As part of the Not Spring, Not Winter (2012) exhibition, a group of live performances by students from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts.

The ThereminOrchestra
Artist: Mercedes Blasco
Description: Three voices piece controlled by Theremin sensors followed by an electroacustic improvisation.

Sound Affects
Artist: Jack Kalish, performing with Ivana Basic
Description: Sound Affects is a musical interface that extracts, analyzes, amplifies, and sonifies the affective states of the user. Emotional expression becomes a soundscape.

The Human Repeater
Artist: Gabriella Levine
Description: The Human Repeater is an audiovisual performance that translates textual data into sound and light. It deals with the consequences of information lost in translation.

Incompossible Places
Artist: Catherine McCurry
Description: Incompossible Places is a live performance about a woman who discovers a method for separating herself in space through breath holding.

Oregon Painting Society will play a mystical costumed jam session as part of their new work Floor Game (2012) at the exhibition’s opening reception on March 15 and during the gallery’s open hours on March 16. Continue reading →

Brody Condon’s performance piece Lawful Evil (2007) will be staged at the opening reception on March 15 and during the gallery’s open hours on March 17 and 24. Continue reading →

Mark your calendar for a live-streaming gallery tour of the “Big Reality” exhibition. This tour with curator Brian Droitcour offers online audiences the opportunity to view and ask questions about the exhibition. Just tweet @319Scholes with the hashtag #bigR.

Indeterminate Hikes+ is a mobile phone app that transforms everyday landscapes into sites of bio-cultural diversity and wild happenings, and the bascamp.exe installation psychically prepares hikers for IH+ wilderness excursions. Continue reading →

Code of Contingency tackles numerous seemingly related and yet unrelated topics:
failure, programming, sound, action-oriented learning, oral/aural cultures, quantum
mechanics, and critical pedagogy to name a few…. Continue reading →

I, Bacteria explores the system of the body through data sonification. Bacteria are an
integral agent necessary for our body, our system, to function. What happens when we
choose to play with that system? Continue reading →

Matt Lewis will explore composition in relation to media ecology, with a focus on local
data sonification and multi-channel diffusion. Participants will devise strategies for
creating an audio installation, incorporating field-recording and learning aleatoric,
process and generative compositional techniques. Continue reading →

Tom Richards makes a conscious choice to reference the visual vocabulary of past
technologies, and in so doing, satirically comments on the present zeitgeist of gadgetry.
Said zeitgeist was in its infancy when Erkki Kurenniemi was developing his practice and
DIMI instrument series, which has since influenced artists, musicians, and
scientists alike. Continue reading →