Aaron Asis has strung fuchsia parachute cord through the chapel at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery as part of a series of interventions at the burial ground.
Tristan Perich
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Public Art in the Sonic Realm
The open structure of Sound Event resulted in a casual atmosphere, where one could sit in on a performance, or station, without feeling pressured to stay through its entire duration.
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The Sounds of Silence
The Museum of Modern Art’s first foray into a group exhibition of sound art, Soundings: A Contemporary Score succeeds in delivering a heterogenous — if uneven — perspective on a challenging medium.
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The Digital Literacy of Tristan Perich’s Sound
HANOVER, New Hampshire — When Tristan Perich, creator of the “Microtonal Wall” for the Museum of Modern Art’s Soundings exhibition, told me that understanding computer languages was now practically “a prerequisite for living,” two things came to mind.
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Diving into the Static of Some Recent Digital and Electronic Arts
The 2011 Digital/Electronic Arts NYFA Fellows Exhibit at the New York Foundation for the Arts is a curious exhibition, not least because with all of its technological focus, some of its highlights are aimed at connecting with nature. I stopped by during this past weekend’s Dumbo Arts Festival, an event that seemed to be lacking on much new media art in comparison to previous years (aside from monolithic installations, with the “Codex Dynamic” projections on the Manhattan Bridge and “Superheros” by Wildbytes), so I was interested in what sort of snapshot this would offer of contemporary digital and electronic arts. The group show in the NYFA Dumbo office, a rather untraditional exhibition setting, features 17 artists who received 2011 Digital/Electronic Arts fellowships from the organization. The awards are their common ground, as the uses of technology in their work are incredibly diverse. I found among the fellows some artists to keep an eye on for their creative perspectives on how technology can be a bridge or receptor between their audience and their ideas.
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The Spare, Profound Inventiveness of an Almost Forgotten Sculptor and Other Queens Discoveries
Instead of tackling a neighborhood like the Northside Festival of Williamsburg/Greenpoint or Bushwick Open Studios, the Queens Arts Express, a project of the Queens Arts Council decided to tackle the creative spirit of an entire borough over the course of four days.