SUNDAY, JUNE 5TH, 5PM LIVESTREAMED FROM REVERSE
What were you doing on this day last year? Facebook can remind you. What was the name of that pizza place? Google can remind you. What are you doing Sunday 6/5 at 5pm? Mark it, so your device can remind you, DIGITAL MEMORY (PROSTHETICS): a conversation.
Join us virtually via 360 livestream, while we talk about autobiographical memory and its relationship to digital media with Taeyoon Choi, Jade Davis, Nathan Jurgenson, Luka Lucic, Lorie Novak, and Chris Romero.
*To have the full VR experience with your headset, download the youtube app and watch the live stream there.
**You can also participate in the conversation through this google doc that we will be updating through out the event.
Digital Memory Prosthetics: all video, selfies, instagrams, tweets, Facebook posts, digital calendars, map directions, all instances recorded on our phones, computers, tablets, by ourselves or by others, which become deeply instrumental to us in a way that extends and/or stands in for the functionality of the mind.
The conversation will converge on the following themes:
- Historical relationships between memory and media
- The role of the algorithm in mechanisms of remembering
- Vulnerability (as a consequence of digital prosthetics?)
- Sociopolitical implications in changing memory
- Imagining future memory
Hosted by Artistic Research for Memory Prosthetics members neuroscientist Sonja Blum and VR maker/artist Sarah Rothberg, and REVERSE curator/artist Andrea Wolf.
ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
Taeyoon Choi is an artist, educator, and curator based in New York and Seoul. His art practice involves performance, electronics, drawings, and storytelling that often leads to intervention in public spaces. Recently, Taeyoon was an artist in residence at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Taeyoon cofounded the School for poetic computation in 2013 where he continues to organize and teach, and he is currently working on a book of drawings about computation.
Jade E. Davis is the Associate Director of Digital Learning Projects in the Center for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia Community College CUNY. Her research looks at how digital media affects how society makes, understands, and accepts knowledge and culture. More specifically, she is interested in spaces that make digital information into knowledge and culture and the ethics and ownership of the data traces that are left behind. You can find some of her work on her website and can follow her on twitter @jadedid.
Nathan Jurgenson is a sociologist and social media theorist. Nathan is co-founder and chair of the Theorizing the Web conference, a contributing editor of The New Inquiry, and a researcher at Snapchat.
Luka Lucić is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute. Luka is a developmental psychologist whose research explores socio-cognitive development among young people who experienced abrupt changes of context as a consequence of migration, war, and urban destruction. His most recent publication titled Changing Landscapes, Changing Narratives (Pedagogy, Culture & Society) describes the effects of new media technologies on the psychological development of today’s young migrants.
Lorie Novak is an artist and Professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University Tisch School of Arts and the founder and director of the department’s Future Imagemakers/Community Collaborations. Lorie uses various technologies of representation to explore issues of memory and transmission, identity and loss, presence and absence, shifting cultural meanings of photographs, and the relationship between the intimate and the public. Her Collected Visions project, 1996-present, exploring how family photographs shape our memory, was one of the earliest interactive storytelling websites.
Chris Romero is a curator interested in media art, photography, animation, the Internet, and digital culture. In September 2015 he organized the first Internet Yami-Ichi in New York with Japanese Internet art collective IDPW. His exhibitions have been featured throughout New York and highlighted in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and Hyperallergic. His academic and professional experiences express a passion for the curation, research, and preservation of media art.
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Post Privacy: Is privacy becoming a thing of the past?
MAY 4TH, 3:45PM – 4:45PM
Clemente Center, 116 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002
REVERSE is excited to be a part of Creative Tech Week this year with BEAUTIFUL INTERFACES: THE PRIVACY PARADOX, a new media art exhibition accessible via a wireless network from hacked wifi routers, which are not connected to the Internet. As part of the programming activities of the exhibition, REVERSE will host Post Privacy: Is privacy becoming a thing of the past?, a panel discussion moderated by curator Helena Acosta and featuring Dan Phiffer (artist/programmer), Lior Zalmanson (writer/curator) and Carla Gannis (artist) as panelists.
The panel will be focused on the concept of post-privacy. Is privacy becoming a thing of the past? Datafication as a phenomenon has been spreading into every nook of our daily lives; today our existence has a reflection in a digital grid where almost every movement leaves a footprint that can be tracked and pointed. Does this reality make us more vulnerable to the eyes of evolving power agencies? In this permeable context, what counter surveillance strategies can we rely on?
Researcher Christian Heller has coined the term “post-privacy” to define the dissolution of privacy in the digital age, as a way to capture what might be an inescapable change in the privacy paradigm. As technological progress gains momentum, our interaction with digital tools becomes increasingly recurrent, not only in the way we interact with our governments and authorities, but also in our personal lives. Technology has become an extension of our identities.
Panelists will discuss the concept of privacy and overexposed behaviors in the digital age. They are invited to explore these questions: is the protection of privacy a lost battle? What methods can we use to deal with a potential post-privacy data model? Can we envision surveillance, or privacy, working symmetrically between power structures and civilians? Is this a utopian assumption?
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Dan Phiffer is a programmer and artist based in Brooklyn working on projects that use computer networks as raw material. In the Fall of 2011 Dan created Occupy.here as an alternative web forum for the Occupy Wall Street encampment and its affiliated working groups. Unlike the official OWS online forum, Occupy.here was only reachable via local wifi darknets at Zuccotti Park and at 60 Wall Street, another nearby Privately Owned Public Space. Each Occupy.here wifi node is designed to be disconnected from the Internet, operated independently in an archipelago of affiliated open virtual spaces. Dan is currently a fellow at Columbia’s Tow Center of Digital Journalism and has had projects exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and SFMOMA.
Lior Zalmanson is a writer, lecturer and researcher interested mainly in digital culture and the information society. His research interests include social media, pricing of information products, consumer engagement and user generated content. His research has won awards and grants by Fulbright Foundation, Dan David Prize, Google, Marketing Science institute and more. Lior has written on digital and online behavior for Wired UK Alaxon. Lior is also the founder of the Print Screen festival, Israel’s digital culture festival, which explores themes of digital culture in cinema and audio-visual arts. Furthermore, he is a grant and award-winning playwright and screenwriter.
Carla Gannis is an artist that explores the concepts of nature and the politics of identity, drawing from art history, technology, theory, cinema, video games and speculative fiction. Identifying as a visual storyteller, Carla uses 21st Century representational technologies to narrate through a “digital looking glass”, reflecting on power, sexuality, marginalization and agency. She is fascinated by contemporary modes of digital communication, the power (and sometimes the perversity) of popular iconography and the situation of identity in the blurring contexts of technological virtuality and biological reality.
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OPENING THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH, 7PM – 9PM
REVERSE is pleased to present WORKING RHYTHMS, an interactive music installation by artist Devin Curry in which visitors play and mix rhythm bases and sound loops by manipulating different sonic sculptural objects.
The eight sculptures and their loop-based musical accompaniments reference eight New York City public locations frequented by the artist during his regular routine. Each object’s unique geometric design represents an abstract sketch of a specific location. An audio and visual abstract portrait of the common urban spaces that New Yorkers share, WORKING RHYTHMS invites listeners to actively engage with an original composition of electronic beats made from field recordings of public places in New York City.
The installation consists of eight digitally fabricated sculptures that can be arranged and rearranged on platforms to control musical loops in real time. Each of the sculptures contains six unique loops that play depending on which platform the object is placed upon. The platforms also enclose LEDs which illuminate the sculptures in different colors.
Micro-edited field recordings of the locations form the sonic palette of the music. Sampler instruments create 48 rhythmic patterns that can blend together seamlessly regardless of combination. In his compositional process, Curry draws upon his experiences as a dance music producer, remixer, and DJ to push the boundaries of genre conventions in order to document emotional connections to places and moments in time.
By moving through the exhibit space and combining different sculptures with various platforms, visitors can influence the musical arrangement. This participatory interface gives users – regardless of musical background – a sense of immediacy and discovery as they experiment with physical and sonic arrangements. The installation blurs the line between listener and composer providing a dynamic, interactive remixing experience.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Devin Curry is an interdisciplinary artist and electronic musician based in New York City. In his exploration of the effects of digital technology on the production and consumption of recorded music, he creates projects that allow listeners to actively engage with both music composition and the music making experience. Curry’s fascination with layers, patterns, and balance forms the foundation for both his musical and visual pieces, which document fleeting moments in the chaos of urban life.
Curry has presented his work at the Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), NYC Media Lab Summit, and IAC Building (NYC). Under his alias Grand Atrium, he has released electronic music on labels Maison Kitsuné and Secretly Canadian. He received his Master’s degree from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and his BA in Cinematic Arts Production from the University of Southern California. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at Fordham University and Queens College.
Sponsored by:
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH, 7PM
MUSEUM MIXTAPE is a video-album in which up-and-coming rappers perform improvised freestyle rhymes as live critiques of museums in the southeast United States. The piece aims to create a playful connection between hip-hop narratives and institutional art spaces, reflecting on the current state of cultural economies, institutional community engagement and emerging subcultural forms and their intersections.
In 2012 artist Juan Obando was awarded the Rhizome Commission from Rhizome and New York’s New Museum to develop the project “MUSEUM MIXTAPE (Dirty South Edition)”.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Juan Obando (born 1980 in Bogotá) lives and works between Boston and Bogotá. Obando’s work focuses on the critical intervention of social systems through the orchestration of mediated experiences and the development of locative performances, collaborative networks, and experimental publications. He started working in his native Bogotá in 2005, where he received a BA in Industrial Design with a minor in Architecture and Urbanism from Universidad de los Andes. Obando’s work has been widely exhibited since 2009.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12TH, 6PM – 9PM
On Saturday, December 12th REVERSE and Babycastles will present a new edition of BYOB NY.
Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) is an international series of one-night exhibitions inviting artists, armed with films, video art, video games, animated gifs and projectors, to convene and explore the art of projection in an immersive environment of moving light, sound and performance. BYOB events, originally conceived by new media artist Rafael Rozendaal, have been held in over 80 international cities.
Babycastles is a collective with roots in New York’s D.I.Y. scene dedicated to building platforms for diversity in video game culture at every level from creators to consumers.
REVERSE generously received a donation of Dos Owls smart projectors which will be available for use at the event for artists to play with. Dos Owls is a forward thinking tech company that aims to revolutionize the world of audio/visual sharing. Dos Owls projectors combine distinct features like state-of-the-art optical display, Bluetooth speakers, Internet connectivity, and Android into compact, portable devices.
We think this is a great way to the end the year and celebrate the Holidays! We hope you can join us!
CURATORS:
Andrea Wolf REVERSE
Helena Acosta REVERSE
Joe Salinas BABYCASTLES
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Violette Bule
James Cao
Exonemo
Danielle Enzo
Alfredo Salazar-Caro
José Dao
[DNASAb]
Mark Dorf
Yu Feng
Benjamin Forest
Carla Gannis
Faith Holland
Wendy Hu
David Kagan
Anton Marini
Mathew Mathew
Woody Poulard
Sarah Rothberg
Alan Schaffer
Miyo Van Stenis
Steven Tze
Systaime
Musical performance by Ciudadana_Cero and Offending Command
Because we have received such a positive response from the artistic community, we have closed the invitation to exhibit at the event. Due to space limitations we can unfortunately not accommodate everyone. But we invite all to come see and enjoy the amazing work of the artists participating.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH, 7PM – 10PM
Join us for the closing reception of our latest exhibition ART:WORK, sponsored by Espolon Tequila, on November 20th.
ART:WORK, curated by Jessica Gallucci, is a group exhibition featuring artists who critique, comment upon or subvert systems of labor, commerce or entertainment, often from the inside by going undercover, operating as non-artists in those arenas, or by adopting occupational frameworks native to those systems. It includes works from Jeremy Hutchison, Liz Magic Laser, PJ Linden, Sarah Alice Moran, Narcissister, Sarah Stuve and Philip Vanderhyden.
Much of the art in this exhibition relates to the scholar Julia Bryan-Wilson’s definition of occupational realism: work “in which the realm of waged labor (undertaken to sustain oneself economically) and the realm of art (pursued, presumably, for reasons that might include financial gain, but that also exceed financialization and have aesthetic, personal, and/or political motivations) collapse, becoming indistinct or intentionally inverted. These are performances in which artists enact the normal, obligatory tasks of work under the highly elastic rubric of ‘art.’ Here, the job becomes the art and the art becomes the job.”
RSVP REQUIRED
-21+
-registration non-transferable
Sponsored by:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3RD, 4PM – 9PM
Performances by Roberto Lange, MPeach, DJ▲CHIPOTLE and Offending Command
Get your tickets here.
On Saturday, October 3rd, REVERSE will revisit the underground music scene of New York from the 70’s and 80’s by uncovering thousands of recovered records from the avant-garde jazz music label WATT and the experimental music scene of the time. Join us for this musical benefit event where you’ll get free records from this awesome collection, enjoy an open bar and live performances from some of the most interesting artists of the electronic vanguard in Brooklyn, while supporting REVERSE in its mission to create a space for experimental and innovative art.
[a little bit of history]
Composer/trumpeter Michael Mantler and his then-wife composer/pianist Carla Bley were instrumental in promoting the idea of self-sufficiency and the development of independent artist-owned record labels within the New York music scene. In 1965 Mantler and Bley founded the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, an American avant-garde jazz group and shortly after formed the non profit Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Association (JCOA). JCOA Records was created for releases from the Orchestra and its members. The label issued a number of historic recordings by Clifford Thornton, Don Cherry and Roswell Rudd.
As an outgrowth of JOCA, in 1972 Bley and Mantler co -founded along with Timothy Marquand, the New Music Distribution Service (NMDS), a non-profit independent record distributor created to dispense experimental contemporary music. It distributed records from several independent labels covering a wide-range of genres, with an emphasis on underground jazz and non-commercial rock bands. NMDS was the first company to support ground-breaking artists like Philip Glass, David Murray, Sonic Youth, the Cowboy Junkie and Glenn Branca.
Pioneers in the development of independent artist-owned record labels, Bley and Mantler followed with WATT Records, as a sub-label by JCOA/NDMS, to release their own music. WATT has issued their recordings exclusively since the early 1970s. WATT is now exclusively used for Carla Bley releases and run by Carla Bley and Steve Swallow with manufacturing and distribution by ECM.
[the donation >> the event]
Years after the closure of NMDS, Karen Mantler, the daughter of Michael Mantler and Carla Bley, decided to leave the Soho loft that housed a large archive of records from the distribution service’s catalogue. During this transition, a large collection of records from JCOA and WATT was donated to REVERSE. We are thrilled by this opportunity to put this collection of records back into circulation, in tandem with our mission to celebrate and nurture sound art and avant-garde music.
In the spirit of the artistic experimentation and independent endeavors, REVERSE has curated a unique line-up of music and multimedia performances throughout the day, featuring experimental electronic artists Roberto Lange, MPeach, DJ▲CHIPOTLE and Offending Command. General admission is $25 and includes a selection of free vinyl records to take home and access to the open bar. For an additional $40 visitors can get an exclusive catalogue featuring cover artwork made specially by Keith Haring for NMDS in 1986.
Join us on Saturday, October 3rd. Come celebrate the spirit of WATT, JCOA and NMDS, explore the collection of thousands of free records, listen to great musical performances, dance a bit and have a drink. And while you’re having fun, help us continue our mission of supporting experimental and innovative art at REVERSE.
[about the performers]
Roberto Carlos Lange is an artist who works with video, sound and performance. He was born in South Florida in 1980 and is the son of Ecuadorian immigrants. Recently Roberto released a new album on Mexican experimental label UMOR REX called “Plural People”; The Quietus recently wrote about the piece saying “Consequently the music doesn’t really sound much like anybody else in the end but it’s all densely pretty music. At times there are sounds resembling Alva Noto’s intense glitchy backdrops for Ryuichi Sakamoto, and at others there’s the luminescent picturesque ocean of sounds heard on Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas albums.” Roberto’s work has been commissioned by Flux Projects in Atlanta, The Margulies Warehouse in Miami and the Montalvo Arts Center. Soundcloud
MPeach (a.k.a. Mariana Martín Capriles) is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Her experimental music is strongly influenced by a combination of Changa Tuki (Venezuela’s native ghetto-dance music), Afro-Caribbean beats and melodies rooted in traditional Venezuelan folk culture. Her creations intersect musical and visual art, where each side exists symbiotically as a compliment to the other. MPeach is part of an emerging movement of musicians (i.e., Pocz & Pacheko, Cardopusher, DJ Yirvin, Sunsplash, Ernesto Pantin, FLYBVK) whose music is profoundly impacted by their individual cultural roots while reconstructed to reflect their global Internet-Age upbringing. Soundcloud
Offending Command is the sound moniker of Mateo Zlatar. Based in Brooklyn and with roots in Chile, his eclectic style defies classification yet in his music one can find traces of dutch electro, body music, 90’s techno, synth house and acid at times. Offending Command is part of the Hueso Records (HR) a music label that began releasing projects in Brooklyn, US and Santiago, Chile in 2005. For the benefit show we will see him performing on a drum machine, bass synth and littlebits modules for a improvised danceable set. Soundcloud
DJ▲CHIPOTLE is a gummi dj collective including founders of Babycastles, Silent Barn, Eyebodega, Food Party, & Late Night Munchies. They will been mixing their excites bits at the event. Soundcloud
SATURDAY, MAY 2ND, 1 – 7 PM
On May 2nd, coinciding with the closing of the exhibition MYTH AND MUTATIONS, Richie Brown will present a final reading of the “Brown Magick Oracle Deck“. Did you miss your chance to have your fortune read during the opening reception? Do you want to know why no one at work likes you? Now is your chance to sit alongside the artist and have your destiny revealed by the self-described “psychedelic priest.”
Featured in Animal and the Brooklyn Paper, Richie Brown’s “Brown Magick Oracle Deck” includes 42 cards containing symbols from pop culture – aliens, googly eyed poo – and established mythologies including devil, unicorns.
In addition oracle readings by Brown, this will be the final day to view the works of Rachel Maclean, Jonathan Monaghan, Yara Travieso, Wang Yefeng, and Yaloopop. The exhibition MYTH AND MUTATIONS features works that combines symbols of the past with subject matter found in contemporary culture including emojis, memes, video games, and consumer products. The artists demonstrate that mythologies forever transform, coalesce, and split into new allegories. However, as these allegories undergo certain metamorphic changes, they acquire a close relation to present-day desires, fears, truths, and morals. On display is a diverse range of mediums including video installation, animation, illustration, and 3D printed sculpture. The exhibition also marks the New York debut of works by Rachel Maclean and Yaloopop.
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OPENING TUESDAY, MARCH 24TH, 6:30 – 9:30PM
Gasoline is proud to present NUMBER THREE, the first showing of 2015, at REVERSE and supported by Project Fathom. The show explores the different yet similar circles we surround ourselves with, across many observations of life.
NUMBER THREE opens on March 24th and runs until March 26th. The opening reception is on March 24th from 6:30 – 9:30pm. Complimentary drinks will be provided by Bronx Brewery.
Founded in November 2013, Gasoline is a collection of emerging photographic talents. Representing between 25 and 30 photographers at a time, the Gasoline format allows for an ever changing workspace for the members to share and showcase their work with the world and their peers.
Gasoline is about promoting and experimenting as a group, rather than as individuals, and provides an outlet for it’s artists to be seen. Gasoline has been promoted heavily online through Milkmade.com, one of New York’s leading style and art culture websites. Gasoline has also been featured in international print publications like Petrie. Moreover, the Gasoline magazine is stocked and sold in London’s leading bookstore, Foyles. By being recognized and respected by the industry, Gasoline is creating it’s own photography movement.
“It’s a strange kind of charm that Gasoline has where photos of bruised asses sit comfortably next to photos of cemeteries, wild horses and topless models lounging in bed.” – Matt Marquez, milkmade.com
For press inquiries contact info@gasoline.xxx.
@_gasoline
Thursday, February 26TH, 7PM
There are no secrets.
It’s just we thought that they said dead
When they said bread.
– John Cage
Thou didst eat fine flour, honey, and oil, whence thou becamest beautiful exceedingly. (Ezek. 16:13)