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Harvestworks New Waves in Art and Tech Exhibition, Governors Island 2024
This documentary serves as a record of the Harvestworks 2024 New Waves in Art and Tech exhibition, which took place as part of our Art and Technology Program on Governors Island. The group show marked the season's opening with studies in human perception through artworks that explored themes of privacy, brain-computer interfaces, climate and fungal networks, Artificial Intelligence, and the concepts of air, flying, and floating. The showcased works utilized creative technology such as audio spatialization, stochastic audio, gesture interfaces, AI, biotechnology, and simple motorized devices.
Location: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program, Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island.
Gisela Gamper
Hear, There Everywhere created an immersive visual and sonic environment that captured movements in nature and the artist’s personal surroundings. The work used moving beads to create ever-changing patterns, which were then recorded and paired with sound to produce a mesmerizing visual and sonic experience.
- harvestworks.org/may-17-aug-20-hear-there-everywhere-2024-by-gisela-gamper
About the Harvestworks Art and Technology Program on Governors Island
The Art and Technology Program on Governors Island centered on artworks created at the intersection of art and technology and formed a part of our Creative Residency and Sponsored Projects programs. The program included artists' open studios, exhibitions of digital media art, public workshops, and performances at our educational research facility in Nolan Park. The aim was to provide exhibition opportunities to electronic media artists and educate the public on how new and emerging technologies are employed in artistic expressions.
About Harvestworks (www.harvestworks.org)
Founded as a not-for-profit organization by artists in 1977, Harvestworks’ mission has been to support the creation and presentation of artworks achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies. The organization creates an environment where artists can develop work inspired and executed through electronic media, offering a public context for the appreciation of new art, and bringing together practitioners from various art forms collaborating in the use of electronic media. Harvestworks offers assistance through commissions and residencies, production services, educational programs, and the presentation and distribution of their work.
Production Team:
- Executive Director: Carol Parkinson
- Director: Ruoyao CHEN
- Cameraperson: Ruoyao CHEN
- Editor: Ruoyao CHEN
Harvestworks New Waves in Art and Tech Exhibition, Governors Island 2024
This documentary serves as a record of the Harvestworks 2024 New Waves in Art and Tech exhibition, which took place as part of our Art and Technology Program on Governors Island. The group show marked the season's opening with studies in human perception through artworks that explored themes of privacy, brain-computer interfaces, climate and fungal networks, Artificial Intelligence, and the concepts of air, flying, and floating. The showcased works utilized creative technology such as audio spatialization, stochastic audio, gesture interfaces, AI, biotechnology, and simple motorized devices.
Location: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program, Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island.
Gisela Gamper
Hear, There Everywhere created an immersive visual and sonic environment that captured movements in nature and the artist’s personal surroundings. The work used moving beads to create ever-changing patterns, which were then recorded and paired with sound to produce a mesmerizing visual and sonic experience.
- harvestworks.org/may-17-aug-20-hear-there-everywhere-2024-by-gisela-gamper
About the Harvestworks Art and Technology Program on Governors Island
The Art and Technology Program on Governors Island centered on artworks created at the intersection of art and technology and formed a part of our Creative Residency and Sponsored Projects programs. The program included artists' open studios, exhibitions of digital media art, public workshops, and performances at our educational research facility in Nolan Park. The aim was to provide exhibition opportunities to electronic media artists and educate the public on how new and emerging technologies are employed in artistic expressions.
About Harvestworks (www.harvestworks.org)
Founded as a not-for-profit organization by artists in 1977, Harvestworks’ mission has been to support the creation and presentation of artworks achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies. The organization creates an environment where artists can develop work inspired and executed through electronic media, offering a public context for the appreciation of new art, and bringing together practitioners from various art forms collaborating in the use of electronic media. Harvestworks offers assistance through commissions and residencies, production services, educational programs, and the presentation and distribution of their work.
Production Team:
- Executive Director: Carol Parkinson
- Director: Ruoyao CHEN
- Cameraperson: Ruoyao CHEN
- Editor: Ruoyao CHEN










![Synthesis Series: Contemporary Chamber Works by Sarah Weaver
Originally scheduled for outdoors on Governors Island but because of the weather, the performance took place remotely on the NowNetArts Performance Venue on vimeo. A watch party convened indoors at the Harvestworks Art and Technology House in Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island.
Performers: Yoon Sun Choi (voice), Robert Dick (flute), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), Marty Ehrlich (saxophone), Jen Baker (trombone), David Taylor(bass trombone), Sarah Weaver (electronics)
“Synthesis Series” is a collection of solo, chamber, and large ensemble pieces on contemplative concepts of networked synchrony across realities, transformation of distance, and synthesis activation for healing and transcendence. This concert will feature works from the series titled “Sound in Peace”, “Interpolation Space”, and “Isomorphic Now”.
Supported by the City Artist Corps Grants program, presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre.
Date: October 16, 2021. Time: 3:30 pm @ The Workings of Media [art and artists]
Location: Outdoor/Indoor at the Harvestworks Art and Technology Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
Synthesis Series 10-16-21
BIOS
Sarah Weaver, Ph.D. is a New York-based contemporary composer, conductor, technologist, educator, and researcher working internationally as a specialist in large ensemble and network arts. Her work innovates contemplative concepts on network, synchrony, synthesis, and interconnection for artistic and social purpose. Weaver has composed solo, chamber, and large ensemble works for groundbreaking musicians for twenty-five years, integrating influences of classical, jazz, world, contemplative, electronic music, and individual music languages of performers. She is an innovator in network arts advancing live performance via the internet by musicians and artists in different geographic locations. Weaver is the Director of NowNet Arts and Sarah Weaver Ensemble, Executive Director of JackTrip Foundation, Editor of the Journal of Network Music and Arts (JONMA), and Faculty of The New School College of Performing Arts. Website: www.sarahweaver.org
Sarah Weaver Ensemble the primary performing group for her solo, chamber, and large ensemble works. The work incorporates a spectrum of notation (staff, graphics, text), structures for improvisation, a hybrid approach of gesture with Soundpainting and original gestures, and materials written for the individual languages of the musicians. The ensemble has performed at contemporary venues across New York including The Stone, Experimental Intermedia, Roulette, The Cell Theatre, Symphony Space, Iridium Jazz Club, Austrian Cultural Forum, and others. The ensemble recently released a compilation double album “Synchrony: Music of Sarah Weaver and Collaborations (2011-2019)” on the SyncSource Label. Website: https://www.sarahweaver.org/#/ensembles/
https://vimeo.com/562905530
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
sarahweaver.org
https://www.facebook.com/sarahweavermusic/
Performers: Yoon Sun Choi (voice), Robert Dick (flute), Jane Ira Bloom (soprano saxophone), Marty Ehrlich (saxophone), Jen Baker (trombone), David Taylor (bass trombone), Sarah Weaver (electronics).
INTERVIEWS AND PRESS COVERAGE
https://touchingextremes.wordpress.com/2020/02/08/sarah-weaver-synchrony-series-music-of-sarah-weaver-and-collaborations/
SARAH WEAVER performed by GERRY HEMINGWAY – Reality Axis: https://touchingextremes.wordpress.com/2019/01/02/sarah-weaver-performed-by-gerry-hemingway-reality-axis/ Synthesis Series: Contemporary Chamber Works by Sarah Weaver](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zQv2dVKyZpw/mqdefault.jpg)