VATICA DAHLIA: RITES

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Vatica Dahlia - Rites 
Opening August 30th, 7-11pm. Doors 7:00pm | Performances 7:30pm [SOLD OUT] & 9:30pm

"Ritual is the primary method of programming the human organism."

- Sam Webster

Much like creating a piece of software, a ritual is crafted procedurally and when compiled correctly, there are results based upon what constituted the contents of the procedure. Vatica Dahlia's Rites is a custom time-based system designed to port, compress, and obfuscate the Knowledge that has been handed down throughout the ages by the mages, sages, shamans, and initiates. Structured into ten distinct Chapters, each element utilizes a combination of networked performance, spatial sound, projection-mapped architecture, fashion, and ceremonial magic as a vehicle for transmutation and transmission. 

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Vatica Dahlia is artist, environmental systems designer, and a Magister of Ceremony. His work focuses largely on the various uses of ritual in reprogramming the human psyche. Vatica Dahlia's performances utilize signal processing, immersive media, Hermetic techne, and algorithmic design principles as a means of probing low-level aspects of the human constitution.

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Project Team:
Cullen Miller - Project Lead, Audio
Gabriel Dunne - Sculpture Design, Fabrication, Projection
Stephanie Sherriff - Production, Fabrication, Installation, Secret Weapon
Lara Grant - Fashion Design
Ryan Alexander - Table Design

Special thanks to:
Barry Threw
Mary Franck
Keith Pasko
Daniel Screen

Ted Hayes and Lindsey Case: Ophos.

TED HAYES AND LINDSEY CASE: OPHOS 
Special Event: April 27, 2013. 7pm - 10pm.  

Ophos comments on both the nature of our relationship to sound and sonic environments as well as our relationship to our planetary environment: Ophos is synthesized out of our plastic refuse: discarded bottles and containers coalesced into a new lifeform who we will briefly occupy.

Produced in collaboration with Lindsey Marcelle Case, chef, bakeress and food-writer.

Ted Hayes is a hacker-poet, conceiving objects and experiences that explore the sublime and the enigmatic through recombination, emergence and deconstruction. He is a proponent of what he has dubbed “Research Art,” or art as science experiment: a work driven by questions, but without obvious conclusions, that raises new questions while enveloping and engaging the audience. Ted’s works range from a group of language-inventing robots to a mythological city-founding ritual for soprano and string quartet, is a graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and is recently the recipient of a New Radio and Performing Arts commission. Ted has spoken on the subject of Research Art and Language Machines at TEDxGallatin, Crossing Arts Gallery and Dorkbot.

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Chris Jorden: Reflection on Impact

OPENING ON: February 1st FRIDAY, 7:00 - 11:00PM. ON VIEW THRU February 27th, 2013.

Chris Jordan: Reflection on Impact
OPENING ON: February 1st FRIDAY, 7:00 - 11:00PM.
ON VIEW THRU February 27th, 2013.

This mixed-media installation uses reflection and project to create a meditative environment for viewers to consider the impact of individual will on a system. Visitors are encouraged to toss a penny into a pond. The disruption of the coin toss on the water juxtaposes individual action against a neutral system at equilibrium. The playful nature of the installation, tossing a penny to make a wish, places individual desire in the context of both time and impact - ultimately the pool will return to the calm state in which it began absorbing desire with ambivalence. The video projection on to the pool of the viewer’s environment, NYC, toys with the double nature of the experience of life in the city. By positioning individual desire in the context of the vastness of the urban experiences, Jordan simplifies the conversation to its fundamental elements: water, light, time and money. Materials: projector, reflecting pond (wood, plastic, water), computer, bucket, pennies, 3d camera

Chris Jordan explores the medium of light, movement, and time through the use of technology. His installations have appeared at the Moma, The New Museum, The Whitney, The Museum of Natural History, The Chelsea Museum, Times Square, numerous galleries and clubs; and the incidental spaces in between. The common elements that define Chris’ work include explorations into memory, photography, film, interactivity, and projections. By examining the political and social implications technology has on us through a diversity of media, his work challenges the viewer to redefine perceptions of audience and performer, community and spectacle.

 Note: There are no images for this show. It must be seen live. 

Sprawl: Sougwen, David Last and Margaret Schedel

Opening: Friday, September 23rd 2011 7-10pm. On view until October 2nd, 2011.

Sprawl is an open edition of live drawing installations hosted at Devotion Gallery which aims to create a momentary graphical map of an intersection between creative improvisation and substructure. Edition one features Sougwen, David Last and Margaret Schedel. Using chalk for its approachable immediacy, Sougwen and David Last improvise an expanding thicket of abstract organic forms, reminiscent of bits of plants, animals, smoke, nerve clusters or rivers seen from the air. Noting the paradox that a limiting structure can provide the most open sense of creative freedom, a faint structure based upon projections of computer-randomized forms is applied to the wall before the performance. The artist's role within this system is to react to the moment, through both visual creative urge and sound inspiration; while using the landscape of pre-defined random activation as a method of sparking inner dialogue. The human mind, being a pattern recognition machine, pulls relationships and structures out of chaos, and the line-sprawl expands like ivy across the walls and ceiling of the space.

 

The performance takes place within an audio environment composed of two elements; an abstract electronic re-interpretation of the sounds of the chalk line strokes themselves, and a 'carrier environment' in the form of abstract and ambient musical sounds. Live abstract/ambient music performances and artist-curated mixes are mixed with the processed feeds from contact-microphones. The sounds not only create the environment the performance is contained in, but another point of inspiration for the artists' crystalization of form.

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SPECTROGRAPH: Maximus Clarke + Ted Hayes

Opening: Friday, August 19th, 2011. On view until August 28th, 2011

Can images and sounds be understood through their decomposition—and how are we to decompose them? Maximus Clarke's and Ted Hayes’ split show at Devotion Gallery peers through images and tears apart sound in an effort to limn their boundaries and recapitulate them in new forms, consuming their source media in the process.

Clarke's "3DOLATRY: Constructions + Deconstructions I-VI” is a series of anaglyph stereographic portraits that evoke a hyperreal yet synthetic continuum, then morph into impossible compositions that subvert both the 3D medium and the truths of vision itself. (Anaglyph 3D glasses will be provided for viewing the images.)

Hayes' “Deconspectrum” guts our monolithic perception of sound and lays out its component viscera in the form of flickering, colored light-cubes, leaving them out in the open to decompose into a new and unprecedented autonomy.

Max Clark
3DOLATRY: CONSTRUCTIONS I-VI 

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