Shaping Experimental Arts @ Harvestworks NY 1982-2025
Carol Parkinson, Executive Director of Harvestworks, NY, for 37 years since 1987, has focused on the development of experimental artworks that explore sound, data, and other emerging technologies. Parkinson’s professional services include panel participation at the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Parkinson is the Executive Producer of the New York Electronic Art Festival, a series of workshops, concert performances, and exhibitions centered on art and technology. Parkinson is a founding member of TELLUS, the Audio Cassette Magazine, a cassette–based magazine of experimental music and sound art published between 1982 and 1996.
In her talk, Shaping the Experimental Media Arts in New York City, former Executive Director and current Board Member Carol Parkinson will discuss works from artists in the collection, including Blue Morph by Victoria Vesna in the New York Electronic Art Festival (2011), Alan Rath in The Interactive Show (1992), and Christian Marclay in SoundWave NYC (1987), as well as a few current exhibitions.
Following the talk,
Carol will be joined by special guests: PAUL GELUSO and IVANA DAMA
In this presentation, Beavers will discuss Nam June Paik’s Virtually Wise (1994), a work from the David Bermant Foundation Collection, and Anne Niemitz’s Kihikihi (2024), which was supported by a David Bermant Foundation grant. Drawing from these pieces, Isabel will explore how hybrid media, ecological awareness, and embodied experience can shape new frameworks for resilience and collective imagination.
Isabel Beavers (they/she) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles working at the intersections of new media, ecology, and collective action. Across artistic production, curatorial practice and teaching, their research challenges us to imagine adaptive climate futures–ones that rely on alternative modes of knowing as structures for living. Embodied and site-specific research are central to their practice through which they have explored Arctic sea ice melt, plant and human adaptation to wildfire in the American west, deep sea mining, the ethics of artificial intelligence, and eco-feminist re-imaginings of Western mythologies.
Beavers’ work on deep sea mining was recently included in Getty's 2024 PST Art + Science Collide as part of Transformative Currents: Art and Action in the Pacific Ocean. Beavers is the Artistic Director of Supercollider LA, and the Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow in STS at Harvey Mudd University. Through artistic practice, teaching, and curating, they foster communities of care and experimentation, inviting audiences to sense the unseen and imagine new eco-futures.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Gerfried Stocker, director of Ars Electronica (AE), and Victoria Vesna, artist, director of the UCLA Art Sci Center, and AE jury member, present a selection of prize-winning projects from AE and discuss how artistic strategies for responding to political and societal malfeasance have changed with the massive erosion of traditional media and information hierarchies. The question now is, What are the new avenues for artists working with media, and how can they play a role to offset attacks on truth and fact?
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UCLA CNSI Building (map attached)
RADICAL BIOTOPE is a presentation summarizing projects created by artists and scientists with the interdisciplinary organization MATZA over the past three years in three extreme environments affected by climate change. By tackling local issues such as the lack of water in California, melting glaciers in the Swiss Alps, or the depletion of fish in the Mediterranean Sea by Tunisia, MATZA seeks to initiate new ways of understanding the world around us. The knowledge generated by the participants, who share their skills, generates in its turn a potential solution to the challenges we face at large, whether ecological, social or political.
At the event, MATZA Director Séverin Guelpa and participating artist Mick Lorusso will speak about the projects that have come out of MATZA, how they relate to global ecologies, water issues, climate change, the reinvention of social systems.
Victoria Vesna will discuss how the UCLA Art|Sci Center has been addressing these global issues, especially through the recent exhibition Feminist Climate Change, at Ars Electronica 2017.
The Consulate General of Switzerland in Los Angeles is generously providing refreshments for the event.
Sunday, 30 July 2017 - 10:00am to Thursday, 3 August 2017 - 6:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
LEONARDO 50TH ANNIVERSARY
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Informal presentations, discussions, and demonstrations for people who share interests, goals, technologies, environments, or backgrounds. Birds of a Feather sessions are proposed by SIGGRAPH 2017 attendees. The sessions are free of charge, related to computer graphics or interactive techniques, and non-commercial in nature. Sessions are presented in the convention center, official conference hotels, and the ACM SIGGRAPH Theater. More info soon! http://s2017.siggraph.org/birds-feather
13th IASS-AIS World Congress of Semiotics
Moderated by Søren Brier and Carlos Vidales
Featuring Paul Cobley, Claudia Jacques, Zhou Liqian, Basarab Nicolescu.
VISUALIZING THE CYBERSEMIOTIC EXPERIENCE | CLAUDIA JACQUES
Advances in artificial intelligence and ubiquitous computing are expanding human-computer interaction (HCI) in everyday life turning phones, TVs, cars, etc., into computer interfaces. Such changes affect how humans perceive and interact with digital information. Cybersemiotic provides a powerful framework for comprehending and interpreting changes in human experience and consciousness wrought by the digital revolution. It achieves this by enabling an understanding of humans as complex adaptive systems; consequently, anything that involves or is involved with humans becomes an integral part of the system. Through a series of visual representations the experience of these exchanges is explored under the lens of the Cybersemiotic framework and balances human user, interface, and digital information as elements within an ever-changing system, demonstrating the manner in which a change in one element affects each and every other part of the system.
CLAUDIA JACQUES DE MORAES CARDOSO is a Brazilian-American interdisciplinary artist, designer, educator and researcher of space-time aesthetics in the user-information-interface relationship through the lens of Cybersemiotics. http://claudiajacques.com
ECO-CENTRIC ART + SCIENCE: Prophesies and Predictions is an open-mic marathon symposium featuring artist and author in residence Linda Weintraub, nanoscientist James Gimzewski, evolutionary biologist Charles Taylor, environmentalist and author Ursula Heise, curator Sophie Lamparter, nano-toxicologist Olivia Osborne, and media art graduate students David Ertel + Symrin Chawla.
Spring artist-in-residence and author, Linda Weintraub’s forthcoming book: “WHAT’S NEXT? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art” provides the opportunity for professors and students from multiple academic disciplines to share their predictions of the way ecology will impact the theory, practice, insight, re-evaluation, or revision in their discipline in the coming years.
Come whenever you can. Stay as long as you wish. Share your thoughts, too!
