Michael Ang

Hyrobot Mark I makes his big debut! Saturday April 29 at Tonic! Hydrobot Mark I will perform “Hydrobot Learns to Surf” with visuals by Ilteris Kaplan.

TOOL: An evening of novel performance technologies

Performances from the graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU grace the upstairs stage at Tonic with interactive installations down in subTonic. Projects from classes such as “New Interfaces for Musical Expression” and “Live Image Processing for Performance” put the “live” back into electronic music performance. Presented by ITP instructors Jamie Allen, Gideon D’Arcangelo and Luke Dubois. Installations in subTonic from 7pm. Stage show upstairs begins at 8pm.

Saturday, April 29

TONIC
107 Norfolk Street
New York, NY 10002
$12, free with NYU ID
212-358-7501
http://www.tonicnyc.com
Tonic is located at 107 Norfolk Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Performers include:
Jeff Gray
Todd Makinen
Mike Ang
Nick Sears
Langdon Crawford
Ryan Holsopple
Josh Knowles
Michael Harari
Britta Riley
Chris Kucinski

For further information on the show, contact jamie at nyu dot edu or gideon at nyu dot edu.
For more information on the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU: http://itp.nyu.edu.

Push The Button - Simnuke and 60 Years of the Atomic Bomb

On July 16, 1945 the beginning of the Atomic Age was marked by the successful detonation of the first nuclear device at the Trinity test in New Mexico. On July 16, 2005 a group of artists and engineers recreated the look and feel of the Trinity test in an attempt to portray and experience the Trinity test and reclaim the destructive power of nuclear weapons.

The Simnuke Project has three parts: the simulated nuclear event in the Nevada desert, a gallery show exploring 60 years of the Atomic Age, and a tree planting (to be held in New Mexico on July 16, 2006) commemorating the Trinity test.

One of the goals of Simnuke was to give people a simulated personal experience of a nuclear weapon. As part of the documentation team I collected camera footage of the mushroom cloud from multiple angles. Push The Button will recombine this footage in a video installation which will give participants the opportunity to “push the button” and experience the Simnuke Trinity event.

The installation will consist of a podium with a controller (similar to the Simnuke event controller) that serves as the interface into the projected video.

Links:

• Simnuke project site
• Simnuke images
• Photo of controller (”Nuclear Football”) used for the Simnuke event