Harvestworks

Curator Eriola Pira in Conversation with Angela Ferraiolo, Michael Candy, and Testu Collective

October 18, 2026

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Harvestworks Art & Technology Building

Nolan Park, Building 10a
Governor’s Island, NYC

 As part of the In Other Forms exhibition on Governors Island, Eriola Pira, Curator and Programs Director at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, will join artists Angela Ferraiolo, Michael Candy, and Testu Collective for a conversation about their works currently on view: Ferraiolo’s Shell and Two Forms, Candy’s Autonomous Walking Chair, and Testu Collective’s Listening to the Ether.

The dialogue will explore the artists’ processes, the ideas behind their works, and their relationship to the exhibition. Visitors are invited to join the conversation and experience the works alongside insights from the artists and curator.

Related projects/events

‘Shell’ and ‘Two Forms’
‘Shell’ and ‘Two Forms’
Chair 2
Chair 2
Listening to the Ether
Listening to the Ether

Angela Ferraiolo

“Angela Ferraiolo is a computational artist and researcher whose live systems investigate how artificial forms acquire history, difference, and changing capacities over time. Her current work develops Constructed Sentience, a framework for exploring how computational entities may individuate through memory, constraint, instability, and sustained interaction. Rather than using computation to represent intelligence, she creates artworks in which form and behavior emerge through continued operation.

Testu Collective

Testu Collective is an NYC-based intermedia art group founded by Serena Stucke and Dan Tesene. Their practice spans sound installation, video art, and live performance-building immersive audiovisual environments through close observation of natural phenomena. Testu combines synthetic and organic sounds through field recordings, modular synthesis, hand-made instruments, sound objects, and spatial audio software-building tactile hyperreal soundworlds. The collective has presented work at Gray Area (SF), 2220 Arts and Archives (LA), Artists Space (NYC), Public Visuals (Tokyo), CTM Festival (online), Ars Electronica (NYC), Ace Hotel (NYC), The Shed (NYC), and Pleamar Festival (Buenos Aires). Most recently, Testu created a multi-channel sound installation for Dan Flavin’s light sculptures at Mana Contemporary. Testu Collective was a 2025 NYSCA grantee.

Michael Candy

Michael Candy is an NYC-based artist known for kinetic sculptures, interactive installations, and video works that challenge the socio-political implications of contemporary technology. His practice navigates shifting landscapes of automation, mythology, and agency, constructing engineered phenomena that reconfigure space and perception.

Eriola Pira

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Eriola Pira is a researcher and curator. She is the Curator and Director of Programs at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, where she organizes and co-curates across the Center’s programs and initiatives. In this capacity, she works closely with artists to explore, commission, and present new ideas and work on art and its politics, including exhibitions, performances, and publications. She curated and organized residency and fellowship programs, conferences, publications, and solo and group exhibitions at Art in General, NARS Foundation, and The Foundation for Culture and Society, where she held previous positions. She’s contributed to and collaborated with institutions worldwide on exhibitions, publications, symposia, commissions, and special projects. Her work has been published and featured in catalogs and publications such as The New York Times, Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, and Artforum. She has served as an editor at Guernica and guest editor for Kosovo 2.0 magazines. A native of Albania, Pira has an MA in Visual Culture Theory from New York University.