[cmc-users] Fwd: [extreme NY] 4/21: Chico MacMurtrie's robots at Harvestworks

[douglas irving repetto]

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>Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:38:57 -0400
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>HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER PRESENTS
>MACHINE VISIONS: New Electronic Events
>
>Monday, April 21, 7pm
>Harvestworks
>596 Broadway, Suite 602
>New York, NY 10012
>
>C H I C O  M A C M U R T R I E
>
>Harvestworks is pleased to present machine artist Chico MacMurtrie
>who will conduct a multiple machine performance with YoYo Belembau, a
>computer controlled robotic sculpture, part of a community of 59
>others that perform in technological concert with one another. Part
>of a larger piece called "the Ancestral Path," the members rely on
>pre-programmed sequences with room for audience participation that
>produces a technological spectacle of sound and motion. Powered by
>electric signals and compressed air, these figures can tumble, draw,
>drum, seizure, and paint.  Also on display at Harvestworks will be
>the robotic skeleton for "The Growing, Raining Tree," a commission
>being created by Amorphic Robot Works for the Center for Contemporary
>Art's UnMuseum in Cincinnati, Ohio.   In its final installation, the
>robotic tree will stand within a pool of water, and contains a veined
>water cycling network that nourishes its computer-controlled
>branches.  For the Harvestworks performance, one of the robotic arms
>will be functioning and performing its rhythmic water dripping in  a
>temporary pool.
>
>"The robots sometimes resemble infants in their movements, other
>times frightening cyborgs." (Newsday)
>
>MacMurtrie, a recent transplant to Brooklyn from San Francisco, is
>winner of an Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, a California Arts Council
>fellowship, and five NEAs. He founded Amorphic Robot Works, a group
>of other artists, engineers, and programmers, in 1992, which has
>created more than 250 computer-controlled machines, ranging from 12
>inches to 90 feet long. The company was the subject of a BBC
>documentary "Pandemonium" in 1996 and featured in the Discovery
>Channel's "Next Step" series. Their "primitive machines" have
>appeared at the Ars Electonica Festival in Linz, Austria twice, the
>Nottingham Now Festival, London's Hayward Gallery, Yerba Buena Center
>for the Arts in San Francisco, Exit Art and El Museo del Barrio in
>New York, and various other venues and festivals in San Francisco,
>Mexico, and Japan and throughout Europe.
>
>Harvestworks presents "Machine Visions," a concert series that
>explores the intersection of art and technology. Check a recent
>review of a Machine Visions concert: "David First's music makes the
>world a better place":
>http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0315/gann.php
>
>Central to this series is the exciting way musicians/composers
>assimilate various machines into their creative process.  From
>Holland Hopson's use of machine sounds to Chico MacMurtrie's
>construction of computer-controlled robotic sculptures, the
>presenting artists not only expand the boundaries of instrumentation,
>but also humanize electronics through creative means.  This process
>often entails interactivity, improvisation and a willingness to marry
>hi-tech and lo-tech in music making.  "Machine Visions" will be
>presented in Harvestworks' new 5.1 surround sound presentation
>laboratory funded by the Booth Ferris Foundation.  This spring series
>is free and open to the public and is generously funded by NYSCA and
>mediaThe Foundation.
>
>***********************************************************************
>
>Harvestworks is a not-for-profit arts organization founded in 1977 to
>cultivate artistic talent using digital technologies.  We foster the
>creation of new works through coordinated digital media production,
>education, information and distribution services. Located in Soho,
>NYC and on the internet at http://www.harvestworks.org, we're a
>creative environment where artists work in an integrated way.
>
>***********************************************************************
>
>Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
>596 Broadway, Suite 602
>New York, NY 10012
>Tel: 212-431-1130
>http://www.harvestworks.org
>
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