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The Team Lab Artworks and Experiences

Ryan Soper, Andrea DeFelice, Simona Prives, Ross Williams, Jess Rowland

Featuring Michael Theodore, Ryan Wurst, Laura Kim, Mark Amerika, Beth Bradfish, Connie Noyes, Kristin Lucas, Ursula Endlicher, Bryan Jacobs, Brenda Hutchinson

Harvestworks hosts artists open studios, an exhibition of digital media art and a workshop / research room to share how artists use new and emerging technology with the public on Governors Island. This year our partners include the TECHNE_Lab and the Streaming Museum. On August 31, 2016, we will open new artworks by Ryan Soper, Andrea DeFelice,  Simona Prives and Ross Williams and Jess Rowland.  September 22 @3pm is Artist Day with performances by Jess Rowland and Brenda Hutchinson with the  Dailybell  Fall Equinox sunset celebration.

LOCATION: Governors Island, Nolan Park Building 8a

DATES AND TIMES:  May 25 – October 21, 2018

TIMES:  Fri. Sat. Sun and Holiday Mondays noon – 5 pm

Governors Island New York Ferry Schedule

Harvestworks will host an exhibition of digital media art and provide a workshop / research room to share artworks and experiences by artists using new and emerging technology for artistic expression. Artists will talk about the core principals, the materials and the techniques to putting these works together on selected Saturdays from 3 – 5 pm throughout the summer/fall.

Kristin Lucas’ FlARmingo Project

The Artworks and Experiences exhibition includes new works by Beth Bradfish/Connie Noyes, Kristin Lucas, Ursula Endlicher, Bryan Jacobs, Ryan Soper, Andrea DeFelice , Jess Rowland and Simona Prives. In collaboration with Streaming Museum’s international programming for its 10th anniversary, we are presenting The TECHNE lab of the University of Colorado. We will exhibit the works of Michael Theodore, Ryan Wurst, Laura Kim, and Amerika. We will also present Carla Gannis Garden of Emoji Delights and  “Portraits In Landscape” that will be showcased in Times Square Midnight Moment August 1-3

The Harvestworks TEAM lab events will be held on special weekends between Saturday May 24 and October 21, 2018 . See schedule below.

Experience Lab Events

October 21 @ 3 pm: Untied — A Deinstallation Event by Beth Bradfish and Connie Noyes.
The installation Untied / United is about the resilience and fragility of relationships. Ephemeral and invisible to the eye relationships bind us to each other and to life itself. During the deinstallation of this project we invite you to participate in (or watch) a ritual performance to celebrate inevitable endings. In silence, while the sound is still live, we will listen, move, interact and entwine ourselves in the threads, connecting art/audience/performer/observer in a unique shared experience. At the end of the end, we will hold a wake, with refreshments! All are invited to attend.

CANCELLED DUE TO THE WEATHER – October 13 @ 3 pm.  Meet the Artist – Andrea De Felice with programmer/engineer Danielle McPhatter.  A presentation about Lemon Bomb Face, a mechanized light painting and a talk about how they worked together.

September 22 @3pm: Artist Day with performances by Jess Rowland and Brenda Hutchinson with the  Dailybell by Fall Equinox sunset celebration 

Jess Rowland will give a performance of her interactive Piano Roll, Life This In Find We. The piano roll, a long narrow strip of paper used originally for player pianos, will become a touch-sensitive interface for a completely different kind of musical instrument – one where the paper of the piano roll becomes the instrument itself. This piece is a semi-improvised work in which pre-determined musical material in the piano-roll will be activated by the performer, generating novel combinations of sound.

The seeds to what has evolved into Brenda Hutchinson’s current relational and public engagement practice were sown and nurtured during her early days working at Harvestworks, when it was still known as Studio PASS. Brenda will present work that first appeared on TELLUS and how it has evolved into work like the dailybell project, which we will perform this evening.

She will present excerpts of works from those early days (1980’s) when she was recording stories and songs with people in parks, streets and stories (Apple Etudes) as well as during weekly visits to Bronx State Psychiatric Hospital (Voices of Reason). During this same time, Brenda worked on the soundtrack for “Liquid Sky” and will present a recent incarnation of one of the pieces from the film, Wordplay as it appears in “Czarny film”, a short, animated piece by jacek piotrowicz released earlier this year.

Following the presentation, the audience is invited to participate in the dailybell event for the evening as we celebrate the Equinox sunset with a communal observation and bell ringing.

Sept. 1 – 2 noon – 5 pm Material Expressions by Laura Splan

August 18 @3pm: Interactive Play with Pure Data! Pure Data Experience Lab conducted by Virginia de Las Pozas and Kat Carlsen

July 21 @3 pm: Meet Ursula Endlicher, creator of Two Companion Plants and AIR Eva von Schweinitz

July 14 @ 3 pm: Exploring concepts from Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking by Nicolas Collins conducted by Charlie Schine and Kat Carlsen

July 7 @ 3 pm: Meet the artists from TECHNE_Lab and others in the exhibition

June 30 @ 3 pm: Meet Beth Bradfish, sound designer for United/United, a collaboration with visual artist Connie Noyes.

June 16 @ 3 pm: Exploring concepts from Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking by Nicolas Collins conducted by Rebecca Uliasz

Artworks may rotate during the course of the exhibition. Visit www.harvestworks.org for the latest details.

About TECHNE Lab

techne_lab is a group show of artists affiliated with the techne_lab located at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Techne_lab was founded in 2002 by artist Mark Amerika and has served as an experimental art incubator for future forms of creative practice and research in the new media / digital arts. This exhibition, taking place on Governors Island in conjunction with Harvestworks, features the work of Michael Theodore, Ryan Wurst, Laura Kim, and Amerika.

About Streaming Museum

STREAMING MUSEUM was founded in 2008 by Nina Colosi, as a public art experiment to produce and present exhibitions and programs of art, innovation, and world affairs. Since then programs have reached millions on 7 continents in public spaces, at cultural and commercial centers, and streamingmuseum.org.

About Millennium Film Workshop

Since 1966, The Millennium Film Workshop has provided free or low-cost resources for independent, experimental, and non-commercial filmmakers and visual artists. For more information, visit www.millenniumfilm.org or @mfw1966 on social media platforms.

Simona Prives

New works in the Artworks and Experience Exhibition include – “We Said
We Didn’t See It Coming”, an animated video installation that represents an
examination of our complex relationship between the organic and the man-made and
offers a multi-sensorial construction of reality. The work is a dynamic choreography
between the audience, sound compositions and video animations, presented in multiple
projections, that plays with the viewer’s perception of time and place. The
experience will offer dreamscapes that are at once familiar and abstract and that
ignite a fragmented memory.

Ross Williams

NEW BIO TEXT HERE

Beth Bradfish

Beth Bradfish is a composer and sound artist whose goal is to bring her
audience as close to sound as possible – like a musician holding a cello to his or
her heart. The permeability and physical intimacy of sound is the foundation of
experiences she creates and invites her audiences to participate in. She composes
for chamber ensembles, orchestras as well as installations and sound objects she
designs. Bradfish often collects field recordings, analyzes their characteristics,
and then edits and transforms those sounds to create compositions that subtly engage
audiences and visitors. Sometimes she invites audience participation in the music
making by asking the audience to play soundfiles they download to Smartphones. She
also creates sound objects that function as instruments. For example, Exhale Sound
Bed (2017) creates sound that gently circles the body while the physical vibration
comes and goes depending on the area of the bed activated by transducers and
microelectronics. With the Harvestworks project Bradfish, collaborating with visual
artist Connie Noyes, treats the entire installation space as a resonating and
interactive environment.

Connie Noyes

Connie Noyes is a visual artist born in Washington DC in 1955. She
received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a MA in psychology
from Notre Dame de Namur University in California and a BA from Virginia Intermont
College. She views her work and her life as one in the same, making personal, yet
universal, experiences and emotions visible.

Bryan Jacobs

Composer, performer, and sound artist, Bryan Jacobs’ work focuses on
interactions between live performers, mechanical instruments and computers. His
pieces are often theatrical in nature, pitting blabber-mouthed fanciful showoffs
against timid reluctants. The sounds are playfully organized and many times mimic
patterns found in human dialogue. Hand-build electromechanical instruments
controlled by microcontrollers bridge acoustic and electroacoutic sound worlds.
These instruments live dual lives as time-based concert works and non-time-based
gallery works. Jacobs, a Guggenheim Fellow, has been lucky enough to have his music
and sound art presented at a number of festivals around the world. Bryan is the
co-founder of Qubit and a member of Ensemble Pamplemousse.

Carla Gannis

Since her arrival in New York in the 1990s, Carla Gannis has been
exploring the language of the digital medium in physical and virtual works. Gannis
received an MFA in painting from Boston University and is faculty and assistant
chair of the Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute, New York. She has
engaged with the virtual domain by collaging threads of networked communication,
online art history, and speculative fiction to produce dark and often humorous
explorations of the human condition. Gannis’s work has appeared in numerous
exhibitions and screenings, nationally and internationally, including Lady Ava
Interface, Sunrise Sunset, Whitney Museum, NYC; Portraits in Landscape, Midnight
Moment, Times Square Arts, NYC; Until the End of the World, DAM Gallery, Berlin; A
Subject Self-Defined, TRANSFER Gallery, Brooklyn; and The Garden of Emoji Delights,
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers. Gannis’s speculative fiction has appeared in DEVOURING
THE GREEN:: fear of a human planet: a cyborg / eco poetry anthology, published by
Jaded Ibis Press (2015).

Virginia de Las Pozas

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Kat Carlsen

Kat Carlsen studies composition with a focus in electronic music at Sarah Lawrence College and is interested in experimental music and exploring the intersections of art and technology in their musical practice.

Charlie Schine

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