The visual art program for the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival (2012-13) featured video installations, live visuals, and interactive art presented across six music venues in Williamsburg. I curated the work of over a dozen artists who provided visual accompaniment to the multi-day festival of DJs and electronic music performances produced by MeanRed Productions.
Music video from Paul Amitai's album, Luminent Sky.
Shot and edited by Paul Amitai
X-Lab was an open lab environment and program series that I developed, curated, and designed at Eyebeam, as a way of sharing the practice of Eyebeam's resident artists and technologists through "public prototyping."
As a physical realization of the organization's open source approach to creative research and production, X-Lab offered opportunities for deep public engagement through workshops and presentations, as well as informal daily interaction with the artists working on site.
Re: Group – Beyond Models of Consensus was an exhibition that examined models of participation and participation as a model in art and activism. It was curated, organized, and designed by Paul Amitai, Mushon Zer-Aviv, and Not An Alternative, featuring work by thirteen artists, designers, hackers, activists, and collectives exploring both the potential and limitations of participation, networked collaboration, and distributed labor.
The exhibition represented a diverse range of critically and socially engaged work that reimagined institutional practices within urban planning, civil engineering, transportation, industrial design and production, relief work, and the news media.
Participants included The Yes Men; Evan Roth & Ben Engebreth; Ubermorgen; MakerBot; Aaron Koblin & Takashi Kawashima; Ushahidi; YoHa (Harwood, Yokokoji); The Institute for Infinitely Small Things; Giana González; John Hawke; Christopher Robbins, John Ewing, and Carmen Montoya.
MIXER was a series of immersive experiences that I developed and curated at Eyebeam Art & Technology Center in New York City (2007-2011). MIXER featured live performances by musicians and video artists, as well as interactive installations by a range of international artists, which encouraged audience participation and creative play. Each MIXER was organized around a theme – from a mythical New York underground scene to the World's Fair and Olympic Games.
Featured performers included Sun Ra Arkestra, The Juan Maclean, Tim Sweeney, Tanlines, Dam-Funk, and Laurel Halo.
World's Fair is a video art project comprised of twelve segments that combine photo collage, still image animation, documentary video, and sampled film footage constructed from the Utopian visions of Cold War-era world’s fair expositions.
World’s Fair has been exhibited on the BBC Big Screen Liverpool (2008), in a group exhibition at City Without Walls, Newark, NJ (2008), in a solo exhibition at University of Missouri-St. Louis Gallery 210 (2006-7), and the New York Hall of Science (2014). Selected work from World’s Fair has also been screened as part of a traveling video project, VIBE: Video In the Built Environment, presented at Federation Square, Melbourne, AU; Vidi Festival, Valencia, SP; London Study Center, London, UK; and UFVA Conference, Orange, CA (2006-7).
Videography, audio recording, video and audio editing by Paul Amitai.
