New Waves in Art and Tech

Artist opening & performance by Mónica de la Torre and Hans Tammen at 2:30 pm.

Adelle Lin and Matt Pinner Star Catcher, an immersive installation that encourages participants to engage with their environment in a playful and imaginative manner. Using projection and magical objects, the installation creates a simulated night sky that is brimming with an ethereal constellation of stars that participants can catch.

Monica de la Torre and Hans Tammen ARBORETUM is a collaboration between poet Mónica de la Torre and sound artist Hans Tammen. A series of poems written by de la Torre, inspired by the trees of Governors Island, are in turn processed and spatialized by Tammen. De la Torre considered the botanical and historical specificities of species of the island’s trees.

Tansy Xiao Here’s the Information We Collect, an interactive video installation tailored to respond selected privacy policy posted on major social media platforms. Audience members are invited to engage with the work by speaking into a microphone. LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor – the hypothetical single-cell organism from which all life on Earth descended) is a non-linear virtual environment where real-time biometric data from performers’ movements is streamed into the virtual environment to dynamically shape the visual and sonic elements of a virtual world.

Gisela Gamper Hear, There Everywhere 2024 is an immersive visual and sonic environment that observes and captures movement in nature and in the artist’s personal environment. “In my video Hear There Everywhere I play with and observe moving beads. Intrigued by the ever-changing pattern created by the beads I recorded their interplay with sound and captured a mesmerizing visual and sonic experience”.

Ahmed El Shaer AI Heaven, a two channel video installation comprising images and animated short loops where the artist collaborates with artificial intelligence to explore questions about the afterlife and how a machine imagines the metaphysical and the transcendental. All images are produced through generative technologies—the final artistic works—are fully created by machine intelligence without the artist’s interference.

Judy Dunaway AERONAUT – This immersive, site-specific installation commemorates pioneer daredevil aviator Charles K. (“Charlie”) Hamilton making the first round trip flight between New York City and Philadelphia on June 13, 1910, taking off from and returning to Governors Island. The installation features inflated latex balloons in various sound capacities, including resonators, strings, reeds and ASMR stimulators. Artist Talk on June 15, 2024

Dùa de Pel from Spain, composer Sonia Megías and writer Eva Guillamón: voice and lute, songs and music from different periods and cultures with notable influence from Spain.

Island A/V – Berlin: Katherine Liberovskaya (NY) and ZtimhcsAidualc (Berlin) combine their real-time expanded visuals and video in live projections dialoguing with Sarah Bernstein’s (NY) solo violin and voice performance.

A dance performance and artist talk at the Star Catcher installation. Adelle Lin and Matt Pinner collaborate with the dancer-choreographer Dharma Esmat to explore the mystical tapestry of the universe and redefine the act of creation through dance. Utilizing live tracking technology, Dharma’s movements will dynamically alter the constellation patterns above, creating a vibrant, evolving star field in real-time.

The Nomadic Keyboard by Kathleen Supové will travel around Governors Island, where those people are roaming. No need to travel, dress up, or to sit down. Just be there when we pass by! You are encouraged to join in, either at the keyboard, with your voice, or with your instrument.

Lunar Resonance : An Interweaving of Sound, Light, and Water by Xung (Sunghyun Jang) and Ti Wen Hsu combine real-time generated visuals and sound from live-viola performance to explore the profound interplay between natural phenomena and technological innovation.

Third Saturdays and House Fest in Nolan Park. All events are free.

4:30 pm: Judy Dunaway will perform solo free improvisations on amplified latex balloons.

5:15 pm: Star Catcher – Adelle Lin and Matt Pinner collaborate with the dancer-choreographer Dharma Esmat.

6:00pm: Ai Onoda plays Satie’s “Vexation”

6:30 pm: Grace Schmidhauser and Jay Reinier.