Conglomerate is an art show and series of events featuring over 20+ local artists and creators who creatively work with technology. This year’s programming includes works with custom electronics and software, live coding, interactivity, projection mapping, audio visuals, and data visualization.
Visit our upstairs exhibit to see installations by members of DigiAna Group.
Come downstairs to interact and browse through demos by various creators from NYC.
Join us for our live events, featuring performances by members of LiveCodeNYC, DigiAna Group, and more.
DATES AND TIMES
Saturdays and Sundays (11am-5pm), opening April 26th and closing May 4th
Two weekends of daily events and exhibition
Free and open to the public
LOCATION: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
Exhibition
Events
Demo Stage
** See events and exhibition pages for more details about individual artists/participants
About DigiAna Group
DigiAna Group is a NY based organization of artists who deal with multi-sensory digital and analog media. The artists’ works focus on augmented reality and the cultural intersections between human-felt experience and a virtually-impelled world. Through virtual events, group performances, gallery shows, and lots of format events, DigiAna Group creates a meeting place for viewers to enjoy and discuss these ideas.
DigiAna Art aims to raise questions about connections, values, and lifestyles created by digital devices and media such as the Internet and SNS and redefine them. It is an experimental attempt to remove the role that digital devices and those platforms currently play in order to grasp the essence of the contents. Digi Ana Art can be said to be an art that represents our contemporary lifestyles and societies captured, destroyed, reconstructed, or created by the Internet and digital devices.
Website: digianagroup.com
Instagram: @digianagroup
About LiveCode.NYC
LiveCode.NYC is a New York City-based leaderless social group and artist collective devoted to the real-time programming technique called live coding. Members include artists, engineers, actors, designers, educators, musicians, game developers, and writers. The group has no formal membership or hierarchy, and anyone is welcome to join, attend, participate in, and host algoraves.
Live coding and algoraves (algorithm + rave) are global movements, they “are a way to experience something as abstract as algorithmic music with your whole body, with your mind and with your feet, and everything in between” (Alex McLean). Where traditional music and visuals are effectively opaque, a key component to live coding is transparency, performers display the code which produces the sights and sounds the audience experiences. Some guiding principles of our community include: Exposing algorithmic processes, being wary of established institutions, collapsing hierarchies, respecting other communities, equitable diversity and inclusion in lineups and audiences, and making space for experimentation and failure.
Website: livecode.nyc
Instagram:@livecodenyc
PAST INTERVIEWS AND PRESS COVERAGE
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/style/live-code-music.html
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5wgp7/who-killed-the-american-demoscene-synchrony-demoparty
Main Organizer/Producer: Melody Loveless
Co-Organizer/Producer: Matthew Kaney
Thank you to Carol at Harvestworks for her generosity and openness with us!
Accessibility
Mobility
Ferry
Governors Island is only accessible by ferry. The ferry from the Governors Island Ferry Terminal in lower Manhattan (10 South Street) to Soissons Landing on Governors Island is wheelchair-accessible.
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Getting to the Exhibition
It is about a 7-10 minute walk from Soissons Landing to the Harvestworks house. Most paths on the island are wheelchair accessible. However, the path and entrance to the exhibition features an uneven surface. (approx. last 50 ft of the journey.)
Exhibition
Accessibility is limited for wheelchair users and others who need step-free access. The exhibition is in a two-story house with stairs (approx. seven) leading into the building.
There are wheelchair accessible restrooms near Soissons Landing. The closest restrooms have stairs.
There is no heat, AC, and/or running water in the building. We recommend dressing for the elements and consulting the weather forecast to prepare for your trip.
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Sensory Advisory
Not all, but many parts of the exhibition include dark rooms and flashing lights. Discretion is advised.