The Process: an art and tech exhibition

The Process – an art and tech exhi­bi­tion anchors Har­vest­works’ 2023 Art and Tech­nol­o­gy Pro­gram on Gov­er­nors Island. The ongo­ing exhi­bi­tion fea­tures art­works explor­ing son­ic holog­ra­phy, psy­choa­coustics, Vir­tu­al and Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty, neur­al net­works and robot­ics by an inter­gen­er­a­tional group of artists using tech­nol­o­gy as a cre­ative medi­um. All events are free.

On View

Lau­ren Pet­ty and Shaun Irons with Zach Lay­ton: All That is Seen and Unseen is an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary instal­la­tion opera that delves into the effects of tech­nol­o­gy on human con­se­quences, con­fronting the ero­sion of truth and trust in our soci­ety. It explores machines learn­ing by cre­at­ing a real-time per­for­ma­tive neur­al net­work, imag­in­ing a qua­si-super­nat­ur­al inva­sion of mal­func­tion­ing intel­li­gent machines, blur­ring real­i­ty and endan­ger­ing every­one. CLOS­ING ON AUGUST 27, 2023.

Eli­co Suzu­ki: Birds don’t have Bor­ders explores the trans­mis­sion and migra­tion between humans, birds, and intan­gi­ble media. The instal­la­tion com­bines play­er toy pianos, played with a score gen­er­at­ed by bird flock videos cap­tured dur­ing Suzuki’s trav­els, while light sen­sors cap­ture bird shad­ows and con­vert them into key­strokes, mim­ic­k­ing an old trans­mis­sion sys­tem. CLOS­ING AUGUST 20, 2023

Ursu­la Endlich­er: Cus­tom HTML Plant Tags (and Input Field rever­sal #3) is a dig­i­tal image series acces­si­ble through an Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty expe­ri­ence by scan­ning the bark of trees, read­ing their struc­ture as ​“nat­ur­al” QR code. Vis­i­tors, with their cell­phone and AR app in hand, take a stroll around the island to trea­sure hunt dig­i­tal files ​“embed­ded” with­in nat­ur­al trees.

Woody Sul­len­der: Duo Mez­zo (Inver­sion) is a site-spe­cif­ic instal­la­tion and vir­tu­al music per­for­mance, utl­iz­ing Unre­al Engine to cre­ate a dig­i­tal repli­ca of the space, pro­ject­ing it with­in the phys­i­cal room. Through motion track­ing, the vis­i­tors’ pres­ence is dou­bled into the vir­tu­al space, allow­ing them to expe­ri­ence a ban­jo music per­for­mance with Sullender’s own avatar as both a real and vir­tu­al audience.

Emmett Palaima: Cathe­dral-64 is an immer­sive audio instal­la­tion and instru­ment where 64 indi­vid­u­al­ly con­trolled speak­ers cre­ate a three-dimen­sion­al sound expe­ri­ence, allow­ing for ongo­ing com­po­si­tion­al exper­i­men­ta­tion. The piece focus­es on explor­ing the musi­cal and psy­choa­coustic pos­si­bil­i­ties with­in the space. 

Bob Bielec­ki and David Behrman: Spin­drifter uti­lizes Bielecki’s inno­v­a­tive 48-chan­nel micro­phone and mul­ti­chan­nel play­back sys­tem to cap­ture detailed acoustic prop­er­ties of nat­ur­al envi­ron­ments and cre­ate an immer­sive audio expe­ri­ence. Com­bined with Behrman’s music pas­sages, the instal­la­tion envelops vis­i­tors in a nat­ur­al sound envi­ron­ment, evok­ing the sen­sa­tion of being out­doors. CLOS­ING AUGUST 20

OPEN­ING SEP­TEM­BER 1, 2023

Stephanie Rothen­berg and Suzanne Thor­pe Tend­ing Ostrei­dae: Ser­e­nades for Set­tling (Ver­sion 1) is a mul­ti­me­dia instal­la­tion focused on the lis­ten­ing body of the hero­ic oys­ter. A water fil­ter, sea lev­el mit­i­ga­tor and food source, the oys­ter is a vital mem­ber of our ecosys­tem that sens­es safe set­tle­ment habi­tats through sound.

Michelle Jaffe, David Reed­er and Phil Edel­stein LocaleS3 is a project that explores sound per­cep­tion with mul­ti­ple spa­tial and kinet­ic inter­ac­tions like move­ments, loca­tions, direc­tions, and inte­grates virtual/​physical sound objects. Mul­ti­ple hardware/​software explo­rations will be includ­ed in the project in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Nous­Dig­i­tal Nous­Son­ic sys­tem to local­ize the audience.

Efrain Rozas Myth and Pros­the­sis I: Do Robots Have Cul­ture? Eight robot­ic ​“per­cus­sion­ists” impro­vis­ing simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, as in Latin Amer­i­can rhyth­mic impro­vi­sa­tion. Part of the series ​“Myth and Pros­the­sis”. ​“Myth” being the cul­tur­al ideals that inform the cre­ation of tech­nol­o­gy. Pros­the­ses are the merg­ing of bod­ies with technology. 

Artist Pre­sen­ta­tions

Sat­ur­day August 19, 2023 from 1 – 4 pm. ​“What is the Shape of Water?” A cross-species med­i­ta­tion by Lisa Moren with Dr. Tsve­tan Bachvaroff.

Sat­ur­day August 19, 2023 from 1 – 4 Women’s Labor: Rheo­stat Rotary Rack OUT­DOORS. A mid-20^th cen­tu­ry umbrel­la-style rotary dry­er embed­ded with a rotary encoder and poten­tiome­ters, per­formed by hang­ing cloth­ing on its strings, rotat­ing it by hand or by wind.

Har­vest­works is one of the 2023 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Residence