POE (...and the museum of lost arts)
Dates:
Fri Mar 09, 2012 19:00 - Fri Mar 09, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
You are invited to a 5.1 surround sound focus screening of POE [...and the museum of lost arts] at Harvestworks Media Arts Center. Reception precedes and Q&A follows with members of the cast and crew. This event is free but donations of any size are still being accepted at the USA Projects. Join our community and help us finish this project! Seating is limited, admission by reservation only (no walk ins) RSVP to email [ show.poe@gmail.com] with the names in your party, and contact phone number.
www.elisekermani.com/poe.html
About the project:
POE [...and the museum of lost arts] is part fiction, part historical, and part documentary.
An experimental performance film, a collaboration between more than 30 artists from New York's downtown dance, music and film scene directed by MiShinnah Production's Artistic Director, Elise Kermani.
Filmed at various locations in New York State including the deteriorating Bannerman Castle on the Hudson River, Brooklyn's Litchfield Manor, the Poe Cottage in the Bronx and Lower Manhattan's 3LD Art and Technology.
A fictional, time-traveling Charles Baudelaire recites Edgar Allan Poe's biography in his own words in a theater remodeled after the 19th century Barnum Museum lecture hall. Baudelaire is assisted by Techne, who guides him in his lecture.
The cinematic audience is the final layer in a 'film within films' in this performance art piece.
The POE Project expresses a regret at loss of the physical, the loss of film, of live performance, of acoustic sound, and foreshadows our ultimate merge with the digital medium.
Credits:
The all-star cast includes Rinde Eckert (Charles Baudelaire), Theo Bleckmann (Edgar Allan Poe) and Pamela Z (Techne-goddess of invention). These stellar singer/performers were joined by puppeteer/dancers Luis Tentindo (Roderick/Stage Hand) and Laurel Tentindo (Eliza and Virginia Poe). The music was written and performed by the above singers and Elise Kermani (electronics) in collaboration with instrumentalists Kevin James (trombone), David First (guitar) and Tom Chiu (violin). Other important collaborators include: Stefanie Koseff (video design), Barbara Kilpatrick (still photography), Melli Hoppe (unit director), Ivaylo Getov (cinematography), Solomon Weisbard (lighting), Alex Smolowe (editor), Natasha Kermani (director of post production), and Nashwa Zaman (sound editing), Vlad Kucherov (color) and Paul Geluso (sound mastering). Amelia Saul is our design manager.
Elise Kermani - Biography
Independent intermedia and sound artist Elise Kermani has presented her work nationally and internationally at venues such as The Kitchen, P.S. 122, Roulette, DiverseWorks, Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Randolph St. Gallery, Texas Gallery, and festivals in Europe including Turning Sounds in Warsaw, Poland,Fraunkulterfestival in Regensberg, Germany and Hor-Fest in Stainach, Austria. Kermani has composed several scores for choreographer Vicky Shick including Undoing (2003) and Repair (2005), Plum House (2007), Glimpse (2009) andNot Entirely Herself (2011) - traveling and performing in Budapest in 2009 and Dublin in 2010. In addition to writing scores for dance Kermani has also created several audio designs for visual artist Barbara Kilpatrick including Venus Hum, a DVD installation which was installed at the New Arts Program Exhibition in March, 2006, and Keep Sake at the Acram Opera House, in August, 2008. She has also created sound scores for Austrian visual artist Evelin Stermitz including Blue House (2009), Silence (2010) and Into the Mirror (2011). In the 1990's she could be seen performing her solo multimedia work Private Eye/Public Hand (1993), Artem(Is) Rising (1993); and singing with the avant pop ensemble Trousers. Her 2008 film/theatre project JOCASTA (www.elisekermani.com/jocasta.html) is a modern retelling of the Oedipus Cycle filmed on location in an abandoned barn in upstate New York and will screen at the AGON international meeting of archeological film in Athens, Greece in May, 2012. Kermani received her PhD in media philosophy from the European Graduate School in 2007 and her book Sonic Soma:Sound, Body and the Origin of the Alphabet, published by Atropos Press in 2009, is available on amazon.com.
www.elisekermani.com/poe.html
About the project:
POE [...and the museum of lost arts] is part fiction, part historical, and part documentary.
An experimental performance film, a collaboration between more than 30 artists from New York's downtown dance, music and film scene directed by MiShinnah Production's Artistic Director, Elise Kermani.
Filmed at various locations in New York State including the deteriorating Bannerman Castle on the Hudson River, Brooklyn's Litchfield Manor, the Poe Cottage in the Bronx and Lower Manhattan's 3LD Art and Technology.
A fictional, time-traveling Charles Baudelaire recites Edgar Allan Poe's biography in his own words in a theater remodeled after the 19th century Barnum Museum lecture hall. Baudelaire is assisted by Techne, who guides him in his lecture.
The cinematic audience is the final layer in a 'film within films' in this performance art piece.
The POE Project expresses a regret at loss of the physical, the loss of film, of live performance, of acoustic sound, and foreshadows our ultimate merge with the digital medium.
Credits:
The all-star cast includes Rinde Eckert (Charles Baudelaire), Theo Bleckmann (Edgar Allan Poe) and Pamela Z (Techne-goddess of invention). These stellar singer/performers were joined by puppeteer/dancers Luis Tentindo (Roderick/Stage Hand) and Laurel Tentindo (Eliza and Virginia Poe). The music was written and performed by the above singers and Elise Kermani (electronics) in collaboration with instrumentalists Kevin James (trombone), David First (guitar) and Tom Chiu (violin). Other important collaborators include: Stefanie Koseff (video design), Barbara Kilpatrick (still photography), Melli Hoppe (unit director), Ivaylo Getov (cinematography), Solomon Weisbard (lighting), Alex Smolowe (editor), Natasha Kermani (director of post production), and Nashwa Zaman (sound editing), Vlad Kucherov (color) and Paul Geluso (sound mastering). Amelia Saul is our design manager.
Elise Kermani - Biography
Independent intermedia and sound artist Elise Kermani has presented her work nationally and internationally at venues such as The Kitchen, P.S. 122, Roulette, DiverseWorks, Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Randolph St. Gallery, Texas Gallery, and festivals in Europe including Turning Sounds in Warsaw, Poland,Fraunkulterfestival in Regensberg, Germany and Hor-Fest in Stainach, Austria. Kermani has composed several scores for choreographer Vicky Shick including Undoing (2003) and Repair (2005), Plum House (2007), Glimpse (2009) andNot Entirely Herself (2011) - traveling and performing in Budapest in 2009 and Dublin in 2010. In addition to writing scores for dance Kermani has also created several audio designs for visual artist Barbara Kilpatrick including Venus Hum, a DVD installation which was installed at the New Arts Program Exhibition in March, 2006, and Keep Sake at the Acram Opera House, in August, 2008. She has also created sound scores for Austrian visual artist Evelin Stermitz including Blue House (2009), Silence (2010) and Into the Mirror (2011). In the 1990's she could be seen performing her solo multimedia work Private Eye/Public Hand (1993), Artem(Is) Rising (1993); and singing with the avant pop ensemble Trousers. Her 2008 film/theatre project JOCASTA (www.elisekermani.com/jocasta.html) is a modern retelling of the Oedipus Cycle filmed on location in an abandoned barn in upstate New York and will screen at the AGON international meeting of archeological film in Athens, Greece in May, 2012. Kermani received her PhD in media philosophy from the European Graduate School in 2007 and her book Sonic Soma:Sound, Body and the Origin of the Alphabet, published by Atropos Press in 2009, is available on amazon.com.
Creating Generative Art with Processing
Dates:
Tue Mar 20, 2012 18:30 - Tue Apr 03, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Class will be taught by Gene Kogan
Tuesdays, March 20, 27 and April 3 - 6:30 to 9:30pm
Cost for 9 Hour Class: Regular: $260, Members & Students (with ID): $230
See the website to sign up
This class will explore the field of generative art, using the Processing language. Students will learn methods for creating compelling artworks by algorithms and autonomous processes inspired from nature, statistics, biology, and computer science. We will primarily focus on applications to graphic art, both animated and still, and will also consider 3d digital fabrication and architecture, data visualization, and special topics proposed by students. The class will be taught in Processing but the concepts are applicable to other languages and tools. Although the class is introductory, we will dive into advanced concepts quickly and all students will end each class with a completed and original art work built from techniques learned in class.
Day 1 : We will introduce some relevant artists, works, and resources pertaining to generative art, and talk about different strategies for creating it by analyzing the techniques we come across in our survey. We will then do a swift introduction to the Processing language, covering graphic commands, animation, creating classes, and installing libraries. Students who are already comfortable programming will be able to skip ahead and start making artworks.
Day 2 : We will probe more sophisticated techniques by adding Perlin noise, physics simulation, color strategy, and interactivity into our sketches. Students will have the option of following along with all the examples, or extending ideas introduced in class with their own programs.
Day 3 : We will do a survey of advanced techniques, including 3D geometry and data visualization, and their applications to generative art. We will then break up into groups, and work on programs in the topics that interest us.
Gene is a software artist, music technologist, and researcher specializing in the intersection of generative systems and data mining. He currently works at Sourcetone.com developing software which delivers music according to its emotional content. His blog and freelance projects can be found at www.culturehacking.fm.
Tuesdays, March 20, 27 and April 3 - 6:30 to 9:30pm
Cost for 9 Hour Class: Regular: $260, Members & Students (with ID): $230
See the website to sign up
This class will explore the field of generative art, using the Processing language. Students will learn methods for creating compelling artworks by algorithms and autonomous processes inspired from nature, statistics, biology, and computer science. We will primarily focus on applications to graphic art, both animated and still, and will also consider 3d digital fabrication and architecture, data visualization, and special topics proposed by students. The class will be taught in Processing but the concepts are applicable to other languages and tools. Although the class is introductory, we will dive into advanced concepts quickly and all students will end each class with a completed and original art work built from techniques learned in class.
Day 1 : We will introduce some relevant artists, works, and resources pertaining to generative art, and talk about different strategies for creating it by analyzing the techniques we come across in our survey. We will then do a swift introduction to the Processing language, covering graphic commands, animation, creating classes, and installing libraries. Students who are already comfortable programming will be able to skip ahead and start making artworks.
Day 2 : We will probe more sophisticated techniques by adding Perlin noise, physics simulation, color strategy, and interactivity into our sketches. Students will have the option of following along with all the examples, or extending ideas introduced in class with their own programs.
Day 3 : We will do a survey of advanced techniques, including 3D geometry and data visualization, and their applications to generative art. We will then break up into groups, and work on programs in the topics that interest us.
Gene is a software artist, music technologist, and researcher specializing in the intersection of generative systems and data mining. He currently works at Sourcetone.com developing software which delivers music according to its emotional content. His blog and freelance projects can be found at www.culturehacking.fm.
The Use and Abuse of Technology in the Arts
Dates:
Thu Mar 08, 2012 19:00 - Thu Mar 08, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Too often, it seems, artists use technology in a way that makes works mute, indifferent to human communication. In contrast with this kind of art, my work instances how technology can be used to further interactive communication, while at the same time indicating the potentials dangers (such as alienation) specific to mediated communication. I will discuss several of my projects to broach how artists use technology to present their art works: both positive and negative examples. The talk will emphasize how some artists let technology overshadow their art, and also pose an alternative to this form of practice, showing how technology can be an essential tool when subordinated to aesthetic concerns.
I will talk about projects that involve emerging technology, such as roving handheld video projectors. Such technology realizes a certain type of aesthetic presentation which can be used to comment on the nature of technology itself relative to the human role of art-making. I'm also looking for more people to work with me on my project called "The Control of Fear." So, perhaps my presentation will include mention of this project as well (which uses a variety of mew media), in the hopes of drawing the interest of people who might want to work with me.
Chin Chih Yang — Bio
Multidisciplinary artist Chin Chih Yang was born in Taiwan, and has resided for many years in New York City. Where he studied at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design. Among other honors, he has been a recipient of the Urban Artist Initiative Fellowship, a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a fellowship from the Franklin Furnace, and a fellowship from the New York State Council for the Arts, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council has granted him a Swing Space residency at Governors Island, to name only a few.
His work uniquely incorporates the actual rhythms and discords of human society, exhibiting them in terms of the waste materials wantonly discarded by industrialized production. Finding the modern world both disturbing and entrancing, he aims in his work to capture the complex state of anxiety and compulsive-fascination specific to the contemplation of contemporary social problems. His performances often dramatize the divided quality of the self, and he use video projections to create a discordant ambience specific to the themes of his performances.
An experienced multidisciplinary artist, his interests in ecology and constructed environments have resulted in interactive performances and installations that have been exhibited nationally and internationally; in the United States, Poland, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, he has exhibited/performed in such spaces as: the Rockefeller Center, the United Nations, the Union Square Park, the Chelsea Museum, Queens Museum, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Exit Art, and Flux Factory and Taipei Art Fair, to name only a few.
Chin Chih Yang's work has been highlighted in The New York Times, the Taipei Times, CBS, NY Art Beat, the Village Voice, Time Out New York, Flavorpill, Art Radar Asia and Art Asia Pacific magazine. With this, NY1: its celebration of Asian-American artists with a profile of Chin Chih and the vivid works he makes out of mixed media. Also, Humphrey Hawksley of BBC world news interviewed him just last year for a special program on NYC Artists whose work on deals with political and social corruption.
I will talk about projects that involve emerging technology, such as roving handheld video projectors. Such technology realizes a certain type of aesthetic presentation which can be used to comment on the nature of technology itself relative to the human role of art-making. I'm also looking for more people to work with me on my project called "The Control of Fear." So, perhaps my presentation will include mention of this project as well (which uses a variety of mew media), in the hopes of drawing the interest of people who might want to work with me.
Chin Chih Yang — Bio
Multidisciplinary artist Chin Chih Yang was born in Taiwan, and has resided for many years in New York City. Where he studied at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design. Among other honors, he has been a recipient of the Urban Artist Initiative Fellowship, a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a fellowship from the Franklin Furnace, and a fellowship from the New York State Council for the Arts, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council has granted him a Swing Space residency at Governors Island, to name only a few.
His work uniquely incorporates the actual rhythms and discords of human society, exhibiting them in terms of the waste materials wantonly discarded by industrialized production. Finding the modern world both disturbing and entrancing, he aims in his work to capture the complex state of anxiety and compulsive-fascination specific to the contemplation of contemporary social problems. His performances often dramatize the divided quality of the self, and he use video projections to create a discordant ambience specific to the themes of his performances.
An experienced multidisciplinary artist, his interests in ecology and constructed environments have resulted in interactive performances and installations that have been exhibited nationally and internationally; in the United States, Poland, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, he has exhibited/performed in such spaces as: the Rockefeller Center, the United Nations, the Union Square Park, the Chelsea Museum, Queens Museum, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Exit Art, and Flux Factory and Taipei Art Fair, to name only a few.
Chin Chih Yang's work has been highlighted in The New York Times, the Taipei Times, CBS, NY Art Beat, the Village Voice, Time Out New York, Flavorpill, Art Radar Asia and Art Asia Pacific magazine. With this, NY1: its celebration of Asian-American artists with a profile of Chin Chih and the vivid works he makes out of mixed media. Also, Humphrey Hawksley of BBC world news interviewed him just last year for a special program on NYC Artists whose work on deals with political and social corruption.
Swim This: A Sonic Celebration
Dates:
Sat Jan 28, 2012 20:30 - Sat Jan 28, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Nick Didkovsky – table top guitar & devices
Gerry Hemingway – drums, voice with occasional processing
Michael Lytle – bass and contrabass clarinet, prerecorded tape
Swim This is a trio that spontaneously generates world of intensely focused and evocative improvised music. The group creates a visceral and deep listening experience where no moment is lost, and each sound is projected with maximum momentum and razor sharp clarity.
They began with the initiative of Michael Lytle, who invited Didkovsky and Hemingway to perform at The Experimental Intermedia Foundation in 2006. The evening’s extraordinary performance was recorded with meticulous care. Entitled “Swim This” (Punos Music, PM0006) it is available on line via iTunes and through their web site at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Swim-This-AswimA/191946350842691 They are very excited to be performing tonight as Gerry is teaching in Europe and rarely appears in New York so this evening creates a highly anticipated reunion for them.
Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, band leader, and software programmer. In 1983, he founded the rock octet Doctor Nerve. (www.doctornerve.org) He presently resides in New York City, where he composes, creates music software, and teaches computer music
composition at New York University and Columbia University. He is the principle author of the computer music language Java Music Specification Language. (www.algomusic.com) He has composed music for Bang On A Can All-Stars, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, California EAR Unit, New Century Players, Ethel String Quartet, Electric Kompany, ARTE Quartet, and other ensembles. His Punos Music record label offers CD releases of his more extreme musical projects. (www.punosmusic.com)
Gerry Hemingway has been making a living as a composer and performer of solo and ensemble music since 1974. He has led a number of quartet & quintets since the mid 80’s including his current quintet with Ellery Eskelin, Oscar Noriega, Terrence McManus and Kermit Driscoll as well collaborative groups with Mark Helias & Ray Anderson (BassDrumBone), w/Reggie Workman and Miya Masaoka on koto (Brew), Georg Graewe & Ernst Reijseger (GRH trio), WHO trio with Swiss pianist, Michel Wintsch and bassist, Baenz Oester, as well as numerous duo projects with Thomas Lehn, John Butcher, Ellery Eskelin, Marilyn Crispell, Terrence McManus and Jin Hi Kim. Mr. Hemingway is a Guggenheim fellow and has received numerous commissions for chamber and orchestral work including "Terrains", a concerto for percussionist and orchestra commissioned by the Kansas City Symphony. He is well known for his eleven years in the Anthony Braxton Quartet and more recently his duo with Anthony “Old Dogs (2007)” released on Mode/Avant. His collaborations with improvisers and composers include Evan Parker, Cecil Taylor, Mark Dresser, Anthony Davis, George Lewis, Derek Bailey, Leo Smith, Oliver Lake, Kenny Wheeler, Frank Gratkowski, Michael Moore and many others. His musical history, collaborations, performances and recordings are all documented on his website: http://www.gerryhemingway.com. He currently lives in Switzerland having joined the faculty of the Hochschule Luzern in 2009.
Michael Lytle (aka elewhale) has been a New Music Improvisor since 1968. He has performed with William Parsons, Karl Berger, George Cartwright, Garette List, David Moss, John Zorn, George Lewis, Christian Marclay, Nick Didkovsky, Hans Burgener, Martin Schutz, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Dresser and has been involved in over 30 recordings since the 5* rated Iowa Ear Music of 1976. An early Electronic Music composer, Lytle invented a set of totally unique methods of clarinet family sonic modulation and performance, called the “most radical of his generation” by Joachim Berendt. (www.elewhale.net)
Questions? Contact Carol Parkinson at 212-431-1130
Gerry Hemingway – drums, voice with occasional processing
Michael Lytle – bass and contrabass clarinet, prerecorded tape
Swim This is a trio that spontaneously generates world of intensely focused and evocative improvised music. The group creates a visceral and deep listening experience where no moment is lost, and each sound is projected with maximum momentum and razor sharp clarity.
They began with the initiative of Michael Lytle, who invited Didkovsky and Hemingway to perform at The Experimental Intermedia Foundation in 2006. The evening’s extraordinary performance was recorded with meticulous care. Entitled “Swim This” (Punos Music, PM0006) it is available on line via iTunes and through their web site at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Swim-This-AswimA/191946350842691 They are very excited to be performing tonight as Gerry is teaching in Europe and rarely appears in New York so this evening creates a highly anticipated reunion for them.
Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, band leader, and software programmer. In 1983, he founded the rock octet Doctor Nerve. (www.doctornerve.org) He presently resides in New York City, where he composes, creates music software, and teaches computer music
composition at New York University and Columbia University. He is the principle author of the computer music language Java Music Specification Language. (www.algomusic.com) He has composed music for Bang On A Can All-Stars, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, California EAR Unit, New Century Players, Ethel String Quartet, Electric Kompany, ARTE Quartet, and other ensembles. His Punos Music record label offers CD releases of his more extreme musical projects. (www.punosmusic.com)
Gerry Hemingway has been making a living as a composer and performer of solo and ensemble music since 1974. He has led a number of quartet & quintets since the mid 80’s including his current quintet with Ellery Eskelin, Oscar Noriega, Terrence McManus and Kermit Driscoll as well collaborative groups with Mark Helias & Ray Anderson (BassDrumBone), w/Reggie Workman and Miya Masaoka on koto (Brew), Georg Graewe & Ernst Reijseger (GRH trio), WHO trio with Swiss pianist, Michel Wintsch and bassist, Baenz Oester, as well as numerous duo projects with Thomas Lehn, John Butcher, Ellery Eskelin, Marilyn Crispell, Terrence McManus and Jin Hi Kim. Mr. Hemingway is a Guggenheim fellow and has received numerous commissions for chamber and orchestral work including "Terrains", a concerto for percussionist and orchestra commissioned by the Kansas City Symphony. He is well known for his eleven years in the Anthony Braxton Quartet and more recently his duo with Anthony “Old Dogs (2007)” released on Mode/Avant. His collaborations with improvisers and composers include Evan Parker, Cecil Taylor, Mark Dresser, Anthony Davis, George Lewis, Derek Bailey, Leo Smith, Oliver Lake, Kenny Wheeler, Frank Gratkowski, Michael Moore and many others. His musical history, collaborations, performances and recordings are all documented on his website: http://www.gerryhemingway.com. He currently lives in Switzerland having joined the faculty of the Hochschule Luzern in 2009.
Michael Lytle (aka elewhale) has been a New Music Improvisor since 1968. He has performed with William Parsons, Karl Berger, George Cartwright, Garette List, David Moss, John Zorn, George Lewis, Christian Marclay, Nick Didkovsky, Hans Burgener, Martin Schutz, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Dresser and has been involved in over 30 recordings since the 5* rated Iowa Ear Music of 1976. An early Electronic Music composer, Lytle invented a set of totally unique methods of clarinet family sonic modulation and performance, called the “most radical of his generation” by Joachim Berendt. (www.elewhale.net)
Questions? Contact Carol Parkinson at 212-431-1130