Meet the artists participating in the Harvestworks Artworks and Experiences Exhibition on Governors Island. Harvestworks hosts artists open studios, an exhibition of digital media art and a workshop / research room to share how artists use new and emerging technology with the public on Governors Island. This year our partners… Continue reading
Beth Bradfish, 2018 Artist in Residence and co-creater of Untied/United, will be giving an artist talk! Untied/United is an interactive installation created by Beth Bradfish, composer/sound artist, and Connie Noyes, multi-disciplinary artist, in collaboration the Harvestworks TEAM. Visual elements in the room work in unison with the soundscape to evoke… Continue reading
Wednesday, June 27th, ISSUE and Harvestworks present acclaimed sonicist, composer, and biologist Francisco López and sound artist Beth Bradfish. June 27, 2018 @ 8 pm ISSUE Project Room 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tickets: $15 / $12 ISSUE Members + Students Lopez is making a rare New York… Continue reading
Tuesday, June 26th, ISSUE and Harvestworks present acclaimed sonicist, composer, and biologist Francisco López and composer, performer, and kinetic installation artist Michael Theodore. June 26, 2018 8 pm ISSUE Project Room 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tickets: $15 / $12 ISSUE Members + Students Lopez is making a rare… Continue reading
Meet Kristin Lucas, creator of FLARMINGO STOPOVER! 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… 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
The subwoofer, a powerful instrument responsible for transmitting the visceral energy of pop, hip-hop, and dance music is in this piece repurposed as a performer. Such a powerful engine, capable of shaking entire neighborhoods is reduced to performing a $1 slide whistle- an often comical children’s toy. Subwhistle is a… Continue reading
Harvestworks hosts artists open studios, an exhibition of digital media art and a workshop / research room to share how artists use new and emerging technology with the public on Governors Island. This year our partners include the TECHNE_Lab and the Streaming Museum. On August 31, 2016, we will open… Continue reading
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
