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Live Coding NYC 2024

Jay Reinier, surajbarthy, emptyflash

Featuring Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne, Alex Nathanson, Allison Parrish, an_outskirt, mgs, Eric Lee, elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ, Saltzshaker, Archaic Reckoner, thecode, Kosmas Giannoutakis, Colonel Panix, Messica Arson, Metamyther, painter, Voyde, Jessica Stringham, Dan Gorelick, Borbo, this.xor.that, Cougars Are Cats Too

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

Suggested Donation: $5-25. RSVP not required but encouraged. Click here to donate/RSVP.

Calendar of Events

(Fri) 4/26/24

3pm – Audiovisual Performances by Jay Reinier, crobo + surajbarthy, emptyflash


(Sat) 4/27/24

1pm – Art in a Changing Climate

An interactive discussion featuring artists/educators Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne, Alex Nathanson, and Allison Parrish, moderated by Eric Lee.

3pm – Audiovisual performances by an_outskirt, mgs, and Vaporwave


(Sun) 4/28/24

1pm – Reconcile of Sounds & Found in Translation

A workshop about constructing sounds from different Southeast Asian tuning and sound cultures using Orca, a live coding language for sequencing, and other open-source tools by elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ.

3pm – Live coding performances by the code, Archaic Reckoner, and Saltzshaker


(Fri) 5/3/24

3pm – Audiovisual performances by Kosmas Giannoutakis, shellylynnx, and Colonel Panix

This concert artists features artists using live coding, artificial intelligence, brain waves, and more.


(Sat) 5/4/24

1pm – Wavelengths to RGB: Programming Color Theory

In this presentation, Jessica Stringham will share transferable techniques, ideas, and philosophies on working with color within with shaders, other creative coding, and digital media.

3pm – Audiovisual performances by Messica Arson, Metamyther, painter, and Voyde

This concert features artists working with modular synthesizers and/or visuals.


(Sun) 5/5/24

1pm – Live Coding Visuals in Hydra Workshop

A beginner friendly workshop for Hydra, a free and open-source live coding synthesizer for creating visuals by Suraj Barthy.

3pm – Audiovisual performances by Dan Gorelick, Borbo, this.xor.that, and Cougars Are Cats Too

This concert features artists incorporating live coding, visuals, percussion, flute, cello, and more.


Jay Reinier

Jay Reinier’s work tightropes the boundary between speech and sound, often taking the form of creative/critical hypertexts, performances, and installations. Inspired by posthumanist ideas, their work challenges anthropocentrism, using technology and multimedia to articulate technological, ghostly ways of being. Jay attended Oberlin College and Conservatory, where they studied composition and comparative literature. They received Highest Honors for his undergraduate thesis, “Demons of Analogy: The Encounter Between Music and Language After Mallarmé,” which investigates how French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé theorizes a musical poetics, and how music speaks back at this poetics. They have designed and taught four courses in Oberlin’s Experimental College which explore experimental literature and posthumanist philosophies. They currently live and work in New York City and are getting their MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College.

crobo

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Tega Brain

Tega Brain is an Australian born artist and environmental engineer exploring issues of ecology, data, automation, and infrastructure. She is an Industry Associate Professor of Integrated Design and Media at New York University and her first book, Code as Creative Medium, is coauthored with Golan Levin and published with MIT Press. She lives and works in New York and Sydney.

Sam Lavigne

Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator whose work deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at UT Austin.

Alex Nathanson

Alex Nathanson is a designer, technologist, artist, and educator. His work is primarily focused on exploring both the experimental and practical applications of sustainable energy technologies. He is the founder and lead designer of the education and art platform Solar Power for Artists and its partner studio, Energy Transition Design LLC. The mission of both organizations is to make sustainable energy accessible, tactile, and understandable. As a solar power designer, he has created interactive and educational projects for the Climate Museum, Solar One, and the NYC Department of Education. In collaboration with Tega Brain and Bennedetta Piantella, he co-created the Solar Protocol project. His book A History of Solar Power Art and Design was published by Routledge in 2021.

Allison Parrish

Allison Parrish is a computer programmer, poet, and game designer whose teaching and practice address the unusual phenomena that blossom when language and computers meet. She is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Allison was named “Best Maker of Poetry Bots” by the Village Voice in 2016, and her zine of computer-generated poems called “Compasses” received an honorary mention in the 2021 Prix Ars Electronica. Allison is the co-creator of the board game Rewordable (Clarkson Potter, 2017) and author of several books, including @Everyword: The Book (Instar, 2015) and Articulations (Counterpath, 2018). Her poetry has recently appeared in BOMB Magazine and Strange Horizons. Allison is originally from West Bountiful, Utah and currently lives in Brooklyn.

an_outskirt

an_outskirt, aka Joy Tamayo, is a vocalist, composer, and multimedia artist. Performance highlights include Freya Powell’s I cannot not grieve: CRY SCREAM SHOUT SING, produced by More Art; Sanctum by Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet; The Op5mist in Pete Wyer’s online opera Spring Street; soloist for the U.S. premiere of Manita en el suelo, a puppet opera by Caturla and Carpen5er with Americas Society; Chaitanya Sangco’s Subway Atmos for soprano/electronics/chorus/cello/piano; The Calf in Kento Iwasaki’s portable opera Beloved Prey; and Barbarina in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. As a choral musician, Joy Tamayo has performed with the New York Philharmonic Chorus, The Unsung Collec5ve, Ekmeles, The Oratorio Society of New York, The Philharmonic Chamber Choir of Singapore, San Miguel Master Chorale, The Philippine Madrigal Singers, Ateneo de Manila College Glee Club, and Auit Vocal Chamber Ensemble. Through her duo an_outskirt, Joy Tamayo is composer/perfomer/filmmaker for Saklob at JACK, Brooklyn for Exponen5al Fes5val ’23. She is composer/vocalist for Sanctuary by Tanika I. Williams, featured at BAM CinemaFest Shorts Program. Joy Tamayo is EMMY-nominated as composer for Jonathan McCrory’s sonic opera The Roll Call: The Roots to Strange Fruit with the Na5onal Black Theatre. As a sound designer and composer, Chaitanya Tamayo’s work has been featured in Jonathan McCrory’s Emmy-nominated film The Roll Call : The Roots To Strange Fruit, Spiderwoman Theater’s Misdemeanor Dream at La MaMa,the full-feature film Romeo Candido’s Ang Pamana: The Inheritance, his own stage works Mga Station and saklob. As a recordist, his work straddles culture in the margins and the mainstream. He’s recorded the waning tradition of tud- om (enchantment song) of the Agusan Manobo in Mindanao, documented the existence of traditional Chinese court music in Old Manila, and made albums of songs in the housing projects of Quezon City. He’s also recorded mixed albums by Tony-awardee Lea Salonga and Bamboo.

mgs

Michael Simpson (mgs) is a multifaceted creator at the nexus of music and technology. Michael’s work delves into the essence of sound using live code and custom machine listening systems to create tightly woven synesthetic experiences where music is both seen and heard. Michael uses live coding as a primary instrument in his creative work, leaning upon the paradigms unique capacity for spontaneous generation of audio-visual visions. Michael’s musical compositions are deeply inspired by New York’s vibrant hip-hop and electronic music scenes. Michael’s work has found its way to various stages, from music festivals to intimate venues across New York City and beyond. Michael approaches each opportunity with humility and a firm belief that art and technology, together, hold the power to enrich our understanding of the world and each other, creating spaces for connection and discovery. Michael is also an adjunct professor and researcher who shares his insights into the fusion of machine learning and music technology seeking to encourage and inspire others on their creative paths.

Eric Lee

Eric Lee, aka easterner, is an interdisciplinary audiovisual artist/musician from London/Hong Kong, currently based in New York, who explores the cyborg condition: what does it mean to live in interconnected human-machine communities in a precarious world? He experiments with–and glitches–old and new technologies, ubiquitous to obsolete, to explore their poetic potential, as well as to critique their role in society.

He is a member of the livecode.nyc art collective, organises and performs audiovisual shows, and curates exhibitions and workshops.

elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ

elekhlekha (Nitcha Tothong–ณิชชา โตทอง & Kengchakaj–เก่งฉกาจ) is a Bangkok-born collaborative artist practice focusing on research that examines and decoded past histories by creating, using code, algorithm, multimedia, and technology to experiment, explore, and define decolonized possibilities. They are currently based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). elekhlekha has received support from Babycastles, Rhizome, Processing Foundation and etc. In 2022, they were awarded The Lumen Prize Gold Award for their debut project, Jitr (จิตร), a performative audio-visual that utilizes historical research, Southeast Asian sound cultures, and live coding tools to reconcile Southeast Asia’s shared heritage.

thecode

Francisco Barretto is a multimedia artist, creative coder, professor, and researcher who explores the intersection between artificial intelligence, creativity and computational art. His work seeks to reveal subtle and relevant aspects of how we represent and perceive ourselves, as well as to explore new interfaces for interacting with various digital algorithms. Barretto uses technology to explore the interconnection between humans and the natural world, and the interaction between the physical and the digital in his works, which include mapped projections, LED panels, and immersive environments. Barretto has exhibited a series of interactive artworks at various art festivals and exhibitions across Brazil for over 10 years. He performs with Micaelle Lages in a group called “the code.”

Tristan Kneschke

Tristan Kneschke’s Metamyther project explores three-movement song structures to craft cinematic industrial odysseys. Kneschke has quickly gained a reputation in the local New York scene for his intense live shows, and works to support his local community by producing live events like the dark-themed Electric Abyss through the New York Modular Society, as well as a monthly showcase of local artists at Wonderville. He has contributed scores to several films, including the documentary Conceiving Our Future, which enjoyed the distinction of screening DocNYC, America’s biggest documentary film festival. Kneschke has taught classes at the School of the Visual Arts in New York City as an adjunct professor. He has contributed anthology chapters published by Bloomsbury Academic, Routledge, and Dancecult, and has focused on writing about electronic music for cultural publications including Tiny Mix Tapes, Pop Matters, Metal Sucks, Decoder Magazine, Echoes and Dust, and Hyperallergic, among others.

painter

New York-based electronic music artist, painter, crafts emotive and melodic soundscapes using analog synthesizers, drum machines, and effect pedals. Often recorded on a vintage cassette tape recorder in single takes, painter embraces imperfections, capturing a genuine snapshot of the present moment, much like analog photography. The result is a melancholic and emotionally charged musical journey, a testament to the beauty of raw analog sound expression.

Borbo

Borbo is a percussionist, sculptor, performance artist and weirdo. It builds percussive sculptural instruments out of steel and found objects – augmenting these objects with Max/MSP to create electro-acoustic improvisational music. Additionally, it incorporates elements of performance art and drag, pushing on (and occasionally breaking) genre norms. Borbo has performed solo sets at Wonderville and Shrine, ran Open Call Conduction events at Ivy House Studio, and performed in drag at C’Mon Everybody.

Cougars Are Cats Too and this.xor.that

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