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23.04.03 Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time, 10th Digital Salon.
For its tenth anniversary, the international festival of electronic art 'New York Digital Salon' has organized a big celebration, with a team of curators and institutions who programmed a month of events, named 'Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time', starting from April 22, in the new Winter Garden and in the Courtyard Gallery in New York. It will be opened by the 'Digital Art and Culture Symposium', with Roger Malina (executive editor of the magazine Leonardo), Christian Paul, Alex Galloway, Jon Ippolito, and Lev Manovich. During the next days there will be other debates, such as 'About Space: Installation, Interaction', with Bernhard Leitner and David Rokeby, 'Artist as Programmer', with John F. Simon, Jr., Andy Deck, Pamela Jennings and Maciej Wisniewski, 'The museum and Art Gallery in the 21st Century', 'The New Narrative', 'New Media Performance and Music', with Christina Yang, Ricardo Dominguez, Carsten Nicolai, Pauline Oliveros, Atau Tanaka and Kasper Toeplitz, 'An evening with New Media Curators' and 'New Technology, Traditional Media', where some artists who used 'traditional' media since the beginning of their careers tell how their creative processes have been transformed by technology. Among the exhibited works there's a summary of ten years of electronic art with a 'hall of fame'. Among the historic performances there are 'Vectorial Elevation', by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and 'IO_dencies', by Knowbotic Research, the famous videos 'All is Full of Love', by Chris Cunningham, 'Ever Is Over All', by Pipillotti Rist, the installations 'A-Volve', by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, 'Glasbead', by John Klima and 'Genesis', by Eduardo Kac, the sound elaborations of 'Memorandum', by Ryoki Ikeda, 'Symphony #2 for Dot Matrix Printers', by [The User] and 'Ovalprocess', by Markus Popp. There are also several works by 'net.art heroes', such as 'ASCII History of Art for the Blind', by Vuk Cosic, 'Toywar', by etoy, 'Untitled Game (color version)', by JODI, 'The Web Stalker', by I/O/D, 'Will-N-Testament', by Olia Lialina, 'Natural Selections', by Mongrel and the more recent 'Vopos', by the italians 0100101110101101.ORG, Bureau of Inverse Technology and 'They Rule', by Josh On. The concerts, too, are very interesting, with a performance by DJ Spooky and the Optometry Band, where the samples are mixed with avant-garde jazz voices, multimedia electro-acoustic improvisations by Phoebe Legere and Bruce Wands, live video and animations mixes by Paul Enriquez, an interactive telepresence installation by Ploops, the 'Toy Symphony' concert by Tod , with his interactive music playing toys designed at MIT and a concert-performance by Pauline Oliveros and the Deep Listening Band, where the musician and philosopher explores the humanizing possibilities of technology. Finally, the 'Art and Technology Family Day', a day for discovering digital art through a tour and hands-on activities for children and families, is surely innovative.