Art Hack Day is an event dedicated to cracking open the process of art making, with special reverence toward open-source technologies. Between January 26-28, artists and collaborators will inhabit 319 Scholes to create and explore the participatory nature of technology, bringing together hackers whose medium is art and artists whose medium is technology.

The NYC Patching Circle is a monthly meetup for patchers to come together. Weather you work with or on Pd, Max/MSP/Jitter, VVVV, Eyesweb, Labview, Touchdesigner, Grasshopper, etc. or even if you have never tried before, the Patching Circle is a place to share and ask questions. Beginners and experienced patchers are welcome. Work on personal projects, professional projects, [...]

Modular Synthesizer Edition Leisure is a bi-monthly social exchange at 319 Scholes involving music & visual performances. December, December 10, 8pm $10 at the door. Artists: Keith Fullerton Whitman Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer/performer obsessed with electronic music; from its mid-century origins in Europe through its contemporary worldwide incarnation as “digital music.” Ben Vida [...]

The NYC Patching Circle is a monthly meetup for patchers to come together. Weather you work with or on Pd, Max/MSP/Jitter, VVVV, Eyesweb, Labview, Touchdesigner, Grasshopper, etc. or even if you have never tried before, the Patching Circle is a place to share and ask questions. Beginners and experienced patchers are welcome. Work on personal projects, professional projects, [...]

Anomalous Warmth showcases experimental music from some of the most forward-thinking performers. Running the gamut from free-jazz to prog-rock, the series aims to assemble disparate lineups that share the common thread of improvisation and sonic innovation. Saturday, November 26, 8pm $10 at the door. Den Svarta Fanan Drawing from the playing field of no-wave, hardcore [...]

Notes on a New Nature is a physical manifestation of an ongoing research project conducted by artist, writer, and curator Nicholas O’Brien. The research critically examines and compares the relationships that contemporary artists working with digital media have to practices started in Modernist Painting – specifically the pursuit of capturing the virtual qualities of what constitutes a landscape. How does an artist depict a space faithfully enough to show its affect on a subject? Can art capture the space between the viewer and the horizon, and where does that horizon reside now that we can digitally circumnavigate the globe? Can the digital reconcile the physical?

In “The Three Ecologies,” Félix Guattari proposes strategies for an eco-logic and ethico-aesthetic. In grammar, ‘correlative’ implies a (non-adjacent) reciprocal or complimentary relationship. Affixing the two, Ecologías Correlativas presents projects and research from a trans-disciplinary group of artists, architects and scientists navigating interrelated environmental/socio-political ecologies.

Leisure is a monthly social exchange at 319 Scholes involving music & visual performances. Saturday, October 8, 8pm $10 at the door. Artists: toktek (NL) vs. Simon Berz (CH) http://toktek.org/Site/toktek.html http://www.simonberz.ch/index.php?/work/rocking-desk/ toktek (NL) vs. Simon Berz (CH) toktek (Holland) and Simon Berz (Switzerland) battle it out in supercharged music sessions. Playing their self-made electronic instruments/interfaces, [...]

How has the (contested) term ‘ecology’ mutated over past decades? If we cannot separate nature from culture, what is the role of subjectivity in the ‘ecological’? Where are opportunities to reconfigure social models with technology? How does one reconcile the space between a screen and a landscape? What can the natural world tell us about [...]

monthly series of experimental sound + vision inaugural performance: Friday, September 9 2011 • 8pm-1am $10 cover featuring: BASSOON: http://www.popejoy.org/bassoon SPLIT RED: http://www.myspace.com/splitredmusic STATS: http://www.myspace.com/statsbrooklyn INZINZAC: http://www.inzinzac.com/ live visuals by COSMIC MORNING: http://www.no-carrier.com/ installation by Genesis Residents Jody Wood & Mikel Bisbee-Durlam