Below are some action shots and projection detail photos from my Devotion Gallery performance this past weekend. Enjoy.

If you don’t know, now you know…

Pizza is Art from Jonny Farrow on Vimeo.

Oops..I forgot to post this earlier, but then, most of you are not in Vienna. In any event, below is a link to The Shelter Project’s Blog — my friend/collaborator Nicolas Dumit Estevez and I put together a conceptual audio piece that was installed in the Projektwerkstatt SOHO, Vienna. The work is related to Nicolas’s project concerning the embodiment of the Infant of Prague.

http://theshelterproject.wordpress.com/contributors/

Howdy Friends!
Here, ’tis. The Inaugural 5th Avenue Storefront Art Walk in Bay Ridge, BK. Many stores, mucho art. I will have a piece in my local pizzeria, Rocco’s — a single-channel video work. Come on out between May 21 and June 7 to walk the Avenue and check out the art! Oh, and gimme a holla if you wanna do the stroll!

And, here’s a map of where you will find the art: http://www.bayridgebid.com/Artwalk%202010.htm

Hope to see you on the streets of the Ridge, but until then, below are some stills of the video.

Best,

Jonny

Occult Scenes From Brooklyn from Jonny Farrow on Vimeo.

This is a low-res realization of the video performance from Diapason on 4/28.
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Below are documents that represent the working process for creating this piece. The first slide is a rough analysis of the electro-acoustic music I composed for the work. From this document I began to associate pieces of video, potential transitions/juxtapositions and parameter manipulations.

Next, I devised the score as a set of images and instructions to follow during performance.

This slide shows how to prep the patch I designed as my “video instrument.”

This slide shows the video instrument I “played.”

This slide shows the back end of the patch.

Hello Friend:

Just writing to let you know about two exciting upcoming shows. The first is the latest edition of the Giant Ear))) show which is being webcast this Sunday evening (4/25) from 7-9 pm on http://www.free103point9.org. It features recordings submitted by the students in my “Wireless Music” class at the Center for Worker Education. And, as always, if you can’t listen to the stream in real-time on Sunday eve, not to worry, you can find the show by accessing the free103point9 archive located here and searching for “Giant Ear))) Favorite Sounds.”

The second show that I am REALLY excited about is coming up this Wednesday evening (4/28) — 8pm at Diapason Gallery in Brooklyn. I will be premiering/performing a new video work that I created while participating in the first Diapason-hosted Video Composition Workshop (VCW). I’ve really been pushing pixels over here in my studio! What makes this show even more exciting is the artists involved. Check out this lineup: Jon Giles (aka Naval Cassady), Nisi Jacobs (w/Michael Schumacher), Philip White, Dan Winckler and Adam Kendall. Wow!

A much more detailed description of the VCW is below. And, the performers are also going to briefly talk about their work and a nice program will be available that describes the workshop and a bit about each performer and their process.

Diapason Gallery is located at:

882 THIRD AVENUE, 32/33 STREETS, 10TH FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11232

Take the R train to 36th Street in Brooklyn and walk west toward the BQE — the building is bewteen 32nd and 33rd streets just west of the BQE.

It’s going to be a great night and I hope to see you there!!!

Sincerely,

Jonny

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Hi Gang:

If you didn’t make it to PPOW gallery last Thursday (4/22), here’s a link to some photos and a couple of brief videos so you can get a sense of what exactly happened.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ppowgallery/sets/72157623792133027/

Enjoy,

Jonny

Dear God:

Please forgive me for lifting this post wholesale from the latest WFAE newsletter. Click here for access to the original.

Yer Pal,

Jonny

Sound in Context (Full Film) from Sound and Music on Vimeo.

Video: Sound in Context. Sound in Context is a short documentary exploring the unique practice of sound within the visual arts world. Through conversations with a number of key art institutions/galleries, artists and curators working with sound in the UK and abroad, Sound in Context allows practitioners to discuss some of the issues of presenting and exhibiting sound in the gallery and contemporary art domain.
Sound as a medium is time-based and is sensitive to space, perception/experience and environment, and has become intertwined with disciplines of sculpture, architecture, installation, film and media art. The ephemeral, invisible nature of sound poses a number of challenges within cultural practice and presentation. Situated between practices of music and art, sound overflows boundaries of the gallery, disrupts the line between stage and audience, moves beyond categorizations, and merges models of economy and culture industry. Sound in Context explores the place and future of sound within an expanded arts milieu, while opening up reflections for sound artists engaging in the art world, and visual artists engaging with sound in their work. This film includes interviews with: Seth Cluett (artist), Benedict Drew (artist/curator), Barry Esson (director, Arika), Anne Hilde Neset (deputy editor, The Wire), Hans Ulrich Obrist (co-director, Serpentine Gallery), Mike Stubbs (director, FACT), David Toop (writer/curator), Richard Whitelaw (programme director, Sonic Arts Network)
Produced by: Jonathan Webb and Ashley Wong. Thanks to: The Jerwood Space, Goldsmiths’ University of London, Sonic Arts Network, Nicolas Sauret, Arika, FACT Liverpool, Serpentine Gallery, The Wire and Arika. Total runtime: 30min, 2009. This film is archived on the VIMEO web site.