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Come and PLAY WITH FIRE Festival
Celebrating the breadth and depth of video possibilities through art. A plethora of live video editors, electronic and interactive artists, video and installation artists who use the moving image outside the “box”. Coming from as far as Italy, Switzerland and Germany these artists showcase their work with the video community in New York City.
PANELS/DEMOS
From November 15-21, 2009 all Play With Fire events will take place at Harvestworks Digitial Media Arts Center in Manhattan.
ABOUT HARVESTWORKS: Founded in 1977, Harvestworks offers an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media. Harvestworks helps the community at large to understand, assimilate, and make creative use of new and evolving technologies. Harvestworks creates a context for the appreciation of new work, advances both the art community and the public's agenda for the use of technology in art; and brings together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts by fostering collaborations across electronic media. www.harvestworks.org
Sunday’s two hour demonstration of Modul8, the industry standard live-video editing software, will begin the series, followed by a week of artist talks considering space, collaboration and the interdisciplinary tendencies of video. The festival will end with a final demonstration on Saturday November 21, 2009 at 6 PM, of “Toy’s Opera”, a miniature opera/multimedia performance written for and incorporating small moving toys by collaborative: Adam Kendall (video; software programming), Yoni Niv (physical computing; sound) and Elad Shniderman (sound).
Come and PLAY WITH FIRE Festival
Celebrating the breadth and depth of video possibilities through art. A plethora of live video editors, electronic and interactive artists, video and installation artists who use the moving image outside the “box”. Coming from as far as Italy, Switzerland and Germany these artists showcase their work with the video community in New York City.
PANELS/DEMOS
From November 15-21, 2009 all Play With Fire events will take place at Harvestworks Digitial Media Arts Center in Manhattan.
ABOUT HARVESTWORKS: Founded in 1977, Harvestworks offers an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media. Harvestworks helps the community at large to understand, assimilate, and make creative use of new and evolving technologies. Harvestworks creates a context for the appreciation of new work, advances both the art community and the public's agenda for the use of technology in art; and brings together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts by fostering collaborations across electronic media. www.harvestworks.org
Sunday’s two hour demonstration of Modul8, the industry standard live-video editing software, will begin the series, followed by a week of artist talks considering space, collaboration and the interdisciplinary tendencies of video. The festival will end with a final demonstration on Saturday November 21, 2009 at 6 PM, of “Toy’s Opera”, a miniature opera/multimedia performance written for and incorporating small moving toys by collaborative: Adam Kendall (video; software programming), Yoni Niv (physical computing; sound) and Elad Shniderman (sound).