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.
LOCATION: New Waves in Art and Tech exhibition
Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park Governors Island
All events are free.
Artist Opening Saturday May 18, 2024 from 2 – 4:30 pm with a performance by Mónica de la Torre and Hans Tammen at 2:30 pm.
Open to the public from 11 am to 5 pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and by appointment.
Artist Statement
Most of my video work is observing and capturing movement in nature and in my 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.
Originally I conceived Hear There Everywhere as part of an installation for a 360 degree environment and accompanied by live music improvisations. The event was cancelled and I abandoned the footage until now. For Harvestworks and their space at Governors Island I re- envisioned the work as a single channel video projection. From 1999-2011 David Gamper, a musician/ improviser, and I collaborated on See Hear Now, a real-time music and video collaboration. We sought to merge the sonic and the visible to create a transcendent experience for ourselves and the audience. With Hear There Everywhere I share my continued fascination with ‘visible music’. I invite the audience to experience an immersive visual and sonic environment.
Bio:
Gisela Gamper, (b. Germany) is known for her photography and experimental video work. Since 1968, she has lived and worked in the United States. Gamper began working with photography in 1971 and since then has built a body of work that is personal and inspired by her life experiences.
In 1999, Gamper began working with video and so began a long and creative collaboration with her husband, musician and composer, David Gamper. Together they created, See Hear Now, a live music and video installation that was performed and presented in New Music venues in New York and elsewhere.
Returning to photography in 2013, Gisela created a series of photographs called ‘Longing for David’ dedicated to him, who died in 2011. In 2023, she published a limited edition art-book, No Longer Sleeping Alone, that is distributed by Printed Matter, Inc.
Among Gamper’s grants and awards are two Fellowship Grants from the Vermont Council on the Arts in 1985 and 1990, and the Hasselblad Cover Award in 1991. For two concurrent solo exhibitions in New Orleans in 1997, the Contemporary Artists Collection of Station Hill Press, Barrytown, NY. published Fabrications, a catalogue of Gamper’s photographs with text by Rachel Pollack. Gamper’s photographs are in numerous private collections and in the collection of the Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY.
Gamper lives and works in New York City and Vermont. https://www.giselagamper.com/
https://vimeo.com/photowoman/download/218987081/459561378f
LINKS: website, Facebook, Twitter.
www.giselagamper.com
Facebook Page – See Hear Now: visible music
Instagram @ghgamper
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About the New Waves in Art and Tech exhibition. Programmed for the Harvestworks Art and Technology Program on Governors Island this group show that opens the season with studies in human perception via artworks that explore privacy, brain-computer interfaces, climate and fungal networks, Artificial Intelligence and themes of air, flying and floating. Selected by the Harvestworks arts committee, the works use creative technology such as audio spatialization, stochastic audio, gesture and biotech interfaces and simple motorized devices.
