Event Alert: GeekDown at 92YTribeca Showcases New Tech, Art and Music on Friday, 8/6
On Friday, August the 92YTribeca is teaming up with some of the brightest young minds in new media for GeekDown, a night of visual art, video, and music.
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The Gallery Reception is at 8 PM and the performance begins at 9. Admission $10. The 92YTribeca is located at 200 Hudson Street.
GeekDown features the dynamic work of recent graduates of NYU’s ITP (Interactive Telecommunication Program). Attendees are invited to channel their inner geek as they experience new applications of technology and the arts – from virtual sea creatures to interactive rubber sculptures, dueling Gameboys, audio light installations, and more. The 92YTribeca’s gallery and Mainstage spaces will be transformed by the artists.
Featured works of the evening include:
Controlling | Kinetic Memory Triggers
Artist: Nobu Nakaguchi
A series of five anthropomorphic sculptures designed to trigger memorable moments through movement, materiality, and sound.
CrudLabs
Gritty, industrial techno perfomed by Brooklyn artist and musician Steven Litt on an instrument he developed and built called the CrudBox— a hardware step sequencer which replaces the digitally manipulated or analog synthesized sounds usually associated with sequencers and electronic music with the raw, real time amplified sounds of whatever electromechanical devices are plugged into it, ranging from turntables to solenoids to power tools.
Estrella Intersects the Plane
Artist: Matt Richard
An attempt to create an animated color field painting by letting the light of 40 servos and 80 RGB LEDs mix together on a canvas.
Nullsleep
Nullsleep is the alias of Jeremiah Johnson, an electronic musician whose style is best described as post-cyberpunk: a combination of distorted synthpop, electro and industrial produced with repurposed low-bit electronics. The resulting sound is a wall of digital noise, driven by a deep pulsing beat, that is inevitably torn apart in a cascade of glitches and drones emanating from cheap plastic devices.
Scrape
Artist: Elie Zananiri
An artful exploration of information privacy focusing on the graphical data that is left behind on a computer.
Transient Faces
Artist: Jeff Howard
Through a process of foreground subtraction, Transient Faces creates empty images of iconic spaces that otherwise would not be found empty.
3.16 Billion Cycles
Artist: Che-Wei Wang
Can we watch decay? Can we see glass as a fluid slowly slumping and deforming over time? Everything is in constant flux, yet we consider many things around us static and fixed. 3.16 Billion Cycles is an attempt to unravel a seemingly unchanging 100 years into a set of relationships in digestible increments.
Wooly Words
Artists: Elise Porter and April Rosenstock
Imagine a text message that takes up ten or so linear feet and requires eight hours to receive. Rather than speed up communications, Wooly Words deliberately elongates the speed of exchange. The game-based system deconstructs a conversation between two people into an intricate system of binary-like alphabetic forms, made with two colors of contrasting yarn held together by strategically placed knots.
For complete information and tickets, go here.