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CCRT: The Painted Ponies Go Up and Down

LoVid, Douglas Repetto

A light controlled kinetic and sound sculpture inspired by antique Victrolas. The “grooves” on the handmade painted wooden records were created by digitally and physically interpreting data from a weather station and reflecting on the change of seasons. The installation is located in THE NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL Building 10b, part of Wave(form)s – an Exhibition of Electronic Art on Governors Island.

CCRT: The Painted Ponies Go Up and Down

Wave(form)s – an Exhibition of Electronic Art on Governors Island
June 16 through September 25, 2011
Fridays, 11am to 4:30pm
Saturdays and Sundays, 11am to 5pm
FREE

Location:
THE NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL Building 10b
Governor’s Island
Free ferry service from Manhattan and Brooklyn:
http://www.govisland.com/html/visit/directions.shtml

The Painted Ponies Go Up and Down by The CCRT Collaborative is a light controlled kinetic and sound sculpture inspired by antique Victrolas. The “grooves” on the handmade painted wooden records were created by digitally and physically interpreting data from a weather station and reflecting on the change of seasons. Light sensors on each record react to changes in brightness on the painted surface to control a custom analog sound generation circuit.

Cross Current Resonance Transducer (CCRT) is composed of LoVid (Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus) and Douglas Repetto. They are interested in the processes of interpretation and evaluation that are inherent in human attempts to understand natural phenomena. Their investigation has expanded from an initial focus, which emphasized using standard environmental sensors, to an interest in building our own environmental monitoring devices as well as data visualizing sculptures, videos, and prints. CCRT has been collaborating since 2005, and have been working closely with Harvestworks for many years. CCRT has received individual artist grants from NYSCA, Greenwall Foundation, and a Turbulence Commission from turbulence.org. Their work has been exhibited at The New York Electronic Art Festival and at 911 Media Arts Seattle, and free103point9’s Wave Farm Transmission Sculpture Garden.
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LoVid

Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus have been working together as LoVid since 2001. Hinkis graduated from The Ecole Des Beaux-Art, Paris in 2000 and Lapidus received his MD and PhD from Yeshiva University in 2009. LoVid’s collaboration began with audiovisual performances and has expanded to include a wide range of media, from works on paper to App-art. In our performances we use our handmade electronic instruments to create immersive audiovisual compositions. These performances were presented among many others at Museum of the Moving Image (NY), Graham Foundation (Chicago), Eyebeam (NY), MoMA (NY), FACT (UK), PS1 (NY) and The Kitchen (NY). LoVid’s single channel videos have been screened in galleries, festivals, and events worldwide including Modern Art Oxford (UK), Art in General (NY), Siskel Theater (Chicago), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands), Observatori Festival, (Spain), and NY Underground Film Festival (NY). LoVid’s installations and objects combine machine- and hand-made objects and devices, using a DIY approach to technology with tactile fine art process to produce weaving, works on paper, and sculptures. These projects have been included in solo and group exhibitions worldwide including Science Museum Jerusalem (Israel), CAM Raleigh (NC), Netherlands Media Art Institute (Netherlands), Real Art Ways (CT), The Jewish Museum (NY), The Neuberger Museum (NY), Science Gallery (Ireland), and New Museum (NY). In addition LoVid creates large scale interdisciplinary projects that combine new technology with social interventions and public spaces. These have been funded and produced in collaboration with Rhizome, Franklin Furnace, Elastic City, free103point9, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Experimental TV Center, and LMCC. LoVid has received additional awards from NYSCA, NYFA, and Foundation for Contemporary Art, and Greenwall Foundation. LoVid has received residencies from STEIM (Netherlands), Harvestworks, Eyebeam, Smack Mellon, and Cue Art Foundation and has been visiting artist at Pratt (NY), Royal College of Art (London), Oberlin (OH), School of the Art Institute (Chicago), RISD (RI) among many others.

Douglas Repetto

Cross Current Resonance Transducer (CCRT) is composed of LoVid (Tali
Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus) and Douglas Repetto. They are interested in the processes of
interpretation and evaluation that are inherent in human attempts to understand
natural phenomena. Their investigation has expanded from an initial focus, which
emphasized using standard environmental sensors, to an interest in building our own
environmental monitoring devices as well as data visualizing sculptures, videos, and
prints. CCRT has been collaborating since 2005, and have been working closely with
Harvestworks for many years. CCRT has received individual artist grants from NYSCA,
Greenwall Foundation, and a Turbulence Commission from turbulence.org. Their work
has been exhibited at The New York Electronic Art Festival and at 911 Media Arts
Seattle, and free103point9’s Wave Farm Transmission Sculpture Garden.