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Influenced by the cultural shifts that technology creates, this series of fiber installations—The Masquerades of the Soft Machines— imagines a future dystopia warped by technology. The surreptitious collection of personal data has led to humanity controlled by the machine. Luciferins is one project in this series.
Luciferins is inspired by bioluminescent marine organisms & the plethora of invisible network traffic that surrounds us. As viewers walk through the hanging fiber structures, graphical animations appear. Graphical portals open showing invisible network communications. Field recordings interlaced with shortwave radio recordings play in the 7-channel sound system.
Luciferins makes our networks perceptible when they are imperceptible. The infrastructure that facilitates communication remains hidden (until it is broken). Body movement makes Luciferins’ perceptible; enabling one to see invisible activity that surrounds them—just as a swimmer makes a dwelling of sea sparkle appear by swimming through it.
Produced in part through the Harvestworks Artist in Residence Program.
BIOS
As a new media, fiber, and installation artist, LadyK’s practice encompasses interactive and responsive systems exploring how our collective digital experiences are shaping our future. She merges ancient fiber traditions with programming and physical computing to create nervous systems for her handcrafted soft fiber structures. In her piece Memory Capsules, she felted cocoons, embedding custom electronics and mini-displays, to depict memories. A viewer’s soft breath activates the cocoons, triggering the memories. Yet this system, which was entrusted to protect memories, instead warps, degrades, and erases them. Liminal spaces brought forth by digital technologies fascinate her, as LadyK explores the cultural transformations that result. Her latest environments investigate how communication technologies are shaping our identity, pushing a tighter integration with the machine.
LadyK is the recipient of numerous state and national grants, including the NYSCA, Ohio Arts Council and Puffin Foundation, among others. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Ars Electronica, ISEA, ZKM, Maryland Art Place, Indianapolis Art Center, Collar Works, The University of the Arts, the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, among others. Selected residencies include Harvestworks, Jentel, Weir Farm and Vermont Studio Center (full grant). Her work also appears in the Spring 2019 and 2020 issues of Fiber Arts Now. She teaches human-computer interaction design, programming, and physical computing at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.
• LINKS
Luciferins documentation
vimeo.com/485183280
• WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
katherinebennett.net
katherinebennett.net/process
Twitter – LadyKStudios
Instagram – LadyKStudios
Github – LadyK
Influenced by the cultural shifts that technology creates, this series of fiber installations—The Masquerades of the Soft Machines— imagines a future dystopia warped by technology. The surreptitious collection of personal data has led to humanity controlled by the machine. Luciferins is one project in this series.
Luciferins is inspired by bioluminescent marine organisms & the plethora of invisible network traffic that surrounds us. As viewers walk through the hanging fiber structures, graphical animations appear. Graphical portals open showing invisible network communications. Field recordings interlaced with shortwave radio recordings play in the 7-channel sound system.
Luciferins makes our networks perceptible when they are imperceptible. The infrastructure that facilitates communication remains hidden (until it is broken). Body movement makes Luciferins’ perceptible; enabling one to see invisible activity that surrounds them—just as a swimmer makes a dwelling of sea sparkle appear by swimming through it.
Produced in part through the Harvestworks Artist in Residence Program.
BIOS
As a new media, fiber, and installation artist, LadyK’s practice encompasses interactive and responsive systems exploring how our collective digital experiences are shaping our future. She merges ancient fiber traditions with programming and physical computing to create nervous systems for her handcrafted soft fiber structures. In her piece Memory Capsules, she felted cocoons, embedding custom electronics and mini-displays, to depict memories. A viewer’s soft breath activates the cocoons, triggering the memories. Yet this system, which was entrusted to protect memories, instead warps, degrades, and erases them. Liminal spaces brought forth by digital technologies fascinate her, as LadyK explores the cultural transformations that result. Her latest environments investigate how communication technologies are shaping our identity, pushing a tighter integration with the machine.
LadyK is the recipient of numerous state and national grants, including the NYSCA, Ohio Arts Council and Puffin Foundation, among others. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Ars Electronica, ISEA, ZKM, Maryland Art Place, Indianapolis Art Center, Collar Works, The University of the Arts, the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, among others. Selected residencies include Harvestworks, Jentel, Weir Farm and Vermont Studio Center (full grant). Her work also appears in the Spring 2019 and 2020 issues of Fiber Arts Now. She teaches human-computer interaction design, programming, and physical computing at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.
• LINKS
Luciferins documentation
vimeo.com/485183280
• WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
katherinebennett.net
katherinebennett.net/process
Twitter – LadyKStudios
Instagram – LadyKStudios
Github – LadyK
![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.")
