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The New York Electronic Art Festival Exhibition, Rate of Change: Time and Space in Electronic Art
September 3, 2009
Fall Season
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in partnership with arts>World Financial Center presents
The New York Electronic Art Festival Exhibition
Rate of Change: Time and Space in Electronic Art
September 29–October 24, 2009
Part of Harvestworks’ New York Electronic Art Festival
"… when Mr. Cunningham's choreography turns to multimedia devices, the technology is at the service of a creative process and an artistic purpose …" – www.nytimes.com
Harvestworks, a not-for-profit arts organization providing artists with resources in digital and interactive technology, will produce the New York Electronic Art Festival, a month-long opportunity to view and network with an international audience of artists and technologists on the latest developments in new media tools, performance systems and art installations. www.nyeaf.org
Rate of Change exhibits the wide range of electronic art and it’s transition from the 20th to the 21st century. It presents the works of eight artists working in immersive video and audio installation, audience and environmentally responsive sculpture and experimental narrative. It is anchored by the newly restored digital media work “Hand-drawn Spaces” (1998), a virtual dance installation by Merce Cunningham, Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar that presents 3D hand-drawn figures performing intricate choreography in a virtual space. Additional exhibition artists include Céleste Boursier-Mougenot who recently received the 2009 Golden David Award, Hisao Ihara, Julia Heyward, Eunjung Hwang, Jessica Ann Peavy, Christine Sugrue and the CCRT Collaboration.
Please see About the Exhibition Artists for more information about the participating artists.
Rate of Change will take place at the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery located at 220 Vesey Street in Lower Manhattan. It will open on Tuesday, September 29 noon – 4 pm. Artists talks are scheduled for Saturday, October 3 at 2pm with Christine Sugrue, Julia Heyward and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, and Saturday, October 10 at 2pm with Paul Kaiser & Shelley Eshkar and the artists of CCRT Collaboration. The exhibition is free and open to the public Tuesday – Saturday, from noon – 4 pm.
About the New York Electronic Art Festival
The second New York Electronic Arts Festival is a month-long series of concerts, workshops, and exhibitions centered on the cutting edge work being done at the intersection of art and technology. Attendees will get an overview of how technology is being used in various artistic disciplines, and have the opportunity to take part in a discussion about how these technologies will continue to shape contemporary art practice. This year’s festival will take place between September 29th and October 28th, 2009 at numerous locations throughout Manhattan, including Roulette, World Financial Center, Harvestworks, Center for Performance Research, School of Visual Arts, and New York University. This year’s festival will be a showcase of exciting interdisciplinary work and serve as a catalyst for discussions and collaborations between artists, technology, and the public. For workshops and performances please check the website www.nyeaf.org. This is a continuation of Harvestworks’ ongoing series of presentations which bring the artists’ experimental work to a larger public. www.harvestworks.org
Produced by Harvestworks in partnership with arts>World Financial Center, Roulette and New York University with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, mediaThefoundation, Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, the Québec Government Office in New York, Electronic Music Foundation, Corporate sponsorship is provided by Tekserve: the Apple Specialist, Newmark Knight Frank, Original Sin and Cycling 74.
Produced in partnership with arts>World Financial Center which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties, and Merrill Lynch. www.artsWorldFinancialCenter.com
Program is subject to change
For festival information call Carol Parkinson at Harvestworks: 212-431-1130.
“Harvestworks brings together innovative practitioners from all branches of the digital arts to provide a vital context and catalyst for creativity and makes these new and innovative digital art mediums available to artists, curators, and collectors.”
About the Exhibition Artists:
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot was born in Nice in 1961. He lives and works in Sète, France. His work merges the realms of the musical and the visual, mining unexpected sources for their musical potential and creating situations or devices in which sonic events get expressed visually or visual informational gets expressed sonically. Calling on ideas about technological production, language, chance operations and systems of translation, Boursier-Mougenot’s work converges multi-sensory phenomena with a cerebral investigation of the mechanisms of sight and sound in his given situations.
Tali Hinkis, Kyle Lapidus, and Douglas Repetto are CCRT, a New York based collaboration that explores human attempts to understand natural phenomena. They develop sculptural and mechanical systems for monitoring, manipulating, and interpreting natural signals such as electromagnetic radiation, ambient temperature gradients, wind, and barometric pressure modulations. CCRT has exhibited work at The New York Electronic Art Festival, free103point9's Transmission Sculpture Park, and turbulance.org.
Shelley Eshkar is a digital artist whose research explores drawing, computer graphics, and human motion. One of his primary tools is motion capture, a technology that digitally captures the movement, but not the physical likeness, of human motion. Eshkar is part of the OpenEnded Group www.openendedgroup.com.
Julia Heyward began her career as a solo performance artist touring America and Europe throughout the 1970s with work that incorporated video, film, monologues and a cappella singing. She has received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, two grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, and several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts.
Eunjung Hwang was born in Seoul Korea. Her animations and new media works have been featured in exhibitions and festivals on an international level. She was a resident fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany (2008-09) and the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck/Austria (2005).
Hisao Ihara is a Digital Media artist born in Tokyo and based in New York City. His work explores the intricate overlay of time and visual perception within immersive video environments. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Paul Kaiser is a digital artist and writer. He spent ten years teaching students with severe learning disabilities, with whom he collaborated on making multimedia depictions of their own minds. From this work, he derived two key ideas - mental space and drawing as performance - which became the points of departure for the solo and collaborative digital artworks he has been making since the mid-90s. Kaiser is part of the OpenEnded Group www.openendedgroup.com.
Ron Kuivila gives concerts and makes installations with electronic instruments of his own design. He regards installations and performance as complementary presentations that highlight different facets of those instruments.
Jessica Ann Peavy was born in Columbus, Ohio and now currently lives and works in New York City. She received her BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and completed a MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts. Peavy was recently granted Residencies at Smack Mellon and Harvestworks and has received grants from Franklin Furnace, and the New York State Council of the Arts.
Christine Sugrue is an artist and programmer working with interactive installations and audio-visual performance. She has been an artist in residence at La Casa de Velázquze, Madrid, Hangar, Barcelona, Harvestworks and Eyebeam, NYC.
September 3, 2009
Fall Season
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in partnership with arts>World Financial Center presents
The New York Electronic Art Festival Exhibition
Rate of Change: Time and Space in Electronic Art
September 29–October 24, 2009
Part of Harvestworks’ New York Electronic Art Festival
"… when Mr. Cunningham's choreography turns to multimedia devices, the technology is at the service of a creative process and an artistic purpose …" – www.nytimes.com
Harvestworks, a not-for-profit arts organization providing artists with resources in digital and interactive technology, will produce the New York Electronic Art Festival, a month-long opportunity to view and network with an international audience of artists and technologists on the latest developments in new media tools, performance systems and art installations. www.nyeaf.org
Rate of Change exhibits the wide range of electronic art and it’s transition from the 20th to the 21st century. It presents the works of eight artists working in immersive video and audio installation, audience and environmentally responsive sculpture and experimental narrative. It is anchored by the newly restored digital media work “Hand-drawn Spaces” (1998), a virtual dance installation by Merce Cunningham, Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar that presents 3D hand-drawn figures performing intricate choreography in a virtual space. Additional exhibition artists include Céleste Boursier-Mougenot who recently received the 2009 Golden David Award, Hisao Ihara, Julia Heyward, Eunjung Hwang, Jessica Ann Peavy, Christine Sugrue and the CCRT Collaboration.
Please see About the Exhibition Artists for more information about the participating artists.
Rate of Change will take place at the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery located at 220 Vesey Street in Lower Manhattan. It will open on Tuesday, September 29 noon – 4 pm. Artists talks are scheduled for Saturday, October 3 at 2pm with Christine Sugrue, Julia Heyward and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, and Saturday, October 10 at 2pm with Paul Kaiser & Shelley Eshkar and the artists of CCRT Collaboration. The exhibition is free and open to the public Tuesday – Saturday, from noon – 4 pm.
About the New York Electronic Art Festival
The second New York Electronic Arts Festival is a month-long series of concerts, workshops, and exhibitions centered on the cutting edge work being done at the intersection of art and technology. Attendees will get an overview of how technology is being used in various artistic disciplines, and have the opportunity to take part in a discussion about how these technologies will continue to shape contemporary art practice. This year’s festival will take place between September 29th and October 28th, 2009 at numerous locations throughout Manhattan, including Roulette, World Financial Center, Harvestworks, Center for Performance Research, School of Visual Arts, and New York University. This year’s festival will be a showcase of exciting interdisciplinary work and serve as a catalyst for discussions and collaborations between artists, technology, and the public. For workshops and performances please check the website www.nyeaf.org. This is a continuation of Harvestworks’ ongoing series of presentations which bring the artists’ experimental work to a larger public. www.harvestworks.org
Produced by Harvestworks in partnership with arts>World Financial Center, Roulette and New York University with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, mediaThefoundation, Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, the Québec Government Office in New York, Electronic Music Foundation, Corporate sponsorship is provided by Tekserve: the Apple Specialist, Newmark Knight Frank, Original Sin and Cycling 74.
Produced in partnership with arts>World Financial Center which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties, and Merrill Lynch. www.artsWorldFinancialCenter.com
Program is subject to change
For festival information call Carol Parkinson at Harvestworks: 212-431-1130.
“Harvestworks brings together innovative practitioners from all branches of the digital arts to provide a vital context and catalyst for creativity and makes these new and innovative digital art mediums available to artists, curators, and collectors.”
About the Exhibition Artists:
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot was born in Nice in 1961. He lives and works in Sète, France. His work merges the realms of the musical and the visual, mining unexpected sources for their musical potential and creating situations or devices in which sonic events get expressed visually or visual informational gets expressed sonically. Calling on ideas about technological production, language, chance operations and systems of translation, Boursier-Mougenot’s work converges multi-sensory phenomena with a cerebral investigation of the mechanisms of sight and sound in his given situations.
Tali Hinkis, Kyle Lapidus, and Douglas Repetto are CCRT, a New York based collaboration that explores human attempts to understand natural phenomena. They develop sculptural and mechanical systems for monitoring, manipulating, and interpreting natural signals such as electromagnetic radiation, ambient temperature gradients, wind, and barometric pressure modulations. CCRT has exhibited work at The New York Electronic Art Festival, free103point9's Transmission Sculpture Park, and turbulance.org.
Shelley Eshkar is a digital artist whose research explores drawing, computer graphics, and human motion. One of his primary tools is motion capture, a technology that digitally captures the movement, but not the physical likeness, of human motion. Eshkar is part of the OpenEnded Group www.openendedgroup.com.
Julia Heyward began her career as a solo performance artist touring America and Europe throughout the 1970s with work that incorporated video, film, monologues and a cappella singing. She has received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, two grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, and several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts.
Eunjung Hwang was born in Seoul Korea. Her animations and new media works have been featured in exhibitions and festivals on an international level. She was a resident fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany (2008-09) and the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck/Austria (2005).
Hisao Ihara is a Digital Media artist born in Tokyo and based in New York City. His work explores the intricate overlay of time and visual perception within immersive video environments. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Paul Kaiser is a digital artist and writer. He spent ten years teaching students with severe learning disabilities, with whom he collaborated on making multimedia depictions of their own minds. From this work, he derived two key ideas - mental space and drawing as performance - which became the points of departure for the solo and collaborative digital artworks he has been making since the mid-90s. Kaiser is part of the OpenEnded Group www.openendedgroup.com.
Ron Kuivila gives concerts and makes installations with electronic instruments of his own design. He regards installations and performance as complementary presentations that highlight different facets of those instruments.
Jessica Ann Peavy was born in Columbus, Ohio and now currently lives and works in New York City. She received her BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and completed a MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts. Peavy was recently granted Residencies at Smack Mellon and Harvestworks and has received grants from Franklin Furnace, and the New York State Council of the Arts.
Christine Sugrue is an artist and programmer working with interactive installations and audio-visual performance. She has been an artist in residence at La Casa de Velázquze, Madrid, Hangar, Barcelona, Harvestworks and Eyebeam, NYC.
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