#pulseplay

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bloodplay knifeplay fearplay sure sure sure but what about pulseplay

Whumper putting their hands on Whumpee's throat and squeezing, feeling the flutter heartbeat steadily slow the longer they press down on the carotid artery before releasing when it's at its faintest

Whumper checking Whumpee's pulse seemingly randomly, only to slam a knife down inches from their face and checking their pulse again, smiling at how erratic it's become

Whumper wanting to see what scares Whumpee more, almost like a game of this or that, measuring the score in how many BPM they count after each session

Whumper "letting" Whumpee sleep with them so they can marvel at how their heartbeat slows the deeper they drift off, leading them to be able to tell whenever Whumpee is faking being asleep/unconscious in the future

Whumper also watching Whumpee suffer from a nightmare, unable to wake up from the dream due to the strong drugs previous administered to keep them quiet, enjoying the sensation of their pulse slowing and quickening all night long

Whumper making Whumpee wear something that monitors their heart rate, maybe so they can taunt them with the obvious evidence that they're scared, or maybe so they can check from an app to know whenever Whumpee is doing something much to strenuous (ie running for their fucking life out of their prison) and needs to be...settled down

Whumper always waiting until the very last second, the very last heartbeat, before injecting Whumpee with something to kickstart the organ into overdrive, forcing it to go from 0BPM to 100BPM in record time

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Congratulations to the Artists Selected for PLAY Miami Beach 2017

We are thrilled to announce the works selected for PLAY Miami Beach 2017. Each of the nine works chosen by curators Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Pauline Jampol relates to this edition’s theme of POWER, a theme the curators chose to define in a broad sense, inviting artists to explore the multiple iterations of the word, it’s definitions, and the myriad of ways to interpret and contextualize power. 

PLAY Miami Beach 2017 Selections Bolo, Carousel Delphine Fawundu, "the cleanse" Andy Fernandez, MIRIAM Bang Geul Han, How to Remember the Black Book in Seoul Melvin Harper, 3017 Amy Khoshbin, Protest Surabhi Sharaf, Intensities Rodrigo Valenzuela, El Sisifo Ventiko, 꿈을 깨어 (Waking Dream)

“By the time it reached its half-life, the year 2017 had witnessed the gamut of powerful events, powerful people, powerful movements, and powerful paradigm shifts. In feeling the impact of overwhelming examples of social, political, ecological, civil, economic, and even personal power (or lack thereof), we decided to address these moments through the PULSE PLAY program,” say curators Wahi and Jampol.

“The nine videos that we picked include works that contend with the stripping away of power through the lens of the oppressed or expose the dynamics of political dominance through the perspective of the spectator. Others intend to ameliorate the negative impacts of history, validate the power of personal achievement or emphasize the crippling impact of cultural power paradigms on the masses. Each of the videos selected are intended to illicit a visceral response and may be difficult to watch; a few may make you weep, gasp in shock, laugh with an unexplained sense of victory, or sigh with relief. It is our hope that this collection stirs you, and that you feel the full impact of our idea of power.”

The selected works will be shown at PULSE Miami Beach 2017 as well as in a pre-fair, month-long exhibition at Project For Empty Space. Join us in celebrating the artists at the opening at Project For Empty Space on Tuesday October 10 from 5pm - 7pm. 

Photo Caption: Video Still from Delphine Fawundu's “the cleanse”.

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Announcing An Open Call For PLAY And The Return of Jasmine Wahi And Rebecca Pauline Jampol As Curators

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is thrilled to announce an open call for submissions for PLAY at Miami Beach 2017. PLAY is PULSE’s dedicated showcase for video and new media, serving as a platform at the fair to encourage discovery within the digital realm. Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Pauline Jampol, Co-Founders and Directors of Project For Empty Space, will return as this year's curators. In October, Wahi and Jampol will host a month-long collaborative exhibition at Project for Empty Space showcasing the 2017 PLAY selections. This exhibition underscores PULSE’s longstanding commitment to exploration both inside and beyond the fair setting, and creates an additional platform from which the selected works can be viewed.

As selected by the curators, the theme for PLAY 2017 is “POWER," wherein artists are invited to explore the multiple iterations of the word, and the myriad of ways to interpret and contextualize power. The curators have determined to use the following definition of power as a jumping point of inquiry into this complex topic;

POWER

pow·er \ˈpau̇(-ə)r\

noun

1. the ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality.

2. the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.

3. physical strength and force exerted by something or someone.

4. energy that is produced by mechanical, electrical, or other means and used to operate a device

5. (mathematics) the number of times a certain number is to be multiplied by itself

verb

1. (a device) with mechanical or electrical energy.

2. move or travel with great speed or force.

Submissions for PLAY are now being accepted through Submittable. All submissions must include one video or new media piece running no longer than 15 minutes. Submissions should also include the artist’s bio and/or CV, an artwork statement, a supporting still of the submitted work, and the $50 application fee. All entries are due by August 2, 2017 and final selections will be announced in September. Selections will be shown onsite for the duration of PULSE Miami Beach 2017, in an exhibition in October at Project For Empty Space, and will enjoy additional promotion through PULSE's website and social media.

Read more about Wahi, Jampol and PLAY on the PULSE website and submit your work here.

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PLAY Miami Beach 2016 Preview

JOIN US FOR A CELEBRATION AND PREVIEW OF THE PLAY MIAMI BEACH 2016 SELECTIONS AT GATEWAY PROJECT SPACES ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 FROM 6PM - 9PM.

K. Yoland, Military Cut, 2013. Video Still. Courtesy of the artist. 

We are thrilled to announce the finalists for PLAY Miami Beach 2016, presented by guest curators Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Jampol. PLAY, a platform for the discovery of digital and new media works, will be exhibited onsite at PULSE Miami Beach from Thursday, December 1 through Sunday, December 4 and in a pre-fair collaborative exhibition at Gateway Project Spaces on October 26 from 6pm - 9pm. This Miami Beach iteration of PLAY marks the first time in PULSE’s twelve-year history the call for submissions was extended to the public. Curators Wahi and Jampol selected 10 video works, from the 800 submissions received, and in the process developed the thesis of "Body As..." investigating the human body's relationship to social constructs and self-determination. PLAY Miami Beach 2016 Selections Dominique Duroseau, Addressing Baldwin, 2016 Andy Fernandez, Sandra, 2016 Jon Jacobsen, Insula, 2016 Capt. Larry, LAZY GENiUS Presents: MiSS AMERiCA, 2016 Rashaad Newsome, Stop Playin' In My Face, 2016 Jessica Posner, Butter Body Politic (Butterface) Margaret Rorison, Pull/Drift, 2013 Diana Salcedo, Garden Conversations, 2016 Margarita Sanchez Urdaneta, Mouth Filled With Ash, 2015 K. Yoland, Military Cut, 2013 Due to the high number of excellent submissions received, curators Wahi and Jampol have selected five short listed-videos to be featured at the Preview at Gateway Project Spaces in addition to the finalists. We congratulate the artists selected and hope you will join us in celebrating their inclusion in PLAY at Gateway Project Spaces on Wednesday, October 26. For more information about this edition's theme and selections, click here. 

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PLAY

PLAY is a dedicated showcase for video and new media, serving as a platform to encourage discovery within the digital realm.

PULSE Miami Beach 2016 PLAY Curators and Open Call 

PLAY Miami Beach 2016 will be curated by Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Jampol, Co-Founders and Directors of Gateway Project Spaces.

For the first time in its history, PLAY is issuing an open call for submissions of video and digital art. The open call allows more artists the opportunity to submit works for consideration, providing our curators with a diverse and dynamic range of video and digital art to review and creating a more thorough overview of the latest works that are being created within the medium.  

Works selected for PLAY will debut in a pre-fair collaborative exhibition at Gateway Project Spaces this fall and in a dedicated exhibition at PULSE Miami Beach this December.

To be considered for PLAY, we ask that artists and galleries refer one or two pieces of video work to [email protected] and include “PULSE PLAY – ARTIST NAME” in the subject line. Entries are due by August 31, 2016 and final selections will be announced in late October.

Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Jampol, image courtesy of Ventiko

About Jasmine Wahi

Jasmine Wahi is a Co-Owner/Director of Gateway Project Spaces and the Founder and Director of Project For Empty Space. In addition to these organizations, she also curates exhibitions globally that predominantly deal with issues of cultural identity, intersectionality, and female empowerment.

Ms. Wahi began her art world endeavors in the South Asian art department at Christie’s Auction House, which was followed by positions in several Contemporary Asian art galleries around New York City. In 2008 Ms. Wahi opened up her own consultancy, which produced exhibitions and cultivated emerging artists from around the globe.

Since she first started, Jasmine Wahi has expanded her curatorial ventures to include a multitude of non-profit endeavors and socially engaging exhibitions. In 2010, Ms. Wahi Co-Founded Project For Empty Space (www.projectforemptyspace.org), an organization that creates socially engaging, multidisciplinary art exhibitions and programming that encourage social dialogue, education, and systemic change for cultural tolerance. In 2013, Ms. Wahi and PES began a long-term partnership with Rebecca Jampol of Solo(s) Project House, to create a series of pop-up exhibitions under the moniker ‘Gateway Project Spaces’ which then became Gateway Projects.

About Rebecca Jampol 

Rebecca Jampol is an arts educator, gallery director and independent curator based in Newark, New Jersey. Graduating from Rutgers University-Newark in 2008, she took a leading role in furthering the development of the city’s burgeoning arts scene. Ms. Jampol moved forward to become the driving force in a myriad of cultural and educational initiatives including: Jajo Art Gallery (08-09); Glocally Newark (2010); The 239 Collective (2010); Rutgers Future Scholars "I am" Program; The NeWWalls Newark Public Art Conference (2014), The Gateway Project Public Art Initiative (2014/present), Portals, Newark, (2016/Present) and most recently, The Newark Downtown District's Entryway Program "Gateways to Newark" (2016).

Her work revolves around positive activation of private and public spaces, creating happenings, exhibitions, and programming that provide a platform for social discourse and engagement. Ms. Jampol is the founder and director of the alternative gallery space & studio residence, Solo(s) Project House (SPH). Artists are invited annually from all over the world to work in Newark. She is the founder and co-director of Gateway Project Spaces, a hub for multidisciplinary creative engagement located in 2 Gateway Center, Newark. She is also the co-director of Project For Empty Space, a not-for-profit organization that creates socially engaging, multidisciplinary art exhibitions and programming that encourage social dialogue, education, and systemic change for cultural tolerance.

Project for Empty Space, Newark, New Jersey

About Gateway Project Spaces

Gateway Project Spaces is a hub for multidisciplinary creative engagement in Newark, New Jersey. The three-level facility is split between a highly competitive and curated residency program, a project-based gallery in collaboration with Project For Empty Space, and rentable artist studio/ work spaces.

GPS originally opened its doors in 2012 as a pop-up exhibition space as a collaboration between New York based non-profit Project For Empty Space and Newark based Solo(s) Project House. These temporary shows transformed an otherwise inactive office space into an immersive contemporary art arena for the public to enjoy. In 2015, Gateway Project Spaces formalized its presence by renovating and expanding its footprint and scope of work to include creative workspaces and a new gallery space.

Gateway Project Spaces is home to nearly 60 artist studios and shared spaces for creative professionals. The gallery space functions to provide socially engaging exhibitions and community programs to cultivate critical social dialogues.

Gateway Project Spaces gallery space is a subsidiary of Project For Empty Space, a 501c3 non-profit arts organization.

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PLAY

PLAY is a dedicated showcase for video and new media, serving as a platform to encourage discovery within the digital realm. This edition if guest curated by Joey Lico, Independent Curator and Director of Programming at The Cultivist. View the selections in entirety at PULSE New York 2016. 

Curatorial Statement 

To enter a dialogue in which one’s own worldview is on the line-to jettison one’s inherited role in the game of truth and falsity-is to give up one’s patrimony of the world. - Thomas McEvilley

One of the common social functions of art has been its role in shaping and sustaining the sense of Western European identity. Post-Modern art, in particular, presented objects that invited a bonding of communal identification around a shared understanding of their meaning. 

The videos selected for PLAY challenge this communal understanding and actively illuminate the contemporary knowledge that when one culture regards the rituals or landscapes of another, those scenes are instantly incorporated into a foreign mental framework. They are helplessly interpreted through some habit of thought different from the habit of the artists. 

In Shapeshifter, New York based artist, Les Joynes, recontextualizes Joseph Beuys’ I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) during his journey to the Khovsgol Province in Northern Mongolia. Exploring nomadic identity, Les Joynes performs this shamanic ritual expanding his Selfhood in the adaption of the Other. 

Forget me not, as my tether is clipped, conveys Zachary Fabri’s relationship to the cultural history, the ideologies and beliefs that define his identity, and his transformation as he gains experience and knowledge through his performance near Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. 

Leif Huron’s The Valley depicts a man’s journey through an unforgiving rural landscape - a totemic representation illustrating a highly focused sense of identity through one’s struggle to find a place of belonging. 

Each video’s use of ritual encourages the viewer’s skeptical eye towards the value stance of communities other than their own, and in effect, invite us to broaden our sense of self--approaching the goal of becoming not universal in a metaphysical sense, but global in a more empiric sense. 

PULSE New York 2016 PLAY Selections: 

Les Joynes | Shapeshifter (trailer). Courtesy of the artist and 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY. 

Zachary Fabri | Forget me not, my tether is clipped, 14 minutes, 15 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Garis & Hahn, New York, NY.

Leif Huron | The Valley, 11 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Uprise Art, New York, NY. 

About the Curator

Joey Lico is an independent curator and currently working with The Cultivist as the Director of Programming. Lico has previously worked with Independent Curators International (ICI) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), managing and expanding curatorial, development, and marketing projects with both emerging and established artists across all disciplines of art. Focusing primarily on bringing unknown and unrepresented international artists into the US and giving them exhibition opportunities, Lico’s experience working with artists to independently promote their work and develop their practice has brought her all over the world including universities, museums, galleries and art spaces in: Amsterdam; Berlin; Bogota; Cambodia; Frankfurt; Guadalajara; London; Los Angeles; Paris; and Tel Aviv. 

Lico graduated summa cum laude from Fordham University with a Dual BA in Contemporary Philosophy and Finance; received her MA from NYU’s Gallatin School in the Culture and Economy of Visual Contemporary Art; and her PhD in Art History from The University of Amsterdam. She is on the Executive Committee for the Whitney Museum’s Contemporaries, the Acquisitions Committee for The Guggenheim, and on the Advisory Board for NYFA. In addition to her museum affiliations, she is working with The White House as an advisor on their ACT/ART Committee, bringing contemporary art back into the forefront of public policy. She currently lives in Brooklyn and Berlin. 

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PLAY Official Selection 2:

Bahar Behbahani AJAX BOOT 6 min, 33 sec Courtesy of the artist and Causey Contemporary, New York, NY

See the full selection of PLAY films on-site at #PULSEMiamiBeach

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Pulse Play : le bracelet connecté qui va vous faire marquer des points au tennis

A l'aube de la saison des tournois des grands chelems, Roland Garros et Wimbledon, les retours sur les terrains de tennis se font de plus en plus nombreux accompagnés des problèmes de comptage de points et de gestion des tableaux de classement.

Tous les joueurs de raquettes le savent, il est très souvent compliqué de garder le score en tête, entre les oublis, les désaccords sur le terrain, et peuvent parfois même conduire à l'arrêt total du jeu.

De nombreuses méthodes existent, mais aucune ne répond véritablement au remplacement de l'arbitre virtuel.

Durant le CES 2015, sont apparues de nouvelles solutions innovantes, mais qui ne délivrent pas toujours les rapports de performance ou d'analyse de données suffisamment poussées.

Voici que le bracelet Pulse Play lui, apporte une dimension nouvelle.

Pulse Play est partout sur le terrain

Pulse Play lance un bracelet connecté innovant conçu pour vraiment améliorer l'expérience du jeu. Qu'il s'agisse de tennis, de ping-pong, de badminton ou de squash, les joueurs bénéficient du comptage de point via une simple tape, d'un affichage du score en temps réel, du classement parmi d'autres joueurs du monde entier, d'une recherche d'autres participants de même niveau, d'un historique des matchs, de suivre ses performances personnelles et bien d'autres extensions attractives.

Le bracelet est relié à l'application mobile disponible sur iOS et sous peu sur Android.

L'application mobile a été fortement inspirée des applications de sport existantes, offrant aux joueurs une expérience utilisateur unique et encourageante au travers d'animations et d'affichages dynamiques sous forme de gamification.

Une petite équipe de concepteurs aux grandes capacités

La petite équipe de Pulse Play issue de la Startup Nation basée à Rishpon, à quelques kilomètres de Tel Aviv en Israel, ils sont quatre avec à leur tête Andy Ram, ancien champion des tournois des grands Chelems (en simple à Wimbledon en 2004, en double à l'Open d'Australie en 2008, à Roland Garros en 2010, …).

Le défi était de créer un bracelet souple, mince, et léger afin de conférer au joueur un confort absolu.

Le premier prototype est composé de deux parties, un bracelet de silicone et une unité de calcul composée d'un émetteur Bluetooth afin de synchroniser les bracelets du terrain ainsi que les applications mobiles environnantes.

Pulse Play marque des points sur Indiegogo

En attendant la commercialisation du bracelet, une campagne de crowdfunding a été lancée sur indiegogo et je ne saurais plus vous encourager d'apporter votre contribution afin d'être le premier à flamber sur le terrain et démontrer à Djoko combien vous assurez sur votre revers lifté : http://bit.ly/yrpulseplay.

Allez c'est parti, à vos raquettes !

Pulse Play, un projet soutenu par le studio Israelien sFBI (small Factory Big Ideas)