SHAPING EXPERIMENTAL ARTS 1982-2025
CAROL PARKINSON, Executive Director of Harvestworks, NY, for 37 years since 1987, has focused on the development of experimental artworks that explore sound, data, and other emerging technologies. Parkinson’s professional services include panel participation at the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Parkinson is the Executive Producer of the New York Electronic Art Festival, a series of workshops, concert performances, and exhibitions centered on art and technology. Parkinson is a founding member of TELLUS, the Audio Cassette Magazine, a cassette–based magazine of experimental music and sound art published between 1982 and 1996.
In her talk, Shaping the Experimental Media Arts in New York City, former Executive Director and current Board Member Carol Parkinson will discuss works from artists in the collection, including Blue Morph by Victoria Vesna in the New York Electronic Art Festival (2011), Alan Rath in The Interactive Show (1992), and Christian Marclay in SoundWave NYC (1987), as well as a few current exhibitions.
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PAUL GELUSO is the director of Music Technology program at NYU Steinhardt. work focuses on the theoretical, practical, and artistic aspects of sound recording and reproduction. He has been credited as producer, recording engineer, mastering engineer, and/or musician on hundreds of commercially released recordings, including Grammy nominated and Latin Grammy nominated titles and award winning films. His research focusses on new ways to capture, mix, and process immersive audio for playback on multi-channel sound systems, recently co-editing “Immersive Sound: The Art And Science of Binaural and Multi-channel Audio” published by Focal Press-Routledge. He has taught classes in music production and technology at Bard College and the Peabody Institute, in addition to serving as the chief sound engineer at Harvestworks NY for more than 2 decades.
IVANA DAMA is a sound artist and researcher holding an MFA from Yale University. She previously graduated from UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture with a degree in Design Media Arts and Digital Humanities. Her current research explores the development of a tool that signals urgency for both social and ecological issues, tracing connections between the two as they often occur simultaneously. Her work has been featured in over thirty group shows, and she has presented solo exhibitions in Portland and Los Angeles. In addition to her artistic practice, she previously served as Assistant Director of the UCLA ArtSci Center and has been a visiting critic and professor in the Sound Art MFA program at Columbia University. Currently, she is the interim director at Harvestworks NY.
