Signal Culture residency
I am super excited for a week-long residency later this week with Signal Culture in freezing cold and snowy Owego, NY. I’ll be bringing some media from an installation I made years ago with the intention of trying out some of their cool signal processing tools to add abstration and editing it into a single channel piece. As I have never been before, I solicited information from media artists and theorists who have and got such great advice, synthesized (no pun intended) here:
Have fun!!
Bring lots of source material.
Don’t sleep!
Bathe very infrequently.
Prepare to have your mind blown by Dave Jones.
Don’t forget to visit Hand of Man!
Jail meal at your own risk.
Shop at Two floor thrift/vintage on the corner.
Walk along the river.
Have an amazing time!
Have a plan that you can abandon. The machines are alive and take a bit longer to get going.
Bring a notebook so you can get back to something that got interesting results. Some of the best things happen when you lose track of how you got this or that result.
Experiment!
Walk to the cemetery.
Breakfast at diner across the street to get a feel for the place.
Bakery downstairs.
Abandon control.
Take your time exploring town as all of this could take just one afternoon.
Don’t forget your snow boots!
If you’re up for a challenge ask about Ghost Pepper Pizza night at John Barleycorn’s!
Thanks so much Annie Berman, Torsten Zenas Burns, Karl Erickson, Kristen Lucas, Darrin Martin, Monica Panzarino and Jim Supanick for the advice!
A Field Guide to iLANDing
So pleased to have played a small role in the generation of scores for this wonderful book: A Field Guide to iLANDing: scores for researching urban ecologies. As part of the Urban Backstage Research Group, one of the year-long research residencies focusing on the East River waterfront area, we generated a few scores that you can try out yourself if you get this book.
What a treat to spend quality time exploring space, land, movement and ideas with these co-conspirators in the Urban Backstage iLAB Residency group: Julie Kline (Theater Actor/ Director), Clarinda Mac Low (Interdisciplinary Artist), Elliott Maltby (Urban Designer/ Landscape Architect), Jeremy Pickard (Eco-Theater Artist) and Shawn Shafner (Artist / Educator / Activist).
And a special thanks to the inspiring Jennifer Monson, the visionary behind the whole iLAND organization.
Space, Place and the Humanities research institute
So honored to be participating in the Space, Place and the Humanities, a three-week NEH research institute at Northeastern University in Boston this July and August. I am very much looking forward to hearing from engaged academics and artists and new colleagues from different disciplines, reading new texts and revisiting familiar ones, building on the Spatial Narratives course I taught in the IMA MFA program at Hunter College this past semester, thinking and learning more about our current geospatial situations, and beginning to develop new research.
Works on Water – Collect Pond walk!
Some would propose “water art” as a new movement along the lines of “land art.” This show in NYC, Works on Water, has so many great projects that would lead you to conclude just that! Check out my walking tour of Collect Pond.
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Join interdisciplinary artist Rachel Stevens on a walking tour, discussion and augmented reality visualization of Collect Pond, tracing the edges of this lost body of water and unpacking histories and futures tying water to finance and speculation, from Collect Pond to Hurricane Sandy and beyond.
Since Europeans arrived in Lower Manhattan, water has been a contentious commodity and continues to be a flashpoint for struggles between private enterprise and human rights. Collect Pond, a 48-acre, 60- foot deep freshwater pond, used to occupy the land from the court houses to the edge of Chinatown in Lower Manhattan until it became polluted and then filled in. Chase Company, founded by Aaron Burr, was a private water distribution company that hoarded profits meant to provide clean water from tributaries feeding Collect Pond and used those funds to start Chase Bank.
Pippilotti Rist / MFJ 65
Millennium Film Journal issue No. 65, Architecture On Screen and Off, is out and it includes my review of Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest at The New Museum (October 26, 2016-Jan 1, 2017). The issue unveils a new, larger format and also includes an interview with Colleen Fitzgibbon on CoLab TV, writing on the invention of glitch video, DCTV, Sondra Perry and much more!
Image: New York Times