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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Morgan Packard: Dihedral Product

Generative crowd sourced sculpture with music performances.

Construction begins August 6th. Public invited to participate. See below for list of performances.
Opening Friday, August 12th, 2011. 7-10pm. Generative audio by Morgan Packard. On view until August 14th.

Sol LeWitt knew that artists of many diverse types use simple forms to their own ends. Musician and multimedia artist, Morgan Packard believes that simple rules, when allowed to unfold, create the splendor of the world. In Euclidean geometry the simplest non-curved flat shape is the triangle, and the simplest non-curved three-dimensional shape is four triangles connected by their edges—the tetrahedron. In this crowd-sourced artwork the public is invited to create tetrahedrons from recycled office paper and a few pieces of tape while musicians perform. Under Morgan’s direction the participants will attach the vertices of the tetrahedrons to create a constantly expanding sculpture, filling the gallery with a geometric wonderland intersected by sonic vibrations.

PERFORMANCES:

Saturday, August 6th: Sculpture construction from 2PM to 9PM. Live ambient performance by RJ Valeo from 7PM to 9PM

Sunday, August 7th: Sculpture construction from 2PM to 9PM. Live Ambient set by David Last from 5PM to 7PM

Monday August 8th: Sculpture construction and sound from 7PM to 9PM. Live ultra-subliminal techno by Scott Vizioli

Tuesday August 9th: Sculpture construction and sound from 7PM to 9PM. Live organic electronic sounds by Ezekiel Honig

Wednesday August 10th: Sculpture construction and sound from 7PM to 9PM. Sound design by Brandon Wolcott (recorded)

Thursday August 11th: Sculpture construction and sound from 7PM to 9PM. Sound design by Kenneth Kirschner (recorded)

Friday August 12: Opening for completed work from 7PM to 10PM. Generative audio by Morgan Packard 

ARTIST BIO: 

Morgan Packard is a musician, computer programmer and multimedia artist. As a musician he has travelled and performed in lots of interesting places, with highlights including Montreal’s Mutek festival, Serbia’s Dis-Patch, and Brooklyn’s own Bunker party. With Interval, a company he runs with visualist Joshue Ott, he creates mesmerizing iPhone/iPad software, including Thicket, a pioneering audiovisual featured by Apple in their

AIRtime@Devotion Exhibition Series

Transmission art exhibition series

Bike box from Bill Brown on Vimeo.

Technology behind Bike Box created by Aris Games at University of Wisconsin’s Games, Learning and Society research group.

free103point9 is pleased to present AIRtime@Devotion, an exhibition series taking place July 2nd though August 16th at Devotion Gallery in Williamsburg, as part of the free103point9 AIRtime Fellowship Program.  The series consists of solo exhibitions by Zach Poff (Radio Silence), Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown (Bike Box), and Brett Balogh (Noospherium), which span the contemporary genre of Transmission Art.  The Transmission Art genre is informed by works which employ an intentional use of space -- often the airwaves -- and manifests in participatory live art or time-based art, including radio, video, light, installation, and performance.

AIRtime@Devotion exhibitions open throughout the month of July:  AIRtime@Devotion: Radio Silence opens at 6:00 p.m. on July 2nd, 2010;  AIRtime@Devotion: Bike Box opens at 6:00 p.m. on July 16th, 2010;  AIRtime@Devotion: Noospherium opens at 6:00 p.m. on July 30th, 2010.  All openings and exhibition-related events take place at Devotion Gallery (54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206). 

Admission is free and open to the public.

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Digital Intelligence & Analogous Interactions

digital emergence and social-interaction analogues

Analogous Projects is pleased to present Digital Intelligence & Analogous Interactions, as part of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). Works include three committee-selected ICMC AI pieces by Brett Balogh (Chora), Scott Mc Laughlin (Shoals), and Steve Bull + Scot Gresham-Lancaster (Cellphonia), as well as additional complexity-driven works by Nick Lesley (Epic Doom) and Philip Galanter (RGBCA).

The audiovisual installations and performative social activities present evolutionary- and generative-art as a tool for social sculpture and immersive gaming. An ICMC AI concert will take place on May 31st at Issue Project Room as a preface to the exhibition, with committee-selected works by Arne Eigenfeldt (In Equilibrio), Jon Weinel (Entoptic Phenomena), Will Orzo (Giraffe). Together, these ICMC AI events draw inspiration from performative ecologies, musical improvisation, reality-based games, social experiments, neural networks, and swarm-optimization.

Digital Intelligence & Analogous Interactions opens at 5:00 p.m. on June 2nd at Devotion Gallery (54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206) with a performative social activity by Scott McLaughlin (Shoals). Please bring a laptop with WiFi capability and audible sound. Admission is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Presented by Analogous Projects.

Admission is free and open to the public.

ICMC AI Committee

Marie Evelyn (Chair, on behalf of Analogous Projects)
Jenny Torino (Assistant Chair)
Douglas Repetto
Galen Joseph-Hunter
James McDermott
Kurt Gottschalk
Philip Galanter
Zach Layton

Press Materials

EXHIBITION: Opens 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010. Through June 13th.
                    At Devotion Gallery, L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitan.
PERFORMANCE: At 8:00 p.m., Monday May 31st, 2010.
                    At Issue Project Room, M/R to Union.
OPENING FLYER: DigitalIntelligenceAnalogousInteractions.jpg
PRESS RELEASE: diai-PressRelease.pdf
MEDIA RELEASE: diai-MediaRelease.pdf
FULL PRESS KIT: DiAiPressKit.zip
CONTACT: Marie Evelyn at Marie@AnalogousProjects.org

ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE)

creative reuse of refuse through recombination.

Analogous Projects is pleased to present ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE), a group show with works by Aricoco (Ari Tabei), Katherine Liberovskaya + o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi), LoVid (Kyle Lapidus + Tali Hinkis), Philip Galanter, Phillip Stearns, Pollie Barden, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Torino:Margolis (Jenny Torino + Ben Margolis).

ScrapCycle is an ongoing project devoted to the creative reuse of refuse. This annual one-night event has been reinterpreted as a group exhibition, ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE). In addition to featuring upcycled artworks and performances, workshops will take place throughout the month in order to underscore the participatory nature of the ScrapCycle series.

All events require a piece of refuse for reuse as the price of admission. Materials are used for on-site installations, directed toward local upcycling artists, or repurposed as holiday gift wrap. These action-based economic and environmental aspects of ScrapCycle refer to the act of reuse as requiring us to approach everyday decisions from a use-value perspective, which is in opposition to our collective exchange-value upbringing.

ScrapCycle places an exchange-value on upcycled and reused materials, in order to probe the environmental effects of economic perspective. By presenting concrete implementations of reuse and recombination, ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) serves to liken the small pervasive effects of social sculpture, environmental activism, and economic perspective to a fine-tuning of interdependent parameters with global results. ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) references complexity science as it relates to political economy, ecology, and methods of reuse and recombination (i.e., small-world networks, social systems theory, ecological systems theory, evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, neural networking).

Presented by Analogous Projects

All events charge a piece of refuse for reuse as the price of admission.

PRESS MATERIALS

PRESS RELEASE: scrapcycle-PressRelease.pdf
MEDIA RELEASE: scrapcycle-MediaRelease.pdf
FULL PRESS KIT: ScrapCyclePressKit.zip
CONTACT: Marie Evelyn at Marie@AnalogousProjects.org

EVENT SCHEDULE

Friday May 7th (Exhibition Opening)
7:00 p.m. - Doors
8:00 p.m. - Ranjit Bhatnagar and the Glass Bees (Performance)
8:45 p.m. - Tom Vanderwall (Performance)
9:30 p.m. - Bora Yoon (Performance)

Sunday May 16th and Tuesday May 18th - Thursday May 20th
1:00-6:00 p.m. LandFilles Build (Collaborative Build with the Artists)

Friday May 21st
7:00 p.m. - Doors
8:00 p.m. - Katherine Liberskovaya + o.blaat (Performance)
8:45 p.m. - Katherine Liberskovaya + o.blaat (Performance)
9:30 p.m. - Katherine Liberskovaya + o.blaat (Performance)

Saturday May 22nd: Kids Workshops, Lecture and Tasting, Tutorial and Demo, Performance
11:00 a.m. - Repurposed Planters (Kids Workshop with Pollie Barden, Ages 5-9)
2:00 p.m. - Upcycled Gaming (Kids Workshop with Pollie Barden, Ages 10+)
6:00 p.m. - Questionable Edibles (Lecture and Tasting by Jenny Torino)
7:30 p.m. - Break Breadboards (Tutorial and Demonstration by Phillip Stearns)
9:00 p.m. - Torino:Margolis (Performance)
9:45 p.m. - Gunung Sari (Performance)