Garden For Drowning Descendants, Eva Davidova, Sidney San Martin

Artist Eva Davidova and creative technologist Sidney San Martin will give a demo and a brief introduction of the interactive, mixed reality installation Garden For Drowning Descendants, currently at Harvestworks. Discussion on the process and collaborative aspect of the piece will lead into the conceptual issues around the technologies employed. Sidney San Martin will talk about the custom code and innovative solutions he developed for the piece.

We will explore terminologies, possibility for collaboration and a simple framework for the creation of potential artworks. The intention of this talk is to promote, support and facilitate the participation of everyone in the creation of virtual worlds, evermore entangled with the physical.

Bios:
EVA DAVIDOVA explores behavior, ecological disaster, and the political implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. Challenging a singular narrative, she combines ancient mythology with the current technological moment to address the looming ecological catastrophe. Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the Everson Museum, the Albright Knox Museum, MACBA Barcelona, CAAC Sevilla, La Regenta, ISSUE Project Room, and Instituto Cervantes among others. Recently she was a fellow of Harvestworks’ TIP program, Residency Unlimited, Alfred IEA, and a member of NEW INC, the New Museum incubator at the intersection of art, design and technology.

SIDNEY SAN MARTIN (a.k.a. s4y) is a computer programmer and performer based in Brooklyn, NY. He has worked on tools for performance, live music visuals, immersive art installations, 3D virtual spaces, systems programming, electronics, and almost everything else that involves a computer. He is always looking for creative collaboration and (some) contract work. In the past, he has done full time software engineering at OkCupid, Keybase, and on Chrome for Mac at Google.

Dinner will be provided for free. If you just want to bring your own project and hack, you do not have to attend the talk, but you can still get the dinner!