Harvestworks

08/17/2025

08/13/2025

🌟 Big weekend at Governors Island with three incredible events at Harvestworks! 🌟

Jillian McDonald: Artist Talk + Screening
Join artist Jillian McDonald for a talk and screening of Total Eclipse and the Heart, an experimental video work that blends live action with AI-generated imagery.
📅 Saturday, August 16, 2025 | 2:30 PM
📍 Harvestworks, Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

William Ho**er & Kevin Ramsay: Separated Twins
Experience an electrifying experimental jazz performance featuring William Ho**er (drums, poetry) and Kevin Ramsay (electronics, guitar).
📅 Sunday, August 17, 2025 | 1:00 PM
📍 Harlem Arts Fund, Building 10b, Nolan Park, Governors Island
An unforgettable afternoon where jazz, electronics, and poetic rhythm collide.

Dolunay Solmaz & Mirko Ge**er: Cacophilharmonie AM-1 in Spring Steel Dorian DS 1095
A kinetic sound installation where vibrating sheets of spring steel appear to breathe and speak.
📅 On View: August 16–17 & 23–24, 2025
📍 Harvestworks, Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

Live Set by N/A(Z)
On August 17 from 3–4 PM, catch a live experimental performance using Ableton Push and Live, featuring field recordings, sound manipulations, and Turkish improvisational singing.

🎟 Free admission | Limited seating
✨ Presented as part of our exhibition Time-Based Art: Space and Time in Tune
🔗 More info in bio or at harvestworks.org

08/08/2025

TODAY is the day for a Free Rom-Com Play like no other!
Join us for 5 Minute Glitch Love – a whirlwind of laughs and love in just 15 minutes! Swing by 47 Great Jones St for an unforgettable burst of romance and comedy. And if you miss it, don’t worry—we’ll be performing again on August 9 at FREE. Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island. Don’t miss out on this unique experience that’s sure to leave you smiling all day long!

07/23/2025

WORKSHOP – Celestial Navigation with Nick Brooke
On Saturday, July 26, 2025, Harvestworks is proud to present a special outdoor workshop with composer and installation artist Nick Brooke, who will lead participants through an immersive, hands-on experience in celestial navigation.

Presented in conjunction with his sound installation Extant, part of the exhibition Time-Based Art: Space and Time in Tune, this event takes place during nautical twilight, the ideal time when both the horizon and stars are visible. Participants will learn to use a sextant, the classic tool of ocean navigation, to locate their position using only the night sky.

Brooke, known for combining music, theater, and experimental technologies, brings a poetic and performative dimension to this centuries-old practice. The event includes a brief walk to the western shore of Governors Island for star sightings and horizon measurements, turning a historic method of orientation into a shared, site-specific experience of sound, sky, and sea.

Refreshments will be served.

📅 Date and Time: Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM ET
📍 Location: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program, Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
🎟️ Admission: Free with RSVP (email [email protected])

Join us for an unforgettable evening of sky-watching and sound, where ancient navigation meets contemporary art in real time.

🔗 Event & Artist Details: https://www.harvestworks.org/june-26-extant-tour-by-nick-brooke/

07/22/2025

Highlights from our summer program
Time-Based Art: Space and Time in Tune
Presented by the Harvestworks Art and Technology Program

This video captures select performances from our 2025 program, showcasing artists working across sound, movement, and time-based media.

📍 Exhibition open through August 24
🗓️ Weekends, 11am–5pm
📌 Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island, NYC

Presented by Harvestworks, a nonprofit organization supporting the creation and presentation of digital media art since 1977.

🎶 Featuring performances by
EIVIBLEIVI
Schell–Simmons
Hans Tammen & Johannes S. Sistermanns
Laetitia Sonami
video work by Jillian McDonald

Video documentation by Jonathan Gu and Micah Lewis

Stay tuned for more events coming up.

07/16/2025

LIVE PERFORMANCE – Sour Mash (Yo Vinyl Richie 2025 VIP Edit)

On Saturday, July 19, 2025, Harvestworks is proud to present a special live performance by current artist-in-residence Yo Vinyl Richie, who will reinterpret Sour Mash, the acclaimed collaborative audio work by George Lewis and Marina Rosenfeld. Developed during their Harvestworks residency, Sour Mash was originally composed for vinyl, with each artist contributing one side of the LP. Designed to be played solo or in tandem, the work creates a third, emergent piece through layered playback—blurring the boundaries between composition, improvisation, and media art.

Yo Vinyl Richie brings his distinctive turntablist approach to this dynamic material, treating the record as both score and instrument. His performance will explore the work’s open structure, engaging in real-time remixing, manipulation, and sonic dialogue with the original recordings.

Presented as part of Harvestworks’ summer program on Governors Island, this event invites audiences to experience Sour Mash as a living, evolving sound work that extends improvisation into the hands of the end user.

📅 Date and Time: Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM ET
📍 Location: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program, Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
🎟️ Admission: Free, limited seating available

Experience an innovative exploration of sound, space, and time in this special event presented by Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center.

🔗 Event & Artist Details:
https://www.harvestworks.org/july-19-live-performance-sour-mashyo-vinyl-richie-2025-vip-edit/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLlAEJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFUNDNxbG1paTdYSjkzM3lXAR4ChQ4vzZmtsGKNEnhyTR2D5hup1fZeNfELROmFJRDS9I893e-yL0FSA3SMbg_aem_uy9s54_0c278r9NlLFyi-A

07/09/2025

Harvestworks presents O Cablebaum

A double-bill concert featuring EIVIBLEIVI and the duo Schell Simmons (Milan Schell and Connor Simmons)

Join us for an immersive afternoon of electro-mechanical sound, where acoustic instruments become resonant speakers through digitally controlled feedback.

Both performances center on Cablebaum, a unique transducer system developed by Milan Schell that transforms strings, drums, and other resonant bodies into active sound-producing surfaces.

🕒 Date & Time: Saturday, July 12, 2025, 3:00–4:00 PM ET
📍 Location: Harvestworks, Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
🎟️ Admission: Free, limited seating available

Presented as part of our exhibition Time-Based Art: Space and Time in Tune, on view through August 24.

🔗 More info: https://www.harvestworks.org/july-12-live-performance-o-cablebaum-a-double-bill-concert-featuring-eivibleivi-and-schell-simmons/

06/26/2025

***THIS SATURDAY***

Sonic Flotsam by Hans Tammen with special guest Johannes S. Sistermanns

Harvestworks Art and Technology Program presents Hans Tammen’s Sonic Flotsam with special guest Johannes S. Sistermanns in the exhibition Time-Based Art: Space and Time in Tune. Taking off from Pauline Oliveros’ Apple Box approach, a suitcase (usually found in the city the piece is performed in) acts as the instrument. Together with its contact microphones it functions as a filter and amplifier for the sounds coaxed from its resonant body. For the performance on Governors Island the project will be augmented by Johannes S. Sistermanns activation of the interior and walls of the performance space.

DATES AND TIMES: Saturday June 28, 2025 @ 6 pm

LOCATION: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

FREE – LIMITED SEATING - ARRIVE EARLY

Photo credit Gerhard Kühne, Kurt Ralske.
Flyer by Ariel Lagunas.

06/21/2025

Laetitia Sonami in performance in our Time based art” exhibition on governors island

06/08/2025

Our artist-in-residence, Sylvain Souklaye (.souklaye), presented his work to MFA students in the Music/Sound program at Bard College. Many thanks to Kabir Carter for making this exchange possible!

05/18/2025

Today we opened Time-Based Art: Space and Time in Tune on Governors Island and welcomed over 100 visitors!
Join us tomorrow from 11am–5pm at Harvestworks, Building 10a, Nolan Park.
Free and open to the public!

05/16/2025

Time Based Art: Space and Time in Tune

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center announces Time-Based Art: Space and Time in Tune, an exhibition presented as part of the 2025 Art and Technology Program in the building on Governors Island.

📍 Location: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
🕒 Open to the Public: Saturdays & Sundays, 11 AM – 5 PM
🗓️ Opening Reception: Saturday, May 17, 2025 | 3 – 5 PM
🗣️ Artist Talk: May 17 @ 2 PM With Meredith Leich, Stephen Vitiello, and Ash Eliza Williams (aka “The Sensing Lab”)
🎛️ Performances: Laetitia Sonami – Saturday, June 21, 2025 & Rebekkah Palov – Saturday, August 23, 2025

Participating Artists: Nick Brooke, Laetitia Sonami, Jillian McDonald, Rebekkah Palov, Stephen Vitiello with Meredith Leich and Ash Eliza Williams