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Software and Art Mixer

Leaders in Software and Art was founded in 2009 to bring together the community of software and electronic artists, creative coders, data visualists, curators, collectors, digital and interactive agencies, and others who make their careers at the intersection of art and technology. They hold an exclusive monthly speakers series and cocktail party, and just had their daylong conference, LISA2012, at the Guggenheim in the fall.

[image by Scott Draves and the Electric Sheep]

LiSA: Leaders in Software And Art

Tuesday, Feb 12 2013, 6:30 to 9:30
Admission: FREE

Location:
Harvestworks – www.harvestworks.org
596 Broadway, #602 | New York, NY 10012 | Phone: 212-431-1130
Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleeker

Join Leaders in “Software And Art” for wine and hors d’oeuvres and hear 15-minute presentations from Michelle Jaffe http://www.michellejaffearts.com/ (Harvestworks Certificate Program 2002), Joshua Davis http://www.joshuadavis.com/, and two other speakers TBD.

http://softwareandart.com

Leaders in Software and Art (LISA, @softwareandart) is a society of creative thinkers centered around monthly salons. Founded by Isabel Walcott Draves in fall of 2009, LISA is a membership organization with the following aims:

  • To join interesting people together for fellowship, camaraderie and good food and drink
  • To introduce the membership to fascinating endeavors
  • To become the first stop for the best new art in the world
  • To advance the artistic and/or technology careers of its members
  • To help creative software entrepreneurs grow their businesses

Who is part of LISA?

  • software artists and digital artists
  • fashion designers, dancers, musicians, jewelry designers who enjoy technology
  • avid patrons of music and the arts
  • curators, gallerists, conference producers, retailers, and other promoters of artistic and technological endeavors
  • software professionals and technology entrepreneurs
  • professionals in the field of digital art, collectors interested in digital/electronic art and other art
  • nonprofit arts entrepreneurs

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.