FESTIVAL INFO
As part of our 2024 Art Festival and two-year anniversary celebration, we artists, avant-garde practitioners, and visionaries to join our "Jukebox of Dissonance." Here, subversive art and pioneering ideas flow like electric currents, with minds clashing and merging in creative chaos to birth the power of innovation. In this carefully curated jukebox, we mix genres, shatter norms, and awaken slumbering senses through this event.
EVENT SCHEDULE
DAY1
OCTOBER 19
13:00 - 13:30
RECEPTION
13:30 - 14:30
IMMERSIVE EXHIBITION OPENING
14:30 - 17:00
PANEL TALKS WITH DISCUSSION
19:00 - 22:00
NIGHT PERFORMANCE
EVENT PROGRAM LINEUP
IMMERSIVE EXHIBITION
Online Exhibition Period
OCT 19 - DEC 30
In-Person Opening
OCT 19, 13:30 EST
Artists
A.J. Cincotta-Eichenfield, Alexandre Vianna, Alina Nazmeeva, Angie Lin Boyer, Camilo Salas, Caren Wenqing Ye & Shiqing Chen, Cecilia Villaverde, Deven Verma, Flâneuse du Mal, Hong Huo, Candice Wu, Juan Alvarez, Kevin Peter He, Ker Chen, SPLACES.STUDIO, Mu Tuan, Rachel TonThat & Victoria Cheredeeva, Schuyler Dragoo, Seitaro Yamazaki, Sutanuka Jashu, Tiffany Wei, and Vidmina Stasiulyte.
NEW MEDIA PERFORMANCES
Yilun Zhan & Zhaonian Li
"Through Limits"
Contemporary Dance + Lighting Performance
Yiou Wang & Hsiao-Chu Hsia
"Co-Life/Co-Demise"
Audio-Visual + Movement
Yanran Bi
"Near Light"
String and Light Installation Performance
Ker Chen & Daniel Mangosing
"Hold on no more"
Audio-Visual Performing Lecture
Whitt Sellers
"Underpass Overgrown"
XR Flow Performance
Kevin Peter He
"Passage_Redux"
Audio-Visual Performance
Summer Breeze
"Fully, Lively"
Street Styles/ Contemporary Dance
Audio-Visual, DJ, XR FLow, Light, Dance
DAY1
Oct 19 19:00 - 22:00
Hong Huo & Mayu Nakaya
"Strange Dwelling"
Audio-Visual + Dance
Caren Wenqing Ye, Shiqing Chen & Audrey Chou
"Rhizome"
Audio-Visual + Dance
Yiou Wang & Hsiao-Chu Hsia
"Co-Life/Co-Demise"
Audio-Visual + Movement
Summer Breeze
"Fully, Lively" pt.2
Contemporary Dance
With a selection of provocative short films including:
Cecilia Villaverde
"La Bruja de Texcoco"
Ker Chen
"Hunting"
Splaces Studio
"Dendro Sonic"
Sutanuka Jashu, Lorena Patricia Garcia Espino, Denise Ackerl, Rocío Palacin Rotbarg, Owen McAteer, Laura Hernández
"Unlovable Creatures"
DAY2
Oct 20 13:00 - 15:30
Audio-Visual, Motion Capture, Dance, Sonic Healing
DAY2
OCTOBER 20
12:30 - 13:00
RECEPTION
13:30 - 14:30
PERFORMANCE & SHORT FILM SCREENING
14:30 - 17:00
“SEED MAPPING: URBAN PLANTING THROUGH DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHY” WORKSHOP by OREADES PRESS
PARTNERS
SPONSORS
TALKS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Talk & Panel Discussions Period
Oct 19 14:30 - 17:00
Panelists
Yiou Wang
Yiou Wang is a multimedia artist and designer who creates immersive experiences using interactive media and technology, exploring the intersection of human and non-human perspectives.
Whitt Sellers
Whitt Sellers is an XR technologist, artist, and fire performer in NYC, blending immersive technology with live performance using real-time render engines and XR tools.
Wu Wei
Wei Wu is a multi-disciplinary designer specializing in computational design, AR/VR, and digital fabrication, contributing to innovative projects like carbon fiber roofs and immersive experiences.
Sutanuka Jashu
Sutanuka Jashu creates immersive installations that merge art, technology, and culture, exploring history, AI, and ecological futures with a blend of traditional and modern aesthetics.
Schyler Dragoo
Schuyler Dragoo is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist whose work explores human and non-human interaction through painting, sculpture, video, and performance, challenging societal norms and encouraging introspection.
Rachel TonThat
Rachel TonThat is a multidisciplinary artist and writer working with narrative structures around themes of possible futures, memory, and space-time.
PARTICIPATORY ACTIVITIES
Participatory Activities Period
OCT 20, 16:00 - 17:00
Title
Seed Mapping: Urban Planting Through Digital Cartography
by Oreades Press (Irene Lee & Rachel TonThat)
In an era when the pace of technological advancements is matched only by environmental decline, how can we bridge the gap between the digital and the environmental worlds? Oreades Press, an art book duo composed of Rachel TonThat and Irene Lee, is addressing the climate crises through storytelling and community outreach and are currently working on their third book around this question.
In this workshop, participants will discuss their own relationship with technology and the environment. To better exemplify this question, they will also learn and participate in "guerilla gardening" with a geo-mapping component, inspired by the work the Green Guerrillas began in New York City in the 1970’s seeing potential for growth in the crevices of busy streets. After making our "seed marbles", the workshop will disperse to plant the seeds and then reconvene to celebrate the end of the UAAD digital festival.
All materials provided for, but visitors may handle dirt and seeds.
About Oreades Press:
Oreades Press is a collaborative publishing project between Rachel TonThat and Irene Lee. Named after the nymphs of the mountains who protected travelers in Greek mythology, the press publishes handbound fine art books composed of visual art and fiction influenced by folklore.