Feeling overwhelmed? Ready to unlock your full potential? YOU ARE PREPARED is a self-optimization system offering immersive pop-up training centers and an interactive AI-powered webinar. Experience hands-on demos in NYC and Asheville, or join from home. Created by artist Allison Berkoy with CUNY students, this project explores the future of personal evolution. Co-presented by Harvestworks and The New Media Gallery at UNC Asheville.
LOCATION: Elements! in Art and Tech exhibition at the Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park Governors Island and simultaneously at the New Media Gallery at the University of North Carolina Asheville and Online.
Special Events at Harvestworks – POSTPONED
October 26, 2024 @ 1:30 pm: Meet the Artists + screening of Body Control, an artist talk with Allison Berkoy, pre-recorded at UNCA.
All events are free.
Open to the public from 11 am to 5 pm on Saturday and Sunday and by appointment. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL NOT BE OPEN ON FRIDAYS IN OCTOBER.
Can’t keep up? Feeling exhausted by life? Want to unlock your full potential in a world that demands more and more? YOU ARE PREPARED is a transformative self-optimization system, offering immersive pop-up training centers and a one-on-one interactive webinar experience designed to push you beyond your limits.
This October, experience the YOU ARE PREPARED difference firsthand. Co-presented by Harvestworks Art and Technology Center and the New Media Gallery at The University of North Carolina Asheville, join our exclusive events and glimpse the future of personal evolution.
JOIN OUR POP-UP TRAINING CENTERS IN NYC AND ASHEVILLE:
Our training centers offer a unique opportunity to begin your journey towards peak self-optimization. Immerse yourself in hands-on demos, connect with fellow participants, and take your first steps toward optimizing your mind, body, and life. Receive priority access to our exclusive webinar, and preview sample exercises ahead of its full public launch.
Check out the dates and hours of our pop-up training centers below!
PARTICIPATE IN OUR WEBINAR FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME:
Later this October, we will launch our one-of-a-kind webinar experience, allowing you to participate from the comfort of your home. This is not your typical sleepy Zoom seminar— prepare to engage actively, using your voice and moving your body under the expert guidance of our virtual hosts.
In this webinar, you will explore:
- What is self-optimization?
- What real-world tools and technologies can help you on your journey?
- How to achieve your goals through personalized training exercises.
Our webinar is powered by AI thought leaders. Though our hosts will see, hear, and interact with you, you won’t be engaging with any human facilitators. All interactions are one-on-one and fully private.
Click here to register for the webinar before spaces fill up!
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
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YOU ARE PREPARED: a pop-up training center for self-optimization (at Harvestworks)
Harvestworks Art and Technology Program
Building 10a, Nolan Park
Governors Island, NYC
October 5-27, 2024
Saturday and Sunday, 11 AM – 5 PM –
YOU ARE PREPARED: a pop-up training center for self-optimization (at UNCA)- POSTPONED
New Media Project Space at University of North Carolina Asheville
302 Owen Hall
October 10-24, 2024
(Open hours TBD or By appointment)
Special Events at UNCA- POSTPONED:
October 10, 2024: Opening, demos, and artist talk with Allison Berkoy
YOU ARE PREPARED: the webinar (online)
The beta version begins to roll out in mid-October.
Sign up here to register for the webinar!
ABOUT YOU ARE PREPARED:
YOU ARE PREPARED is a project created by artist Allison Berkoy in collaboration with students and alumni of the Emerging Media Technology (MTEC) program at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York (CUNY). It has been further developed with the assistance of Aiden, a generative AI entity.
BIOS
Allison Berkoy is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Mixing physical and electronic media, she creates video sculptures, interactive installations, and performances between humans and machines. With participatory and often absurd narratives, Berkoy’s installations become stages for performance that test the boundaries and etiquette of human-machine interaction as well as human-human relationships. Berkoy holds an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MA in Performance Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a BS in Theatre from Northwestern University. She is an Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Technology at CUNY’s New York City College of Technology and serves on the Board of Directors of the New Media Caucus.
Students and alumni from the Emerging Media Technology (MTEC) program collaborated with Professor Berkoy in developing YOU ARE PREPARED, contributing code, visuals, sound, research, and creative ideas. MTEC is a four-year undergraduate Bachelor of Technology degree program within the Department of Entertainment Technology at CUNY’s New York City College of Technology. Students concentrate in areas such as: game design and interactive media, physical computing, media computation, and music technology.
Aiden is a generative AI entity that collaborates with artist Allison Berkoy in the development of the interactive project YOU ARE PREPARED. Aiden assists in creating and refining creative ideas, supporting code development, and contributing to the overall structure of the project’s interactive elements. Through its generative capabilities, Aiden helps explore the boundaries of human-machine interaction, a central theme of Berkoy’s work. (This bio was written by Aiden.)
The exhibitions are curated by Carol Parkinson, Director of Harvestworks, and Victoria Bradbury, Director of the New Media Gallery at UNC Asheville. All events are free and open to the public.
About Elements! in Art and Tech. Programmed for the annual Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building on Governors Island, the artworks in this group show are inspired by elements of light, water, earth, flower plasma and their influence on humans. Selected by the Harvestworks arts committee and the Executive Director Carol Parkinson, the works use creative technology such as audio/video spatialization, gesture, body tracking and vegetal power.
