camminando & vernissages | NYC February 21

Tenth Avenue & 34 Street

 "Gimme More: Is Augmented the New Reality Medium?" at Eyebeam

Miroslaw Balka "The Order of Things" at Barbara Gladstone

Jim Dine at Pace Gallery

Walk length: 10km, burnt 531 calories

NYC, World Science Festival | Art: Surface Tension: The Future of Water

The main art event of the World Science Festival Surface Tension: The Future of Water opened at  Eyebeam Art + Technology Center
Water, the most fundamental resource on Earth is explored from an art, science and design perspective with more than 40 exhibits, which were particularly interesting for the variety of approaches and presentations, from more technological to metaphorical, conceptual or educational.
SURFACE TENSION: THE FUTURE OF WATER was created by Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin, sponsored by Culture Ireland, the Cordover Family Foundation and the University of Dublin Fund.

For more information visit Eyebeam Art + Technology Center

Vernissages | December 1

"Night" curated by Antonio Petracca at Kim Foster Gallery

 "Creomatic" at Eyebeam

Rebecca Sherman "Night Light" at one of the Chashama spaces

Events NYC | Geometry, Nature and Environmental Awareness

Last night at Eyebeam a series of multimedia presentations accompanied the launch of Book of Ice by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky. Book of Ice is one facet of DJ Spooky ongoing multimedia and multidisciplinary project on Antarctica —the only uninhabited continent, belonging to no single country and with no government. Miller’s book merges a fictional manifesto with scientific concepts and historical facts, using photographs and film stills, original artworks and re-appropriated archival materials: the theme is how Antarctica can liberate itself from the rest of the world.

The author started his presentation introducing concepts which immediately captured my attention: "ice is a geometric form" and "network effect". The accompanying images were also familiar: fractals configurations (Koch snowflake) and Wilson Bentley photographs of snowflakes —themes of one chapter of my upcoming book Form Geometry Structure | from Nature to Design. Miller emphasized the importance of system thinking and the elegance of symmetry in nature, quoting the “elegant universe” from Brian Greene’s string theory. Miller spoke of sonification as a sonic metaphor embodying geometry in transverse and longitudinal waves, and showed the Terra Nova trailer: an interpretation of how sound and the planet interact. Mentions of recursions and concepts from Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid the book by Douglas Hofstadter —described by the author as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll".

The video imagery was presented with a live string quartet, Telos Ensemble, playing Miller’s compositions. Miller's presentation was also accompanied by interactions with Green Patriot Poster project curator Edward Morris.

An important evening, emphasizing the relationship between nature and geometry, and how their harmonic synergy we can have a better relationship with our planet.