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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.
Tansy Xiao
Here’s the Information We Collect was an interactive video installation that engaged with selected privacy policies from major social media platforms. Audience members interacted by speaking into a microphone, triggering responses from the system. Another piece, LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor), represented a non-linear virtual environment, dynamically shaped by real-time biometric data streamed from performers’ movements, which influenced the visual and sonic elements of the installation.
- harvestworks.org/may-17-aug-20-heres-the-information-we-collect-and-luca-by-tansy-xiao
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.
Tansy Xiao
Here’s the Information We Collect was an interactive video installation that engaged with selected privacy policies from major social media platforms. Audience members interacted by speaking into a microphone, triggering responses from the system. Another piece, LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor), represented a non-linear virtual environment, dynamically shaped by real-time biometric data streamed from performers’ movements, which influenced the visual and sonic elements of the installation.
- harvestworks.org/may-17-aug-20-heres-the-information-we-collect-and-luca-by-tansy-xiao
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
![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")
