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Harvestworks at Maker Faire

John Driscoll, Daniel Temkin, Jimmy Joe Roche

Harvestworks will present three new projects from the Harvestworks community of makers (2012).  Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that presents experimental artworks created in collaboration with our Technology, Engineering, Art and Music (T.E.A.M) Lab. The Harvestworks TEAM Lab is an environment that provides artists with project expertise from consultants, technicians, instructors and innovative practitioners in all branches of the electronic arts.

John Driscoll:  “Speaking In Tongues” (2012) an interactive series of DIY instruments combining ultrasound, robotics, and microscopic motion used to generate unique audio signals. These instruments can be played by visitors using either Wii Nunchucks, or by manual control (moving a turntable with a reflective foil or wiggling reflective foil in a plastic box). They utilize small amounts of movement to disturb ultrasonic feedback above our hearing. This disturbance is translated into the audible range and directly correlates to the character of the sounds produced.

Daniel Temkin will show his Chromatic Infestation project and other projects exploring how lines of code can be programmed to change visual representation, and along the way, introduce glitches and new patterns of behavior.

Jimmy Joe Roche: In 2012 Jimmy Joe Roche received a New Works Residency at Harvestworks in NYC. The result is the Mad Max Noise Vest. This video documentation presents JJR’s first time using the device.

Daniel Temkin

Daniel Temkin is a Queens-based artist who makes images, programming
languages, and interactive pieces exploring our inherently broken patterns of
thought. He studies the interaction between people and machines to explore how
computers teach us to think. His writing on Glitch Art has been taught at schools
such as Bard College, Penn State, and Clark University. Daniel’s work is included in
collections such as Rhizome-at-the-New-Museum’s ArtBase. He has spoken widely to
both art and hacker audiences about programming languages as art, including at the
Re:Wire (Media Art History) conference, GLI.TC/H conference, Notacon, and Hackers on
Planet Earth. His work has been shown at Mass MoCA, American University Museum, and
featured at galleries such as Higher Pictures and Carroll/Fletcher.

Jimmy Joe Roche

Jimmy Joe Roche is an American Visual Artist residing in Baltimore, MD.
Roche is a member of the arts collective Wham City. His videos have screened
internationally in venues including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Incubate Arts festival in
Holland and Rojo@Nova 2010 in Brazil. In 2008 Roche had his first solo exhibition at
Rare Gallery in New York, 2010 marked his second solo exhibition in Colorado at the
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, and in January 2011, he opened his third
solo exhibition, Under Pressure, at Rare Gallery. His work has appeared in numerous
publications including Beautiful Decay, The New Museum’s “Younger Than Jesus” Artist
Directory, “100” a new book by Francesca Gavin published in 2011, and a feature
article in the November 2011 issue of the Spanish Art Magazine BELIO. Roche is a
recipient of the 2012 new work residency at \\ Harvestworks // in NYC and is
preparing for a two man show with fellow artist Nathaniel Mellor at the Baltimore
Museum of Art in the Summer of 2013.