nato.0+55 presentation at Harvestworks, Digital Media Arts Center   monday 16 april 7 - 11 pm Harvestworks, Digital Media Arts Center 596 Broadway Suite 602 New York NY 10012 This event is free to the public

New York's Digital Media Arts Center Harvestworks will host an evening of presentations focusing on the use of the nato.0+55 modular software in an interactive computer video and music context.

Netochka Nezvanova, author of nato.0+55 describes it as "242.0+55+3d modular - ultra elegant. massively superb + contrapuntal. the ideal complement 4 the ultra sanitary mammalian expression system." See also: http://eusocial.com/nato.0+55+3d/242.phenotipe.html

In his online nato.0+55 review, Jeremy Bernstein describes nato.0+55 as follows "nato.0+55 modular, authored by 0f0003.MASCHIN3NKUNST (http://www.eusocial.com/) comprises a set of QuickTime externals for MAX. Which is to say, nato.0+55+3d modular (nato.0+55 from here forward) permits you to deal with any sort of QuickTime media (films, images, sound, QuickTime VR, QuickDraw 3D, Flash movies, etc.) from within MAX in the same fashion as you can deal with MIDI or audio data using the built-in functions or MSP. nato.0+55 interfaces with MAX in the same manner that MSP does -- seamlessly. MIDI and numerical data can be used to control any nato.0+55 function. Because it's MAX, you can build complex structures around your QuickTime data that permit control at whatever level you prefer." See http://www.bootsquad.com/nato/ for more.

These presentations will attempt to make visible and understandable for an audience from novices to "nato.pilots", what is often conceived as something terribly complicated.Issues ranging from "what is this about?" to how this has been applied in the work of the artists presenting and the, often profound, effects this modular live-video paradigm has had on the work of these artists.

In Ircam's Technology Watch, dossier 18, Vincent Puig writes in the editorial;
"Make images with music ! An old dream from Scriabin to Messiaen and now we get an avalanche of new tools from all over the world for controlling video or synthesizing images from an audio input. Developers of these exciting tools are surprised to discover that they are not alone (what is inspiring whom ?). Among the most recent ones it is worth mentioning the famous and provocative nato+0.55".

Johnny DeKam is an electronic artist based in Troy, New York. He frequently lectures, performs and exhibits his work domestically and internationally, with upcoming appearances including Porto Portugal, Sonar Festival Barcelona, Williams College Museum of Art, Boston Cyberarts Festival and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. His past collaborations include the CDROM "40 Rooms" with Alvin Lucier, performances with Linda Montano, Neil Rolnick and Ethyl String Quartet, and installations with Michael Oatman and Irina Nakhova. DeKam has a parallel career as the principal of Vidvox LLC, consulting and developing hardware/software systems for the cultural and entertainment sectors. DeKam holds a BFA in Painting from Wayne State University in Detroit, and an MFA in Electronic Art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. http://node.net/ http://vidvox.tv/

Kurt Ralske is a Manhattan-based composer and video artist. He has released 7 full-length cds on Sony, 4AD, SubRosa, and other labels. He has composed film scores for 8 feature films, including the winner of the Best Feature Film award at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival. Kurt's video and audio work is created with his own custom tools written in Max/MSP, nato.0+55, C, and Java. Last year he had over 50 audio/video performances in Norway, Belgium, Germany, and the USA. His recent cd release "amor.0+01" on the Belgian label SubRosa contains a 5 minute video piece, in addition to the audio. Examples of his work are available at http://www.miau-miau.com

Jeremy Bernstein's work with sound and video has been presented abroad, in Germany, the Netherlands, England, and in New York at such venues as P.S. 122, the Knitting Factory, HERE and The Kitchen. He maintains several online resources devoted to NATO.0+55, including memegarden, a community mailing list. Regular performances keep him happy, and most Friday nights, you can find him (along with Kurt Ralske) at (sub)Tonic in lower Manhattan, making things with light. For more information, point your browsers to http://www.bootsquad.com/

The work of Bruce Gremo conjoins composition, improvisation, and interactive computer programming. Recently, as an Artist in Residence at Harvest Works, NYC, he produced multiple computer work, Talkative Gods, which interfaces an acoustic musician, a computer video artist, and an actress. It received four NYC performances in Dec. He was a featured composer in the “Cooler by the Shade” series in NYC (9/22/00). He premiered a computer interactive work, Koan & Drone, which interfaces up to four acoustic musicians. He and computer video artist René Beekman were featured in two concerts at the World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam(9/13-14/00). 'Route' is an instrument for improvisation and live processing of sound and image, and enables cross routing of control, between the audio and video domains. His computer environment-work series for acoustic improvisors, Pathos, has been performed numerous times in studio lab performances in New York. The current version, Pathos 4, interfaces up to four musicians (six performances in 8/00). A recent commission was from choreographer Richard Siegal to make a computer music work for the Hamburg dance group, Labor Gras 8 (12/99). He has given computer music concerts in New York, and throughout Europe. Flutist Bruce Gremo specializes in extended technique and improvisational formats on the orchestral flute, the Japanese Shakuhachi, and others. He is also known as an EWI (electric wind instrument) player. He has participated in festivals ranging from the Lincoln Center Festival, where he performed as a guest soloist with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, to Wien Modern and the BBC Proms Festival at the Royal Albert Hall in London as orchestral soloist. http://www.suddensite.net

René Beekman is an electronic artist who currently divides his time between Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Sofia, Bulgaria. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the Netherlands, the U.K., Canada, France, Germany, Austria, China, Finland, Switzerland, Estonia, Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia and the United States among others. He has collaborated with composer & musician Bruce Gremo with whom he performed in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and in New York (U.S.) He has published in Lier en Boog Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory, co-organised the "That Media Thing" symposia in Amsterdam, given workshops and curated a single channel video-art presentation in Bulgaria. His work is included in public video-collection in Nagoya, Japan, and is distributed by Montevideo in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and the Kitchen in New York (U.S.). He has fulfilled an artist in residency at Harvestworks in New York (U.S.) in 1995. http://www.xs4all.nl/~rbeekman

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1977 to cultivate artistic talent using electronic technologies. Harvestwroks' programs provide the artist with production studios, grant opportunities, education, communal lab practice and distribution. Our 2000 square foot facility is designed so students can gain an understanding of how to use digital tools as well as how to conceptualize a project. Harvestworks, located in Soho, offers a creative environment where artists learn new technologies, create art and exhibit new works in an integrated way. This presentation is funded in part by the Experimental TV Center Presentation Funds which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Philip Morris Companies, Inc., the Jerome Foundation, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mondriaan Foundation (the Netherlands).