November 6-8th, 2009 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Link: http://artandcode.ning.com/

Ken Feingold’s talk at ITP will be “Potential Space and the Mind of the Robot”.  He will describe the development of his recent artworks and discuss, from a psychoanalytic perspective, how he conceptualizes the software “personalities” he has created for his recent interactive animatronic installations.

KEN FEINGOLD (USA, 1952) has been exhibiting his work in film, video, objects, and installations since 1974. After first studying at Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio) he received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in “Post-Studio Art” from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA.  Among the numerous awards and honors Feingold has received,
the including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2004) and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship (2003). He has taught at Princeton University and Cooper Union, among others. A “mid-career survey” of his work was shown at Ace Gallery in Los Angeles between October 2005 and February 2006.  His works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (Film Study Collection) NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kiasma, Helsinki; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, and others. He has traveled widely, living for extended periods of time in India, Japan,
and Argentina and working for shorter periods in many other countries.  He lives in New York City.

http://performa-arts.org/blog/

Performa 09, the third biennial of new visual art performance, will be held in New York City from November 1-22, 2009. The three-week festival will feature new Performa Commissions and an exciting program of performances, exhibitions, educational forums, public art projects, publications, film screenings, and radio, Internet, and television broadcasts. Presented with a consortium of more than 60 arts institutions and a network of public and private venues across the city, Performa 09 will showcase the work of more than 100 international artists, as seen from many different curatorial viewpoints, in a lively, performance-driven “festival as think tank” that will be a catalyst for envisioning the cultural future of New York City.

Over its three week-run, Performa 09’s innovative program will break down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, film, television, radio, graphic design, and the culinary arts, presenting over 110 events in collaboration with a consortium of more than 80 of the city’s leading arts institutions, 40 curators from around the world, and a network of public and private venues throughout the city.

Split between New York and Shanghai, ITP Alumn Defne Ayas is a Curator at Performa since 2004.

Lesley Flanigan: Amplifications Tour
Lesley Flanigan sculpts electronic music by hand, using an orchestrated mix of sounds that originate entirely from the acoustics of live feedback and voice. Out of deliberate choreography of motion and improvised layering of sound, Flanigan’s melodies emerge to reflect interrelations between noise, amplification, speakers, and the human voice.

U.S.A. tour begins TONIGHT in New York City

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30th, 8pm
Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan kick off their fall US tour at the Stone. Perich will perform Dual Synthesis (for harpsichord and 1-bit electronics), and Flanigan will perform Amplifications (for speaker electronics and voice).

Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan
The Stone
corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street
$10

TOUR

New York artists Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan team up this Fall for a series of unique electronic music performances across the United States. Perich’s duet Dual Synthesis (for harpsichord and 1-bit electronics) and Flanigan’s Amplifications (for voice and speaker electronics) explore the viscerality of electronic music. Mixing primitive sounds from their own hand-constructed instruments with the harpsichord and voice, each choreographs intersections between acoustic and electric sound.

From art galleries to noise venues, Perich and Flanigan stage their physical approaches to the construction of sound. Regular staples of the New York City experimental scene, they create music that spans electroacoustic, classical and noise. In addition to their solo work, they are also known for collaborative projects with the Loud Objects (Tristan Perich, Kunal Gupta, Katie Shima) and Bioluminescence (Lesley Flanigan, R. Luke DuBois). The Loud Objects will perform several guest shows, soldering electronics live on an overhead projector or with hybrid fluorescent bulb guitars to create electronic noise. R. Luke DuBois’ live video artistry will be woven throughout Flanigan’s performances.

For composer/inventor Tristan Perich, Dual Synthesis comes on the heels of finishing his new album, 1-Bit Symphony. An electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip, 1-Bit Symphony expands on the format of his 2005 release, 1-Bit Music. A departure from traditional recordings, 1-Bit Symphony literally ‘performs’ its music live when turned on. A complete music circuit, programmed by the artist and packaged inside a standard CD jewel case, plays the composition through a headphone jack mounted in the case itself. Probing the foundations of digital sound, 1-Bit Symphony celebrates the virtuosity of electricity. The new album, to be released by Cantaloupe Music, will be available exclusively for presale at performances during the tour.

Artist/vocalist Lesley Flanigan’s tour of Amplifications introduces her first solo album for speaker electronics and voice. Moving among a cluster of wires and microphones, she builds compositional frameworks that grow and break apart. Her speaker instruments, employing a built-in microphone, create pulsing tones through their own feedback, which Flanigan samples and weaves into her own vocal patterns. The result is music that hovers somewhere between noise experiments and lyrical song, resonating with organic transparency.

Tour Dates Include
(all shows Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan, starred shows with Loud Objects)
OCT 30 New York (The Stone)
NOV 04 Providence (AS220) with Blevin Blectum + Ashtray Navigations
NOV 05 Wellesley (Wellesley College)
NOV 06 Philadelphia (Crane Arts)
NOV 07 Pittsburgh (brillobox) * Art and Code festival
NOV 08 Cincinnati (tba) *
NOV 09 Muncie (Ball State IDIA) *
NOV 10 Ann Arbor (WCBN Showcase)
NOV 12 Chicago (Heaven Gallery) with Joseph Grimm
NOV 13 Milwaukee (Sugar Maple) * with Argyle Wishlist + Pataphor
NOV 18 Portland (tba) *
NOV19 San Francisco (Grey Area Foundation for the Arts)
NOV20 San Francisco (Noisebridge) *
NOV 22 Los Angeles (The Wulf) with Lucky Dragons
NOV 25 Santa Fe (High Mayhem) with Evolve
NOV 30 Kansas City (tba)
DEC 01 St. Louis (Lemp Arts)
DEC 06 Atlanta (Eyedrum)
DEC11 Charlottesville (The Bridge) with Chris Peck
DEC 12 Baltimore, MD (Red Room)
DEC 18 Brooklyn, NY (Galapagos) New Amsterdam Records event with NOW Ensemble

** Please check the artists’ website for updates and details **

www.lesleyflanigan.com

www.tristanperich.com

SYNOPSIS
In this artist talk Angelo Vermeulen will present his biology-inspired works. He will focus on ‘Biomodd’, a worldwide cross-cultural installation project in which ecology, community building, and case modding creatively converge. The first version was created at The Aesthetic Technologies Lab in Athens, Ohio between 2007 and 2008. In October 2009, the project’s second iteration in the Philippines was finalized after an 8-month long collaboration with a team of over 50 Filipino artists, scientists, engineers, gamers, craftsmen, volunteers and students. During the talk, ‘Biomodd’ will be elaborated upon using video excerpts, photos, work sketches and participant testimonies. Vermeulen will also introduce ‘Corrupted C#n#m#’, his new art project set up in collaboration with FLUXspace in Philadelphia, and due to open on November 20. The work deals with biological infected electronics, glitch art and abstract cinema.

BIO
Angelo Vermeulen is a visual artist, filmmaker, biologist, author, activist, and DJ. His research in ecology, environmental pollution and teratology informs his art, which includes bio installations, experimental setups incorporating living organisms and sci-fi references. His projects include ‘Blue Shift’, a Darwinian art project in collaboration with biologist Prof. Luc De Meester, and ‘Biomodd’, a worldwide series of cross-cultural, symbiotic installations fusing game culture, ecology and social interaction. Next to developing a new experimental cinema project based on biologically infected electronics, he currently also collaborates with the MELiSSA life support division of the European Space Agency. Vermeulen co-authored the book ‘Baudelaire in Cyberspace: Dialogues on Art, Science and Digital Culture’, with art philosopher Antoon Van den Braembussche, and lectures throughout Europe, Southeast Asia and North America.

http://www.angelovermeulen.net

Dates announced!

Sunday, December 20 from 2-6pm

Monday, December 21 from 5-9pm

More information to come.

See the show from last semester:
http://itp.nyu.edu/show