Event Alert: New York Electronic Art Festival, Governors Island, Labor Day Weekend
This is the last weekend to see Harvestworks‘ Electronic Arts exhibitions on Governors Island — check out what’s happening below:
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The Spaces Contained in Each
At St. Cornelius Chapel, Stephen Vitiello and Steve Roden’s “The Spaces Contained in Each” is a multi-channel sound installation based on recordings of “silence”, using Paul Geluso’s innovative 3D-sound technology. Sound and visual artists, Roden and Vitiello have collected pre-recorded works on vinyl that relate to themes of silence as well as their own field recordings of quiet spaces. For the installation at Saint Cornelius Chapel, these recordings will be mixed and spatialized as a response to the artists’ experience in the space.
- In Daniel Temkin’s Internet Psychic Phone Repair, a mannequin fortune teller delivers a mix of NYC marketing vernacular, Markov-flavored spam phrasings, and a symbology of stale mysticism and Internet detritus.
- Xu Wenkai’s Cloud.data 2010 simulates a small region of a dark sky, but in the other way this matrix is able to contain a boundless 3-dimension sky of a digital reality.
- In Steve Bull’s and Kathleen Huler’s Augmented Rality War of 2012 visitors with their smart phone, iPad and Android tablets take a self guided augmented reality tour of scenes of the War of 1812.
Also, on Saturday, Aug. 31, check out the Intern Presentation: Instruments of Choice. This concert consists of a variety of artistic performances — live electronics, visuals, acoustic and electronic instruments all come together and create an hour-long show. There are three solo performances and one band performance. The overall theme of the evening is the interplay between humans and their instruments of choice.
“We let the swinging strings and speaker membranes dance with each other and fill the room with kinetic energy. We set the space around us in motion in order to create a connection to one another. Let us tell you our stories through our instruments. Come to our show and enter our world of structurally vibrating particles!”
Get directions to Governor’s Island here. Visit Harvestworks at http://www.harvestworks.org.