Surround Sound Works
interactive sound and video
installation
Harvestworks, a non-profit arts organization that provides
opportunities for the public to see and hear innovative artists,
presents Workspace Projects 2005, an exhibition that explores
the intersection of art and technology. The interactive sound
and video installation presents new works by 15 US artists
who explore the potential of digital video and 5.1 surround
sound.
Coming especially for the event in Sofia is Carol Parkinson
- the director of Harvestworks who will open the exhibition.
The exhibition Workspace Projects 2005 is part of the Out
of Context project – a collaborative initiative by InterSpace
Media Art Center, Sofia and Harvestworks Digital Art Center,
New York, which includes series of workshops, presentations,
and performances in the field of sound art and digital video.
The project had the support of CEC Artslink, New York and
the Embassy of the USA in Bulgaria.
On the opening day, in the Red hall at 6.00 p.m. Galia Dimitrova
from InterSpace Media Art Center and Carol Parkinson from
Harvestworks Digital Art Center will present the events of
the Out of Context project and Net_User_3 international conference
that took place in August 2005 on St. Anastasia island, near
Bourgas. The talk will be followed by a screening of the documentary
film about the events on the island.
Workspace Projects 2005 will present
continuous works by the following artists:
Surround Sound Audio Works
Marina Rosenfeld - Cephissus Landscape: commissioned by Creative
Time. A reference to the acoustical properties of the glass-and-marble
architecture of the Winter Garden atrium.
Shelley Hirsch - Stop Scratchin. That Gash: a sound installation
of collective reminiscenses so visceral they seem almost visual.
Chris Mann - The Plato Songs: early models of conversation
theory, the cybernetics of The Dialogues.
Stephen Vitiello - In the High and Highest Places: a mix of
field recordings from the Brazilian Amazon & New York.
Dafna Naphtali - Weezer: a live performance “playing” 16 speakers
w/ a keyboard interface.
Hans Tammen and the LEMUR GuitarBots: ‘Balance of Power”:
a multi-channel composition for the League of Musical Urban
Robots using feedback loops and digital processing.
David Behrman - Useful Information: a new work built around
a transcription of a radio broadcast from WBAI during the
week of the RNC convention in New York in the summer of 2004.
Featuring performances by Joan LaBarbara, Hans Tammen and
Peter Zummo with electronically processed sound.
Michelle Nagai - Excerpt from MOVING OFF CENTER: a sound collage
of Skidmore College from an elevator and around campus.
Matthew Ostrowski – Insomnia, a multi-channel tape piece presented
at Diapason Gallery, New York City, November 2003 and developed
at Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain.
Surround Sound Video Works
Melanie Patiram (video) and Phoenecia (audio) – Cyclic Redundancy:
the music spontaneously synchronizes itself with it’s visual
counterpart.
Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons - Stop Motion: combines Hamlet’s
first monologue w/ footage of N.J.’s Garden State Parkway.
Josely Caravalho - Book of Roofs: interactive virtual perspectives
on “shelter”.
Abigail Child - Blonde Fur: the first part of a series of
digital projections that excavate in the legacy of home movie
and post-war American suburban culture.
Wago Kreider - Marvelous Creatures: photographic shocks flashing
images of the fixed-explosive.
Ursula Scherrer and Michael Schumacher - London Heathrow:
an abstract portrait of Heathrow Airport.
About Harvestworks
Founded in 1977 to cultivate artistic talent using electronic
technologies, Harvestworks' mission is to encourage the creation
and expand the dissemination of digital media artwork. From
its central SOHO location and through its Internet presence
Harvestworks provides accessible and coordinated digital media
production, education, information and content distribution
services to a diverse creative community that includes electronic
music composers, interactive media designers, film and video
makers, digital tool developers and computer programmers.
By bringing together innovative practitioners from all branches
of the digital arts, Harvestworks provides a vital context
and catalyst for creativity in the digital arts.
Thanks to Don Bassey at NHT Pro Audio for equipment support.
NHT, Inc. 6400 Goodyear Road Benicia, CA 94510 1-800-648-9993.
About Interspace
InterSpace is a non-profit association established in 1998
in Sofia which currently involves 32 artists, curators, designers,
software developers, and technical experts. InterSpace mission
is to promote and develop the use of new media and technologies
in the arts, culture and social sphere. Through the years
InterSpace has worked on establishment of CULT.BG Server for
Arts and Culture that still maintain and support, production
and co-production of individual and group art projects, organization
of events in the field of arts and culture, consultation and
training in the use of free and open source software and development
of software applications with open source for the needs in
the field that the organization works.
22 November (Tuesday), 7.00 p.m. – opening
22-30 November, every day between, 3.00-7.00 p.m., except
Sunday and Monday
Nameless hall
Free entrance
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