Creative Tech Week 2017

This event is the final thesis exhibition of NYIT's MFA Program. This year’s show, called “Visionaries,” is represented by a collection of final student thesis projects that focus on graphic design, fine arts & technology, virtual reality, animation, and in some cases these artistic mediums connect with each other. These pieces represent the development, production and hard work of a 2-year process.

This event will be open to the public throughout the time of Creative Tech Week, during gallery hours. On May 20th, 2017 some student representation will be there during lunch break and throughout the day to answer questions about their work and the exhibition.

Exhibition: May 4-25, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 4, 6-8 p.m.

NYIT-Manhattan 
Gallery 61
16 W. 61st St., 11th Floor
New York, NY

Viewing Hours: Monday – Saturday 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Professor - Christine Kerigan

For additional information, email ckerigan@nyit.edu, or call 212.261.1717.

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Schedule: Wednesday, May 10th and Thursday, May 11th  3-6pm

Where: CUNY New York City College of Technology, Voorhees Gallery, 186 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11201

About:
The Emerging Media Technology Spring Show 2017 presents student work in Augmented and Virtual reality, Scientific Visualization, Software synthesizer design, and interactive installation.  Some highlights include the following:

 

The SweetSpot is a transmedia experience that seeks to examine new meanings about relationships, cultural identity and family among millennials of color in Los Angeles who find that at 30 they’re trapped in an extended adolescence, where shifting generational expectations, student loans and underemployment have altered their plans for adulthood. Emerging Media students, under the direction of professor Heidi Boisvert, collaborated in a transmedia project by Director & Producer, Kimberly Bautista.

 

The Pressing Game is a graph theoretical game that can be played on mobile or PC platforms. Led by professor Adam Wilson, The Pressing game is an tool for exploring mathematical conjectures that have applications in computational phylogenetics and other areas of scientific inquiry.

 

Audio Odyssey is an immersive interactive installation, created by Tamanda Msosa, where visitors can control sound and geometry based on the position of their fingers. 

 

Schedule: Wednesday, May 10th and Thursday, May 11th  3-6pm

Where: CUNY New York City College of Technology, Voorhees Gallery, 186 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11201

About:
The Emerging Media Technology Spring Show 2017 presents student work in Augmented and Virtual reality, Scientific Visualization, Software synthesizer design, and interactive installation.  Some highlights include the following:

 

The SweetSpot is a transmedia experience that seeks to examine new meanings about relationships, cultural identity and family among millennials of color in Los Angeles who find that at 30 they’re trapped in an extended adolescence, where shifting generational expectations, student loans and underemployment have altered their plans for adulthood. Emerging Media students, under the direction of professor Heidi Boisvert, collaborated in a transmedia project by Director & Producer, Kimberly Bautista.

 

The Pressing Game is a graph theoretical game that can be played on mobile or PC platforms. Led by professor Adam Wilson, The Pressing game is an tool for exploring mathematical conjectures that have applications in computational phylogenetics and other areas of scientific inquiry.

 

Audio Odyssey is an immersive interactive installation, created by Tamanda Msosa, where visitors can control sound and geometry based on the position of their fingers. 

 

A Groundbreaking New Exhibition of Tech Art, Maker Workshops and Electronic Music Performances

On Friday and Saturday May 12-13, the computer art departments of ten area universities will be united for the first time ever in New York City. 

Stronger Together, a joint art exhibition featuring software and electronic art by CTW partner university faculty and alumni, also includes a selection of electronic music performances and free Maker workshops teaching 3D printing and modeling, DIY electronics assembly, generative graphics, Arduino and Raspberry Pi (be sure to reserve your free spot).   The exhibit celebrates the explosion of technology onto the global art and music scene and highlights the leaders at our educational epicenters for technological innovation in the arts.

Come experience the work of artists and educators who are driving forces in guiding and facilitating the next generation of innovators in technological arts, as we uncover intersections in aesthetic and conceptual inquiries across academic programs at ten area universities.  The exhibition includes art installations incorporating a wide range of technologies and media including Virtual Reality; Augmented Reality; 3D printing; CNC router milling; custom or recycled electronics; custom software; the Internet; custom video game consoles and joysticks; photo manipulation; data visualizations; drone video; algorithms; speech synthesis; and tablets, smartphones, flat screens, projectors, computers, microphones, sensors and speakers. 

Produced by Leaders in Software and Art (LISA) for Creative Tech Week in conjunction with Exhibition Director Akaash Mehta, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Plan 23, Columbia University, CUNY and the Lady Tech Guild.  Organizers include Isabel Draves, President of Creative Tech Week and Founder of LISA; Carol Parkinson, Director of Harvestworks; Wolfgang von Stuermer (aka WvS), Representative of Plan 23; and Michael Merck, Co-Director of the Knockdown Center. 

Free admission and creative technology workshops Saturday, May 13 12-7pm

On Saturday May 13th, the exhibition is free and open to the public from noon to 7 pm. Visitors can receive free advice and instruction on 3D scanning and modeling and 3D printing. Visitors can also participate in Maker workshops on Raspberry Pi, Arduino, generative art, and building radios from recycled electronics (a materials fee and advance registration is required for the workshops, see ctw.nyc for details).

Performances – Friday, May 12 (Exhibition Preview) 5-11pm and Saturday, May 13, 7-11pm

Tickets $15 advance, $20 at the door / $25 two-night tickets available

The evening programs features performances by Pamela Z, Jimmy Joe Roche and Lance Garett and Long Distance Poison on Friday and SMOMID, Raphaele Shirley and Plan 23 on Saturday.

A NYCxDESIGN EVENT, A CELEBRATION OF GLOBAL DESIGN

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Installations by:           

​Yes Boss

 Gabriel Pulecio / Lustix

and

"CLOUD NINE: BACK TO WORK" 

A World Premiere NOVOreality Experience

 

Panel Discussion:

Jordan Harvey (Founder)– NOVOreality

Kathryn Henderson (Executive Producer) – Yes Boss

Michael Reed (Sr. Research Associate)– Blue Sky Studios

Jen Vitale (Executive Producer) - Experiential

Christopher Wolfgang Mauch (Director) - NOVOreality         

David Porras (Executive Producer) -Moderator

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In our radically changing media landscape, storytellers are struggling with a basic question, “where is storytelling going?” The answer lies in design and technology, the key elements in reaching new audiences in innovative and engaging ways.

Join us for an evening in which we will explore the future of storytelling where design, innovation and technology are at the forefront. We will discuss and demonstrate new emerging platforms, and share design centric experiences in the areas of virtual reality, animation, digital art, film and experiential.  It’s a world seen through the eyes of some of Brooklyn’s most innovative storytellers. We invite you to venture deep into the heart of Brooklyn for an experience that will be part installation, part discussion and definitely a party.

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AFTER PARTY 

DJ SETS BY: 

DJ Raymo

DJ Siyoung


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Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and Sat/Sun by appointment
Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6.30pm

Harvestworks is pleased to present “I Touch You And You Touch Me,” a solo exhibition of work by Jeff Thompson. In 2016, Thompson was invited to be artist-in-residence at Bell Labs, famous for their collaborations with artists under the umbrella of Experiments in Art & Technology. Working embedded in the context of Bell Labs’ engineers, Thompson created several large-scale works that are on view for this exhibition. Thompson’s work puts forward conceptual and poetic possibilities for giving agency to increasingly self-aware technological systems. “I Touch You and You Touch Me” is a robotic sculpture trained through a machine learning system to touch viewers the way the artist touches his phone, hallucinating new movements based on its understanding of previous interactions. Other works include several large panels mapping the exact physical location of every byte on the artist’s hard-drive, a 12-foot hand-built inkjet printer that slowly copies a blank wall over the course of the exhibition, and a text that is transformed by a real-time wind sensor, “blowing” a sentence from Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the Next Millennium” through a 2D representation of the English language.

Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and May 20-21 Sat/Sun by appointment

Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6:30pm

Trio is a multiscreen installation of abstract digital images, each a visual echo of a distinct three-note chord from a string trio score by the first-generation minimalist composer Tom Johnson. Each of the notes in the 49-note musical scale are represented by a unique color and rectangular shape, known mathematically as straight polyominoes. Emerging from a dynamic spatial relation that couples the movement of the notes in the score to the direction of the shapes and the image transparency, the visual compositions of the Trio installation appear to be architectonic and malleable, one gently flowing into the next.

At once directly related to the music notation while operating in their own realm as a series of digital paintings, Galbraith’s installation continues a body of work exploring alternative relationships between sound and image enabled by his custom software that works across media boundaries to form a new audiovisual composition environment.

Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and Sat/Sun by appointment
Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6.30pm

Harvestworks is pleased to present “I Touch You And You Touch Me,” a solo exhibition of work by Jeff Thompson. In 2016, Thompson was invited to be artist-in-residence at Bell Labs, famous for their collaborations with artists under the umbrella of Experiments in Art & Technology. Working embedded in the context of Bell Labs’ engineers, Thompson created several large-scale works that are on view for this exhibition. Thompson’s work puts forward conceptual and poetic possibilities for giving agency to increasingly self-aware technological systems. “I Touch You and You Touch Me” is a robotic sculpture trained through a machine learning system to touch viewers the way the artist touches his phone, hallucinating new movements based on its understanding of previous interactions. Other works include several large panels mapping the exact physical location of every byte on the artist’s hard-drive, a 12-foot hand-built inkjet printer that slowly copies a blank wall over the course of the exhibition, and a text that is transformed by a real-time wind sensor, “blowing” a sentence from Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the Next Millennium” through a 2D representation of the English language.

Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and May 20-21 Sat/Sun by appointment

Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6:30pm

Trio is a multiscreen installation of abstract digital images, each a visual echo of a distinct three-note chord from a string trio score by the first-generation minimalist composer Tom Johnson. Each of the notes in the 49-note musical scale are represented by a unique color and rectangular shape, known mathematically as straight polyominoes. Emerging from a dynamic spatial relation that couples the movement of the notes in the score to the direction of the shapes and the image transparency, the visual compositions of the Trio installation appear to be architectonic and malleable, one gently flowing into the next.

At once directly related to the music notation while operating in their own realm as a series of digital paintings, Galbraith’s installation continues a body of work exploring alternative relationships between sound and image enabled by his custom software that works across media boundaries to form a new audiovisual composition environment.

Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and Sat/Sun by appointment
Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6.30pm

Harvestworks is pleased to present “I Touch You And You Touch Me,” a solo exhibition of work by Jeff Thompson. In 2016, Thompson was invited to be artist-in-residence at Bell Labs, famous for their collaborations with artists under the umbrella of Experiments in Art & Technology. Working embedded in the context of Bell Labs’ engineers, Thompson created several large-scale works that are on view for this exhibition. Thompson’s work puts forward conceptual and poetic possibilities for giving agency to increasingly self-aware technological systems. “I Touch You and You Touch Me” is a robotic sculpture trained through a machine learning system to touch viewers the way the artist touches his phone, hallucinating new movements based on its understanding of previous interactions. Other works include several large panels mapping the exact physical location of every byte on the artist’s hard-drive, a 12-foot hand-built inkjet printer that slowly copies a blank wall over the course of the exhibition, and a text that is transformed by a real-time wind sensor, “blowing” a sentence from Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the Next Millennium” through a 2D representation of the English language.

Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and May 20-21 Sat/Sun by appointment

Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6:30pm

Trio is a multiscreen installation of abstract digital images, each a visual echo of a distinct three-note chord from a string trio score by the first-generation minimalist composer Tom Johnson. Each of the notes in the 49-note musical scale are represented by a unique color and rectangular shape, known mathematically as straight polyominoes. Emerging from a dynamic spatial relation that couples the movement of the notes in the score to the direction of the shapes and the image transparency, the visual compositions of the Trio installation appear to be architectonic and malleable, one gently flowing into the next.

At once directly related to the music notation while operating in their own realm as a series of digital paintings, Galbraith’s installation continues a body of work exploring alternative relationships between sound and image enabled by his custom software that works across media boundaries to form a new audiovisual composition environment.

Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and May 20-21 Sat/Sun by appointment

Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6:30pm

David Galbraith
Trio is a multiscreen installation of abstract digital images, each a visual echo of a distinct three-note chord from a string trio score by the first-generation minimalist composer Tom Johnson. Each of the notes in the 49-note musical scale are represented by a unique color and rectangular shape, known mathematically as straight polyominoes. Emerging from a dynamic spatial relation that couples the movement of the notes in the score to the direction of the shapes and the image transparency, the visual compositions of the Trio installation appear to be architectonic and malleable, one gently flowing into the next.

At once directly related to the music notation while operating in their own realm as a series of digital paintings, Galbraith’s installation continues a body of work exploring alternative relationships between sound and image enabled by his custom software that works across media boundaries to form a new audiovisual composition environment.


Jeff Thompson
Harvestworks is pleased to present “I Touch You And You Touch Me,” a solo exhibition of work by Jeff Thompson. In 2016, Thompson was invited to be artist-in-residence at Bell Labs, famous for their collaborations with artists under the umbrella of Experiments in Art & Technology. Working embedded in the context of Bell Labs’ engineers, Thompson created several large-scale works that are on view for this exhibition. Thompson’s work puts forward conceptual and poetic possibilities for giving agency to increasingly self-aware technological systems. “I Touch You and You Touch Me” is a robotic sculpture trained through a machine learning system to touch viewers the way the artist touches his phone, hallucinating new movements based on its understanding of previous interactions. Other works include several large panels mapping the exact physical location of every byte on the artist’s hard-drive, a 12-foot hand-built inkjet printer that slowly copies a blank wall over the course of the exhibition, and a text that is transformed by a real-time wind sensor, “blowing” a sentence from Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the Next Millennium” through a 2D representation of the English language. 

At Looking Glass, we're chasing the cinema dream of the hologram. This is a call for all artists, makers, coders, Star Wars lovers, and nerds of the world to come by for *Playtest Party: Hologram Hour* at our beloved lab space in Greenpoint. We've made a discovery or two these past few months and want to share them with you over a drink. Or two. Or 3, 4, 5! This will be a prototype-laden shindig where we share some new wonders (along with failed experiments) reaching towards the dream of the hologram THE FUTURE AWAITS!

Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and Sat/Sun by appointment
Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6.30pm

Harvestworks is pleased to present “I Touch You And You Touch Me,” a solo exhibition of work by Jeff Thompson. In 2016, Thompson was invited to be artist-in-residence at Bell Labs, famous for their collaborations with artists under the umbrella of Experiments in Art & Technology. Working embedded in the context of Bell Labs’ engineers, Thompson created several large-scale works that are on view for this exhibition. Thompson’s work puts forward conceptual and poetic possibilities for giving agency to increasingly self-aware technological systems. “I Touch You and You Touch Me” is a robotic sculpture trained through a machine learning system to touch viewers the way the artist touches his phone, hallucinating new movements based on its understanding of previous interactions. Other works include several large panels mapping the exact physical location of every byte on the artist’s hard-drive, a 12-foot hand-built inkjet printer that slowly copies a blank wall over the course of the exhibition, and a text that is transformed by a real-time wind sensor, “blowing” a sentence from Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the Next Millennium” through a 2D representation of the English language.

Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and May 20-21 Sat/Sun by appointment

Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6:30pm

Trio is a multiscreen installation of abstract digital images, each a visual echo of a distinct three-note chord from a string trio score by the first-generation minimalist composer Tom Johnson. Each of the notes in the 49-note musical scale are represented by a unique color and rectangular shape, known mathematically as straight polyominoes. Emerging from a dynamic spatial relation that couples the movement of the notes in the score to the direction of the shapes and the image transparency, the visual compositions of the Trio installation appear to be architectonic and malleable, one gently flowing into the next.

At once directly related to the music notation while operating in their own realm as a series of digital paintings, Galbraith’s installation continues a body of work exploring alternative relationships between sound and image enabled by his custom software that works across media boundaries to form a new audiovisual composition environment.

Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and Sat/Sun by appointment
Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6.30pm

Harvestworks is pleased to present “I Touch You And You Touch Me,” a solo exhibition of work by Jeff Thompson. In 2016, Thompson was invited to be artist-in-residence at Bell Labs, famous for their collaborations with artists under the umbrella of Experiments in Art & Technology. Working embedded in the context of Bell Labs’ engineers, Thompson created several large-scale works that are on view for this exhibition. Thompson’s work puts forward conceptual and poetic possibilities for giving agency to increasingly self-aware technological systems. “I Touch You and You Touch Me” is a robotic sculpture trained through a machine learning system to touch viewers the way the artist touches his phone, hallucinating new movements based on its understanding of previous interactions. Other works include several large panels mapping the exact physical location of every byte on the artist’s hard-drive, a 12-foot hand-built inkjet printer that slowly copies a blank wall over the course of the exhibition, and a text that is transformed by a real-time wind sensor, “blowing” a sentence from Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the Next Millennium” through a 2D representation of the English language.

Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and May 20-21 Sat/Sun by appointment

Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6:30pm

Trio is a multiscreen installation of abstract digital images, each a visual echo of a distinct three-note chord from a string trio score by the first-generation minimalist composer Tom Johnson. Each of the notes in the 49-note musical scale are represented by a unique color and rectangular shape, known mathematically as straight polyominoes. Emerging from a dynamic spatial relation that couples the movement of the notes in the score to the direction of the shapes and the image transparency, the visual compositions of the Trio installation appear to be architectonic and malleable, one gently flowing into the next.

At once directly related to the music notation while operating in their own realm as a series of digital paintings, Galbraith’s installation continues a body of work exploring alternative relationships between sound and image enabled by his custom software that works across media boundaries to form a new audiovisual composition environment.

The first in a new series of projection mapped artworks commissioned by the Brooklyn Public Library, The Brooklyn Gaze will transform the facade of the Brooklyn Library into an immersive, animated canvas, and the library plaza into an arena of animated conversation. BPL Presents, in collaboration with visual artists Mark Read and Jeanne Angel, have produced a unique, original piece that aims to spark critical community dialogue on the most pressing social and political issues of our time. 

This first edition of the Brooklyn Gaze: Erasure and Revelation will be a multimedia event that you won't want to miss. In addition to live video projections, the audience will be treated to a musical performance by Brooklyn-based band Les Nubians. 

Les Nubians is an Afropean, Urban, R&B Grammy-nominated duo composed of sisters Hélène and Célia Faussart from Paris France. Their sound is an innovative mix of hip hop, neo soul and African music. To critical acclaim, the duo's debut album Princesses Nubiennes was released by Virgin Records, France, in 1998. In 2011, they released Nü Revolution.

Erasure and Revelation will amplify and electrify the thoughts of such diverse and essential thinkers as Martin Luther King Jr., Black Elk, W.E.B. Du Bois, Hannah Arendt and Sojourner Truth. By sharing their enduring eloquence in public, and revealing the urgent questions hidden within their most famous writings, Erasure and Revelation will activate the archive of wisdom that is the Public Library System.

Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and Sat/Sun by appointment
Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6.30pm

Harvestworks is pleased to present “I Touch You And You Touch Me,” a solo exhibition of work by Jeff Thompson. In 2016, Thompson was invited to be artist-in-residence at Bell Labs, famous for their collaborations with artists under the umbrella of Experiments in Art & Technology. Working embedded in the context of Bell Labs’ engineers, Thompson created several large-scale works that are on view for this exhibition. Thompson’s work puts forward conceptual and poetic possibilities for giving agency to increasingly self-aware technological systems. “I Touch You and You Touch Me” is a robotic sculpture trained through a machine learning system to touch viewers the way the artist touches his phone, hallucinating new movements based on its understanding of previous interactions. Other works include several large panels mapping the exact physical location of every byte on the artist’s hard-drive, a 12-foot hand-built inkjet printer that slowly copies a blank wall over the course of the exhibition, and a text that is transformed by a real-time wind sensor, “blowing” a sentence from Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the Next Millennium” through a 2D representation of the English language.

Hours: May 14–19th, 12–6pm and May 20-21 Sat/Sun by appointment

Opening reception: Tuesday, May 16th at 6:30pm

Trio is a multiscreen installation of abstract digital images, each a visual echo of a distinct three-note chord from a string trio score by the first-generation minimalist composer Tom Johnson. Each of the notes in the 49-note musical scale are represented by a unique color and rectangular shape, known mathematically as straight polyominoes. Emerging from a dynamic spatial relation that couples the movement of the notes in the score to the direction of the shapes and the image transparency, the visual compositions of the Trio installation appear to be architectonic and malleable, one gently flowing into the next.

At once directly related to the music notation while operating in their own realm as a series of digital paintings, Galbraith’s installation continues a body of work exploring alternative relationships between sound and image enabled by his custom software that works across media boundaries to form a new audiovisual composition environment.

Join us at Bar Thalia for cocktails alongside a late-night DJ set with Rahzel.

Two-time Grammy Award-winning Vocal Percussionist Rahzel has mastered, then re-defined, the art of beatboxing in the new millennium, emerging as a true virtuoso in this quintessential musical art form. Rahzel is most popularly known as member emeritus of hip hop's cutting edge live band, The Roots, but has lent his talents to musical artists of all genres.

Known for his ability to sing or rap while simultaneously beatboxing, as evidenced in his performances of "Iron Man" and his signature song "If Your Mother Only Knew", his talents are showcased in various solo projects as well as on Ben Harper's 2000 single, "Steal My Kisses." He also provided his own voice on video games SSX and SSX Tricky.

A highly sought after vocalist, Rahzel has collaborated by touring, recording, producing, writing or performing with such artist as Angelique Kidjo, Beastie Boys, Beck, Ben Harper, Bjork, Bobby McFerrin, Boosty Collins, Brandford Marsalis, Christina Aguilera, Common, Cee Lo Green, Dave Chapelle, Erykah Badu, Everlast, Faith no More, John Legend, Lou Reed, Michelle N'Degeocello, Mike Patton, Maroon 5, Mix Master Mike, Methods of Mayhem, Nona Hendrix, Norah Jones, Patti Smith, Phillip Glass, Sean Paul, Snoop Dogg, The Roots, Toots and the Maytals, The Crystal Method, and The Who. 

Part of the Martha Mooke and Rahzel Residency

FREE EVENT!

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This event will be open to the public throughout the time of Creative Tech Week, during gallery hours. On May 20th, 2017 some student representation will be there during lunch break and throughout the day to answer questions about their work and the exhibition.

This event is the final thesis exhibition of NYIT's MFA Program. This year’s show, called “Visionaries,” is represented by a collection of final student thesis projects that focus on graphic design, fine arts & technology, virtual reality, animation, and in some cases these artistic mediums connect with each other. These pieces represent the development, production and hard work of a 2-year process.

Exhibition: May 4-25, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 4, 6-8 p.m.

NYIT-Manhattan 
Gallery 61
16 W. 61st St., 11th Floor
New York, NY

Viewing Hours: Monday – Saturday 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Professor - Christine Kerigan

For additional information, email ckerigan@nyit.edu, or call 212.261.1717.

More info here