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Rate of Change Exhibition Opening

Merce Cunningham, Paul Kaiser, Shelley Eshkar, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Julia Heyward, Hisao Ihara, Jessica Ann Peavy, Christine Sugrue, Eunjung Hwang

Featuring Zachary Lieberman, Lesley Flanigan, Brendan Fernandes, Christine Sugrue, Paul Kaiser, Shelley Eshkar, Jarryd Lowder, Julie Fotheringham, Ikue Mori, LEMUR, Miya Makaoka, Peter Blasser, David Galbraith, Laetitia Sonami, Lucky Dragons, Joker Nies, Triple Point, Andrew Deutsch, Peer Bode, Moritz Wettstein, Brenda Hutchinson, Jeff Thompson, Jarryd Lowder, George Lewis, Marina Rosenfeld, Adam Parkinson, Atau Tanaka, Kurt Hentschlager

Below is the calendar for the 2009 New York Electronic Art Festival, a month-long series of concerts, workshops, and exhibitions centered on the cutting-edge work being done at the intersection of art and technology. Performances, workshops, demos, and the Rate of Change will occur from the end of September and all throughout October.

Sept. 29: Rate of Change Exhibition Opening Featured artworks include Hand Drawn Spaces by Merce Cunningham, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar; index V.4 by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot; Orbital Drop (Landor) by CCRT; Shock and Allah by Julia Heyward; Collective by Hisao Ihara; Rituals of Consumption by Jessica Ann Peavy; Decrypted Reflections by Christine Sugrue; and Future Creatures by Eunjung Hwang.

Oct. 1: Exhibition Opening Reception

Oct. 2: New Project Demos with Zachary Lieberman, Lesley Flanigan, and Brendan Fernandes

Oct. 3: Artist Talk with Christine Sugrue, Julia Heyward, and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

Oct. 9: New Project Demos with Cindy Poremba, Stephanie Rothenberg & Megan Michalak, and Norah Zuniga Shaw

Oct. 10: Artist Talk with Paul Kaiser & Shelley Eshkar (CCRT)

Oct. 10: Around NYC Performance/Artist Talk: Jarryd Lowder and Julie Fotheringham

Oct. 11: New Project Demos with Alex Chechile, David Hindman, and Joseph Reinsel

Oct. 16: Workshop with Nic Collins: Hardware Hacking – Basics

Oct. 16: Shadow Puppies and N.Collins vs. N.Collins at Roulette

Oct. 17: Workshop with Nick Collins and Nic Collins: Supercollider – Beginners and Hardware Hacking – Advanced

Oct. 17: Performance Showcase: Ikue Mori & LEMUR, Miya Makaoka, Peter Blasser, David Galbraith, and Laetitia Sonami at Roulette

Oct. 18: Workshops with Nick Collins and Nic Collins: Supercollider – Intermediate and Hardware Hacking – Advanced

Oct. 18: Performance Showcase: Lucky Dragons, Joker Nies, Triple Point, Andrew Deutsch & Peer Bode, and Moritz Wettstein at Roulette

Oct. 19: New Project Demos with Peer Bode and René Barsalo

Oct. 22: Around NYC Exhibition Opening: Maya Suess at AC Institute

Oct. 23: New Project Demos with Brenda Hutchinson, Triple Point, and Jeff Thompson

Oct. 24: Around NYC Workshop: Jarryd Lowder Micro Video Workshop at SVA MFA

Oct. 25: Around NYC Performance, Installation, and Immersion Panel at CPR

Oct. 26: George Lewis & Marina Rosenfeld, Adam Parkinson & Atau Tanaka at NYU Loewe Theater

Oct. 28: Around NYC Opening Performance of Zee by Kurt Hentschlager at 3LD Art & Technology Center

ABOUT NYEAF: The New York Electronic Art Festival was created to provide a responsive public context for the appreciation of cutting-edge electronic artwork through concerts, panels, workshops, and exhibitions of the highest quality across the arts and technology spectrum. Attendees will get an overview of how technology is being used in various artistic disciplines, and have the opportunity to take part in a discussion about how these technologies will continue to shape contemporary art practice. This year’s festival will be a showcase of exciting interdisciplinary work and serve as a catalyst for discussions and collaborations between artists, technology, and the public.

The NYEAF will plug into a national and international network of electronic art festivals, bringing significant contemporary art and music to the city.  NYEAF is produced by Harvestworks, an international digital media arts center with 30 years of experience helping artists to get ”inside the electronics” and to develop a hands-on, experimental and explorative approach to making art with technology.

Produced by Harvestworks in partnership with arts>World Financial Center, Roulette and New York University with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, mediaThefoundation, Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, the Québec Government Office in New York, Electronic Music Foundation, the Experimental TV Center Presentation Funds and the Institute for Electronic Art and the Paula Cooper Gallery. Corporate sponsorship is provided by Tekserve: the Apple Specialists, Newmark Knight Frank, Original Sin and Cycling74.

ABOUT HARVESTWORKS:  Founded in 1977, Harvestworks offers an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media. Harvestworks helps the community at large to understand, assimilate, and make creative use of new and evolving technologies.  Harvestworks creates a context for the appreciation of new work, advances both the art community and the public’s agenda for the use of technology in art; and brings together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts by fostering collaborations across electronic media.

Merce Cunningham

Featured artworks include Hand Drawn Spaces.

Paul Kaiser

Paul Kaiser is a digital artist and writer whose work about mental
space and drawing as performance became the points of departure for his solo and
collaborative digital artworks since the mid-90s.

Shelley Eshkar

Shelly Eshkar is a digital artist exploring drawing, computer graphics, and motion capture, a technology that digitally captures the movement, but not the physical likeness, of human motion. Eshkar and Kaiser are part of the OpenEnded Group (more info can be found at openendedgroup.com).

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

CĂ©leste Boursier-Mougenot lives and works in SĂšte, France. His work merges the realms of the musical and the visual, mining unexpected sources for their musical potential and creating situations or devices in which sonic events get expressed visually or visual information gets expressed sonically. Calling on ideas about technological productions, language, chance operations and systems of translation, Boursier-Mougenot’s work converges multi-sensory phenomena with a cerebral investigation of the mechanisms of sight and sound in his given situations. Production by superposition. Co-production by Théùtre de Gennevilliers with the support of DICREAM (Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Renos Xippas Gallery). Computer programming: Oussama Mubarak – Paris. Special Thanks to Hugues de Saint Simon (CitĂ© de la Musique, Paris). index V.4 is presented in New York in collaboration with superposition and Les Pianos Pleyel. Additional support by Etant donnĂ©s: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art.

CCRT

Featured artworks include Orbital Drop (Landor).

Hisao Ihara

Originally from Tokyo, Hisao Ihara lives in New York City. His work
explores the intricate overlay of time and visual perception within immersive video
environments. He holds a BFA from the Cornish College of the Arts and an MFA from
Alfred University. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation of the
Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, and Harvestworks Residency program.

Christine Sugrue

Christine Sugrue is an artist and programmer working with interactive
installations and audio-visual performance. She has been an artist in residence at
La Casa de VelĂĄzquez, Madrid, Hangar, Barcelona, Harvestworks and Eyebeam, NYC. See
more at csugrue.com.

Eunjung Hwang

Eunjung Hwang was born in Seoul, Korea. Her animations and new media
works have been featured in exhibitions and festivals internationally. She was a
resident fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany (2008-09) and the KĂŒnstlerhaus
BĂŒchsenhausen, Innsbruck/Austria (2005).

Cindy Poremba

Montréal-based digital media researcher, creator and curator Cindy Poremba will discuss her work with Kokoromi, a game art collective based in Montréal that creates new experimental computer games and programs numerous game-based events, exhibitions and performances.

Norah Zuniga Shaw

Choreographer and arts researcher Norah Zuniga Shaw will discuss her recent work Synchronous Objects. Created in collaboration with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, Synchronous Objects (Sync/O) is a screen-based media work visualizing choreographic information for the purposes of investigating deep structure and enriching cross-disciplinary engagement with physical intelligence.

Jarryd Lowder

Jarryd Lowder is an artist working with electronic audiovisual media primarily for live performance.

Julie Fotheringham

Julie Fotheringham performed as a dancer/acrobat in Cirque de Soleil before coming to New York to make her own work.

Miya Makaoka

Performance Showcase.

Triple Point

Triple Point is an improvising trio based in Troy, NY. Its members include Pauline Oliveros (digital accordion), Jonas Braasch (soprano saxophone) and Doug Van Nort (electronics). The group has honed their practice through intensive weekly sessions, in which the music is guided by an attentiveness to Deep Listening. Triple Point represents the location on a phase diagram when all phases of matter exist in thermodynamic equilibrium.

René Barsalo

RenĂ© Barsalo is the director of the Metalab, SAT research department in immersive media and audiovisual transmission over next generation Internet networks. He will present some of the key points of innovations at SAT and how, through several activities, they were able to demonstrate the innovation and economic value of technological arts to the governments and the private sector. RenĂ© will also talk about the UrbanHub vision, SAT proposition to transform cultural centres into a network of interconnected public spaces. Barsalo has become one of Canada’s most influential analysts and activists in the world of digital culture. One of the founders of the Forum des Inforoutes et du MultimĂ©dia and the Alliance NumĂ©riQc, he is a dedicated lecturer, an entrepreneur and an insightful witness to the cultural changes brought in by the digital age.

Maya Suess

This exhibition by Maya Suess creates a playful look at our relationship with consumer objects by using videos, sensors, and interactive programming.

Kurt Hentschlager

Future Perfect presents the premiere of an immersive audiovisual environment.