µ STUDIO Held in conjunction with the exhibition Soundings: OCT 3–NOV 24 A Contemporary Score, MoMA Studio: Sound in Space is THU, SAT, SUN 1:00–5:00 PM an interactive environment open to all ages that explores FRI 1:00–8:00 PM sound as a material and as a spatial, sensory, and immersive The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman experience. Visitors are not just viewers but are listeners Education and Research Building, who activate their experience through awareness of mezzanine the interplay between environment and sonic form. The All programs are free and open to all ages on a !rst-come, !rst-served basis, Studio offers drop-in activities and workshops, talks with unless otherwise noted. Children must be collaborating artists, and a range of interactive artists’ accompanied by an adult. projects that explore how the innovations of technology MoMA.org/MoMAstudio and the re-envisioning of our physical ability to make sound change the way we communicate and find creative expression. Participating artists include Joe McKay, Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, Carmen Papalia, Scott Snibbe, MoMA Studio is made possible by a and Christine Sun Kim. partnership with Volkswagen of America. CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS Joe McKay is Assistant Professor of New Media Carmen Papalia is a social practice artist who Christine Sun Kim holds an MFA in Sound/ at Purchase College, Purchase, N.Y. He has an designs experiences that allow those involved Music from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, undergraduate degree from the Nova Scotia to expand their perceptual mobility and claim N.Y., and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada, access to public and institutional spaces. New York. She has exhibited and performed and an MFA from UC Berkeley. In 2000 McKay Often requiring trust and closeness, these in venues such as Art Lounge Dibang, Seoul; participated in the Whitney Independent Study engagements disorient the participant in order to Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Recess Program, New York. He has exhibited his work introduce new modes of orientation. Each project Activities, New York; Rensselaer Polytechnic at VertexList, Brooklyn; the New Museum, New that Papalia undertakes is a temporary system of Institute, Troy, N.Y.; and TCB Art Inc., Melbourne. York; Berkeley Art Museum; San Jose Institute access, a gesture that contributes to a productive Sun Kim has received numerous awards, of Contemporary Art; Neuberger Museum of Art, understanding of accessibility. His work makes among them a Mellon Tri-College Creative Purchase, N.Y.; Postmasters Gallery, New York; visible the opportunities for learning and knowing Residency at Haverford College, Lower Merion, La Casa Encendida, Madrid; and the National that become available through the non-visual Penn.; a Youth Insights Artist Residency at the Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. McKay works senses. [email protected] Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; in several different mediums: photo, video, and an Emergency Grant from the Foundation programing, performance, websites, games, Scott Snibbe is a media artist, !lmmaker, for Contemporary Arts, New York. She was and sculpture. joemckaystudio.com and entrepreneur whose work spurs people to recently awarded a TED2013 Fellowship. participate socially, emotionally, and physically. christinesunkim.com Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere’s interests His creations are in"uenced by animation and lie in the formation of mobile, performative, and Surrealist !lm and often mix live and !lmed discourse-based social spaces. Their current performances with real-time interaction. Snibbe’s projects investigate contemporary music, dissent, artwork is in the permanent collections of the and public fora, re"ecting on political agency Whitney Museum of American Art and The through transmission and song. Venues for solo Museum of Modern Art, New York. His large- SOCIAL MEDIA exhibitions and projects include the Staten Island scale interactive projects have been incorporated Ferry, New York; WUNP, unitednationsplaza, Berlin into concert tours, Olympic Games, science and Mexico City; and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. museums, airports, and other major public Nevarez and Tevere have also shown their work, spaces and events, and he has collaborated Follow us on Twitter @MoMATalks and on Tumblr lectured, and performed at the New Museum, with musicians and !lmmakers including Björk at MoMAtalks.tumblr.com to get an inside look New York; Creative Time, New York; viafarini, and James Cameron. Snibbe’s work is produced at our programs and process. For a schedule of Milan; HDLU—Mestrovic Pavilion, Zagreb; Centre through his two companies: Snibbe Interactive, MoMA Studio activities and to access the MoMA d’art passerelle, Brest, France; Museu da creating interactive exhibits and events; and Studio SoundCloud page, please visit MoMA.org/ imagem e do som, São Paulo; and the Radio Lab Snibbe Studio, producing apps for mobile MoMAstudio. at Bauhaus University, Weimar, among others. devices. He has taught, published numerous Recent fellowships include a 2008–09 Creative articles and academic papers, and received Capital fellowship and a 2009 Art Matters grant. numerous grants and awards. snibbe.com From 2001 to 2008 Nevarez and Tevere worked under the collaborative name neuroTransmitter. In 2009 they were in residence at the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), Stockholm. Nevarez is an artist, musician, and DJ and a lecturer at the MIT visual arts program, Boston. Tevere is Associate Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. nevareztevere.info INTERACTIVE ARTISTS’ INSTALLATIONS PUBLIC PROGRAM JOE MCKAY SCOTT SNIBBE & LUKAS GIRLING Listening In: The Social Light Wave GLASS MACHINE from the Space of Sound Light Wave is a game that consists of twenty- app REWORK_(Philip Glass WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 6:00 PM three "oor lamps and two pedestals arranged in an arch formation. Players use foam hammers to Remixed) THEATER 2, 11 WEST 53RD STREET The music of classical composer Philip Glass hit the pedestals, sending a signal through the The exhibition Soundings: A Contemporary Score contains complex mathematical patterns, but lamps. The harder the pedestal is hit, the faster features the work of sixteen contemporary their formation can be hard for non-musicians to the signal travels from end to end. If a player interdisciplinary artists who explore the understand. GLASS MACHINE distills the factors times it correctly, he or she can return the signal relationships between sounds, objects, needed to re-create 1970s music by Glass and and prolong the rally. The speed quickens each and environments—how we listen and how makes it accessible to people without formal time the signal is hit until there is a winner, and the spaces in which we listen impact our musical training through a direct visual interface. the game resets. experiences. This related program addresses the materiality of sound, touching on the ways in In this app for iPad, the distance from the dots which sound can shape our physical, collective, to the center of the circular graphic projection and social experiences; our framework for Tweetagraph corresponds to the notes; longer lines correspond understanding our environments; and how the Tweetagraph, a telegraph wired and programmed to higher notes. By moving and pinching the medium of sound is positioned to challenge to send messages to Twitter via Morse code, colored discs, one can create an in!nitude of familiar ways of thinking. Participants include playfully reminds participants that “digital” combinations of notes and polyrhythms. Users can Philip Brophy, writer, composer, and !lm does not necessarily mean new. Tweetagraph also change the tempo, !lter, and instrument. uses an Arduino open source hardware board director; Christoph Cox, Professor of Philosophy, Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass., and a to interpret the signal from the telegraph and GLASS MACHINE is available in the Apple App faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Processing open source programming language Store as part of REWORK_(Philip Glass Remixed), Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, to translate the code to text and communicate a 2012 album/app project celebrating Glass’s N.Y.; Branden Joseph, Frank Gallipoli Professor through Twitter. seventy-!fth birthday. The album contains eleven of Modern and Contemporary Art, Department of remixes of Glass compositions by many artists. Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, ANGEL NEVAREZ AND VALERIE TEVERE New York; and Johanna Fateman, musician, An Exothermic Revolution writer, record producer, and member of the Rhythmic and tonal forms collide with the band Le Tigre. Moderated by Barbara London, cardiovascular system in this new work by artists Associate Curator, Department of Media and Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere. Participants Performance Art, and organizer of the exhibition. are invited to ride a stationary bicycle to control the speed of the sound emanating from a limited- Tickets ($15; $10 members and corporate members; $5 students, seniors, and staff of other museums) can be edition LP record (featuring tracks related to purchased online, at the visitor information desk in the main strength, mobility, and exercise) revolving on the Museum lobby, or at the !lm desk after 4:00 p.m. attached turntable. TALKS AND WORKSHOPS includes political content. In protest karaoke, a song might refer to a particular historical moment, but it may