We get stuck in our cubicles! Concert performers are confined to practice studios and concert halls, performing in cloistered spaces. They want out! Audiences feel the barriers: long travel, high prices, dress code, quiet restraint, elite cognoscenti. They want in! The Nomadic Keyboard will travel around Governors Island, where those… Continue reading
Harvestworks is pleased to present 2024 artist in residence Luc Vitk’s multichannel piece, Water Vision, for water, the visitors, and six speakers. During the presentation, the visitors will become part of the installation to interpret the piece and generate 26 minutes of water music. Location: Harvestworks Studios 596 Broadway Suite… Continue reading
Solstice Sunset Cross-River Bell Ringing The dailybell project is an aspirational project based on the premise that the rotation of the Earth is an inarguable fact, something we can all agree on. Anybody who is nearby this Solstice is invited to join us at sunset (8:30 PM) as we cross the East… Continue reading
Harvestworks announces three events for the third Saturday in June 2024 that will take place in our Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island. All events are free. AFTERNOON ARTIST TALK by Judy Dunaway – Time: 2:45 pm Sound artist Judy Dunaway will discuss her “Aeronaut” installation… Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence has disrupted the creative world and artists need to understand how it works and its risks and benefits. In this easily accessible introductory workshop we take the hype out of the process discussing growing trends and artistic practice, culminating in a hands-on group project. This special workshop is directed… Continue reading
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center announces the New Waves in Art and Tech, an exhibition for our Art and Technology Program on Governors Island. A group show that opens the season with studies in human perception via artworks that explore privacy, brain-computer interfaces, climate and fungal networks, Artificial Intelligence and… Continue reading
ARBORETUM is a collaboration between poet Mónica de la Torre and sound artist Hans Tammen. A series of poems written by de la Torre, inspired by some of the trees of Governors Island, are in turn processed and spatialized by Tammen. De la Torre considered the botanical and historical specificities… Continue reading
A two channel video installation comprising images and animated short loops where the artist collaborates with artificial intelligence to explore questions about the afterlife and how a machine imagines the metaphysical and the transcendental. All images are produced through generative technologies—the final artistic works—are fully created by machine intelligence without… Continue reading
This site-specific sound installation commemorates pioneer daredevil aviator Charles K.(“Charlie”) Hamilton making the first round trip flight between New York City and Philadelphia onJune 13, 1910, taking off from and returning to Governors Island. The installation works with thethemes of air, floating and simple motorized devices featuring inflated latex balloons… Continue reading
Here’s the Information We Collect, is an interactive video installation tailored to respond selected privacy policy posted on major social media platforms. Audience members are invited to engage with the work by speaking into a microphone. LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor – the hypothetical single-cell organism from which all… Continue reading
