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"No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man" Opens March 30 at Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery

“No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man” Opens March 30 at Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery

Exhibition Brings Large-Scale Installations From Famed Desert Gathering to Washington Cutting-edge artwork created at Burning Man, the annual desert gathering that is one of the most influential events in contemporary art and culture, will be exhibited in the nation’s capital for the first time this spring. “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man” will take over the entire Renwick Gallery…

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Governor’s Island Art Fair 

September 2014 

 Aaron Taylor Kuffner’s Gamelatron & Laetitia Soulier’s large scale photographs.

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An Ancient Indonesian Music Tradition Gets an Electronic Update

The Gamelatron is the world’s first completely robotic gamelan orchestra — a kinetic, site-specific structure created by Aaron Taylor Kuffner.

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While in New York recently my friend Eric invited me to a studio critique at The Drawing Center in Soho. I had the great fortune to view the work of Louise Despont and sit in on the session, led by Aaron Taylor Kuffner, who collaborated on the installation. Louise spent a year in Bali creating the drawings, made with pencil on old ledger paper. Aaron’s Gamelatron, a robotic gamelon orchestra, creates a soundscape for the work. Aaron has also lived in Indonesia. Energy Scaffolds and Information Architecture is worth seeing in person!

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For centuries, Indonesians have taken mallets to various forms of the gamelan, a traditional set of instruments assembled from an array of gongs and metallophones, often played to accompany dances. Throughout this month, an updated version of the ensemble is playing digitally composed scores, chiming away in a space in Brooklyn, 10,000 miles from the tradition’s country of origin. The Gamelatron is the world’s first completely robotic gamelan orchestra — a kinetic, site-specific structure created by Aaron Taylor Kuffner, who has rigged 27 Javanese gongs and mallets on five separate steel towers, programming them to play music that he digitally arranged. Tucked into the Chimney NYC, a one-room arts venue that opened in June, the structures border a simple rug and a number of beanbags to create The Gamelatron Urban Sanctuary, an unexpected oasis of sound.

An Ancient Indonesian Music Tradition Gets an Electronic Update

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Artist A. Taylor Kuffner's extraordinary transformation of the Clocktower Gallery into a timeless space of meditation and wonder.