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The Process

Lauren Petty, Shaun Irons, Zach Layton, Stephanie Rothenberg, Suzanne Thorpe, Michelle Jaffe, David Reeder, Phil Edelstein, Marta Grasso, Kevin Ramsay, EfraĂ­n Rozas, Amelia Marzec, Ursula Endlicher, Woody Sullender, Emmett Palaima, Elico Suzuki, Bob Bielecki, David Behrman

Featuring EfraĂ­n Rozas, Amelia Marzec, Bob Bielecki, David Behrman, Elico Suzuki, Woody Sullender, Stephanie Rothenberg, Suzanne Thorpe, Michelle Jaffe, David Reeder, Phil Edelstein, Marta Grasso, Kevin Ramsay, Lauren Petty, Shaun Irons, Zach Layton, Ursula Endlicher

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center announces The Process – an art and tech exhibition for the 2023 Art and Technology Program on Governors Island.  Opening on June 30th with artworks exploring sonic holography, psychoacoustics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, neural networks and robotics by an intergenerational group of artists using technology as a creative medium.  All events are free.

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

Open to the public: 11 am to 5 pm on Fri, Sat and Sun.

Meet the Artist Day: Saturday July 8, 2023, Saturday September 23, 2023 and Saturday October 21, 2023

Artists included Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons with Zach Layton, Stephanie Rothenberg and Suzanne Thorpe, Michelle Jaffe, David Reeder and Phil Edelstein, Marta Grasso and Kevin Ramsay, EfraĂ­n Rozas, Amelia Marzec, Ursula Endlicher, Woody Sullender, Emmett Palaima, Elico Suzuki, Bob Bielecki and David Behrman.

OPENING SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Stephanie Rothenberg and Suzanne Thorpe Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling (Version 1) is a multimedia installation focused on the listening body of the heroic oyster. A water filter, sea level mitigator and food source, the oyster is a vital member of our ecosystem that senses safe settlement habitats through sound. Artist Presentation on September 23rd @ 2 pm and 4 pm.

Michelle Jaffe, David Reeder and Phil Edelstein LocaleS3 is a project that explores sound perception with multiple spatial and kinetic interactions like movements, locations, directions, and integrates virtual/physical sound objects. Multiple hardware/software explorations will be included in the project in collaboration with the NousDigital NousSonic system to localize the audience. Conversation with the artists on Saturday October 21, 2023 at 2:30 pm.

Marta Grasso and Kevin Ramsay Karkinos is a sound installation that encompasses eleven terracotta sculptures, six exciters, and six solenoids. In this immersive project, the sculptures are brought to life by the exciters and solenoids are employed to produce rhythmic tapping sounds reminiscent of an MRI machine.  Open from October 20 – October 29, 2023

EfraĂ­n Rozas Myth and Prosthesis I: Do Robots Have Culture? Eight robotic “percussionists” improvising simultaneously, as in Latin American rhythmic improvisation. Part of the series “Myth and Prosthesis”. “Myth” being the cultural ideals that inform the creation of technology. Prostheses are the merging of bodies with technology.  Open from September 1 – October 15, 2023

Amelia Marzec East Meets West. A virtual reality piece that is a walking simulator filled with impotent paper-doll tanks. It was inspired by the game, “World of Tanks,” a shooter which depicts historically accurate battles in Eastern Europe. However, East Meets West simply lets you explore the landscape, which is nonetheless littered with ghosts of the past. Open from September 1 – October 15, 2023

Ongoing Artist Exhibition Works

Ursula Endlicher: Custom HTML Plant Tags (and Input Field reversal #3) is a digital image series accessible through an Augmented Reality experience by scanning the bark of trees, reading their structure as “natural” QR code. Visitors, with their cellphone and AR app in hand, take a stroll around the island to treasure hunt digital files “embedded” within natural trees. Walks & Talks by Ursula: Saturdays at 2:30 and 4:30

Woody Sullender: Duo Mezzo (Inversion) is a site-specific installation and virtual music performance, utlizing Unreal Engine to create a digital replica of the space, projecting it within the physical room. Through motion tracking, the visitors’ presence is doubled into the virtual space, allowing them to experience a banjo music performance with Sullender’s own avatar as both a real and virtual audience.

Emmett Palaima: Cathedral-64 is an immersive audio installation and instrument where 64 individually controlled speakers create a three-dimensional sound experience, allowing for ongoing compositional experimentation. The piece focuses on exploring the musical and psychoacoustic possibilities within the space. 

Part One Art Works

Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons with Zach Layton: All That is Seen and Unseen is an interdisciplinary installation opera that delves into the effects of technology on human consequences, confronting the erosion of truth and trust in our society. It explores machines learning by creating a real-time performative neural network, imagining a quasi-supernatural invasion of malfunctioning intelligent machines, blurring reality and endangering everyone. CLOSING ON AUGUST 27, 2023.

Elico Suzuki: Birds don’t have Borders explores the transmission and migration between humans, birds, and intangible media. The installation combines player toy pianos, played with a score generated by bird flock videos captured during Suzuki’s travels, while light sensors capture bird shadows and convert them into keystrokes, mimicking an old transmission system. CLOSING AUGUST 20, 2023

Bob Bielecki and David Behrman: Spindrifter utilizes Bielecki’s innovative 48-channel microphone and multichannel playback system to capture detailed acoustic properties of natural environments and create an immersive audio experience. Combined with Behrman’s music passages, the installation envelops visitors in a natural sound environment, evoking the sensation of being outdoors. CLOSING AUGUST 20

Artist Presentations

Saturday August 19, 2023 from 1-4 pm. “What is the Shape of Water?” A cross-species meditation by Lisa Moren with Dr. Tsvetan Bachvaroff.

Saturday August 19, 2023 from 1 – 4 Women’s Labor: Rheostat Rotary Rack OUTDOORS. A mid-20th century umbrella-style rotary dryer embedded with a rotary encoder and potentiometers, performed by hanging clothing on its strings, rotating it by hand or by wind.

Saturday September 9, 2023. UnStumm – conversation of moving image and sound featuring Seth Cluett. UnStumm (https://unstumm.com/) is a project for real-time film and music (Echtzeitfilm) for cross-disciplinary and cross cultural collaboration between visual artists and musicians from Germany and other countries.

Saturday October 28, 2023. Computational Performace, AI and Viola by the Harvestworks technical interns Malu Laet and Ti Wen Hsu, with AI generated visuals by Yuting Tao.

Bios of the artists

Stephanie Rothenberg’s interdisciplinary art draws from digital culture, science and economics to explore symbiotic relationships between human designed systems and biological ecosystems. Moving between real and virtual spaces, she engages a variety of media platforms that include interactive installation, drawing, sculpture, video and performance. She has exhibited internationally in venues and festivals and has participated in residencies including Harvestworks, Workspace/LMCC and Eyebeam in NYC, and ZK/U in Berlin. Her work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and has been widely reviewed including Artforum, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail and Hyperallergic. She is Professor in the Department of Art at University at Buffalo SUNY where she co-directs the Platform Social Design Lab, an interdisciplinary design studio collaborating with local social justice organizations.

Suzanne Thorpe is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar whose creative research intersects electronic music, feminist and ecological theory. She interweaves critical listening practices with acoustic ecology, improvisation and technology to craft immersive sound engagements and creative research sites that question circulations of power within human and nonhuman systems. As an electroacoustic flutist and sound artist she’s performed and exhibited internationally, has a large discography, with releases on Columbia Records, Beggars Banquet, Geffin and V2. Thorpe has received residencies and awards from the Frog Peak Collective Award for innovative research in technology, a Gold Record from the Recording Industry Association of Americas, as well as grants from the MAP Fund, NYSCA, New Music USA and Harvestworks.

Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons  (AutomaticRelease) are Brooklyn based, interdisciplinary artists who make multimedia performances, installations, films and interactive video scores for live performance. Shaun and Lauren’s projects have been seen in NYC, nationally, and internationally and they have received numerous awards including grants, fellowships and residencies from the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, LMCC, Jerome Foundation, Harvestworks, Asian Cultural Council, Signal Culture, Yaddo, MacDowell, Camargo Foundation and the Bogliasco Foundation. www.automaticrelease.org

Zach Layton is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, curator, and educator working collaboratively across genres and disciplines. His work has explored musical approaches to biofeedback and brainwave signal, transcriptions of insect rhythms for string orchestra, sonification of internet data, multichannel sound installations, and photographic representation of sonic vibration.

Elico Suzuki is an interdisciplinary sound artist based in Tokyo, Japan. She is also active as an improviser and composer under the name “suzueri”. She graduated from Musashino Art University and IAMAS in Japan, and is an adjunct lecturer at Musashino Art University Imaging Arts and Sciences, and the University of Tokyo. She is currently in New York as a fellow of the Asian Cultural Council 2022 NY.  She has presented her work nationally and internationally, including at Experimental Intermedia (US), ISSUE Project Room (US), Goethe Institute Boston (US), NTT InterCommunication Center (Japan), LUFF Festival (Switzerland), Audiograft Festival (England), Festival Tsonami (Chile), and others.  https://suzueri.org

Ursula Endlicher is a new media and interdisciplinary artist working with interactive media and the Internet since the early 1990s. She investigates structural components and interfaces of digital and “natural” networks and creates works in contrasting formats including net art, AR, installation, performance, environmental works, and dinners – often a combination thereof. In her works humans and more-than-humans, machines and nature, are inspired by each other’s behavior – often in humorous ways – and create new forms and “worlds” in between.

Woody Sullender is a media artist and musician based in Queens, NY.  His pieces encompass a myriad of media including sculpture, video games, performance, theater, music, installation, architecture, origami, and sonic weaponry. His recent work utilizes video game space as an arena to undermine specific modernist ideologies and rituals of music reception.  Previously, Sullender was recognized as a pre-eminent experimental banjo improviser.

Emmett Palaima is an artist working with electronics and esoteric processes of sound creation. His practice is conceptually rooted in the idea that technology and magic are one and the same, and that electricity is a manifestation of the divine or elemental forces underlying physical reality. In his work he seeks alternatively to celebrate the power of this force and give it worship, through the creation of devotional objects and intensely physical electronic experiences, and to analyze humanity’s relationship to this force in the context of a globalized industrial economy.

Bob Bielecki is a sound designer, specializing in the creative use of technology in the electronic arts; additional expertise as audio engineer, exhibition designer, electrical engineer, software developer, and artist/collaborator. Since the mid-1970’s Bob has collaborated with celebrated artists Laurie Anderson and La Monte Young on work that has included the creation of unique instruments and interfaces used in performance installations. 

David Behrman has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations as well as compositions for performance in concerts.  Together with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma, Behrman founded the Sonic Arts Union in 1966. Sonic Arts performed extensively in North America and Europe from 1966 till 1976. He was co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College from 1975 to 1980.  Over a period of several decades Behrman was associated as composer / performer with the Cunningham Dance Company. 

EfraĂ­n Rozas is a Peruvian musician, interdisciplinary artist and scholar. His work was described as “An incredible physical presence that transformed the stage into a soundscape” by The New York Times, “A heady confluence of technology, culture and cognition” by The New Yorker, and “A deep psychonautic dive” by Wire Magazine. He is a Jerome Artist Fellow 2023-2025 for combined arts. He was a resident at Harvestworks, The Kitchen in 2021 and recipient of the NY State Council on the Arts Arts Assistance Fund.

Amelia Marzec is a Brooklyn-based artist engaging with communications infrastructure to inform a speculative future. Her work has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH, MIT, ISEA (Canada), University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland), ONCE Foundation Contemporary Art Biennial (Spain), NODE Forum for Digital Arts Biennial (Germany), and is part of the Rhizome ArtBase. She was a resident at Eyebeam, Ox-Bow, and Harvestworks; a fellow at NYSCA/NYFA, A.I.R. Gallery, and Columbia University; a visiting artist at CalArts; and nominated for the World Technology Awards for Art. She holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons, and a BFA from Mason Gross.

Lisa Moren is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with emerging media, bio-matter, public space, AR\XR and works-on-paper. She has exhibited her work at the Chelsea Art Museum, Creative Time, and the Drawing Center in New York, the Cranbrook Art Museum and international venues including uShaka Museum (South Africa), Ars Electronica (Austria), and Akademie der Kunste (Germany), and the Artists Research Network (Australia) and has a forthcoming one-person exhibition at the Peale Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. She received the National Endowment for the Arts award, is a Fulbright Scholar; a multi-year recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council and CEC Artslink International and the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fellowship in Film and Media at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Tsvetan Bachvaroff is a marine biologist whose research is focused on dinoflagellate evolution with special emphasis on the parasitic dinoflagellates, using large scale sequencing and phylogenetic methods to describe the evolutionary history of different types of genes in dinoflagellates.

The Harvestworks Art and Technology Program is funded in part by the New York City Dept of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts, mediaThe foundation inc and Friends of Harvestworks. 

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. 

Program subject to change.  Check the website for the latest information: Harvestworks.org

Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons

Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons (AutomaticRelease) are Brooklyn based, interdisciplinary artists who make multimedia performances, installations, films and interactive video scores for live performance. Shaun and Lauren’s projects have been seen in NYC, nationally, and internationally and they have received numerous awards including grants, fellowships and residencies from the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, LMCC, Jerome Foundation, Harvestworks, Asian Cultural Council, Signal Culture, Yaddo, MacDowell, Camargo Foundation and the Bogliasco Foundation.

Emmett Palaima

Emmett Palaima is an artist working with electronics and esoteric
processes of sound creation. His practice is conceptually rooted in the idea that
technology and magic are one and the same, and that electricity is a manifestation
of the divine or elemental forces underlying physical reality. In his work he seeks
alternatively to celebrate the power of this force and give it worship, through the
creation of devotional objects and intensely physical electronic experiences, and to
analyze humanity’s relationship to this force in the context of a globalized
industrial economy. His past work includes solo and group gallery exhibitions,
exhibition at Currents New Media Festival and Fusebox Festival, work as a Sound
Technologist for immersive art installations with Meow Wolf Creative Studios and
Dadalab, work on installation audio for the Whitney Biennial and the Palm Springs
Art Museum, performance as a touring musician with Elizabeth Colour Wheel, and
professional design of guitar pedals and synthesizers. His practice is a
consolidation of these diverse influences, combining elements of functional and
aesthetic design, sound, performance, and immersive space. He currently lives in
Brooklyn, NY.

EfraĂ­n Rozas

Peruvian musician, interdisciplinary artist and scholar. His work was
described as “An incredible physical presence that transformed the stage into a
soundscape” by The New York Times, “A heady confluence of technology, culture and
cognition” by The New Yorker, and “A deep psychonautic dive” by Wire Magazine. He is
a Jerome Artist Fellow 2023-2025 for combined arts. He was a resident at The Kitchen
on 2021 and recipient of the NY State Council on the Arts Arts Assistance Fund. He
has performed at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum,
Levitation Festival, Museum of Contemporary art of Lima and Summerstage/Fania
Records 50th anniversary. He has published albums internationally and the book
“FusiĂłn: a soundtrack for PerĂș.”

Lisa Moren

Lisa Moren is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with emerging
media, bio-matter, public space, AR\XR and works-on-paper. She has exhibited her
work at the Chelsea Art Museum, Creative Time, and the Drawing Center in New York,
the Cranbrook Art Museum and international venues including uShaka Museum (South
Africa), Ars Electronica (Austria), and Akademie der Kunste (Germany), and the
Artists Research Network (Australia) and has a forthcoming one-person exhibition at
the Peale Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. She received the National Endowment for the
Arts award, is a Fulbright Scholar; a multi-year recipient of the Maryland State
Arts Council and CEC Artslink International and the Saul Zaentz Innovation
Fellowship in Film and Media at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in
Performance Research; Visible Language; Inter Arts Actuel; New Media Caucus for her
curated work “Algorithmic Pollution: Artists working with Dataveillance and
Societies of Control” and “CYBER IN

Dr. Tsvetan Bachvaroff

Dr. Tsvetan Bachvaroff’s is a marine biologist whose research is focused on dinoflagellate evolution with special emphasis on the parasitic dinoflagellates, using large scale sequencing and phylogenetic methods to describe the evolutionary history of different types of genes in dinoflagellates. He uses DNA sequence analysis from data collection, assembly, annotation and phylogeny; has received numerous academic awards, including the William Trager Award from the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, International Society of Protistologists, culture independent methods such as single cell PCR, sequencing, and sequence analysis; Establishing dinoflagellate cultures. He received the Marsho award, Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Society for Plant Biology, University of Maryland College Park, and the Chemistry Prize, Trinity School, New York. Tsvetan Bachvaroff received his B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center of Marine Biotechnology and subsequently with the Smithsonian Institution. He is an Associate Research Professor for the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) at The University System of Maryland.

Amelia Marzec

Amelia Marzec is an American artist focused on rebuilding and engaging
with local communications infrastructure to prepare for an uncertain future. Her
work has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH, MIT, ISEA (Canada), University of the Arts
Helsinki (Finland), ONCE Foundation Contemporary Art Biennial (Spain), NODE Forum
for Digital Arts Biennial (Germany), and is part of the Rhizome ArtBase. She has
been a resident at Eyebeam, Ox-Bow, and Harvestworks, a fellow at NYSCA/NYFA and
A.I.R. Gallery, a Tow Fellow at Columbia University, a visiting artist at the Center
for Integrated Media at Calarts, a grantee of the Research Foundation of CUNY, and a
nominee for the World Technology Awards for Art. Her work has been featured in
Wired, Make, Hyperallergic, Neural Magazine, Metropolis Magazine, Creators, and the
front page of Reddit. She holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School
of Design, and a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts. She co-founded the Radical
Networks conference; has written for the Huffington Post; and taught at Hunter
College, Queens College, and Pratt Institute.

Bob Bielecki

Bob Bielecki is a sound designer, specializing in the creative use of technology in the electronic arts; additional expertise as audio engineer, exhibition designer, electrical engineer, software developer, and artist/collaborator. Since the mid-1970’s Bob has worked with many artists including Laurie Anderson, La Monte Young, Annea Lockwood, Steven Vitiello, and others on work that has included the creation of unique instruments and interfaces used in performance installations.. Bob has received grants from Andy Warhol Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts and has taught at Bard College since 1997.

David Behrman

David Behrman has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s.
Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as
well as musical compositions for performance in concerts. Many of his works feature
flexible structures and a use of technology in personal ways; they rely on
interactive real-time relationships with imaginative performers. Working at Columbia
Records in the late Sixties, Behrman produced many of the “Music of Our Time” series
of new music recordings. Together with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma,
he founded the Sonic Arts Union in 1966. He had a long association with the
Cunningham Dance Company. Long Throw, Unforeseen Events, My Dear Siegfried, Leapday
Night, On the Other Ocean, Interspecies Smalltalk, Open Space with Brass and
ViewFinder are among Behrman’s works for soloists and small ensembles. His works
have been recorded on Lovely Music, Alga Marghen, XI, Black Truffle and other
labels. Black Truffle recently released a long-neglected 1981 collaboration, She’s
More Wild, with Terri Hanlon, Fern Friedman and Paul DeMarinis.

Elico Suzuki

Elico Suzuki is an interdisciplinary sound artist based in Tokyo,
Japan. She is also active as an improviser and composer under the name “suzueri”.
She graduated from Musashino Art University and IAMAS in Japan, and is an adjunct
lecturer at Musashino Art University Imaging Arts and Sciences, and the University
of Tokyo. She is currently in New York as a fellow of the Asian Cultural Council
2022 NY. She has presented her work nationally and internationally, including at
Experimental Intermedia (US), ISSUE Project Room (US), Goethe Institute Boston (US),
NTT InterCommunication Center (Japan), LUFF Festival (Switzerland), Audiograft
Festival (England), Festival Tsonami (Chile), and others. https://suzueri.org

Woody Sullender

Woody Sullender is a media artist and musician based in Queens, NY. His
pieces encompass a myriad of media including sculpture, video games, performance,
theater, music, installation, architecture, origami, and sonic weaponry. His recent
work utilizes video game space as an arena to undermine specific modernist
ideologies and rituals of music reception. Previously, Sullender was recognized as a
pre-eminent experimental banjo improviser. Sullender has performed internationally
at venues such as the Kitchen (with Sergei Tcherepnin + Okkyung Lee), Issue Project
Room (Brooklyn, NY), the River to River Festival, the Schindler House (Los Angeles),
Knockdown Center (NYC), SculptureCenter (NYC), Abrons Art Center (NYC), Les Instants
Chavirés (Paris), Chicago Cultural Center, DNK-Amsterdam (with Seamus Cater), and
many others. He recently completed the Art & Code cohort at NEW INC (partnered with
Rhizome and the New Museum) and has been an artist in residence or visiting artist
at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn), STEIM (Amsterdam), Harvestworks (NYC), Peabody
Institute at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (NYC) and
Brown University’s MEME program. His work has been reviewed internationally by such
widely disparate publications as Wire Magazine, Art in America, Fast Company, and
Maximumrocknroll. Other projects include the music album “Four Movements”
constructed in video game space, as well as a special music review issue of EAR WAVE
EVENT written entirely by AI. Additionally over the past few years, Sullender has
worked on re-interpreting the work of Maryanne Amacher at venues such as the
Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and REDCAT (Los Angeles) as a member of Supreme
Connections, as well as in collaboration with Daniel Neumann and members of
Yarn/Wire. Among other activities, he is founding co-editor (will Bill Dietz) of the
sonic arts publication Ear Wave Event.

Stephanie Rothenberg

Stephanie Rothenberg’s interdisciplinary art draws from digital
culture, science and economics to explore symbiotic relationships between human
designed systems and biological ecosystems. Moving between real and virtual spaces,
she engages a variety of media platforms that include interactive installation,
drawing, sculpture, video and performance. She has exhibited internationally in
venues and festivals including MassMOCA (US), Sundance Film Festival (US), House of
Electronic Arts / HeK (CH), LABoral (ES), Transmediale (DE), and ZKM Center for Art
& Media (DE). She has received awards from Harpo Foundation, NYSCA and Creative
Capital among others and has participated in numerous residencies including Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace/LMCC and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in
NYC, Santa Fe Art Institute, and ZK/U in Berlin. Her work is in the collection of
the Whitney Museum of American Art and has been widely reviewed including Artforum,
Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail and Hyperallergic. She is Professor in the Department of
Art at University at Buffalo SUNY where she co-directs the Platform Social Design
Lab, an interdisciplinary design studio collaborating with local social justice
organizations.

Suzanne Thorpe

Suzanne Thorpe is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar whose creative
research intersects electronic music, feminist and ecological theory. She
interweaves critical listening practices with acoustic ecology, improvisation and
technology to craft immersive sound engagements and creative research sites that
question circulations of power within human and nonhuman systems. As an
electroacoustic flutist and sound artist she’s performed and exhibited
internationally, has a large discography, with releases on Columbia Records, Beggars
Banquet, Geffin, V2, and her research has been published in journals and edited
volumes. Thorpe has been granted several residencies and awards for her artistry and
research, such as the Frog Peak Collective Award for innovative research in
technology, a Gold Record from the Recording Industry Association of Americas, as
well as grants from the MAP Fund, NYSCA, New Music USA and Harvestworks Digital
Media Foundation. Thorpe holds an MFA in Electronic Music & Media from Mills
College, a Ph.D. in Integrative Studies from the University of California, San
Diego, and is a certified Deep Listening Instructor, having studied in depth with
pioneering composer and Deep Listening Founder Pauline Oliveros. Most recently she
was a Mellon Fellow and member of the Society of Fellows at Columbia University, and
is currently Assistant Professor of Sound Studies at Manhattan College. She also
remains a co-founder and director of TECHNE, a nonprofit arts-education organization
dedicated to dismantling social and cultural barriers in technical learning
environments.

Michelle Jaffé

Michelle JaffĂ© is an American interdisciplinary artist who creates immersive works that prompt active listening. Her sculpture, sound and video installations present complex experiential propositions. Over the past 20 years, JaffĂ© has brought sound directly into the participant’s 3-D space, through cutting edge programing in SuperCollider & speaker technologies such as Holosonic & Wave Field Synthesis. She works with sound to expand sculptural experience, as a gestalt to forge new neural connections, by engaging mind, body & limbic brain simultaneously.

She has exhibited at The New Media Gallery, Vancouver, Beall Center for Art + Technology, UC Irvine, Duke University Power Plant Gallery, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, Milton Art Bank, Milton, PA, and in New York City at 11 Rivington, Bosi Contemporary, WhiteBox, NY, NYCEMF, Wald & Po Kim Foundation, Susan Berko-Conde Gallery & Electroacoustic Music Festival.

Jaffé has been awarded 3 Individual Artist grants from NYSCA, 4 QAF grants from Queens Council on the Arts and is a 4 time fiscally sponsored artist of NYFA & was Artist-in-Residence to the Computer Music Department at Brooklyn College and has been awarded residencies at MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, The Exchange Museum and Newlyn Gallery in England.

David Reeder

David Reeder is a media arts software developer who combines software
design with music composition, sound invention and inter-media installations.
Reeder’s current focus is data engineering and cloud architecture, data
sonification, niche problem solving, custom network protocols, micro-networking,
deep services and backend support. His research interests include developing
enhanced features for Open Sound Control (OSC) and novel means to present musical
experiences via pocket computers, ubiquitous computing, wearable devices,
brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and gestural control systems. Reeder has over 15
years professional experience in software development and Internet protocol design
spanning commercial, educational and government operations in the areas of
networking, operating systems, security, Internet standards and data management. As
a musician, Reeder has performed or presented compositions and installations at the
Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse fĂŒr Neue Musik and cities around the US. As a
music technologist, David has built an iOS app to synchronize performances via
Internet atomic clocks, presented solo and team installations, presented new
research at ICMC and has worked as consultant with a variety of projects and
artists. He is co-organizer of NYC SuperCollider, serves on the executive steering
committee of the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) and is
co-founder of the NYCEMS (Society) (2013-2017).

Zach Layton

Zach Layton is a New York based composer and artist interested in
biofeedback techniques, psychoacoustics, perception and generative algorithms.
Zach’s work has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and has been
exhibited at the International Congress for Performance Art in Berlin, Neue Berliner
Initiative, and many other venues in New York and Europe. He also is the curator of
Brooklyn’s monthly experimental music series “darmstadt: classics of the avant
garde” which features leading composers and improvisers from around New York City.
Zach has received grants from the Netherlands America Foundation and the Jerome
Foundation and is a student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.