Party@the Center
October 12th, 2006 9pm-late
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
Party@the Center
NewYork, NY, October 12, 2006 - Visible Cities Architectural Performance Installation by Dana Karwas and Liubo Borissov for the Party@the Center featuring Andrea Haenggi and the AMDaT Dance Company. The setting for Visible Cities is a projected environment of responsive dynamically generated structures, originating from an interpretation of crowd movement and ambient sound. As time progresses the structures grow vertically, as people move through the space the structure develops laterally and increases in complexity. In addition, dancers/ agent provocateurs embedded in the crowd sporadically emerge and perform, their movement and actions affecting dramatically the current state of the environment, before they disappear and merge with the crowd. In the end the living structure is frozen, a sculptural and architectural record of time and social activity.
Made possible with the generous cooperation of the AIA NY and the Center for Architecture
Dana Karwas is a media artist living and working in NYC. She specializes in the intersections created between architecture and new media, installation design, and programming. Dana Karwas received a B.Arch in Architecture from the University of Kansas and holds a masters in Interactive Telecommunications from NYUs Tisch School of the Arts. Her main interest lies in transforming and redefining social spaces through the overlap of art architecture and technology.
Her work is rooted in architecture and extends to the edges of social systems and cultural dimensions. She has taught classes on interactive technology and the connections between architecture and the visual and sonic arts at Harvestworks digital media center, NYC, the LemurPlex, Brooklyn,and at Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Dana is currently conducting the Bitforms I class at the Columbia's GSAPP. http://www.dk22.com
Liubo Borissov is an assistant professor at Pratt Institute's Department of Digital Arts. He received baccalaureate degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Caltech and a doctorate in Physics from Columbia, where he also studied electro-acoustic music at the Columbia University Computer Music Center. He holds a masters in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU's Tisch School, where he was a Global Vilar Fellow in the performing arts. He has taught at Harvestworks, Parsons School of Design and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
In his works, he explores the interface between art, science and technology. His multimedia installations, performances and collaborations have been featured throughout Europe, Japan and North America, including the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conferences in Japan (2004) and Canada (2005), the Lincoln Center Summer Festival, NYC and the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC. http://www.music.columbia.edu/~liubo
Andrea Haenggi a Swiss-born and New York- based choreographer/visual artist and dancer is known for inventive and evocative site-specific dance/video installations and multi media stage works she calls visual motion constructions performance pieces that combine contemporary dance, visual art and prosaic architecture. In 1998, Haenggi founded her New York-based company, AMDaT, to challenge and engage audiences in rich, thought-provoking aesthetic experiences and transform peoples perceptions of everyday life. Most recently, The World Financial Center WFC Arts & Events commissioned Haenggi/AMDaT to create the site-specific work, escalator. Past presentations have ranged from the contemporary museum MASS MoCA (al+one in a room), to a Handball Court (blast wall art), to an abandoned cigar store as part of the 2004 SiteLines festival (under whose control) leading to a 4-week residency with performances at the TSEH Russia Dance Platform in Moscow. This fall, Haenggi and her Company AMDaT will premiere the dance video installation Friction at Dance Theater Workshop, NYC as part of the European Dream Festival.
Winner of 2005 DTW Digital ARM Fellowship, Haenggi pursued professional dance training at the Jutta Klamt School, CH-Tanz Theater in Zurich, Switzerland and Martha
Graham School of Contemporary Dance (NYC). For more information about choreographer Andrea Haenggi and her company AMDaT, please visit http://www.amdat.org
Einy Aam received her BA (Hons) from London Contemporary Dance School in 2001, and has worked with AMDaT since March 2004. While in New York she has also performed for Noemie Lafrance in two productions of the Bessie Award winning Descent (2002 and 2003) and in Noir (2004). In Norway, she recently choreographed and performed for the musical concert Tree of Tenderness by composer Magnar Aam, and has also collaborated with Torill Haugen on the dance films From Dust till Dawn and Here, in the Resurrection and is featured in Marco Ruffatti's dance film Linescapes v.! Norway.
Jeff Crumrine received ballet lessons and a motorcycle a the age of six. He has continued with both ever since. Jeff graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in 1997 and from S.U.N.Y. Purchase in 2002. In New York City he has performed with the Eric Hawkins Dance Company, Noa Dance, Syren, and Noemie Lafrance's Sens Productions and performs with AMDaT since 2005.
please contact dana@dk22.com for further information