Oct 18
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 artist Angela Ferraiolo for a conversation about her works Shell and Two Forms, currently on view. The dialogue will explore Ferraiolo’s artistic process, the ideas behind the two works, and their relationship to the exhibition. Visitors are invited to join the conversation and experience the works alongside insights from the artist and curator.
Oct 23
Workshop: MUGIC Family User meetingMari Kimura will unveil MUGIC Plugin, a new interface for MUGIC, available free to all MUGIC users. She will also present Strings to Strings, a work in progress created with media artist and researcher Toru Urakawa. The piece combines IRCAM’s SOMAX, Urakawa’s AI-generated text, and the MUGIC sensor in a live interactive performance. MUGIC sensors are small, wireless motion sensors that translate physical gestures into digital controls. They can be worn on the hand or attached to an instrument or object to measure movement, acceleration, and orientation. Artists can use this data to control sound, audio effects, visuals, and lighting…
Oct 28
Performance: Live Processing Paint and Sound: Liz Phillips and Heidi HowardHarvestworks and Roulette are to co-present Live Processing Paint and Sound, a performance by pioneer of interactive sound art Liz Phillips and painter Heidi Howard. The program, presented as part of Harvestworks’ 50th anniversary celebration, will include an introduction by Harvestworks’ Interim Director Ivana Dama, followed by a conversation with Sanna Almajedi, Performance Curator at e-flux.
Aug 29 – Nov 1
Exhibition: In Other FormsIn Other Forms brings together works exploring transformation across bodies, technologies, environments, and systems of intelligence. Through autonomous machines, computational life, electromagnetic fields, sound, light, and speculative biology, the exhibition considers form not as fixed, but as something continually shaped through movement, time, and interaction. Across the exhibition, distinctions between the natural and artificial, living and nonliving, physical and computational begin to dissolve. Everyday objects acquire agency, code develops memory and behavior, invisible forces become audible, and extinct life is reimagined through emerging technologies. Together, the works ask how intelligence, agency, and life might emerge through unfamiliar bodies and unexpected…