Listening & Seeing: an art and tech exhibition

May 28 – August 7, 2022

Harvestworks Art and Technology Program

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

The Harvestworks Art and Technology Program on Governors Island continues through the 2022 season with a two part exhibition of a major new artworks, workshops and performances. Selected by Executive Director Carol Parkinson and the arts committee of Harvestworks, this season will focus on the ear and the eye and how technology can expand and impact those senses. In addition to the interior exhibition, we are pleased to present Ear Hut the outdoor listening space by Miya Masaoka. Our Experience Lab continues on scheduled Saturdays from 1 – 3 pm starting on June 11, 2022.

listening & seeing – an art and technology exhibition will feature major new works created by Guggenheim award winning composer Miya Masaoka and New York State Council on the Arts – New Technology awardees Joe Diebes, Michael Schumacher, Edin Velez with resident artists Surabhi Saraf and Ivana Dama.

Performances by Brooklyn-based artist and musician Selwa Abd’s Bergsonist Project on June 11, 2022 and enTsemble: F(r)iction with Sofy Yuditskaya, Monica Rocha, Johannes Sistermanns and Hans Tammen on June 26, 2022. For the Electropixel Festival on August 6, 2022, live outdoor performances with Ben Owen, Solar Return, Jenny Pickett, Julien Ottavi and the Horspiel Machine and on August 7th Silver Fleece by William Hooker and ensemble.

The Experience Lab and Creative Play is open every Saturday from 1 – 3 pm through August 6, 2022. Please RSVP to the event that you would like to attend but walk-ins are welcome also if space allows. Come in to learn and experience some new (or favorite) technology.

Scheduled Events

Jun 11 1:00 pm

FREE with sign up – Sonic Environments and Worldbuilding w/ WebVR with Matthew Gantt

Jun 25 1:00 pm

FREE with signup – Sonic Environments and Worldbuilding w/ WebVR with Matthew Gantt

Jul 2 1:00 pm

Creative Play #1: DJ’ing with Alec, Soeun and Kaliel

Jul 9 1:00 pm

Entanglement by Persia Wu and Story Maps by Alex Modlin

Jul 16 1:00 pm

Aquarium by Yehwang Song and Synthesia by Regina Toh

Jul 23 1:00 pm

Ambisonic and Binaural Audio Production session with Matthew Gantt.

Jul 30 1:00 pm

Unreal Engine 4 workshop for the music/artist with Matthew Gantt

Aug 7 1:00 pm

William Hooker and ensemble: Silver Fleece

Joe Diebes combines sound, visual media, and the human voice in multifarious ways.  His sound installations, video, performances and works on paper have been exhibited in numerous galleries, museums, and public spaces including Paul Rodgers/9W (New York), The Hammer Museum, the Torino Winter Olympics, David Winton Bell Gallery (Brown University), Yuanfen Gallery (Beijing), Prix Ars Electronica and the Liverpool Biennial.


Michael J. Schumacher (lead artist) has a long history working with multichannel sound, sound art installations, as a curator, gallery director and composer. He earned his Doctorate in Music Composition from Juilliard and has been creating computer-based installations since the 1990s. He founded and directed Diapason, New York’s only gallery devoted to sound art, from 1996-2014. Diapason’s archive continues to be presented in spaces throughout the world. Schumacher also has extensive experience in the popular music world, having released three records with his rock band, dinmachine.


Through rich imagery and an acute sense of visual metaphor, Edin Velez, one of the pioneers in video art, has consistently expanded the paradigms of the genre. Velez’s work in video and photography has always relocated the fabric and rhythms  of a culture in the gestures and rituals of everyday life. Eschewing a conventional narrative voice, he orchestrates a confluence of associative elements to evoke, rather than analyze, the textures of a specific culture. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, he studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico and the School of Fine Arts of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.


Surabhi Saraf is a media artist and founder of Centre for Emotional Materiality. Her practice explores our complex relationship with technology through multimedia works that incorporate video installations, sculptures, performances, and sound compositions.


Ivana Dama is a sound artist and researcher holding an MFA from Yale University. Her multidisciplinary work spans audio-video installations, robotics, web projects, and music performances, with a focus on inventions and technologies surrounding air raid sirens. Her current research explores the development of a tool that signals urgency for both social and ecological issues, tracing connections between the two as they often occur simultaneously.