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[Traveling Workshops] Artist's Guide to Useful Technology
The "Artist's Guide to Useful Technology" is an ongoing project of workshops, performances, symposia, consultations, tutorials and problem-solving forums taught by Harvestworks staff at art and music centers in the US. These events, which are free and open to the public, will give participants hands-on knowledge and instruction, and instructors will be tailoring the event to the needs of the audience and thus students from all skill levels are encouraged to attend. |
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The "Artist's Guide to Useful Technology" is an ongoing project of workshops, performances, symposia, consultations, tutorials and problem-solving forums taught by Harvestworks staff at art and music centers in the US. These events, which are free and open to the public, will give participants hands-on knowledge and instruction, and instructors will be tailoring the event to the needs of the audience and thus students from all skill levels are encouraged to attend. Workshops have been held at Stevens Institute, Hoboken, NJ; Ramapo College, NJ; Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY; Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; Megapolis Festival, Baltimore, MD; Newsound Festival, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY; Stonybrook University, NY; SUNY Fredonia, NY; White Plains, NY; Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Over the past 30 years Harvestworks has become a leading center of music technology and is home to artists and instructors who are experts in their practice. Computer driven media is changing the fabric of our daily lives. These complex mechanizations and databases deliver sound, images and kinetic objects with increasing speed and personalized accuracy. As art becomes more dependent on technology, a thorough understanding of both the possibilities and implementation becomes increasingly important for artists in all fields. Without this information, it can become increasingly difficult for them to realize their vision. Hans Tammen and Adam Rokhsar from Harvestworks give a lecture about current and recent artistic projects at Harvestworks. They will also be available for individual Project Management consultations from workshop participants. Consultations will outline project resources, timelines, skill needs and financial estimates. As composers and visual artists themselves, they will also include a performance as part of their workshop.
     Adam Rokhsar is a multimedia artist with degrees in psychology from Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Music Information Retrieval Laboratory, and the head coordinator of NYU’s Music Technology student research groups. Adam designs sound for interactive installations, teaches computer music and video programming, and is working on a Master’s thesis on machine-learning algorithms. His sound design work can currently be heard in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, and his video work was displayed in the Jakopic Gallery as part of multimedia project Senza Televisione.
Hans Tammen is currently Deputy Director at Harvestworks, and is responsible for the oversight of all projects related to Max/MSP/Jitter and Physical Computing, as well as managing the education program and the studios. In this position he encounters the projects of approx. 250 clients, students and Artist In Residence per year. After an initial degree in Adult Education in 1988 he taught as an adjunct at Kassel University, and as part of his works as a union technology consultant from 1992 to 2000 he held about 120 one to five-day seminars using modern seminar techniques like metaplan, role-plays, and others. As a composer/guitarist he is best known for his "Endangered Guitar" works, interfacing his guitar with Max/MSP. Signal To Noise called his works "...a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage", All Music Guide recommended him: "...clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s."
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