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Online Performance Collaborations

Annie Gosfield, Roger Kleier

In collaboration with New Radio and Performing Arts and the Pauline Oliveros Foundation

“Online Performance Collaborations”
April 18
The Online Performance Project features Artists-In-Residence composers Annie Gosfield and Roger Kleier in collaboration with New Radio and Performing Arts and the Pauline Oliveros Foundation.

“Screens and Memes” & “Loose Ends/Connections”
September 10-19
Harvestworks presents “Screens and Memes,” a digital media exhibition, and “Loose Ends/Connections,” an Internet performance. The exhibition featured works for interactive installation, Internet, video and CD-ROM by artists Tina LaPorta, Art Jones, Lynn Hershman, Mary Lucier, Jaron Lanier, Steina Vasulka, Zoe Beloff, Troika Ranch, and Tennesee Rice Dixon. “Loose Ends/Connections” was a networked performance from multiple locations on September 19, including improvisations by artists Pauline Oliveros, Brenda Hutchinson and Maggie Payne performing from Mills College; and Beth Coleman and Zeena Parkins performing from Harvestworks. The improvisations were brought together with pre-taped work by Helen Thorington and Scott Rosenberg at the Morton Street Studio in the West Village and were mixed there by Jesse Gilbert before being streamed to the Internet as a real audio stream with video stills by Mary Lucier.

“FEEDBACK,” an Internet Performance Event
December 6
“FEEDBACK” is an Internet Performance Event in collaboration with New Radio and Performing Arts and the Pauline Oliveros Foundation. Former Harvestworks Artists-In-Residence Shelley Hirsch and Jim Pugliese played live in our lab to a small audience in concert with audio streams from Mills College, played by Pauline Oliveros, Brenda Hutchinson and Maggie Payne. The improvisations were brought together with pre-taped work by Helen Thorington and Scott Rosenberg at the Morton Street Studio in the West Village where they were mixed by Jesse Gilbert before being streamed to the Internet as a real audio stream.

Art Jones

Art Jones is an artist working with photography, the moving image, live
media mixes, audio and Installation. His work concerns relationships between popular
music, visual culture, history and power. His work makes extensive use of popular
music and mainstream media culture as raw material to be sampled and re-combined in
order to examine implicit meanings or suggest new ones. He has collaborated with
musicians and artists including Soundlab, DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Phillip
Virus with Alec Empire, Teleseen, Amiri Baraka, Femmes with Fatal Breaks and
Anti-Pop Consortium. He lives in the Bronx, New York City.

Lynn Hershman

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Mary Lucier

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Jaron Lanier

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Steina Vasulka

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Tennesee Rice Dixon

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Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros (1932) is a composer and improviser who performs
extensively locally and in many parts of the world in a variety of venues. Her music
is performed widely as well by many notable musicians and ensembles. Her works are
recorded and available through download sites, cassette, CD, DVD, and Vinyl
releases. Recent compositions include Tower Ring 2011 commissioned by the Oliver
Ranch Foundation for Ann Hamilton’s Tower situated at the Oliver Ranch in
Geyserville California. She will compose a percussion concerto commissioned by the
International Contemporary Ensemble to be performed at Lincoln Center in August
2013. Oliveros plays a Titano acoustic accordion and the Roland V Accordion in her
solo and ensemble improvisations. In 2009 Oliveros was honored with the William
Schuman lifetime achievement award presented by Columbia University along with a
three-hour retrospective of her music at the Miller Theater in New York in 2010.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts presented Oliveros with the 2012 John Cage Award at
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation in New York March 19. Oliveros is the founder of
the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. based in Kingston NY. Through her Deep Listening
practice she has facilitated numerous workshops and intensives throughout the world
leading to collaborations across many disciplines. For more information see
http://paulineoliveros.us and http://www.deeplistening.org

Maggie Payne

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Beth Coleman

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Zeena Parkins

Zeena’s work has been commissioned by the Whitney Museum, Tate Modern,
the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, among many other institutions internationally.
She has won three Bessie awards, and was granted an honorary doctorate from Bard
College in 2022.