You’re invited to attend OPEN STUDIOS with NEW INC and Center for Performance Research. An extension of NEW INC’s recurring workshares program, where cohort members present projects, receive feedback, share knowledge, and cross-pollinate ideas, this open forum invites non-members to participate and be a part of the artistic process for the first time!
OPEN STUDIOS is a series of work-in-progress presentations organized by guest curators held regularly at CPR throughout the year.
Networked Gong Gathering
This collaborative sound-making workshop led by elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ is inspired by a community gathering of gong ensembles throughout Southeast Asia. While keeping the core of having rhythms distributed among participants, the workshop will focus on collectively reconstructing sounds from different Southeast Asian sound cultures through networks using code.
Spatial Articulations with Tangle AR
Johanna Flato’s Tangle AR App is an artist-built mobile tool for spatial annotation and poetic encounters. Currently in beta, it aims to inject critical friction into this accelerationalist AI/XR moment and seed our tech-mediated environments with a more civic, intentional, and playful dimension.
Creative Coding Test Kitchen
Avneesh Sarwate and Sumanth Srinivasan will demo an interactive audiovisual recipe built with their javascript libraries! Throughout their talk, they’ll explain what tooling gaps they’re trying to fill and what new forms of art they hope enable for themselves and others.
Hacking Grains
The universe is granular. Hacking Grains is a multidisciplinary performance project by Trevor Van de Velde that reimagines the world being made of grains. This project explores the relationships between technology, ritual, and Asian futurity through amplified grains of rice. Individual grains become both sonic actuators and resonators. Experience the sounds of rice dominating the space through custom-built synthesizers, speaker installations, and a live performance!
Ticket prices range from $0–25. Please, pay what you can.
elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ is a collaborative research-based group consisting of immigrant Bangkok–born, Brooklyn–based artists, Kengchakaj–เก่งฉกาจ and Nitcha–ณิชชา. The collective delves into subversive storytelling by exploring non-hegemonic sounds and visual archives, historical research-decoding, and unlearning biases. elekhlekha’s work spans performing documents, multimedia, and technology centers to interrogate, experiment, explore, and define decolonized possibilities. elekhlekha is a Thai word that means dispersedly, chaos, all over, and non-direction to break free our practices from being labeled through a Western lens. In 2022, they were awarded the Lumen Prize Gold Award. The artists have received grants and development funds from Rhizome, the Processing Foundation, and more for their projects. elekhlekha is Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellows, 2023–2024 AIR at CultureHub, and NEW INC Y10 Art & Code track members.
Johanna Flato is a visual artist and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, NY and was born in San Antonio, TX. She investigates ways in which our sense of site—and in turn, locational belonging—is mediated and manipulated through language, technology, and gesture. She is the founder and developer of an augmented reality app called Tangle—a mobile tool for spatial annotation and poetic encounters. Tangle makes site-based, real-time, mixed-reality ideation and collaboration possible. It aims to inject critical friction into this accelerationalist AI/XR moment and seed our tech-mediated environments with a more civic, intentional, and playful dimension. As an ongoing research thread, Johanna coined and iteratively re-works the notion of a “syn-site” (a term updating Robert Smithson’s site/non-site construct for our contemporary extended realities).
Avneesh Sarwate and Sumanth Srinivasan, spurred by their own adventures and challenges with making and sharing software-based multimedia art, want to build browser-based tools and software libraries that allow artists to more easily design, collaborate on, and share digital work. Avneesh Sarwate is a programmer, musician, visual artist, and improviser. His work focuses on using real-time computer systems to enhance the gestural and impulsive elements of the creative process. A guitarist since childhood, “jamming” with computers has been a goal of his from the minute he started making art with them. Sumanth Srinivasan is an engineer, visual artist, writer, and musician. His work thus far has centered around digitizing human imperfections and playfulness in art, and the presentation of noise and degradation as an aesthetic.
Trevor Van de Velde is a composer, sound artist, instrument builder, and creative programmer based in NYC. Trevor’s work focuses on exploring the relationship between technology, play, materiality, and hybridity through a combination of “hacked” electronics and live performance.
Center for Performance Research (CPR) is dedicated to supporting artists in the development of new work in contemporary dance, performance, and time-based art. CPR forefronts the artistic process, and upholds a belief that embodied art forms are vital vessels for creativity, connection, and social change. CPR believes that a just and equal performing arts environment is aesthetically, racially, and ethnically diverse; inclusive of bodies of all backgrounds and abilities; committed to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ justice; and supportive of a broad range of embodied modes of expression.
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