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Regen Circuit

LiveCode.NYC

Featuring Indira Ardolic (Voyde), Ramsey Nasser, Roxanne Harris, Cameron Alexander (emptyflash), Emma Waddell, Sarika Doppalapudi, Viola He, Katarina Hoeger, Jessica Stringham (thisxorthat), MYLAR (Melody Loveless & Caitlin Cawley), Archaic Reckoner (Sumanth Srinivasan & Matthew Kaney), PRESWERVE, Carla Guzman, Mary Marks, Riho Hagi, bl4st, ele-khle-kha āļ­āļĩāđ€āļŦāļĨāļ°āđ€āļ‚āļĨāļ°āļ‚āļĨāļ° (Nitcha Tothong–āļ“āļīāļŠāļŠāļē āđ‚āļ•āļ—āļ­āļ‡ & Kengchakaj–āđ€āļāđˆāļ‡āļ‰āļāļēāļˆ), Omar Delarosa, Loren Tyler, Messica Arson, R. Luke Dubois, Liam Baum (Mister Bomb), Chirag DavÃĐ (casualsalad), Snow Schwartz, Jay Tobin, Shelly Xiong, Sylvia Ke

LOCATION: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

Limited capacity. Ticket/RSVP/Donation not required but is encouraged and appreciated! RSVP for all events here.

Calendar of Events

(Fri) 4/28/23

Performances starting at 1pm

For opening day of the exhibition, LiveCode.NYC members will activate the space by filling the Harvestworks building with live sound and visuals. These happenings will occur intermittently throughout the day. Visitors are encouraged to talk and engage with the performers and get to know the LiveCode.NYC community better.


(Sat) 4/29/23

1pm – Introduction to Live Coding, LiveCode.NYC, and the Inspiration behind Regen Circuit

Presentations by Indira Ardolic, Melody Loveless, and Ramsey Nasser

3pm – Audiovisual Performances by Roxanne Harris, Michael Simpson, and emptyflash

These artists will explore solo multichannel systems in a 2-channel video set-up


(Sun) 4/30/23

1pm – Hydra Workshop by Cameron Alexander
3pm – Performances by Emma Waddell, Sarika Doppalapudi, and Viola He

(Fri) 5/5/23

2:30pm – Audiovisual performances by Katarina Hoeger, thisxorthat, and MYLAR (Melody Loveless and Caitlin Cawley)

Katarina Hoeger and thisxorthat will collaborate in an audiovisual live coding performance. MYLAR is a multimedia performance duo that combines percussion, voice, sampling, and live coding.


(Sat) 5/6/23

1pm – Sonic Pi Workshop by Roxanne Harris

This is a hands-on workshop on Sonic Pi, a live coding synthesizer for making music.

3pm – Audiovisual performances by Archaic Reckoner (Sumanth Srinivasan + Matthew Kaney), PRESWERVE, Carla Guzman, Mary Marks, and Riho Hagi

Live coding


(Sun) 5/7/23

1pm – Live Coding Fractal Flames with bl4st
3pm – Performances by ele-khle-kha āļ­āļĩāđ€āļŦāļĨāļ°āđ€āļ‚āļĨāļ°āļ‚āļĨāļ° (Kengchakaj Kengkarnka and Nitcha Tothong), Omar Delarosa, and Loren Tyler

(Fri) 5/12/23

3pm – Performances by Messica Arson and R. Luke Dubois 

Messica Arson will combine live coding with screaming, sampling, and looping. R. Luke Dubois will live code/patch a modular synthesizer.


(Sat) 5/13/23

1pm – Sonic Pi Workshop by Liam Baum
3pm – Audiovisual performances by Indira Ardolic, Mister Bomb, casualsalad, Snow Schwartz, Jay Tobin, and Shelly Xiong

(Sun) 5/14/23

1pm – Processing and Sound Workshop by Katarina Hoeger

An introduction to combining sound with Processing, a platform for coding creative multimedia.

3pm – Audiovisual performances by Sylvia Ke, Melody Loveless, and Indira Ardolic  

A live coding concert featuring performers exploring world building, generative visuals, and vocals.

Roxanne Harris

Roxanne Harris (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist. She approaches
programming as a medium for creative expression. Roxanne specializes in programming
as performance, modifying real-time processes to create dynamic audiovisual
experiences. She spends her time finding new ways to engage with the world,
destructing and reconstructing existing structures as she goes. Website:
alsoknownasrox.com. Instagram and Twitter: @alsoknownasrox.

Cameron Alexander

Cameron Alexander (aka emptyflash) is an artist, programmer, and
scientist based in New York. His work explores the relationship between math and
nature (especially in fractals, feedback, and non-linear systems), altered and
esoteric states of consciousness, and the essence of reality through generative art,
livecoded performances, and alternative process photography. Cameron received his
B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston in 2015. He has been
creating generative art since 2011, and his work has been exhibited, installed, and
performed in galleries, theaters, clubs, and venues across the U.S. Cameron is a
member of the New York-based collective livecode.nyc, where he organizes shows,
gives livecoding workshops, and performs livecoded visuals and music at algoraves.

Katarina Hoeger

Katarina Hoeger (she/her) uses code to generate or modify audio and
visuals in her works. Many of Katarina’s works reflect her interest in sounds and
motions fostered by lifelong participation in music and dance. These influences
combined with the experience of having been raised with a variety of cultural and
philosophical backgrounds shape the intention behind her works. She holds a Master
of Fine Arts in Intermedia from the University of Maine in Orono, Maine, a Master of
Science in Computer Science with a specialization in Operations Research from the
College of William & Mary, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd
College. She has been an artist-in-residence at Bethany Arts Community in Ossining,
NY. Katarina Hoeger is a founding board member of Music Community Lab and long-time
volunteer organizer at its series Monthly Music Hackathon NYC. Website:
katarinahoeger.com. Instagram: @katarina_hoeger_art. Twitter: @kfhoeger.

MYLAR (Melody Loveless and Caitlin Cawley)

MYLAR is a musical and multimedia art project by Moledoy Loveless and Caitlin Cawley. In this project, Loveless samples Cawley’s output using Sonic Pi. They improvise with each other by responding to each other’s output, constantly working with feedback loops.

Archaic Reckoner (Sumanth Srinivasan + Matthew Kaney)

Archaic Reckoner is Sumanth Srinivasan and Matthew Kaney. Sumanth’s
solo computer-songwriter project, Reckoner, has released a full length album and
several EPs. Drawing from krautrock, trip hop and glitch, his music is a fusion of
live sampling, guitar, live coded rhythms and melodic vocals. Matthew builds tools
for live coding, performing music and visuals as archaic.tech. Together and
independently, they’ve performed a series of shows in both New York and western
Europe.

Carla Guzman

Carla Guzman is a visual artist who intersects abstract expressionism
matrices with technology. She uses coding based visualizers and experiments with
Euclidean beats on tidal cycles. She enjoys improvising her visuals with musicians
in the community and is developing her sound. Instagram: @estefanylikes.

Riho Hagi

Riho Hagi is a creative technologist and software engineer from Japan.
She specializes in developing prototypes of future possibilities with technology.
Her recent work combines blockchain technology with traditional Japanese wordplay,
exploring the untapped potential of blockchain’s future. With a passion for
innovation, she invites audiences to experience a fresh perspective on the
intersection of tradition and cutting-edge technology. Instagram: @rlho.

Chirag DavÃĐ (aka casualsalad)

Chirag DavÃĐ (they/them) is a Brooklyn based experimental musician and sound artist performing under the moniker casualsalad. They try to create evocative ambient soundscapes using field recordings, modular synthesis, and their voice. Inspired by the free jazz movement and structureless improvisation they collaborate with the cosmos and embrace uncertainty. Chirag actively performs in various US cities at music festivals, theaters and galleries, organized/co-organized experimental multi-modal art shows such as EMOTIONS FEST, and algoraves for LivecodeNYC.

Omar Delarosa

Omar Delarosa (he/him) uses AI/ML techniques and models alongside
live-coding tools to drive synthesizers and samplers and explore the intersection
between music, computer science and artificial life. He’s been making music since
his teens using a mixture of guitars, old synths and computers. His favorite
organisms are jellyfish and fungi.

Loren Tyler

Loren Tyler (she/they) is a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist
whose work explores new possibilities in texture, geometry, pattern, and structure,
using a combination of electronic and physical techniques. Visual works use modern
robotic manufacturing equipment with traditional art printing methods. Audio works
merge natural acoustics with digital processing. Both mediums aim to find the
balance of intricate technical detail and precision against the variation of natural
materials. Instagram: @loren.tyler.prints.

Messica Arson

Jessica Garson aka Messica Arson ventured into the live coding scene in 2017 while seeking
gigs for her new punk solo project utilizing Sonic Pi. Since then, her sound has
significantly transformed, emerging as a unique fusion of live sampling, modular
synthesis, and live coding. A defining feature of her music is the incorporation of
screaming, adding a layer of rawness. Messica has showcased her talent across the
US, Canada, and Europe, opening for notable artists such as Oliver Ackerman of A
Place to Bury Strangers and Eric Schlappi from Schlappi Engineering. She has been an
active member of LivecodeNYC since 2017; she has played a vital role in organizing
and planning shows for the collective.

Liam Baum

Liam Baum – aka Mister Bomb (he/him) is a musician and educator who has
spent the past several years exploring how coding and technology can be incorporated
into creative music making experiences for performance and composition. He
experiments with methods such as live coding, physical computing and machine
learning. He brings these methods into his own middle school classrooms as well as
having led several workshops both in person and virtually about combining music with
coding and technology using different languages and hardware. Website:
www.youtube.com/mrbombmusic. Twitter: @mrbombmusic.

Snow Schwartz

This is a space for reimagining our relationships with technology. It
is also a space to grieve current relationships we are coerced into holding with
technology inside capitalism. In this installation, I ask what it would mean to
treat technology as memory – as something that connects time and is distributed
among people through careful practices of sharing. Finally, this is a space to
uplift the work people are already doing to build and sustain technologies that are
life affirming and rooted in community needs. I invite everyone visiting to share
resources, stories, reflections, or anything that might help us form more symbiotic
relationships with technology.

Jay Tobin

Jay Tobin (he/him) is an audiovisual artist based out of Brooklyn, New
York. He’s been featured at the Millennium Film Workshop, ARS Electronica, and the
Creative Code Festival at Lightbox NYC. He specializes in creative coding,
procedural soundscapes, and digital instrument building, with extensive experience
building games in Unity. He’s currently working on his passion project polyMorph — a
free, generative software instrument designed for both live performance and studio
use.

Shelly Xiong

Creative technologist – retro tech enthusiast – sometimes educator

Sylvia Ke

Sylvia Ke (any/all) is a multimedia artist, performer, creative
technologist, first-gen immigrant (legal, for now), and transexual degenerate living
and aging in Brooklyn, NY. In their thoughts and works, they contemplate a lot about
how existing and emerging technologies transform, redefine, and create bodies,
intimacy, materiality, myth, labor, and spacetime, while vice versa. Their hobby is
to suck on the juicy, rubbery nails of pickled chicken feet and describe it to
people in graphical details.

elekhlekha āļ­āļĩāđ€āļŦāļĨāļ°āđ€āļ‚āļĨāļ°āļ‚āļĨāļ°

elekhlekha (Nitcha Tothong–āļ“āļīāļŠāļŠāļē āđ‚āļ•āļ—āļ­āļ‡ & Kengchakaj–āđ€āļāđˆāļ‡āļ‰āļāļēāļˆ) is a Bangkok-born collaborative artist practice focusing on research that examines and decoded past histories by creating, using code, algorithm, multimedia, and technology to experiment, explore, and define decolonized possibilities. They are currently based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). elekhlekha has received support from Babycastles, Rhizome, Processing Foundation and etc. In 2022, they were awarded The Lumen Prize Gold Award for their debut project, Jitr (āļˆāļīāļ•āļĢ), a performative audio-visual that utilizes historical research, Southeast Asian sound cultures, and live coding tools to reconcile Southeast Asia’s shared heritage.

PRESWERVE

PRESWERVE is an experimental-electronic producer, writer (poet/journalist), and digital media creator. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, she is now based in Brooklyn, NY. PRESWERVE blends influences from trap, shoegaze, ambient, and noise. She also solely runs an independent media company Let’s Not Pretend, which focuses on experimental sounds, visuals, and art. Her company seeks to find communities and learn about culture by engaging in conversations and shows. More equipped in FL, she wants to challenge her musical abilities by trying new formats – such as coding. As a coding beginner, she is excited to immerse herself in something new. Not only an educator, PRESWERVE is also familiar with a variety of disciplines, as she is completely self-taught in all of her art and music. She has created album artwork, music videos, digital and physical collages, and loves to write. Her poetry has been published in her college magazine and Beast Grrrl zine. In the past, she has attended EMP collective’s poetry workshops and performed at multiple poetry readings/writings. Only having the chance to perform at small Baltimore open mics and poetry readings, PRESWERVE is ready to begin new journeys into live-coding and performing music for others.

Ramsey Nasser

Ramsey Nasser (he/him) is a computer scientist, game designer, and
educator who loves to make things that are fun, challenging, and useful. His work
includes games, applications, hardware, programming languages, data visualizations,
websites, and more. He is a recipient of an Eyebeam Fellowship, holds a B.S. in
Computer Science from the American University of Beirut, an M.F.A. in Design and
Technology from Parsons The New School for Design. Website: nas.sr. Instagram:
@ramseynasser.

Emma Waddell

Emma Waddell (they/them) is a computer scientist and musician who
recently graduated from NYU Gallatin. Their work is focused on how natural and
biological processes influence algorithmic and computer music. This includes
biological simulations, and the use of neural networks, as well as the study of
communication using linguistics, and data sonification and visualization. They have
received multiple research grants to study these ideas, and create new music using
their computer and their saxophone. Some recent projects have included building an
artificial intelligence through Supercollider that can interact with a live acoustic
input and generate livecoding beats at varying intensities, and a video game that
takes user input into a neural network and generates a live soundtrack trained on
user choices.

Viola He

Viola He (they/them) is a Shanghai-born, Brooklyn-based programmer and
interdisciplinary artist. Inspired and grounded by histories of subcultures and
resistance movements, their creative practices engage with hardware, computing,
movements and various time-based media, as pathways to explore alternative
structures for humans and machines in a time of crisis.

Jessica Stringham (this.xor.that)

Jessica Stringham (this.xor.that) is a creative coder and visualist based in Brooklyn. Using custom-written software, they manipulate visuals live using time, the environment, MIDI input, or a combination using expressions. They have performed live visuals around NYC. They also create generative and pen plotter art.

Voyde

Voyde, aka Indira Ardolic, is a New Media Artist and Creative Technologist from New York. She employs digital technologies to recreate experiences and dreams, merging mysticism with technology. Her favorite themes include celebrating queerness, destigmatizing mental health, and uplifting marginalized identities. She seeks to use game engines to enable unique interactions, providing a deeper understanding of our humanity. She discovered games as a perfect escape from reality during her youth. Now, she sees games and interactive 3D media as the ultimate love letter to reality itself—how beautiful is it that we learned math to mimic the movement of water? It feels like creating an illusion of a grander life, one so compact it can be held in your hand.