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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:56:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Harvestworks Announcements <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: This Weekend at the NYEAF This weekend at the NYEAF: New Project Demos II CINDY POREMBA / STEPHANIE ROTHENBERG & MEGAN MICHALAK / NORAH ZUNIGA SHAW FRIDAY OCTOBER 9, 2009, 7PM FREE HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER 596 Broadway #602 New York City (at Houston St) Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince As part of the New York Electronic Art Festival 2009, a month-long series of concerts, workshops, and exhibitions centered on the cutting-edge work be ing done at the intersection of art and technology, Harvestworks will prese nt the second in a series of New Project Demos on Friday October 9th with presentations by new media artists Cindy Poremba, Stephanie Rothenberg & Meg an Michalak, and Norah Zuniga Shaw. Montreal-based digital media researcher, creator and curator Cindy Poremb a will discuss her work with Kokoromi, a game art collective based in Montreal that creates new experimental computer games and programs numerous ga me-based events, exhibitions and performances. Collaborators Stephanie Rothenberg and Megan Michalak will discuss their re cent multi-media work World X Diagnostics. Using custom designed software a nd sound sculptures, public data measuring gross national well-being is col lected from participating users and translated into real-time sound frequen cies through programmed algorithms. Choreographer and arts researcher Norah Zuninga Shaw will discuss her recen t work Synchronous Objects. Created in collaboration with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, Synchronous Objects (Sync/O) is a screen-based media wor k visualizing choreographic information for the purposes of investigating d eep structure and enriching cross-disciplinary engagement with physical int elligence. -- Artist Talk PAUL KAISER & SHELLEY ESHKAR / CCRT SATURDAY OCTOBER 10, 2009 2PM FREE World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery 220 Vesey Street, NYC Subway: R/W City Hall, E World Trade Center, 1,2 or 3 Chambers St. In conjuction with the New York Electronic Art Festival Exhibition, Rate of Change - time and space in electronic art, Harvestworks in partnership with arts-World Financial Center present a talk with exhibition artists Paul Kaiser & Shelley Eshkar and the artists of CCRT Collaboration. Kaiser and Es hkar will discuss the newly restored digital media work Hand-drawn Space's (1998), a virtual dance installation created with Merce Cunningham that presents 3D hand-drawn figures performing intricate choreography in a vir tual space. CCRT will discuss their work Orbital Drop (Lander), a hypothetical space probe, flung to the furthest reaches of space to observe and transmit information and images from alien worlds while performing scientific research. Rate of Change - time and space in electronic art Featuring Merce Cunningham with Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar, Celeste Boursier-Mougenot, Hisao Ihara, Julia Heyward, Eunjung Hwang, Jessica Ann Peavy, Christine Sugrue and the CCRT Collaboration. September 29 96 October 24 Open Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, Noon - 4PM, FREE World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, 220 Vesey Street, NYC Produced by Harvestworks and presented by arts>World Financial Center which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties, and Merrill Lynch. www.artsWorldFinancialCenter.com -- Around New York City PERFORMANCE/ARTIST TALK: Jarryd Lowder and Julie Fotheringham. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 7-9 PM SVA MFA Computer Art 133 W. 21 St., 1st floor, Room 101. Jarryd Lowder is an artist working with electronic audiovisual media primarily for live performance. Julie Fotheringham performed as a dancer/acrobat in Cirque du Soleil before coming to New York to make her own work. -- New Project Demos III ALEX CHECHILE / DAVID HINDMAN / JOSEPH REINSEL SUNDAY OCTOBER 11, 2009, 3PM FREE HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER 596 Broadway #602 New York City (at Houston St) Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince The New Project Demos series continues with Sunday October 11th with presentations by Alex Chechile, David Hindman, and Joseph Reinsel. Alex Chechile will discuss his recent project Data Decay/Rebirth, a series of performances and recordings that use various forms of computer data, inc luding visualizations of biofeedback (brainwaves/heartbeat), still images, and video as a source materials for generating sound. David Hindman will discuss his Harvestworks Residency project, the Public G uitar-Controlled Video Game Competition. He will focus on the guitar as an H.I. device and the implementation of the video game PONG using Max/Msp/Jit ter. A brief performance of guitar-controlled PONG will include collaborato r Evan Drummond as the ensemble Modal Kombat. Baltimore-based media artist Joe Reinsel will show and discuss three recent 5.1 surround-sound single-channel video works: Resonations, Threshold circuit 1, Threshold circuit 2. Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center 596 Broadway, Suite 602 New York, NY 10012 </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[email protected]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
