Presented by Harvestworks
NYEAF 2011

[Jul 1 - 31] NYEAF Rainforest V / Composers Inside Electronics

An electro-acoustic environment conceived by David Tudor and realized by the group Composers Inside Electronics. The installation is located in Fort Jay, part of the NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL Wave(form)s - an Exhibition of Electronic Art on Governors Island, and is accompanied by a performance on Jul 30, and two workshops on Jul 6 and 16, to introduce the audience to a world of sound based on resonance.

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[May 27 - Sep 25] NYEAF Lisa Kirk: Backyard Adversaries

A video installation shot in the historic Hudson Valley with four children who improvised an incredible story, the work serves as a critique of recent political events where the children are the protagonists in a game of war, playing dress-up in the midst of a lush and dramatic landscape. The installation is located in THE NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL Building 10b, part of Wave(form)s - an Exhibition of Electronic Art on Governors Island.

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[May 27 - Sep 25] NYEAF CCRT: The Painted Ponies Go Up and Down

 

A light controlled kinetic and sound sculpture inspired by antique Victrolas.  The "grooves" on the handmade painted wooden records were created by digitally and physically interpreting data from a weather station and reflecting on the change of seasons.  The installation is located in THE NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL Building 10b, part of Wave(form)s - an Exhibition of Electronic Art on Governors Island.

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[May 27 - Sep 25] NYEAF Victoria Vesna & Jim Gimzewski: Blue Morph

An interactive installation by media artist Victoria Vesna and nanoscientist Jim Gimzewski, Blue Morph uses nanoscale images and sounds derived from the metamorphosis of the Blue Morpho butterfly presented in historic St. Cornelius Chapel, as part of THE NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL Wave(form)s - an Exhibition of Electronic Art on Governors Island.

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[May 27 - Sep 25] NYEAF Alex Chechile: Data Decay

Revisiting a vintage computer data storage format using reel to reel audiotape, Data Decay is an installation that uses data as the primary sound palette and room acoustics as a modifying agent. Images are converted to sound and played back in a tape loop. The looping audio is decoded and the encrypted visual content is displayed. The installation is located in the NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL Building 10b, part of Wave(form)s - an Exhibition of Electronic Art on Governors Island.

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[May 27 - Sep 25] NYEAF John Morton & Jacqueline Shatz: Water Wall

WaterWall is a sonic sculpture of tuned metal bowls, plates, and sluices that are amplified and distributed to an array of speakers in the walkway. The acoustic sound, the kinetic movement of the water on the sculpture and the sonic events create a musical, spacial, sculptural, and theatrical link to the urban experience of water. The installation is part of THE NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL Wave(form)s - an Exhibition of Electronic Art on Governors Island.

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[May 27 - Sep 25] NYEAF Brendan Fernandes: Buli

Three text animations that pulse between a written vernacular and a translation in morse code. The works play with the form of museum wall labels and the lexicon in museum provenance reports used to describe African objects. The installation is located in THE NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL Building 10b, part of Wave(form)s - an Exhibition of Electronic Art on Governors Island.

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[May 27 - Sep 25] NYEAF Louisa Armbrust: Blue Swimmer

Blue Swimmer is the latest piece from Louisa Armbrust that uses games and sports to examine ideas about play and creativity.  Armbrust uses games and sports as a helpful matrix for thinking about the creativity involved in trying to follow a rule. The installation is located in THE NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL Building 10b, part of Wave(form)s - an Exhibition of Electronic Art on Governors Island.

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[Jul 23-Aug22] Video Screening on Governors Island

"Ovals" by Ralph Hocking and Sherleen Miller (1974) is a kind of compilation of short ideas that seemed to have a common ground. Shapes on the screen are governed by the mix of adjustable sine, square and triangle waveforms. Amplitude and Frequency, complexity develops within the control and the character of the machine. Peer Bode's "Transport" presents performative synchronicities:  reading European and American landscapes, viewing notebooks, simultaneously traveling in electronic sonic spaces.

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[Jun 26 / Jul 3] Gocha Tsinadze's "Sound Walk"

Soundwalk is a four channel interactive sound installation placed in the entrance of St. Paul's Chapel during our presentations on Jun 26 and Jul 3. The participants  activate, control and manipulate  a multi channel sound environment based on their passage through the space. The floor of St. Paul's is transformed into an visible grid of triggers that will be engaged based upon the audience's passage through the space.

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