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Finnegan Shannon: There's no me without you
5+ hour, 37+ min ago (1656+ words) There is no me without you is an installation grounded in artist Finnegan Shannon’s longtime fantasy of an exhibition space that would meet their access needs. The PW Resident Alum reimagines a 12-foot mechanized conveyor belt as a vehicle to…...
Tuomas A. Laitinen: Siphon
5+ hour, 37+ min ago (1540+ words) Siphon, a multimedia installation created by Helsinki-based artist Tuomas A. Laitinen, draws on more than a decade of research in octopus intelligence, sleep, and consciousness. Developed in collaboration with neuroscientist Sam Reiter of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)…...
Ideas in Animation: Summer 2026
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (353+ words) This Summer, 2nd-5th-grade students at the Miccio Center Summer Program in Red Hook will study a range of animation techniques—from the optical illusion toys that catalyzed the art form to contemporary digital renderings. This introductory workshop invites students to…...
Members Night with Pioneer Works Artists-In-Residence
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (348+ words) Join us on Wednesday, August 5, for a special Members Night celebrating the arrival of Pioneer Works' Summer-Fall 2026 Residency cohort. Meet this season's artists and researchers, hear brief introductions to their practices, and learn more about the projects they plan to…...
Pioneer Works on The Lot Radio
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (186+ words) Tune into Pioneer Works' monthly residency on The Lot Radio featuring current and past artists-in-residence. The Lot Radio streams live online from an outdoor space in Greenpoint, BK, where you can watch and listen to the radio in person. August's…...
Theremin Master Class with Dorit Chrysler
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (199+ words) The New York Theremin Society and Pioneer Works invite musicians of all skill levels, instrumentation, and genres to explore motion and music while learning the technical aspects of the theremin. Invented in 1919, it was the first electronic instrument, generating sound…...
Gestural Listening: Sound, Touch, and the Body
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (246+ words) Join new media artist, Olive Yu, for Gestural Listening! This hands-on workshop explores sound as a product of gesture, touch, and embodied interaction, rather than traditional instruments or notation. Drawing conceptual inspiration from Ash Fure’s exhibition in the Pioneer Works…...
ANIMAL [a listening gym]
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1185+ words) transforms the gallery into a sensory-intensive environment that renders the body a conduit for sound. Conceived by artist and composer Ash Fure in collaboration with architect Xavi L. Aguirre (stock-a-studio), the installation riffs on the spatial and behavioral logics of gyms,…...
False Harmonics #27: Dean Hurley, C. Lavender
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (186+ words) Monday, May 18 at 10 AM ET For the 27th iteration of False Harmonics, Pioneer Works is excited to present an evening of A/V performances by Dean Hurley and C. Lavender. Dean Hurley is an American film sound designer and musician best known…...
False Harmonics #26: Conrad Tao, Aaron Turner & Randall Dunn, Charmaine Lee
2+ mon, 7+ hour ago (1247+ words) This evening takes the body as its premise—not as metaphor, but as material. What happens to a performer at the threshold of physical endurance? What does sustained, extreme sound do to the body that produces it, and the body…...