Reviewing

Yael Kanarek

Yael Kanarek, Yoav Gal

Featuring Sarah Rivkin

Yael Kanarek
February 25
Web artist Yael Kanarek will present her collaboaration with composer Yoav Gal to develop “Music for World of Awe.” Mr. Gal based his compositions on selected passages from the traveler’s journal, digitally manipulating the voice of soprano Sarah Rivkin.

Interaxis
March 1
An investigation into improvisation, form and presentation in multi-site, network-based performance, composer-improvisers and technologists will come together to create a dynamic, stuctured, experimental sonic exploration on the Web and in real space. Participants include Nicholas Didkovsky, Dafna Naphtali, Leroy Jenkins, Helen Thorington at Harvewsworks and Jesse Gilbert, Wadada Leo Smith, and Mark Trayle at Cal Arts.

Pamela Z and Maritess Zurband
March 4
Composer/performer Pamela Z will discuss her performance and recorded works, and perform pieces for voice, Max/MSP, and the Body/Synth gesture controller. Included will be “Metal/Vox/Water,” a work for live performance and video which includes some of the Max patches she developed during her August 2001 Harvestworks residency.

Naomi Ben Shahar and David Watson
March 11
Shahar presents her video, “Floating Inside Out (WTC)”, which records a party on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. The camera captured the city lights below and the movements of the party participants in the dark. The piece was created in September during a World Views Residency at the WTC. Naomi Ben Shahar’s work examines the intersection of physical and inner reality through the elemental vocabulary of the photographic image: light, reflections, materials.
David Watson performs something akin to what he has been recording during his Harvestworks residency and focuses on his relationship with the bagpipe, including all the little squeaks and gurgles, and explores the possibilities for long-form drone, micro-tonal and cyclical compositions which are both contemporary and also rooted in the pre-renaissance past.

Josely Carvalho and Laetitia Sonami
March 25
Brazilian born Josely Caravalho will present and talk about “Book of Roofs,” an ongoing media installation project that includes a Web site (www.book-of-roofs.net) and realtime installations. The project’s foundation is built on the traditional Colonial-style clay roof that is a basic element in the construction of Brazilian dwellings in other parts of he world. “Book of Roofs” is sponsored by NYFA and supported by Creative Capital Foundation (2000) and NYSCA (2001-02). Interactive musician Laetitia Sonami will present excerpts of recent reordings she has produced at Harvestworks. Her work has been performd throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan.

Jeffrey Lependorf/Luca Buvoli and Ina Archer
April 8
Jeffrey Lependork and Luca Buvoli team up to present glimpses of “Around, Around, and Away: Not-a-Superhero and the Myth of New York,” their multimedia installation created for the Queens Museum of Art. Listen to the tale of Not-a-Superhero’s old-fashioned radio and watch him zoom around the Unisphere through a very special telescope. Ina Archer presents her multi-chanel video installation titled “Hattie McDaniel: Or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry.” Archer’s work examines this brief clip of the ceremony and explores thouights about image ownership and film representation of black women.

Lemur (League of Electronic Musical Robots)
April 15
Lemur is a group of artists, organized by Eric Singer, who have created an orchestra of robotic musical instruments. These instruments are playable under computer control and by human performers using electronic interfaces. Initial designs focused on percussive and string instruments ultimately for use by new music composers. In collaboration with Madagascar Institute.

Wolf Eyes
April 22
Since 1997, Michigan’s Wolf Eyes have been experimenting in modified electronics and crude tape manipulations. They will be performing a short set and demonstrating their homemade instruments as well as a showing of their many handmade cassette and CD releases.

Kathy Roses
April 29
Roses presents excerpts from “The Vocabulary of the Veils,” a performance work incorprating video. Kathy Rose has been working with performance, film and video since 1982.

Manfred Stahnke
May 3-6
World premiere of Manfred Stahnke’s Internet opera “Orpheus Crystal,” utilizing the potential of computers and global networks. Based on George Hajdu’s quintet.net software. Commissoned by the City of Munich and the Siemens Art Program, a coproduction of the Munich Biennale and the Siemens Art Program.

Danny Hobart and Christopher DeLaurenti
September 16
Sound artist Christopher DeLaurenti will discuss the concept of the aural safari: sound art made from field recordings that convey the (sometimes dangerous) act of hunting sound. He’ll present excerpts from several aural safaris including “cocaine,” “N30: Live at the WTO Protest,”and “Your 3 minute Mardi Gras,” as well as a new work to be completed in Harvestworks’ studio. Danny Hobart will present “Debut,” a new video that first premiered in March of this year at the Tribeca Grand Hotel.

Onome Ekeh and Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga
October 7
Onome Ekeh New York-based writer/filmmaker and Artist-in-Residence Onome Ekeh is currently focused on creatng sound design-based work in the theater. For this event, she will present “lovemad,” a “sound-cinema event” (for radio broadcast/CD release) conceived as a love story in five parallel universes. Each part is thematically linked by neurological disorders, cybernetic insect behavior and religious ecstacy. Artist-in-Residence Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga will present “Cart 2: Vagamundo,” a virtual and physical public art project that investigates the Latin American illegal immigrant population in New York City through the use of a video game installed in a mobile, street vendor-style cart. Audience members will be invited to play the game during the presentation. A description of the online version of the project is available at: http://www.ambriente.com/cart/

Monique Buzzarte and Kristin Nordeval
October 17
“send + receive: a festival of sound” presents an international streaming program featuring multi-city collaborative performances, DJs, live music, radio and audio art. This program will be presented live at Harvestworks by composers Monique Buzzarte and Kristin Nordeval, with simultaneous broadcasts over the Internet and throughout Winnipeg, Canada on CKUW 95.9 fm. Visit http://www.sendandreceive.org for updates and current information. Sponsored by send + receive, CKUW, Video Pool and Harvestworks.

Jay Critchley and Nadine Robinson
October 28
2001 Artist-in-Residence Jay Critchley will screen his film “Toilet Treatments,” a “dank” comedy featuring Katrina, a psychologically repressed Midwesterner whose spiritual journey takes her to a seaside town where she confronts her demons, her father and her subconscious in an abandoned backyard septic tank. The film won first place in the HBO Audience Award for short feature at the Provincetown International Film Festival 2002.
Artist-in-Residence Nadine Robinson will present a video documentation of work from her World Views residency at the World Trade Center and the TEMPO show at MOMA QNS. The documentation includes Robinson’s interviews with workers at the World Trade Center, where she questioned them about their jobs and private lives.

Interaxis
November 3
Harvestworks is pleased to present Interaxis, an investigation into improvisation, form and presentation in multi-site, network-based performance. Composer-improvisers and technologists will come together to create a dynamic, structured, experimental sonic exploration on the web and in real space. A collaboration with New Radio and Performing Arts presented at Engine 27. Partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Radical Software Group (RSG) and BEIGE
November 11
Representatives from the Radical Software Group (RSG) and BEIGE programming ensembles will review their recent work and collaborations. The Radical Software Group is a collective of net.artists who’s last work, “Carnivore”, uses TCP/IP data to create visual and sonic landscapes. BEIGE is a collective of software artists whose fascination with obsolete computers have led them to produce DJ battle records, hacked Nintendo games and internet software. Topics include the history of 8-bit graphics, Guns n’ Roses [1987-1991], hacking video games, new swing jack, TCP/IP protocol, packet sniffing, net.art & the Boo-Yaa Tribe.

Anne Wellmer
November 17
Anne Wellmer, an interactive music composer currently working on her graduate studies in composition at Wesleyan University, will perform “Travelling Barefoot,” an improvising environment for two musicians, two Powerbooks and video. She will also perform “dea ex macchina medea ex,” a solo work for a woman in a space. Support for this presentation was provided by Meet The Composer.

Toni Dove
November 23
This fall, Bustlelamp Productions and Cycling ’74 are pleased to announce the release of a single scene from the interactive movie/performance “Spectropia” by Toni Dovem. A work in progress, “Spectropia” will exist in two versions: a cinema scale performance for an audience and a DVD/internet experience for home use. Toni Dove will present an Interactive Cinema DVD, called “Sally or the Bubble Burst, ” which features the scene from the larger work. In the DVD, a viewer uses a combination of mouse rollover and a USB microphone to talk with Sally in an interactive conversation that incorporates speech recognition and synthesis. Sing to Sally to create and transform a bubble dance, move Sally’s body with the mouse and talk to objects in Sally’s dressing room that respond with sound and spoken word.

Taketo Shimada and Ray Sweeten 
November 25
Van Lier Resident Taketo Shimada will make an invisible history of electronic music visible by using four turntables with his collaborator Toshio Kajiwara. The work is titled “Center for Advanced Research in Music and Electronics” – your brain won’t freeze but you may get a head rush. 100% vinyl, no reissues, no cds. Ray Sweeten will present new compositional works produced during his Harvestworks Van Lier Fellowship. The work combines structured electro-acoustic improvisation, isolated sounds and graphic experimentation utilizing analog technology. There will be a brief description of the piece followed by a live demonstration of the multi-purpose LP.

Yael Kanarek

Yael Kanarek (Web) for the development of the sonic component of World
of Awe, in collaboration with composer, Yoav Gal, World of Awe is an ongoing
multi-media project based on an orginal narrative where determination to find a lost
treasure meets nostolgia for speculated technology. Yael has been creating work for
the web since 1995.

Nicholas Didkovsky

An investigation into improvisation, form and presentation in multi-site, network-based performance, composer-improvisers and technologists will come together to create a dynamic, structured, experimental sonic exploration on the Web and in real space.

Leroy Jenkins

An investigation into improvisation, form and presentation in
multi-site, network-based performance, composer-improvisers and technologists will
come together to create a dynamic, structured, experimental sonic exploration on the
Web and in real space.

Helen Thorington

Works included artist Prashant Bhargava’s computer-generated animation;
Martha Burgess’s CD-Rom exploring “visual thinking as composed of a unique blend of
images, sounds, words and the experiences that contain them”; collaborating
architects/artists Christine Calderon and Omar Calderon; Melanie Crean’s interactive
kinetic sculpture “Golem”; Jeff Gompertz and his project “Fakeshop”; Ian Spalter’s
CD-Rom “The Cassandra Project”; Beth Stryker’s Web site project
“disseminet.walkerart.org”; and Andrea Summers’ video animation serial entitled
“World Without Femmes.”

Jesse Gilbert

Works included artist Prashant Bhargava’s computer-generated animation; Martha Burgess’s CD-Rom exploring “visual thinking as composed of a unique blend of images, sounds, words and the experiences that contain them”; collaborating architects/artists Christine Calderon and Omar Calderon; Melanie Crean’s interactive kinetic sculpture “Golem”; Jeff Gompertz and his project “Fakeshop”; Ian Spalter’s CD-Rom “The Cassandra Project”; Beth Stryker’s Web site project “disseminet.walkerart.org”; and Andrea Summers’ video animation serial entitled “World Without Femmes.”

Wadada Leo Smith

An investigation into improvisation, form and presentation in multi-site, network-based performance, composer-improvisers and technologists will come together to create a dynamic, structured, experimental sonic exploration on the Web and in real space.

Mark Trayle

An investigation into improvisation, form and presentation in multi-site, network-based performance, composer-improvisers and technologists will come together to create a dynamic, structured, experimental sonic exploration on the Web and in real space.

Maritess Zurband

Composer/performer Pamela Z will discuss her performance and recorded works, and perform pieces for voice, Max/MSP, and the Body/Synth gesture controller. Included will be “Metal/Vox/Water,” a work for live performance and video which includes some of the Max patches she developed during her August 2001 Harvestworks residency.

Naomi Ben Shahar

Shahar presents her video, “Floating Inside Out (WTC)”, which records a party on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. The camera captured the city lights below and the movements of the party participants in the dark. The piece was created in September during a World Views Residency at the WTC. Naomi Ben Shahar’s work examines the intersection of physical and inner reality through the elemental vocabulary of the photographic image: light, reflections, materials.

Josely Carvalho

Brazilian multimedia artist, poet, and activist, lives and works in New
York City and Rio de Janeiro. Over the past four decades, she has assembled a body
of work in a wide range of media that gives eloquent voice to matters of memory,
identity and social justice while consistently challenging the boundaries between
artist and audience, and between politics and art. ​Her present project Diary of
Smells, is an on-going cross-disciplinary sensorial project. The inclusion of
olfaction results from her long examination of society`s basic need to be sheltered
in a moment in which the sense of home/nest is threatened by wars, refugee camps,
migrations and the fragility of the environment – the collective shelter. She has
been awarded with her installation Glass Ceiling: Resilience the 6th Art and
Olfaction Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands in 2019. Among her grants and residences are Pollock-Krasner Foundation;
Creative Capital Foundation; Frans Masereel Print Center, Kasterlee, Belgium; NYSCA;
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center; Rockefeller Foundation`s Bellagio
International Conference and Research Center, Italy; NYFA; NEA. Her pioneer webwork,
Book of Roofs/ Livro das Telhas [www.bookofroofs.com], from 1999, has received
grants and has been shown in several venues. She has shown extensively and at
present her installation Diary of Smells: Affectio is in exhibition at the Museu
Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro.

Jeffrey Lependorf

Jeffrey Lependork and Luca Buvoli team up to present glimpses of “Around, Around, and Away: Not-a-Superhero and the Myth of New York,” their multimedia installation created for the Queens Museum of Art. Listen to the tale of Not-a-Superhero’s old-fashioned radio and watch him zoom around the Unisphere through a very special telescope.

Luca Buvoli

Jeffrey Lependork and Luca Buvoli team up to present glimpses of “Around, Around, and Away: Not-a-Superhero and the Myth of New York,” their multimedia installation created for the Queens Museum of Art. Listen to the tale of Not-a-Superhero’s old-fashioned radio and watch him zoom around the Unisphere through a very special telescope.

Ina Archer

Ina Archer (Installation) for work on an installation that explores
issues surrounding labor and ownership in the film industry, the interactions
between racial/ethnic representations and transitional technological movements in
media. Ina is an installation and video artist whose works include: Bert
Wheeler(ing): Just keep On Doin’ What You’re Doin’ and A Minstrel Show, exhibited in
Whitney Independent Study Open Studios Show.

Lemur

Lemur is a group of artists, organized by Eric Singer, who have created an orchestra of robotic musical instruments. These instruments are playable under computer control and by human performers using electronic interfaces. Initial designs focused on percussive and string instruments ultimately for use by new music composers. In collaboration with Madagascar Institute.

Wolf Eyes

Since 1997, Michigan’s Wolf Eyes have been experimenting in modified electronics and crude tape manipulations. They will be performing a short set and demonstrating their homemade instruments as well as a showing of their many handmade cassette and CD releases.

Kathy Roses

Roses presents excerpts from “The Vocabulary of the Veils,” a performance work incorporating video. Kathy Rose has been working with performance, film and video since 1982.

Manfred Stahnke

World premiere of Manfred Stahnke’s Internet opera “Orpheus Crystal,” utilizing the potential of computers and global networks. Based on George Hajdu’s quintet.net software. Commissioned by the City of Munich and the Siemens Art Program, a co-production of the Munich Biennale and the Siemens Art Program.

Danny Hobart

Danny Hobart (Film/Video) for audio editing his recently completed
video Debut and Soon. Danny is a New York-based video artist whose works have been
shown at Postmasters Gallery, The Standard Hotel, and Sothebys. And will be
premiering at the Gorney-Bravin-Lee Gallery in New York.

Christopher DeLaurenti

Sound artist Christopher DeLaurenti will discuss the concept of the
aural safari: sound art made from field recordings that convey the (sometimes
dangerous) act of hunting sound. He’ll present excerpts from several aural safaris
including “cocaine,” “N30: Live at the WTO Protest,” and “Your 3 minute Mardi Gras,”
as well as a new work to be completed in Harvestworks’ studio.

Onome Ekeh

Onome Ekeh New York-based writer/filmmaker and Artist-in-Residence
Onome Ekeh is currently focused on creating sound design-based work in the theater.
For this event, she will present “lovemad,” a “sound-cinema event” (for radio
broadcast/CD release) conceived as a love story in five parallel universes. Each
part is thematically linked by neurological disorders, cybernetic insect behavior
and religious ecstasy.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga

Artist-in-Residence Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga will present “Cart 2: Vagamundo,” a virtual and physical public art project that investigates the Latin American illegal immigrant population in New York City through the use of a video game installed in a mobile, street vendor-style cart. Audience members will be invited to play the game during the presentation. A description of the online version of the project is available at: http://www.ambriente.com/cart/

Kristin Nordeval

“send + receive: a festival of sound” presents an international streaming program featuring multi-city collaborative performances, DJs, live music, radio and audio art. This program will be presented live at Harvestworks by composers Monique Buzzarte and Kristin Nordeval, with simultaneous broadcasts over the Internet and throughout Winnipeg, Canada on CKUW 95.9 fm. Visit http://www.sendandreceive.org for updates and current information. Sponsored by send + receive, CKUW, Video Pool and Harvestworks.

Jay Critchley

2001 Artist-in-Residence Jay Critchley will screen his film “Toilet
Treatments,” a “dank” comedy featuring Katrina, a psychologically repressed
Midwesterner whose spiritual journey takes her to a seaside town where she confronts
her demons, her father and her subconscious in an abandoned backyard septic tank.
The film won first place in the HBO Audience Award for short feature at the
Provincetown International Film Festival 2002.

Nadine Robinson

Nadine Robinson is an artist who sees the social phenomenon critically
and expresses her ideas through installations, pieces, or events. Also, she is known
as a conceptual artist who works with light and sound. Over the years, she has
created a sound installation, sculptures, and “sonic paintings” All of her works are
based on race, culture, and music. Among her works are Das Hochzeitshaus (The
Wedding House), Black Listing (Longwood Arts Projects), Conclusion of the System of
Things, and Tower Hollers.

Radical Software Group (RSG)

Representatives from the Radical Software Group (RSG) and BEIGE programming ensembles will review their recent work and collaborations. The Radical Software Group is a collective of net.artists who’s last work, “Carnivore”, uses TCP/IP data to create visual and sonic landscapes.

BEIGE

Representatives from the Radical Software Group (RSG) and BEIGE programming ensembles will review their recent work and collaborations._BEIGE is a collective of software artists whose fascination with obsolete computers have led them to produce DJ battle records, hacked Nintendo games and internet software. Topics include the history of 8-bit graphics, Guns n’ Roses [1987-1991], hacking video games, new swing jack, TCP/IP protocol, packet sniffing, net.art & the Boo-Yaa Tribe.

Anne Wellmer

Anne Wellmer is a composer, performer, singer, and sound artist. She
studied electronic music at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and composition
with Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton at Wesleyan University in Middletown CT/USA.
Her works include sonic environments for performances, sound installations, live
music for dance and theater, radio art, music theater pieces, network projects, and
improvisation with electronics. Anne Wellmer lives and works in The Hague and in
Berlin.

Toni Dove

Toni Dove lives and works in NYC. She writes, directs and performs live
mix cinema events, installations and hybrid film projects that utilize embodied
interface, interactive technologies and robotics. Presented in the United States,
Europe and Canada as well as in print and on radio and television, her projects
include: Archeology of a Mother Tongue, a virtual reality installation with Michael
Mackenzie, Banff Centre for the Arts. Artificial Changelings, an interactive
installation, premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival, part of the exhibitions:
“Body Mecanique” at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; at the Institute for
Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University, International Performance Studies
Conference, other venues. Spectropia, her current touring project, is a feature
length live-mix movie performance for two players. Previewed 2006: work in progress
at Lincoln Center in Scanners, the New York Video Festival, Univ of West Va. BIOS
Conf.; Cleveland at the Ingenuity festival 2007; premiere: the Wexner Center for the
Arts Nov 1-3, 2007; presented: REDCAT, LA Nov 2007; Zero1 Festival of Art on the
Edge, San Jose, 2008; EMPAC, Troy, N.Y., 2008; Miami Sleepless Night Festival, 2009.
The Kitchen, NYC, Dec. 9,10,11, 2010. Lucid Possession, the work in progress has
been presented at: HERE Culturemart, 2009, 2010; Spielart Festival, Munich, 2009;
Republique Theater, Copenhagen, 2009, 2011. Dove served by appointment on the
2000/2003 Government Advisory Committee on Information Technology and Creativity,
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, USA. Dove
has received numerous grants and awards including support from the Rockefeller
Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Langlois Foundation, New York State
Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the
Arts, The LEF Foundation, MediaThe Foundation, Experimental TV Center, and the
Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from M.I.T. Web site: http://www.tonidove.com.
See also www.lucidpossession.com.

Taketo Shimada

Van Lier Resident Taketo Shimada will make an invisible history of electronic music visible by using four turntables with his collaborator Toshio Kajiwara. The work is titled “Center for Advanced Research in Music and Electronics” – your brain won’t freeze but you may get a head rush. 100% vinyl, no reissues, no cds.

Ray Sweeten

Ray Sweeten will present new compositional works produced during his Harvestworks Van Lier Fellowship. The work combines structured electro-acoustic improvisation, isolated sounds and graphic experimentation utilizing analog technology. There will be a brief description of the piece followed by a live demonstration of the multi-purpose LP.