Founded as a not-for-profit organization by artists in 1977, Harvestworks has helped generations of artists create new works using technology. Our goals are to create an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media; to create a responsive public context for the appreciation of new work by presenting and disseminating the finished works; to advance the art community's and the public's "agenda" for the use of technology in art; and to bring together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts collaborating in the use of electronic media. We assist with commissions and residencies, production services, education and information programs, and the presentation and distribution of artworks.
BIO
Harvestworks Open Studio/New York Electronic Arts Festival 2015
Dates:
Fri Aug 28, 2015 19:00 - Sun Aug 30, 2015
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
As a special extension of the NYEAF 2015 (New York Electronic Arts Festival), we’re pleased to invite you to the first installment of Emilio Vavarella’s MEMORYSCAPES. The project has been developed over the course of two years at Harvestworks and includes a 7-channel immersive audio installation produced in collaboration with sound engineer Kevin Ramsay, cutting edge holographic technology, digital images, and a printed publication.
Harvestworks will be open throughout the weekend to showcase Vavarella’s latest investigation on how memory and reality affect one another. The work will be on view at the following times:
Friday the 28th: opening at 7pm
Saturday the 29th: 1-5pm
Sunday the 30th: 1-5pm
Location: Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, #602, New York, NY 10012
Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleeker
Phone: (212) 431-1130
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ABOUT MEMORYSCAPES:
In 2013, Vavarella began looking for Italians living in New York City who would allow him to interview them; specifically ones who expressed an emotional link to the city of Venice. He wanted to explore how an objective 3D model of Venice could be altered and glitched by their collective memories. Through the interviews, he gathered large amounts of architectonical data (structures, distances, descriptions, dimensions, details) as well as stories and memories that were audio-recorded, creating a memory archive. Vavarella developed a way to merge their personal memories of the city with tridimensional satellite data, creating a holographic and fragmented “audio-cartography” of Venice. New phantasmagoric and paradoxical structures appeared, created by this unforeseen combination of technical and mnemonic errors.
http://emiliovavarella.com/memoryscapes/
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Emilio Vavarella graduated summa cum laude from both the University of Bologna with a B.A. in Visual, Cultural, and Media Studies, and from Iuav University of Venice with an M.A. in Visual Arts and study abroad fellowships at Bezalel Academy of Tel Aviv and Bilgi University of Istanbul. His work has been exhibited at Eyebeam, ISEA, Siggraph Conference, European Media Art Festival, Japan Media Arts Festival, CultureHub Media Art Festival, GLITCH Festival, Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Jarach Gallery, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, and has been published in ARTFORUM, Leonardo, Digital Creativity, and WIRED, among others.
http://emiliovavarella.com/
Harvestworks will be open throughout the weekend to showcase Vavarella’s latest investigation on how memory and reality affect one another. The work will be on view at the following times:
Friday the 28th: opening at 7pm
Saturday the 29th: 1-5pm
Sunday the 30th: 1-5pm
Location: Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, #602, New York, NY 10012
Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleeker
Phone: (212) 431-1130
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ABOUT MEMORYSCAPES:
In 2013, Vavarella began looking for Italians living in New York City who would allow him to interview them; specifically ones who expressed an emotional link to the city of Venice. He wanted to explore how an objective 3D model of Venice could be altered and glitched by their collective memories. Through the interviews, he gathered large amounts of architectonical data (structures, distances, descriptions, dimensions, details) as well as stories and memories that were audio-recorded, creating a memory archive. Vavarella developed a way to merge their personal memories of the city with tridimensional satellite data, creating a holographic and fragmented “audio-cartography” of Venice. New phantasmagoric and paradoxical structures appeared, created by this unforeseen combination of technical and mnemonic errors.
http://emiliovavarella.com/memoryscapes/
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Emilio Vavarella graduated summa cum laude from both the University of Bologna with a B.A. in Visual, Cultural, and Media Studies, and from Iuav University of Venice with an M.A. in Visual Arts and study abroad fellowships at Bezalel Academy of Tel Aviv and Bilgi University of Istanbul. His work has been exhibited at Eyebeam, ISEA, Siggraph Conference, European Media Art Festival, Japan Media Arts Festival, CultureHub Media Art Festival, GLITCH Festival, Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Jarach Gallery, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, and has been published in ARTFORUM, Leonardo, Digital Creativity, and WIRED, among others.
http://emiliovavarella.com/
[May 5 – June 3] Visual Alchemy ONLINE Course
Deadline:
Mon May 04, 2015 23:45
Location:
New York ,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Visual Alchemy is a 4-week ONLINE course for creating expressive and interactive visuals for live performance. Students will learn how to curate and mix live video streams, and manipulate the pixels in real-time, using their own custom-made performance-ready instruments, crafted using the Processing programming language.
This class is held online hosted by Tenlegs.com. Please find the registration link on the bottom of this page.
You need to have internet connection to watch videos and engage in the forums.
Video lectures will be released once a week, to be watched on the students own time. Students are not required to be available for any particular time, as long as they are able to keep up with the new material each week.
The course will cover various methods for modulating digital video signals in real-time, including mixing, masking, cutting and rearranging, color manipulation using filters, tints, and pixel modulators, creative playback interfaces, triggers and control signals. The course will also cover additional relevant topics, including MIDI and OSC communication, audioreactivity, and interactivity via peripherals and control interfaces.
The course is designed for those who wish to create live visual programs with a high degree of control, customization, and originality, for which existing high-level VJing software such as Resolume / VDMX is lacking. It is aimed at both intermediate and complete beginners to programming, and includes supplementary materials for those who have no prior programming experience. We will be programming using the Processing language.
At the end of this course, you will have your own performance-ready set of software for producing compelling live visuals!
Week 1: Intro to Processing and programming, basic graphics, variables and data, interactivity, animation and frame loops
Week 2: Manipulating images, filters and pixel modulators, alpha masks, tint and transparency, cut and paste rearrangement
Week 3: Movie playback methods, scratching, blending and mixing, green screens and masks, video filters, audioreactivity
Week 4: Control via user interfaces, parameters and triggers, input devices, and communication via OSC and MIDI, shaders.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Gene Kogan is an artist and programmer who writes free software for the performing arts. His work focuses on the application of emerging technologies as tools for creative expression and inquiry across a variety of contexts, including live music, theatre, and dance. His work can be seen at genekogan.com.
This class is held online hosted by Tenlegs.com. Please find the registration link on the bottom of this page.
You need to have internet connection to watch videos and engage in the forums.
Video lectures will be released once a week, to be watched on the students own time. Students are not required to be available for any particular time, as long as they are able to keep up with the new material each week.
The course will cover various methods for modulating digital video signals in real-time, including mixing, masking, cutting and rearranging, color manipulation using filters, tints, and pixel modulators, creative playback interfaces, triggers and control signals. The course will also cover additional relevant topics, including MIDI and OSC communication, audioreactivity, and interactivity via peripherals and control interfaces.
The course is designed for those who wish to create live visual programs with a high degree of control, customization, and originality, for which existing high-level VJing software such as Resolume / VDMX is lacking. It is aimed at both intermediate and complete beginners to programming, and includes supplementary materials for those who have no prior programming experience. We will be programming using the Processing language.
At the end of this course, you will have your own performance-ready set of software for producing compelling live visuals!
Week 1: Intro to Processing and programming, basic graphics, variables and data, interactivity, animation and frame loops
Week 2: Manipulating images, filters and pixel modulators, alpha masks, tint and transparency, cut and paste rearrangement
Week 3: Movie playback methods, scratching, blending and mixing, green screens and masks, video filters, audioreactivity
Week 4: Control via user interfaces, parameters and triggers, input devices, and communication via OSC and MIDI, shaders.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Gene Kogan is an artist and programmer who writes free software for the performing arts. His work focuses on the application of emerging technologies as tools for creative expression and inquiry across a variety of contexts, including live music, theatre, and dance. His work can be seen at genekogan.com.
