August 30 – October 27, 2024
Harvestworks Art and Technology Program
Nolan Park, Building 10a
Governor’s Island, NYC
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center announces Elements! in Art and Tech, an exhibition for our Art and Technology Program on Governors Island. Programmed for Fall 2024, the artworks in this group show are inspired by elements of light, water, earth, flower plasma and their influence on humans. Selected by the Harvestworks arts committee and Executive Director Carol Parkinson, the works use creative technology such as audio/video spatialization, gesture, body tracking and vegetal power.
Artist Opening
Artist Opening
Luc Vitk – Water Vision is a multichannel piece for water, visitors, and six speakers where the visitors will become part of the installation if they attend one of the three performances. The participants interpret a number score which then generates three hours of water music to be played in the installation space on non-performance days.
Victoria Vesna with Walter Gekelman and Haley Marks – [SUN] Flower Plasma 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.
Monica Duncan and Senem Pirler – Tears for Lost Frequencies is an audio/visual installation that explores our complex relationship with plastic through the act of improvisation. In Tears for Lost Frequencies, microplastics found in tears become material witnesses to the experience of one’s hearing loss and a speculative space for plastic healing.
Max Chung Metroequilibrium, a digital instrument that captures the relationship of sound and gesture that defines an immersive embodied experience. This installation uses cameras and Google MediaPipe to create an audiovisual experience that highlight an overwhelming and frenetic encounter.
Jessica Segall Nom Nom Ohm – two antique chandeliers found in Nolan Park are rewired to illuminate the space using potatoes as a power source. Both futuristic and simple, the revival of the former elegant chandeliers through vegetal power suggests a compromised power grid, and the lengths we go to maintain a level of high consumerism rather than degrowth. The installation will follow the arc of the potato’s life cycle, and will be illuminated at listed times.
Raphaele Shirley – Agency (as in giving..) Shirley transforms the traditional officer’s home into an abstraction of light and geometry. The size and circularity of the work create a dynamic contrast with the room’s context, sparking a dialogue between story, time, and space. Through the tension between scale, figuration (the room), and abstraction (the light sculpture), Shirley invites a reconsideration of space and the present moment as a quantum duality of particle and wave, time and infinity.
Allison Berkoy and Collaborators – YOU ARE PREPARED is a self-optimization system featuring immersive pop-up training centers and an interactive AI-powered webinar. Experience hands-on demos in NYC and Asheville, or join from home. Created by artist Allison Berkoy with CUNY students, this project explores the future of personal evolution. October 5 – 27, 2024 Artist Talk on October 19, 2024.
Monica Duncan and Senem Pirler will perform a 20-minute variation on Tears for Lost Frequencies, an audio/visual installation that explores our complex relationship with plastic through the act of improvisation. The microplastics found in tears become material witnesses to the experience of one’s hearing loss and a speculative space for plastic healing.
Luc Vitk Water Vision. The participants interpret a number score which then generates three hours of water music to be played in the installation space on non-performance days.
Artist talk: Allison Berkoy
Luc Vitk Water Vision. The participants interpret a number score which then generates three hours of water music to be played in the installation space on non-performance days.
GH Hovagimyan will perform No/Nu, a Post Punk sound performance with guitar, looper and effects pedals in Raphaele Shirley’s light installation work. The piece is an outgrowth of the collaborative work called 3by3by3 with Raphaele Shirley and Rhys Chatham. GH was part of the original late 1970’s No Wave music scene in New York City.
Closing Performance: Tilen Lebar Limen VIII. A multichannel spectral mutation of the sonic material that initially reveals the sound of extensive improvisations with an electroacoustic guitar. Tilen Lebar is a Slovene-Dutch composer, improviser and saxophonist. His work is circulating and creating a unique connection between memory and the resonance of different acoustic spaces.
Lucie Vítková is a composer, improviser, and performer (accordion, hichiriki, drums, synthesizer, harmonica, voice, and dance) from the Czech Republic and New York. Their compositions focus on sonification (compositions based on abstract models derived from physical objects), while in their improvisation practice, Luc works with the characteristics of discrete spaces through the interaction between sound and movement.
VICTORIA VESNA, Ph.D., is an artist and professor in the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and the founder/director of the Art|Sci Center at the School of the Arts and California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). Trained as a painter at the University of Belgrade, her work now resides at the intersection of disciplines and technologies, focusing on experimental creative research. Her installations explore how communication technologies affect collective behavior and perceptions of identity in relation to scientific innovation. (Ph.D., CAiiA-STAR, University of Wales, 2000).
Monica Duncan and Senem Pirler have been collaborating since 2017, creating audiovisual performances that investigate everyday objects, concepts of agency and queer potentiality.
Max Chung is a contemporary multi-media sound artist and composer in New York City who blurs the boundaries between EDM, interactive responsive visual technologies and acoustical instrumentation. His recent work has been focused on our shifting perceptions of time that affect our relationship between emotion and temporal illusions. His work explores the current psychological instability that shapes our culture today.
Jessica Segall is an artist that needs discipline. Hostile and threatened landscapes are the sites for her work. While embedded in these sites, she plays with both the risk of engaging with the environment and the vulnerability of the environment itself, examining a queer ecology.
Raphaele Shirley is a Franco-American multimedia artist based in New York City and upstate New York. Her work spans technology-based sculptural pieces, public art, place-making social interventions, and performance. Her collaborators range from renowned composers to theater directors, architects, and technology experts.
Allison Berkoy is a Brooklyn based artist, exploring the communicative potential of physical-digital environments when combined with mutable storytelling and media. These works take the form of interactive installations, electronic sculptures, and networked audiovisuals; driven by code, sensors, and human bodies. With participatory and absurd narratives, Berkoy’s installations become stages for performance that test the boundaries and etiquette of human-machine interaction as well as human-human relationship.
G.H. Hovagimyan is an experimental artist working in a variety of forms. He was one of the first artists in New York to start working with the Internet in the early nineties. His work ranges from new media and hypertext works to digital performance art, video art, augmented reality and interactive installations.
Tilen Lebar is a Slovene-Dutch composer, improviser and saxophonist. His work is circulating and creating a unique connection between memory and the resonance of different acoustic spaces. Within the last decade, he developed a specific extended vocabulary for saxophone, electronics and other instruments that intrigue him personally and aim to push the boundaries of what is yet known, extend the possibilities of a conventional instrument and create pieces that create unforgettable experiences.
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