continue reading

[Sept 7 – Oct 27] Agency (as in giving..) by Raphaele Shirley

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In this new work, Shirley transforms the traditional officer’s home into an abstraction of light and geometry. The size and circularity of “Agency (as in giving…)” create a dynamic contrast with the room’s context, sparking a dialogue between story, time, and space. This interplay prompts a reevaluation of the viewer’s… Continue reading

[Aug 4th] Lunar Resonance: An Interweaving of Sound, Light, and Water

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Lunar Resonance: An Interweaving of Sound, Light, and Water is a collaborative project between new media artist Xung (Sunghyun Jang) and experimental viola composer TiWen Hsu. This immersive installation combines live performance, advanced sound manipulation, and intricate visual elements to create a unique sensory experience that explores the profound interplay… Continue reading

[May 17 – Aug 18] New Waves in Art and Tech exhibition – MAIN PAGE

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Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center announces the New Waves in Art and Tech, an exhibition for our Art and Technology Program on Governors Island.  A group show that opens the season with studies in human perception via artworks that explore privacy, brain-computer interfaces, climate and fungal networks, Artificial Intelligence and… Continue reading

[May 17 – Aug 18] ARBORETUM by Mónica de la Torre and Hans Tammen

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ARBORETUM is a collaboration between poet Mónica de la Torre and sound artist Hans Tammen. A series of poems written by de la Torre, inspired by some of the trees of Governors Island, are in turn processed and spatialized by Tammen. De la Torre considered the botanical and historical specificities… Continue reading

[May 17 – Aug 18]  AI Heaven by Ahmed El Shaer 

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A two channel video installation comprising images and animated short loops where the artist collaborates with artificial intelligence to explore questions about the afterlife and how a machine imagines the metaphysical and the transcendental. All images are produced through generative technologies—the final artistic works—are fully created by machine intelligence without… Continue reading