The New York Electronic Art Festival Presents New Installation Art
NYEAF's premiere event focuses on eight digital artists who explore the poetics of sound and image/light through electronic media.
New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 8, 2007 -- The premiere event from The New York Electronic Art Festival (NYEAF), a month-long series of exhibitions, concerts and workshops that celebrate cutting-edge work at the intersection between art and technology, will be installation art from eight digital artists who explore the poetics of sound and image/light through electronic media. Audio/Visual: A New Generation of Installation Artists can be viewed Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 6 PM, May 12th through June 2nd at LMCC's Swing Space at 38 Park Row. The event is free.
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"We're very pleased to offer some of the best work from a new generation of installation artists at our opening event," said Carol Parkinson, Harvestworks Executive Director. "The NYEAF, now in its first year, will offer the best work from New York City resident artists as well as the most exciting work from around the globe. Featuring artists from Trimpin to They Might Be Giants, the festival's events promise to draw a huge audience from a wide spectrum of music and art lovers."
For more information, visit www.NYEAF.org.
AudioVisual: A New Generation of Installation Artists
NYEAF's opening event, Audio/Visual: A New Generation of Installation Artists features six installations by a new generation of digital artists who explore the poetics of sound and image/light through electronic media. Featured Artists: Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Olen Hsu, Hisao Ihara, LoVid, Terry Nauheim, Rashaad Newsome, Phoenix Perry, and Douglas Repetto.
Special Saturday Presentations 4 - 6 pm at 15 Nassau Street -- FREE
May 19: Hisao Ihara / Karina Aguilera Skvirsky
May 26: Phoenix Perry / Olen Hsu / Rashaad Newsome
ABOUT THE ARTISTS AND THE WORKS
Karina Aguilera Skvirsky's El Espectáculo is a three-channel video based on celebrity trials and daytime talk shows, An original soundtrack is synchronized with the movements of the mass media characters, suggesting a choreographed dance within the tableau. Karina Aguilera Skvirsky is a photographer and video artist who has exhibited internationally in group and solo shows. She has been an artist in residence at Harvestworks, Smack Mellon, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace and the MacDowell Artist Colony.
Olen Hsu's sculpture and sound installation Drift (II) (2007) charts the prehistory of the digital network, situating itself in the era of the gramophone. Hsu's delicate apparatus emits a sound composition created with numerical oceanographic data of the past two hundred years. Olen Hsu constructs installations in porcelain, paper and algorithmically composed sound, converging new media, tactile forms, and acoustic musical instruments. Hsu holds degrees in music, art history, ceramics, and sculpture from Yale University, the Kansas City Art Institute, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Hisao Ihara's video installation The Collapsing Wall transforms a collection of documentary moving images of war from the beginning of 20th century to the present into a large, evocative, vertical projection space. Originally from Tokyo, Hisao Ihara currently lives in New York City. His work explores the intricate overlay of time and visual perception within immersive video environments. Ihara holds a BFA from the Cornish College of the Arts and an MFA from Alfred University.
Cross Current Resonance Transducer, a sculptural-graphic collaboration between LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) and Douglas Repetto, addresses the processes of interpretation and evaluation inherent in human attempts to understand natural phenomena. LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Their work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. Douglas Irving Repetto's work includes sculpture, installation, performance, recordings, and software, and has been presented internationally. Douglas is also a teacher and Director of Research at the Columbia University Computer Music Center. He lives in New York City.
Terry Nauheim's Rotating is a multi-channel audio/single channel video installation built from recorded and processed sound fragments of hand-cast record negatives and their corresponding recorded drawings. Terry Nauheim explores sound and visual relationships through digital media, drawing, and installation. She has an MFA from the University of Maryland and a BFA from Washington University. Nauheim currently lives and works in New York, where she teaches computer arts at New York Institute of Technology and New York University.
Rashaad Newsome's The Conductor is a series of single-channel video projections. Rashaad uses processed video juxtaposing imagery associated with popular black youth culture and audio rooted in eurocentrism. A native of New Orleans where he received a BFA from Tulaine University, Rashaad Newsome studied film and video in New York where he currently lives. His work integrates photography, sound, performance, and video to explore and question prevailing media representations of black culture in North America.
Phoenix Perry's Honey is an interactive game exploring issues of survival and the environment. This powerful game demonstrates even the smallest creatures' vital importance to their ecosystem as they struggle to survive in a unique, fantasy-world. Phoenix Perry's creative media include, installation, video, live performance, sculpture, sound, and painting. Her works have been screened at Lincoln Center, NYC, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Austin Museum of Digital Art, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
"Harvestworks brings together innovative practitioners from all branches of the digital arts and makes them available to artists, curators, and collectors."
About NYEAF
The New York Electronic Art Festival is produced by Harvestworks, the New York University Music Technology Program, and LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, with support from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, the Columbia University Computer Music Center, Roulette, Electronic Music Foundation, 3LD Art and Technology Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Institute of Electronic Art. Additional support is from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, mediaThe foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space @ 38 Park Row, the Experimental TV Center Presentation Program, Cycling 74, Tekserve and Newmark Knight Frank. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space.
NYEAF is a Harvestworks 30th Anniversary Event. A highlight of the festival is the 2007 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2007), now in its 7th year, convening for the first time in New York.
About Harvestworks Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental work created with digital technologies. www.harvestworks.org
About Swing Space and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Lower Manhattan Cultural Council is the leading voice for arts and culture in downtown New York City, producing cultural events and promoting the arts through grants, services, advocacy, and cultural development programs. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space Program is made possible by the support of the September 11th Fund. Space generously donated by Time Equities. www.lmcc.net/
AudioVisual: New Installation Art is made possible by Swing Space, a program of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, generously supported by the September 11th Fund. Space donated by Silverstein Properties.
Contact:
Carol Parkinson
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
(212) 431-1130
carolp @ harvestworks.org
www.harvestworks.org
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