Get your tickets
|
festival
pixilerations |
FirstWorks announces:
PIXILERATIONS [v.8]
New Media Fringe Festival @ FirstWorksSeptember 22nd -October 2nd, 2011
in Providence, Rhode Island
PIXILERATIONS [v.8] is a new media festival in Providence, Rhode Island (USA) that investigates the state of new media arts through installations, performances and film/video screenings. It is part of the larger FirstWorks Festival, a multidimensional performing arts festival in Providence each fall. Pixilerations is produced by FirstWorks in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Brown University, and the City of Providence's Department of Art, Culture + Tourism. Now in its eighth year, Pixilerations is one of the foremost venues for new media artwork in New England.
In an era of Facebook/Twitter-inflamed revolutions, biotechnology ethics wars, and youtube-generated museum exhibitions, this year's festival seeks to examine the question "Where – and what – is New Media Art today?" New Media art traditionally held a role at the intersections of art, science, technology, and social realms, yet artists who do not identify as New Media artists now make free use of the same tools as video game programmers, robotics engineers, and DJs. Pixilerations [v.8] highlights work that broadly explores these identity questions of art/not art, new/old.
PIXILERATIONS [v.8] SCHEDULE & VENUES:
EXHIBITIONS
Sept. 22-Oct. 2
Sol Koffler Gallery @ RISD
169 Weybosset St. Providence
& Granoff Center for the Creative Arts @ Brown University
154 Angell St. Providence
Opening Receptions: Thursday, Sept. 22, 6-8pm
Artist Talks:
Wednesday, Sept. 21
5:30pm with DR. JESSE ALLISON
Assistant Professor of Experimental Music & Digital Media
Steinert Practice Center 205, Music Department, Brown University
Corner of Hope St. and Power St. in Providence
Friday, Sept. 23
12:30pm with artist CHUN-CHIANG NIU (Taipei, Taiwan)
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Project Room 441
154 Angell St. Providence
3:00 pm with artists HE-LIN LUO and I-CHUN CHEN (Taipei, Taiwan)
3:45 pm with artist JANE PROPHET (New London, NH)
4:30 pm with artist PAVITRA WICKRAMASINGHE (Montréal, Canada)
RISD's Sol Koffler Gallery
169 Weybosset St. Providence
Friday, Sept. 30
3:00pm with artist PAUL MYODA (Providence, RI)
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Level 3
154 Angell St. Providence
CONCERT PERFORMANCES
Friday, Sept. 23 & Saturday, Sept. 24, 8pm
Grant Recital Hall @ Brown University
Hope St. & Young Orchard Ave. Providence
Sunday, Sept. 25, 3pm
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts @ Brown University
154 Angell St. Providence
VIDEO SCREENINGS
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 9pm
Cable Car Cinema & Café
204 South Main St. Providence
CLUB PIXIL
Friday, Sept. 30, 9pm
Firehouse 13
41 Central St. Providence
Please join us this fall for Pixilerations [v.8] in Providence, Rhode Island during the annual FirstWorks Festival.
FIND OUT MORE...
Follow Pixilerations on Facebook
View images from Pixilerations 2010
Watch videos from 2010 Performances
Contact - pixilerations [at] first-works [dot] org
Pixilerations website - www.pixilerations.org
