School
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Computation
In this two week session we will explore new relationships between audience and performer, and between in-person and remote audiences. We will especially be focusing on the way technology can create new, less passive forms of audienceship and how that role can extend beyond a single physical space. Some questions we will consider: What does performance mean when the audience is a participant? What does it mean for performance to feel “live” and why does it matter? How can our bodies gain back their presence in digital performance? Can we experience connections in tangible ways regardless of the distance? We will learn about real-time networking by building websites and connecting them through WebSockets. We will put our bodies in digital space using WiFi-enabled sensors and networked micro-controllers. We will discuss this history of telematic performance and analyze contemporary works by visiting guests. The session will culminate in a live performance evening hosted across multiple spaces in the CultureHub building for a combined in-person and online audience.
Images courtesy of teachers, participants, class documentarians and guests.
Classes will take place 6:30-9PM with a 20-30 minute break in the middle, except for the final show day which will run from 1-9pm (with breaks).
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CultureHub is based at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (47 Great Jones St) in the East Village of Downtown Manhattan. Their 900 square foot studio is equipped with a 40-foot projection wall, a lighting grid, and access to a variety of software and equipment. CultureHub has served as a space for artists, technologists, writers and performers to develop, present, and teach new ideas that push the boundaries of traditional forms.
Accessibility: CultureHub is on the third floor of the building and is wheelchair accessible via elevator.
Participants will be required to provide proof of up-to-date vaccination status (including boosters) to attend. Participants, teachers and staff are expected to be masked during class except when they are performing. Before the final performance, all participants will be expected to show a negative result on a Covid test.
Todd Anderson is a digital poet, software artist and educator based in New York City. He has been making experimental software art for over 10 years including the live interactive poetry project Hotwriting, the Chrome Extension ARG 'An Experience', the performance-inside-the-browser extension HitchHiker, and multiple plays and performances with the multidisciplinary group H0t Club. He is perhaps best known as the host and curator of WordHack, the monthly language+technology talk series in NYC running every third Thursday since 2014.
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Bangkok-born, New York-based Tiri Kananuruk is a performance artist and educator. Her works focus on the manipulation of sound, the disruption of time. How technologies change the meaning and the ways we communicate. She utilizes mistakes, both human and machine, as means of improvisation. She holds a BA in Exhibition Design from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and a Master in Interactive Telecommunications from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Tiri has lectured at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the School for Poetic Computation. She is currently an adjunct professor at Collaborative Arts, New York University. She was a new media artist resident at Mana Contemporary (2019), CultureHub New York (2020), Barnard Movement Lab (NUUM)(2020), and Media Art Exploration (NUUM)(2021). She is a NEW INC Member in the Creative Science track. She is a founding member of NUUM collective. She is a co-founder of MORAKANA along with Sebastián Morales.
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Sebastián Morales Prado is a Mexican artist, engineer, and researcher based in New York. His practice develops interactive works hybridizing robotics, digital culture, and living systems. Sebastian is the co-founder of MORAKANA among with Tiri Kananuruk, they exhibited and performed at The National Gallery of Singapore as part of the exhibition Novel Ways of Being, the Gwangju Media Art Platform in Korea, and CultureHub in New York. Sebastian has spoken at conferences including Radical Networks, and ArtTech Forum in Venice, Italy. He has lectured at CUNY, UArts , and SFPC. Sebastian was an artist in residence at Autodesk Pier 9 (2015), a New Media Artist resident at Mana Contemporary (2018), and Research Fellow at the ITP at NYU (2018).
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Yuguang (YG) Zhang is a New York-based new media & AI artist, a technologist at De-Yan, and a research resident of the Interactive Media Arts Low Res program at NYU. His current practice, which incorporates installations, interactive media and performance, explores the ubiquitous connections we make with tangible and intangible AI systems, and the cultural & ethical shifts that come along. He’s a recipient of the S+T+ARTS Award and Re:Humanism Art Prize. His works have been showcased at MAXXI, Le Centquatre, CVPR Art Gallery, ML x Art, the NYC Media Lab, New Inc., CultureHub, Currents New Media Festival, Cycling ‘74 Expo, and more.
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Nuntinee Tansrisakul is a Bangkok born, New York based artist and educator working with algorithms as a means of composition and choreography. Her artistic focus is in the ambiguity between perception and cognition. Nuntinee’s work has been showcased at TED Global Conference, New York Live Arts, New Museum, CultureHub, Battery Dance Festival, Processing Foundation Conference, Cycling ‘74 Expo, Movement Research, among others.
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DeAndra is the Technical Director at CultureHub in New York City where she works with artists and technologists to bring experimental ideas to life. DeAndra graduated from New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn with a degree in Lighting and Video. With a background in theater, she has worked at venues such as Hostos Arts Center and Connecticut Ballet, where she assisted the lighting designer. In her free time she enjoys photography and videography as a way to express blackness and joy. She hopes to continue learning new creative practices and tools that will make black art more visible. At CultureHub, she works across various technical departments including video, lighting, sound, and more. Most recently, she has been participating in the development of LiveLab, an open-source browser-based media-router for collaborative performance.
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Applications open until Applications closed on May 29, 2022.
You can expect to hear back from us about the status of your application on June 10, 2022. Please email us at admissions@sfpc.study with any questions you have.
For 8 classes, it costs $1400 + processing fees, for a one-time payment. We also offer payment plans. Participants can schedule weekly or monthly payments of the same amount. First and last payments must be made before the start and end of class. *Processing fees apply for each payment.
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