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… Continue reading
This live duo performance contains 360 video, field recordings, voice and electronic voice processing. The artists will explore the art of walking, an activity central to both of their practices. The focus will be on a shared walk they took in Mexico City in 2019 around Azcapotzalco, a neighborhood on the northwest… Continue reading
Thursday, July 15th 2021, ISSUE Project Room & Harvestworks are pleased to stream AEROSILLA (el turismo posible), a new collaborative work by New York-based composer, musician and multimedia artist Cecilia Lopez and Buenos Aires-based composer and performer Carmen Baliero. Both born in Buenos Aires, the pair have an expansive collaborative history that spans decades.… Continue reading
A feminist activist project, Women’s Labor repurposes domestic tools to become new musical instruments. Using embedded technologies, these domestic-tools-turned instruments are explored in interactive installations, commissioned compositions, and performances. Traditionally relegated to the private sphere, we interrogate domesticity through public engagement and performative spectacle. The new instruments are based on… Continue reading
Wednesday, July 14th 2021, ISSUE Project Room & Harvestworks are pleased to stream PineApple on a Lonely Island, the debut collaboration between experimental composer, improviser, sound artist, and instrument builder Viola Yip and sound artist, performer and instrument builder Laetitia Sonami. The duo’s debut work will stream on ISSUE’s site. • DATES… Continue reading
Upcoming Events This Week July 14, 2021 @ 8 pm Distant Pairs with Laetitia Sonami and Viola Yip. ISSUE Project Room & Harvestworks are pleased to stream PineApple on a Lonely Island, the debut collaboration between experimental composer, improviser, sound artist, and instrument builder Viola Yip and sound artist, performer and instrument builder Laetitia Sonami. The duo’s debut… Continue reading
Guggenheim award-winning composer/violinist, educator/entrepreneur Mari Kimura will give a thrilling demonstration of MUGIC®, a WIFI motion sensor designed for musicians, performers, dancers and beyond. Mari will demonstrate how MUGIC® works in many situations, as well as perform works she wrote using MUGIC®. The commercial version of MUGIC® was released last… Continue reading
This FREE workshop investigates how to code within the context of the visual arts. Participants will learn about the basic coding structure and functions in Processing in the first session and then explore creative uses of GLSL Pixel Shaders in the second and third sessions. A laptop with Processing pre-installed… Continue reading
The room has an 8-channel sound system and a FrR-interface (a.k.a. fFlower). Everyone is welcomed to come and play with the interface and explore its possibilities. • DATES AND TIMES: June 14 – August 8 2021. Open to the public on weekends – Saturday and Sunday 11am to… Continue reading
AUDIO CHANDELIER: POLYÉLAIOS, is a new multi-channel audio speaker sculpture by Dafna Naphtali [sound artist] in collaboration with metalsmith/designer Ayala Naphtali. Individual “grains” of sound are dispersed via the speaker sculpture in an immersive sonic experience– undulating audio “pixels” illuminate and refract moments in time, eliciting reminiscent soundscapes, environmental / electronic… Continue reading
