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InProcess
A new initiative of MediaNoche offering previously exhibiting artists the opportunity to showcase technology-based extensions to past exhibited work.
Send a description to info@medianoche.us.
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MELANIE GONZALEZ Discount Saints |
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015 JANUARY 2016 |
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November 20, 2015 - January 30, 2016
(closed November 25-29, December 24 - January 6, 2016) Among the rows of bottled candles with holy figurines, the scattered array of mass produced, commodified sacred objects, Gonzalez discovered a treasure trove of faux gold jewelry, pink hair rollers, hairnets and do-rags. These she reimagined as contemporary holy relics to be used to assert a new testament centered around Ghetto Mary and her son Papi Jesús, Bronx denizens leading quotidian inner city lives. More about Discount Saints >> |
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SONIA GUGGISBERG Crossing Images |
MAY/JULY 2015 |
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May 30 - July 11, 2015 (closed July 4 weekend) The transitory nature of urban life where steel and concrete reinforce a false sense of permanence is the subject of media artist Sonia Guggisberg's latest explorations in social containment and urban chaos. Lost dreams and childhood memories intimated in song fall under the destructive weight of a wrecking ball. More about Crossing Images >> |
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TRICIA McLAUGHLIN Disposable Heroes |
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2014 JANUARY 2015 |
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November 21, 2014 - January 24, 2015 Inspired by American anarchist and peace activist Emma Goldman’s speech “Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty”, media artist Tricia McLaughlin manifests a multimedia world of ruling and warring apes. Part fine art, part kitsch, McLaughlin’s ape series stands merchandising on its head, offering up the infamous simians as animation, painting and sculpture. More about Disposable Heroes >> DISPOSABLE HEROES has been extended through February 22, by appointment only. Call 646.228.7950. |
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KENJI KOJIMA Composition Fukushima 2011 |
JUNE/JULY 2014 |
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June 12 - July 12, 2014 Radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster that occurred four years ago, in 2011, continues to contaminate the surrounding areas where the power plant is located and is spreading beyond Japan. "Composition Fukushima 2011" is Kenji Kojima's response to the ongoing nuclear calamity. More about Composition Fukushima 2011 >> |
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CAPASSO+KELLER+TINAJERO InMesh |
MARCH/APRIL/MAY 2014 |
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March 27 - May 10, 2014 A multi-media installation immersing the public in the sights and sounds of the Amazon in order to explore how culture modulates our interactions with nature. |
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Eliud Martinez ORCHARD BEACH: Nuyorican Riviera |
JUNE/JULY 2013 |
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June 19 - July 18, 2013 Intimate portraits and landscapes, populated by subjects posing or captured in the act, reveal an eye for the uncanny in the ordinary, for beauty in the everyday. Martinez set out to document part of his community's experience in the U.S. and, in the process, transcended the journalistic form. More about ORCHARD BEACH: Nuyorican Riviera >> |
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B&W Two Photographers: Maximo Colon, Elisa Perea |
MAY/JUNE 2013 |
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May 17 - June 8, 2013 At the advent of black and white photography, specifically B&W celluloid photography, it must have been startling to see the world along a continuum of black and white tones, as a scale of beautifully interpretive shades of gray. B&W: Two Photographers, provides a view of what photography was for the Pentax generation of yesterday and what it still is and can be for today’s generation. While digital photography dominates as an economic medium for graphical manipulation, celluloid maintains a strong presence in artistic practice. |
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Ji Sun Lee's Quotidian: Documenting Everyday Life |
JULY/AUGUST 2012 |
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July 13 - August 10, 2012 The daily occurrences of city living are selectively captured then dynamically rendered through a prism of color and sound. Artist Ji Sun Lee codifies her daily, routine activities as a way of visualizing and gaining insight into the greater, total event of her life. |
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Jaime Davidovich's Re: PLAY |
APRIL/MAY/JUNE 2012 |
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EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 16: REGULAR GALLERY HOURS Taking its cue from the hobby horse and the Cabaret Voltaire, Re: PLAY references the video work of Jaime Davidovich as a whimsical challenge to the conventions of television and painting. |
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Sutthirat Supaparinya's Hypothetical |
OCTOBER/DECEMBER 2011 |
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EXTENDED THROUGH DECEMBER 29 - BY APPOINTMENT ONLY!
October 6 - December 10, 2011 Artist Sutthirat Supaparinya critiques how we know and what we know, challenging us to re-imagine the world and the cosmos. More about Hypothetical >> |
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Ji Sun Lee's Urban Meditation |
FEBRUARY/MARCH/APRIL 2011 |
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EXTENDED THROUGH APRIL 29!
February 24 - April 29, 2011 Artist Ji Sun Lee creates a space of traditional order and harmony with nature ruptured by modernity but here paradoxically restored by it. More about Urban Meditation >> |
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Transnational Temps Spill>>Forward |
JULY/AUGUST/SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2010 |
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EXTENDED THROUGH NOVEMBER 19! Artists worldwide respond to the current crisis in the Gulf Coast of Mexico, exploring issues of sustainability and the role of art in meeting today's environmental challenges. Organized by Transnational Temps. More about Spill>>Forward >> |
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Valerie Hallier's Screened Calls and Slow Portraits |
MARCH/APRIL/MAY 2010 |
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March 18 – May 15, 2010 Using Skype as a medium for generating temporally destructive portraits and self-portraits, Hallier redefines portraiture for the digital age. The show documents and comments on 80 long-distance conversations Hallier conducted online with 7 friends and family members throughout the past year. More about Screened Calls and Slow Portraits >> |
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Niknaz Tavakolian’s diegetic. an interactive installation of the triangulated gaze |
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009 JANUARY 2010 |
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November 19, 2009 – January 30, 2010 Two large-scale queer portraits projected on the storefront windows of the gallery follow the movements of onlookers and passersby. |
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BIBIANA’s CZECH REPUBLIC 1998 – 2008, perspectives from an immigrant child |
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2009 |
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September 17 - November 6, 2009 The immigrant's world is deconstructed and recontextualized in this multimedia, multi-platform exhibition that thrusts the unsuspecting visitor into an intimately claustrophobic tenement apartment. The installation pushes the boundaries of the documentary form. More about CZECH REPUBLIC 1998 – 2008, perspectives from an immigrant child >> |
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Susanne Schuda's The Poet Florian Schmeiser's I Don't Want To Set the World on Fire |
MAY/JUNE/JULY 2009 |
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May 23 - July 11, 2009 Austria-based artists Schuda and Schmeiser’s most recent works examine collective fears and individual violence. More about The Poet and I Don't Want To Set the World on Fire >> |
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Ted Ciesielski's Empire of Desire |
MARCH/APRIL/MAY 2009 |
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March 28 - May 2, 2009 Ciesielski creates an elusive metaphor of power that weds steel and brick to flesh, resolving the public and private spheres in a manner closer to pornography than art and rendering such distinctions senseless by the brute force of the imaging. More about Empire of Desire >> |
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Patricia Villalobos Echeverría's Aguasmalas (Blackwaters) |
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2008 |
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November 22 – December 14, 2008 Multichannel video projections onto parasitic, bomb-like sculptures activate MediaNoche’s architecture. Images of mass rallies and marching soldiers are juxtaposed to a man’s body, floating in dark, indeterminate waters. More about Aguasmalas >> |
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Nayda Collazo-Llorens' Voiceover |
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2008 |
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Exhibition: October 25 – November 16, 2008 Voiceover: A constant flow of text moving across the storefront windows of MediaNoche engages the public to explore aspects of memory, language and displacement. Viewable at night from the street, nearby buildings and passing trains on the overpass, Voiceover is a non-linear textual piece projected onto the windows of the gallery. |
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Diógenes Ballester’s Free Registry: Encounter, Mythology and Reality |
MAY/JUNE 2008 |
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Exhibition: May 17 – June 19, 2008 Free Registry: Encounter, Mythology and Reality: An exhibition that challenges us to rethink the official story. View the Slave Registry of the Village of Ponce, a 19th century text cataloguing African men, women and children as property to be sold on the auction block. The registry provides an eery entrance into a world that legitimized the sale of human beings. Post comments on the Free Registry. More about Free Registry >> |
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CINE-REAL: a curatorial series on cinema and new media Judith Escalona's Bx3M: a work in process Hector Canonge's Idolatries/Idolatrías |
MARCH/APRIL 2008 |
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Reopening: Wednesday, March 19, 6PM - 8PM Cine_Real: an ongoing series exploring the impact of new media on the form and process of filmmaking and its exhibition. The two works utilize digital technologies towards very different ends, altering our film sense. |
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Transvoyeur: Gender, Space, Art and Architecture. Liverpool and New York Exchange Programme 2007.
Artists: Daiva Gauryte (Liverpool, UK) and Kofi Fosu (New York, US). |
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2007 |
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Video Screenings: September 26 - October 13 Transvoyeur takes a theoretical and multidisciplinary approach to issues of gender in art and architecture. Specific architectural sites, projects and ideas are examined in order to explore how space is defined by gender practices, power and vision, masculinity and femininity. More about Transvoyeur >> |
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ABSENCE/PRESENCE An exhibition in two parts September 4 - October 12, 2007 Drawings and Mulitmedia by Antonia Guerrero September 4 - Opening at Casa Puebla September 12 - Opening at MediaNoche |
SEPTEMBER 2007 |
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Two concurrent exhibitions allow artist Antonia Guerrero to explore the Mexican immigrant experience through different media, articulating a lightness of being that challenges our notions of culture and identity. More about ABSENCE/PRESENCE >> |
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The "html-movement-library" plus "Singing Website Wallpaper" Two web-driven installations by Ursula Endlicher |
MARCH 2007 |
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Artist Ursula Endlicher uses physical movement and gesture to re-invent html as a lexicon for choreography. The html-movement-library is an online database of video performances articulating html code through gesture, movement and dance. In Singing Website Wallpaper the artist gives voice to html by re-interpreting code as a musical score and visualizing the scales as printed patterns on wallpaper. More about The html-movement-library plus Singing Website Wallpaper >> |
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"Turnstyle" A transnational, interactive installation by Zulma Aguiar |
JANUARY 2007 |
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Recreating the experience of crossing the U.S. - Mexico border is by its very nature controversial and new media artist Zulma Aguiar plunges waist deep into the fray with her interactive video installation "Turnstyle". |
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"La Vida Nunca Muere" A Multimedia Installation by Antonia Guerrero |
NOVEMBER 2006 |
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Inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead, La Vida Nunca Muere recreates the traditional Altar for Departed Souls as an installation of natural and electronic elements. Earth, water, audio and video are integrated under a shrouded canopy that beckons visitors to sit and contemplate a complex symbology of ancient and modern Mexico as reflected in the waters off a video screen. More about La Vida Nunca Muere >> |
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"IN/OUT" Indoor Live performances and Outdoor Video Screening Curated by nicoykatiushka |
AUGUST 2006 |
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Saturday August 26, 2006. 8pm IN (the MediaNoche gallery) performances by Chase Granoff, Luciana Achugar and Ogechi Chieke. OUT (on the handball court wall across the street) a continous stream of video, where the in and out points of each video flow seamlessly from one to the next. |
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SAN YUAN LI, A Village Trapped Within A City FREE SCREENING |
JULY 2006 |
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Saturday August 26, 2006. 8pm
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, AT 8:30PM (SUNSET) People's Architecture and MediaNoche present SAN YUAN LI, a village trapped within the city of Guangzhou. The video will be projected on the handball court wall in White Park, framed by the urban landscape of Spanish Harlem, a district trapped in its own storm of social and economic change. Q&A with the directors Ou Ning and Cao Fei. Architect Olympia Kazi will moderate. SAN YUAN LI, b&w, 44 minutes. More about San Yuan Li Free Screening >> |
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SHARED The shared body of media works by nicoykatiushka |
JULY 2006 |
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nicoykatiushka objectify their bodies and their intimacy, role playing with notions of private versius public. Glimpses of their intimate life are transformed into living installations, as they seek to overturn the concepts of culturally sanctioned images of the female and male body, gender identity and the reinforcement of commodified sexual stereotypes. SHARED is a series of video installations that depict the mediated bodies of the artists |
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The making of Golden Warriors a video installation by Francisca Benitez |
JUNE 2006 |
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Following her instinct for the unusual and, at times, miraculous, in urban environments, video artist Francisca Benitez discovers pigeon-flying is alive and well in New York City, specifically Williamsburg. Her new video installation is an architectonic de-construction of pigeon-flying and dueling flocks. More about Golden Warriors >> |
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Digital Block Party - Medianoche WIFI launch event | JUNE 2005 |
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Medianoche is providing free wireless internet access to East 106th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues, and all of White Park! Thursday June 15 at dusk join us in our Digital Block Party in White Park! (across the street from the gallery) featuring Full Body Games, an interactive installation by Feedtank.com. |
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BLOGS An Exhibition of Photoblogs NYC Exposition, Puerto Rico Sun and East Harlem |
OCTOBER 2005 |
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OCTOBER 14 - DECEMBER 17 |
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Traveling Identities by La Manga (Mario Villa & Gabriela Medina) -- in collaboration with Anna Keller and Adriana Alcala |
MARCH 2005 |
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Traveling Identities by La Manga Video & Dance Co. is a multimedia installation that uses video, photography, and the Web to explore the cultural identity of Mexicans living in New York and the reality facing this fast-growing group in the United States. |
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Screensavers RNC Redux @ MediaNoche | SEPTEMBER 2004 |
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MediaNoche hosted the RNC REDUX OPEN DOC project, bringing El Barrio residents and Screensavers together for a real time interactive exchange about the Republican National Convention that also included people in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Portland, Oregon and Bowling Green, Ohio. MediaNoche projected the text, photos, etc. coming in from these multiple points on to the handball court wall that we use for our outdoor summer film series. |
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"Desktop Metaphor" An Exhibition By Mateo Zlatar |
MARCH 2004 |
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The piece is a visual narrative that takes place in the operating system of a fictional computer, where different pieces of software are launched and quit by an omniscient user, portraying several pieces of software that fulfill emotional, aesthetical and metaphysical goals, reaching beyond the traditional productivity-oriented software’s intentions. More about Desktop Metaphor >> |
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"LIQUID_EDEN - THE DISCREET PARADISE OF NETWORKS" An Exhibition By Stephanie Owens |
JANUARY 2004 |
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The installation comprises two large-scale, networked projections of a single lily onto a pair of Baroque panels. Over the course of the exhibition, the lilies are systematically destroyed by the cumulative actions of visitors to the project Web site (www.medianoche.us/liquid_eden) forming a luminous animation in perpetual erosion. As witnesses to this spectacle of life and disintegration, we are challenged to re-think our relationship to image and the role of information networks in dictating that relationship. More about Liquid Eden >> |
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"THE BEWILDERED HERD" BY EDUARDO CINTRON |
SEPTEMBER 2003 |
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By transgressing the conventions of imaging through digital manipulation, new media artist Eduardo Cintron explores notions of identity and truth in the synthetic reality of the nation-state, where consent is manufactured by an all-powerful, omnipresent and omniscient media. Noam Chomsky and Walter Lippmann, who coined the term the "bewildered herd," are Cintron's original sources of inspiration. Lippmann used the unflattering expression to explain how knowledge is monopolized by an elite few and parceled out to the unsuspecting masses as a way of managing democracy. More about "The Bewildered Herd" >> |
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>> MediaNoche is organizing computer software workshops for artists. Call 212.828.0401 for schedule information.
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> ph : 212.828.0401 > email: MediaNoche |
