Portraits in Landscape is a video animation that exemplifies Gannis’s signature process of remixing historical artworks with contemporary forms of communication, taking smartphone and selfie culture to the extreme. It depicts two separate figures in a twinkling landscape, each immersed in their smart phones and occasionally snapping photos. The piece… Continue reading
TELLUS, the Audio Cassette Magazine will be featured this summer at the “Montez Press Radio”. For 30 days, 24 hours a day, content will be streaming live from the Mathew Gallery in Chinatown, bringing together artists/writers/DJs/musicians/critics/theorists to explore the medium of radio. Radio and publishing have much in common; radio… Continue reading
Artworks and Experience Lab Exhibiting artist Ursula Endlicher and 2018 Artist in Residence Eva von Schweinitz come together to talk about their work. Where: Governors Island, Nolan Park Building 8a When: Saturday, July 21 2018, 3:00 FREE Ursula Endlicher’s TWO COMPANION PLANTS reflects on the idea of “Companion Planting” in gardening… Continue reading
Avant-garde composer John Cage wrote a piece in 1960 titled Cartridge Music. This concept was this: a cartridge from a phonograph pickup is dismembered, the needle replaced with “all manner of unspecified small objects.” Pipe cleaners, matches, feathers and wires were sounded against surfaces, walls, bodies and floors in order… Continue reading
Meet the artists participating in the Harvestworks Artworks and Experiences Exhibition on Governors Island. Harvestworks hosts artists open studios, an exhibition of digital media art and a workshop / research room to share how artists use new and emerging technology with the public on Governors Island. This year our partners… Continue reading
Beth Bradfish, 2018 Artist in Residence and co-creater of Untied/United, will be giving an artist talk! Untied/United is an interactive installation created by Beth Bradfish, composer/sound artist, and Connie Noyes, multi-disciplinary artist, in collaboration the Harvestworks TEAM. Visual elements in the room work in unison with the soundscape to evoke… Continue reading
Meet Kristin Lucas, creator of FLARMINGO STOPOVER! FLARMINGO STOPOVER invites excursionists and wayfarers to mingle with flamingos in social, fun and ecologically-ethical ways through technological embodiment and magical realism. “Dance with flARmingos: Interspecies Dance” brings you into a flamingo world as a flamingo avatar and “FLARMINGOS” lets you populate your… Continue reading
THE TEAM Lab: Artworks and Experiences On Governors Island Building 8a Nolan Park. Memorial Day – October 21, 2018. Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Holiday Mondays. FREE noon – 5 pm. Visit us in Nolan Park on Saturdays for our Experience Labs @ 3pm June 16 The Piezo Electric Effect: Using contact mics to find… Continue reading
Digital Afterlife by MALK (Mark Amerika and Laura Kim) Floating in the Ether, the artist’s imagination occasionally has no choice: it must ground itself in reality. But what is reality in a world where an individual’s perception, consciousness, awareness and overall sensibility is constantly being challenged by the “datafication” of… Continue reading
New Order Of Being (N.O.O.B.), Audio-visually twisting and re-purposing over-simplified neuroscience terminology disseminated through news outlets, New Order Of Being (N.O.O.B.) neurotically investigates highly controlled social media ecologies that continue to aggressively evolve and tactfully capitalize on primal human desires. As portrayed in speculative fiction writer William Gibson’s cyberpunk future, perhaps the… Continue reading
