This year’s upstairs exhibition features work by members of NYC-based organization, DigiAna Group.
DATES AND TIMES
Two weekends of events and exhibition, opening April 26th and closing May 5th
Free and open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays (11am-5pm)
Performances and events occurring daily
LOCATION: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
For more information on this show, visit the main exhibition page.
Tranquilo
Tranquilo (2019-2025) is a series of experimental music videos activated at times by live musical performances by Juan “Wamoo” Alvarez. This series is a continual coming of age story, which is at the same time a process of assimilation, disruption and the noise in between. A story told through its instances and interactions, contrasting the agency and control that gaming or music brings a child, with the challenging lived experiences of immigration. Absurdity and humor play large roles in his practice, resonating in this series through its subject matter and the collision of different cultural influences which highlight and explode the mundane, real or absurd. Frustration, rejection, isolation, escapism, and self-actualization are undercurrents in the work, in tension and harmony with with their hyperactive visuals and songs about a caracol, or a snail, wanting to be a part of Street Fighter or a cat who is scared of the loud clomping of his Timberland boots.
(left to right, stills from Tranquilo episodes: Lluvia (It Wasn’t Me), 2025; Early Sunset, 2024; and Caracol, Caracol, 2021)
Juan “Wamoo” Alvarez
Juan Alvarez, aka Wamoo, is a Dominican-born, Washington Heights-raised and based musician and media-based artist, working at the border between visual art, music and live performance. His audiovisual work is constructed by means of collage art, reconstructing existing materials and bringing them into new contexts. He is mainly inspired by the video art of Joan Jonas and Pipilotti Rist, as well as music producers J Dilla and Tainy.
Wamoo is a part of the Season II 2025 NARS Foundation Residency cohort. He has exhibited at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, SuperBlue Miami, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Andrew Freedman Home, among others. He has also been featured on publications like “Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora”, an arts publication published by Illinois State University; and “Apricity”, published by the University of Texas at Austin. He studied at the University at Albany, SUNY, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in two concentrations, Philosophy and World History.
Website: thisiswamoo.com
Instagram: @thisiswamoo
Your Bubble. My Bubble (Not Me, But Somebody Else)
(2019-2022) A four-part interactive video installation with sound by Andréa DeFelice. This work forms into a larger installation incorporating sculptures, objects, prints, and sound design. This artwork is a three-year project produced during and after an artist residency in Crete (Greece). This interactive audio-visual installation is based on visual field loss, flashing lights, encounters, and division. The work conveys ideas around relationship separation while the subjects take up the same space. It is about forming artificial and real spaces and beliefs, talking to yourself, nature, animals, and failing communication with others. The concepts are derived from developing the artwork during an artist residency named “Event Horizon.” The site for this residency is a 5-acre mountain-side meadow and olive grove in Crete. This project was inspired by research of philosophical texts on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method, and certain speculations about our understanding of understanding.
This work combines production and post-production with physical objects and programming to form a larger installation. The visuals are composed of (4) experimental videos shot between Iceland and Greece. Interaction moves the camera points of view in the four parts of the video, and reveals several hidden 360° (VR) shorts, serving as counterpart studies. Audio was captured on an ambisonic microphone in various landscapes and environments, recorded through inflatable objects, through water and out of holes in the ground. Interactivity is few and far between as this work is meant to have a more unstable, autonomous nature, engaging viewers through sound and vision, expanding into a larger installation of various objects, moving parts, and captures of events.
Andréa DeFelice
Andréa DeFelice is a visual artist living and working in New York. Her work uses various media, usually putting objects, images, and sound into motion, creating illusions and blending analog with digital. Works are conceptual and aim to turn the notion of observation inside out. Also to reconsider what we think we know. DeFelice is a Professor of Media Studies and Art & Technology, and gallery coordinator for Digital Arts at Pratt Institute. Exhibition venues include Lichtundfire, The Invisible Dog Art Center, The Painting Center, The Austrian Cultural Forum, and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. Her works have been commissioned and part of private collections. International exhibitions and alternative spaces include Periferic 8 Biennial for Contemporary Art: Art As Gift, in Iași, Romania; The Lab for Electronic Arts & Performance in Berlin; The Contemporary Art Center in Greece, and Hafnarborg Museum in Iceland. Artist residencies include Hafnarborg: HafnarfjördurCentre of Culture & Fine Art (IS) Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center (US), Hungarian Multicultural Center in Budapest (HU), and Event Horizon (GR).
Website: andreadefelice.com
Instagram: @a.defelice
Crying_RGP(Regenerated Paint)
What is painting meaning? Why do you try to make paintings even nowadays anyone can easily make any kind of style of image using an AI generated program? What is the motivation to be physically based? RGP(Regenerated Paint) is artist Seungjin’s original style of painting skills, trying to explain the new format of physical painting with naturalism and digital generated mixed concepts.
Material: Acrylic paint on banner print
Seungjin Lee
Seungjin is a NY based physical artist and organizer of DigiAna Group. His focus is mainly on non-digital(analog, physicalism) and digital elements combining and exploring definition between both relationships. Born in South Korea, spent one third of his life in Japan, he was influenced by both countries’ digital technology hybrid glowing society format during his life and from 10 years before active as artist and art group organizer trying to combine NY’s geometrical originality with digital social phenomenon as his art concept. He tries to make his organizing group DigiAna as a stable artist scene and community since he thinks this group concept has a huge benefit for NY people living with a confusing mind by high pitch phase changes and updates by new digital technologies.
Instagram: @seungjin888
More about Digiana Group at: digianagroup.com
_NS Cybergenetics 001 : 2025
A physical sculpture drawing on the pervasive pollutants of anthropogenic origin such as microplastics. The piece takes on the form of organic materials that have somehow been manipulated by human technology and ingenuity, a product of mass geological and genetic experimentation.
Materials: Electronics, Acrylic, Clay, Silicone, Paint
Mike Romeo pseudonym Night Shining
Michael Romeo was born in 1985 on Long Island, NY and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Romeo is a multimedia artist, musician, and developer who has performed live, released albums, visual art, and creative software under the moniker “Night Shining”. His performances are live real-time a/v performances that combine computer graphics and audio into a cohesive medium utilizing everything from algorithmic assisted musical productions to computer vision. Romeo’s work integrates a multitude of technologies, electronics building, and computer programming.
Website: night-shining.com
Instagram: @_nightshining