Zachery Leiberman / Lesley Flanigan / Brenden Fernandes :: Friday, October 2, 2009, 7:00 p.m. :: at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, 596 Broadway #602. New York City (at Houston St) :: Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince :: Free

As part of the New York Electronic Art Festival 2009, a month-long series of concerts, workshops, and exhibitions centered on the cutting-edge work being done at the intersection of art and technology, Harvestworks will present the first in a series of New Project Demos on Friday, October 2nd with presentations by new media artists Zachary Leiberman, Lesley Flanigan and Brendan Fernandes.

Zachary Lieberman will present recent and on-going works developed in the last year, including an eye tracker for a paralyzed graffiti writer who has ALS, a performance on the facade of a building, tools for new forms of magic, a 3d drawing tool, and the openframeworks toolkit, a framework for creative coding in c++. In addition, there will be presentation of an upcoming work the artist is developing in collaboration with Taeyoon Choi.

Lesley Flanigan will share her work with custom-built Speaker Feedback Instruments, addressing the physicality of sound, amplification as a source of sound in and of itself, and the relationships between noise, speakers, and voice.

Brendan Fernandes investigates the concept of authenticity, as an ideological construct that both dominant and subordinatecultures use to their own ends. It is a word that shapes cultural experience, and thus also shapes concepts and formation of identity. He uses the Safari-as-authentic-African-experience to provide an evocative metaphor for the inscription of culture onto his own sense of identities. In his lecture at Harvestworks he will discuss his practice and the new work that he created in his residency.

Artist Talk

Christine Sugrue / Julia Heyward / Celeste Boursier-Mougenot :: Saturday, October 3, 2009, 2:00 p.m. :: at World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, 220 Vesey Street, NYC :: Subway: R/W City Hall, E World Trade Center, 1,2 or 3 Chambers St. :: Free

In conjuction with the New York Electronic Art Festival Exhibition, Rate of Change – time and space in electronic art, Harvestworks in partnership with arts>World Financial Center present a talk with exhibition artists Christine Sugrue, Julia Heyward and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot.

Rate of Change – time and space in electronic art :: September 29 – October 24, 2009 :: Open Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, Noon – 4:00 p.m. :: World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, 220 Vesey Street, NYC :: Free

Rate of Change exhibits the wide range of electronic art and it’s transition from the 20th to the 21st Century. It presents the works of eight artists working in immersive video and audio installation, audience and environmentally responsive sculpture and experimental narrative. It is anchored by the newly restored digital media work “Hand-drawn Spaces” (1998), a virtual dance installation by Merce Cunningham, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar that presents 3D hand-drawn figures performing intricate choreography in a virtual space. Additional exhibition artists include Céleste Boursier-Mougenot who recently received the 2009 Golden David Award, Hisao Ihara, Julia Heyward, Eunjung Hwang, Jessica Ann Peavy, Christine Sugrue and the CCRT Collaboration.

Produced by Harvestworks and presented by arts>World Financial Center which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties, and Merrill Lynch. www.artsWorldFinancialCenter.com