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Ginny Benson presents an improvisational work for audio and video. This live performance will pair audio synthesis with real-time video collage and image manipulation, resulting in an immersive audiovisual experience.
DATE and TIME: October 23, 2021 @ 3 pm. Duration: 30 minutes
LOCATION: The Workings of Media [art and artists] at the Harvestworks Art and Technology House. Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
BIO
Ginny Benson is an intermedia artist who explores techniques of audiovisual collage. She utilizes synthesis, sampling, and thrift electronics to create immersive compositions and live performances. She has toured extensively under the moniker VX Bliss, and has presented work at New York institutions including Lincoln Center, Pioneer Works, Electronic Arts Intermix, Roulette Intermedium, and The Museum of Modern Art. She lives and works in Queens, NY.
“This program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps.”
excerpt from solo Roulette show (2018): vimeo.com/311599312
Full length Roulette performance with Kiran Arora (2021): vimeo.com/504448444
Solo performance as VX Bliss at H0L0 (2020): youtu.be/bqMMpEqbBsk
Studio visit (2018): vimeo.com/298682889
‘Static Pleasures’ excerpt: vimeo.com/321534001
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
Insta: @ginbe
Facebook: facebook.com/vxbliss
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/vxbliss
Ginny Benson presents an improvisational work for audio and video. This live performance will pair audio synthesis with real-time video collage and image manipulation, resulting in an immersive audiovisual experience.
DATE and TIME: October 23, 2021 @ 3 pm. Duration: 30 minutes
LOCATION: The Workings of Media [art and artists] at the Harvestworks Art and Technology House. Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
BIO
Ginny Benson is an intermedia artist who explores techniques of audiovisual collage. She utilizes synthesis, sampling, and thrift electronics to create immersive compositions and live performances. She has toured extensively under the moniker VX Bliss, and has presented work at New York institutions including Lincoln Center, Pioneer Works, Electronic Arts Intermix, Roulette Intermedium, and The Museum of Modern Art. She lives and works in Queens, NY.
“This program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps.”
excerpt from solo Roulette show (2018): vimeo.com/311599312
Full length Roulette performance with Kiran Arora (2021): vimeo.com/504448444
Solo performance as VX Bliss at H0L0 (2020): youtu.be/bqMMpEqbBsk
Studio visit (2018): vimeo.com/298682889
‘Static Pleasures’ excerpt: vimeo.com/321534001
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
Insta: @ginbe
Facebook: facebook.com/vxbliss
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/vxbliss
![The Workings Of Media [art and artists] Fall 2021: An Overview](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d5oI6dyp_S8/mqdefault.jpg "The Workings Of Media [art and artists] Fall 2021: An Overview
The Workings of Media [Art and Artists] is a series of presentations, workshops, open studios and exhibitions to understand social and cultural changes reflected through the lens of art and artists. Curator and director Carol Parkinson has selected these artists because of their use of the new media technology including data sonification and visualization, immersive sound, smell and social networks. The Art and Technology program is a component of our Creative Residency and Sponsored Projects programs and seeks to create a responsive public context for the appreciation of new work and to advance the art’s community and the public’s appreciation of the use of technology in art. Artworks in order of appearance:
Matthew Goodheart: remnants, an immersive sound installation of sonic instruments, found objects to be listened to with bone-conducting headphones (COVID restrictions will apply). Artist Talk October 30, 2021 at 1:30 pm
Dan Joseph: Informed by early minimalism, acoustic ecology, deep listening and ambient music, Periodicity Piece #10 will combine a diverse collection of sounds into a slowly changing sonic ecosystem. A Harvestworks Commission for our Immersive Room on Governors Island. Opens October 2, 2021. Performance Oct. 30, 2021 at 3 pm.
Sofy Yuditskaya: The Secret Pope is a video homage to Pope Joan, considered fictional in todays society, but a beloved story during the middle ages of a female pope that rose through the ranks of Christianity with her wit and skill. Pope Joan dressed in men’s clothes, but was discovered as a woman when she became pregnant. After she was discovered body examinations practices were put in place so that no women could rise to power in Christianity ever again. Gaze upon her as into a mirror, the Secret Pope is all of us. Performance October 31, 2021 at 2:30 pm
Jocelyn Ho: An installation and performance series of compositions for Women’s Labor, a feminist project that uses embedded technologies to transform old domestic tools into new musical instruments, to address gender inequality in domestic labor division and challenge persistent gendered social norms. Performance Sept. 18, 2021
George Moraitis: AttoWatt is an installation made up of long vertical metal bars and neon tubes. Light and sound travel from rung to rung simultaneously all around the installation with fast velocity creating various forms made of electricity within space. Performance October 23, 2021
Mike Bullock: Ephemerospheres, an installation of electroacoustic audio works for his custom wave field synthesis array. Compositions by Mike Bullock, Seth Cluett and LInda Gail Aubry. MIke Bullock is a composer and intermedia artist focused on environmental sound recording. Artist Talk Sept. 11, 2021.
LadyK : Inspired by bioluminescent marine organisms and digital network traffic, Luciferins is an interactive installation. Viewers walk through awakening graphical portals and field recordings, which open to depict invisible network traffic of websites. LadyK’s practice encompasses responsive systems exploring how our collective digital experiences are shaping our future. Artist Talk Sept. 11, 2021.
Performances
Liz Gerring Company with Michael Schumacher presents Nolan Park, a sound and movement installation. PROGRAM: 60 min. Program Times: noon, 2 pm & 4 pm. Performance Sept. 25, 2021 with Liz Gerring Dance Company.
Ginny Benson presents her live A/V performance")
![[August 17] LIVE PERFORMANCE – William Hooker- “Separated Twins” w/ Kevin Ramsay](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eZRW3trBX40/mqdefault.jpg "[August 17] LIVE PERFORMANCE – William Hooker- “Separated Twins” w/ Kevin Ramsay
Harlem Arts Fund 10b, Nolan Park, Governors Island.")
