New artworks in the Artworks and Experiences Exhibition include Life This In Find We, a found object player piano roll, reinvented as an improvisational interactive musical device. Over 12 feet long, the paper roll can be performed on by touching the “digital” holes which were originally designed to actuate the notes… Continue reading
New artworks at the Artworks and Experiences exhibition on Governors Island will include this 3 channel animated video installation exploring the catastrophic and dystopic through a lens of an imagined future or a forgotten past. Sci-fi tropes of utopia and dystopia are fragmented through broken narratives, rearranged, distilled, warped, layered… Continue reading
2018 Workspace Resident Laura Splan will present new work in progress at the Harvestworks TEAM Lab Artworks and Experiences Exhibition on Governors Island. Material Expressions incorporates moving sculpture and sound triggered by biosensors monitoring the artist’s heart rate as she knits. The project is part of a series of performances… Continue reading
New works in the Artworks and Experience Exhibition include – “We Said We Didn’t See It Coming”, an animated video installation that represents an examination of our complex relationship between the organic and the man-made and offers a multi-sensorial construction of reality. The work is a dynamic choreography between the audience,… Continue reading
Lemon Bomb Face is an ongoing series of mechanized light paintings where words are hidden and revealed by two types of light: ultraviolet and daylight. I Win Well is part 2 of the series. The linear-motion mechanism carries a dual light fixture back and forth across the face of a… Continue reading
Come play with interactive Pure Data patches and learn about the visual programming platform Pure Data! DATE/TIME: August 18 2018, 3-5pm LOCATION: Governor’s Island, Nolan Park Building 8a FREE Facebook Event Pure Data is an open source visual programming environment that runs on anything from personal computers to embedded devices… Continue reading
Portraits in Landscape is a video animation that exemplifies Gannis’s signature process of remixing historical artworks with contemporary forms of communication, taking smartphone and selfie culture to the extreme. It depicts two separate figures in a twinkling landscape, each immersed in their smart phones and occasionally snapping photos. The piece… Continue reading
TELLUS, the Audio Cassette Magazine will be featured this summer at the “Montez Press Radio”. For 30 days, 24 hours a day, content will be streaming live from the Mathew Gallery in Chinatown, bringing together artists/writers/DJs/musicians/critics/theorists to explore the medium of radio. Radio and publishing have much in common; radio… Continue reading
Artworks and Experience Lab Exhibiting artist Ursula Endlicher and 2018 Artist in Residence Eva von Schweinitz come together to talk about their work. Where: Governors Island, Nolan Park Building 8a When: Saturday, July 21 2018, 3:00 FREE Ursula Endlicher’s TWO COMPANION PLANTS reflects on the idea of “Companion Planting” in gardening… Continue reading
Avant-garde composer John Cage wrote a piece in 1960 titled Cartridge Music. This concept was this: a cartridge from a phonograph pickup is dismembered, the needle replaced with “all manner of unspecified small objects.” Pipe cleaners, matches, feathers and wires were sounded against surfaces, walls, bodies and floors in order… Continue reading
