Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Description of the video:
A short video introduces Harvestworks’ Executive Director, Carol Parkinson, and provides an overview of how artists become engaged in our programs. The Artist-in-Residence Program and the Technology Immersion Program are at the heart of the organization, and from these core activities come our education and presentation programs. The introduction is followed by clips from our programming and events at the Harvestworks studio, including: a performance by Alex Chechile; a studio session with Kevin Ramsay and Simon Kanzler; a performance by George Lewis and Marina Rosenfeld; an immersive sound and video VR installation by Eva Davidova; a segment on our internship program featuring current intern Alyssa Burke; Technology Immersion Program workshops and master classes; and the production of an electronic media work with technical engineer Frank Spigner and resident Kalun Leung.
Harvestworks Mission Statement:
Founded as a not-for-profit organization by artists in 1977, Harvestworks has helped a generation of artists create new works using technology. Our mission is to support the creation and presentation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies. Our goals are to create an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media; to create a responsive public context for the appreciation of new work by presenting and disseminating the finished works; to advance the art community’s and the public’s “agenda” for the use of technology in art; and to bring together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts collaborating in the use of electronic media. We assist with commissions and residencies, production services, education and information programs, and the presentation and distribution of their work.
Description of the video:
A short video introduces Harvestworks’ Executive Director, Carol Parkinson, and provides an overview of how artists become engaged in our programs. The Artist-in-Residence Program and the Technology Immersion Program are at the heart of the organization, and from these core activities come our education and presentation programs. The introduction is followed by clips from our programming and events at the Harvestworks studio, including: a performance by Alex Chechile; a studio session with Kevin Ramsay and Simon Kanzler; a performance by George Lewis and Marina Rosenfeld; an immersive sound and video VR installation by Eva Davidova; a segment on our internship program featuring current intern Alyssa Burke; Technology Immersion Program workshops and master classes; and the production of an electronic media work with technical engineer Frank Spigner and resident Kalun Leung.
Harvestworks Mission Statement:
Founded as a not-for-profit organization by artists in 1977, Harvestworks has helped a generation of artists create new works using technology. Our mission is to support the creation and presentation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies. Our goals are to create an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media; to create a responsive public context for the appreciation of new work by presenting and disseminating the finished works; to advance the art community’s and the public’s “agenda” for the use of technology in art; and to bring together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts collaborating in the use of electronic media. We assist with commissions and residencies, production services, education and information programs, and the presentation and distribution of their work.
![Recording of [June 16] INHERENT UNCERTAINTY by Paul Geluso, Clinton Van Arnam, Ivana Dama](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tjDC2OEBwis/mqdefault.jpg "Recording of [June 16] INHERENT UNCERTAINTY by Paul Geluso, Clinton Van Arnam, Ivana Dama
Live data analysis of Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 worldwide data is used to create this generative sound piece. Data is sent through custom software into analog and digital synthesizers which trigger visuals formed by news clips recorded on June 1st, 2020 during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd.
The title Inherent Uncertainty represents our current state of affairs and the systems we are seeing crumble before our own eyes. As the viewer listens to the sound shift and change, these shifts are simply the analysis of the destruction of the virus. This project explores the unpredictability of our future and the thin veneer that we define as a ‘civil’ society.
Software engineering by John Brumley. Music by Paul Geluso and Clinton Van Arnam. Visuals by Ivana Dama in collaboration with Clinton Van Arnam. Creative collaboration with Harvestworks, New York including Carol Parkinson, and Paul Geluso. Mentorship and creative vision in partnership with Victoria Vesna, UCLA.
SOUNDING CORONA series is co-conceptualized by the UCLA ArtSci Center, and Harvestworks NY with the intent of composing and amplifying the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 worldwide data live data analysis including total recovered, deaths, and cases. Throughout this ongoing summer series, sound artists will be invited to use the texture of this data as an underlying vibration for engagement. With this collective sound and image exploration we seek to illuminate the interconnectivity of events around the world.")
