Elements: An Art & Tech Exhibition

Open­ing Recep­tions on August 30 & Sep­tem­ber 7, 2 – 4:30pm

Pro­grammed for Fall 2024, the art­works in this group show are inspired by ele­ments of light, water, earth, flower plas­ma and their influ­ence on humans. Select­ed by the Har­vest­works arts com­mit­tee and the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Car­ol Parkin­son, the works use cre­ative tech­nol­o­gy such as audio/​video spa­tial­iza­tion, ges­ture, body track­ing and veg­e­tal power.

Artists and Art­works include: 

• Luc Vitk – Water Vision is a mul­ti­chan­nel piece for water, vis­i­tors, and six speak­ers where the vis­i­tors will become part of the instal­la­tion if they attend one of the three per­for­mances. The par­tic­i­pants inter­pret a num­ber score which then gen­er­ates three hours of water music to be played in the instal­la­tion space on non-per­for­mance days. Per­for­mances: August 31, Sep­tem­ber 28 and Octo­ber 12, 2:45pm.
• Vic­to­ria Ves­na with Wal­ter Gekel­man and Haley Marks – [SUN] Flower Waves explores the har­mo­nious inter­ac­tion between sun­flow­ers and Alfvén waves, demon­strat­ing how art and sci­ence con­verge to reveal deep­er under­stand­ings. Sun­flow­ers, with their heliotrop­ic move­ment, sym­bol­ize growth and ener­gy, while Alfvén waves in plas­ma trans­port ener­gy along mag­net­ic field lines, cru­cial for under­stand­ing space weath­er and solar phenomena.
• Mon­i­ca Dun­can and Sen­em Pir­ler – Tears for Lost Fre­quen­cies is an audio/​visual instal­la­tion that explores our com­plex rela­tion­ship with plas­tic through the act of impro­vi­sa­tion. In Tears for Lost Fre­quen­cies, microplas­tics found in tears become mate­r­i­al wit­ness­es to the expe­ri­ence of one’s hear­ing loss and a spec­u­la­tive space for plas­tic heal­ing. Per­for­mance: Sep­tem­ber 14, 2:45pm
• Max Chung metroe­qui­lib­ri­um, a dig­i­tal instru­ment that cap­tures the rela­tion­ship of sound and ges­ture that defines an immer­sive embod­ied expe­ri­ence. This instal­la­tion uses cam­eras and Google Medi­aPipe to cre­ate an audio­vi­su­al expe­ri­ence that high­light an over­whelm­ing and fre­net­ic encounter.
• Jes­si­ca Segall Nom Nom Ohm – two antique chan­de­liers found in Nolan Park are rewired to illu­mi­nate the space using pota­toes as a pow­er source. Both futur­is­tic and sim­ple, the revival of the for­mer ele­gant chan­de­liers through veg­e­tal pow­er sug­gests a com­pro­mised pow­er grid, and the lengths we go to main­tain a lev­el of high con­sumerism rather than degrowth. The instal­la­tion will fol­low the arc of the potato’s life cycle, and will be illu­mi­nat­ed at list­ed times.
• Raphaele Shirley – Agency (as in giv­ing..) Shirley trans­forms the tra­di­tion­al officer’s home into an abstrac­tion of light and geom­e­try. The size and cir­cu­lar­i­ty of the work cre­ate a dynam­ic con­trast with the room’s con­text, spark­ing a dia­logue between sto­ry, time, and space. Through the ten­sion between scale, fig­u­ra­tion (the room), and abstrac­tion (the light sculp­ture), Shirley invites a recon­sid­er­a­tion of space and the present moment as a quan­tum dual­i­ty of par­ti­cle and wave, time and infinity.

Har­vest­works is one of the 2024 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence.