Upcoming events with XFR Collective: 🍄 5/16 1-4pm - @wavefield.nyc field trip to XFR at @the_p.i.t._ 👸 5/23 12-5pm - community archiving day at @queensmuseum 🏴 5/28 6-10pm - @wto99doc screening with @prophetkotto at @the_p.i.t._ 📼 5/30 1-4pm - volunteer orientation/video preservation workshop at @the_p.i.t._ 🫂 6/6 2:30-4pm XFR community meeting at @the_p.i.t._ If you like what we do, consider supporting us by signing up to volunteer and/or making a donation! (details in our bio) #nycevents #analog #archive #vhs

Come and hang in our space and share something you’ve made (5-10 minutes or under) with the community! Narrative or abstract, analog or digital, finished or work-in-progress, we love to see it all. This event runs from 7pm to 10pm If you’re just coming to check out what others are creating, this recurring event is also a great opportunity to hang out and meet-up with some video art enthusiasts, as well as discuss future Wavefield events, propose workshops, and get involved with the space! #wavefield #nycevent #videoart

May Programming at ≋ 𝑊𝜆𝜈𝜀𝑓𝑖𝜀𝜄𝛿 ≋ ≋Weds, May 13th: Open Projector Night ≋Thurs, May 14th: Intro to Interactive Video Art (Analog) with @cable_visions ≋Sat, May 16th: Wavefield field trip (free!) @xfrcollective ≋Sun, May 17th: Hands on History of Video art with @cable_visions ≋Weds, May 20th: Wavefield field trip (free!) @skvaf ≋Thurs, May 21st: Video Synth 101 with @cable_visions ≋Tues, May 26th: Video Art Portrait Night ≋Weds, May 27th: Wavefield field trip (free!) @holo.nyc ≋Sun, May 30th: Wavefield Monthly Meeting #videoart #nycevents #analog #wavefield

Wavefield is opening up our monthly planning and review meeting. This is an opportunity for folks to get involved and share ideas for wavefield generally, the website, the org, suggestions for events/workshops, potential collaborations and more (or just hang out!). We will also have food and beverages on offer for attendees, inspired by shirleigh moog and Fluxus dinner commune meetings which were part event planning and part dinner party. Any questions about proposals, volunteering, and the internal meeting can be sent to [email protected] or through our contact form on the website www.wavefield.media/contact

Join us for a tour of Various/Artists led by Scott Kiernan. Scott Kiernan is an artist living and working in New York City. In his video, photo and installation works, electronically synthesized and photographic elements interact to address their own materiality and means of distribution. He is particularly interested in how meaning shifts through stages of translation via technology, speech and syntax. He was founder and co-director of Louis V E.S.P., an artist-run gallery and performance space in Brooklyn, NY (2010- 2012) and now of E.S.P. TV (2011-present), a nomadic TV studio that explores the televisual as a medium for broadcast collaborations. This project also formed UNIT 11, a transmission-based residency program operating from a former ENG van turned mobile electronic studio. Kiernan also founded and co-directs Various/Artists, a gallery in New York City and imprint producing audio/visual releases by artists working across diverse media. Since 2024, Various/Artists has operated a storefront project space at 19 Essex St. in New York City featuring monthly exhibitions and programs by comrades and collaborators.

Interactive Flow: Using Sensor Data to Manipulate Audio and Video w @jenkutler This workshop outlines tools and strategies for creating sound and manipulating video from any kind of data. The course will touch on a wide range of topics including methods of interaction, using data in installations, performances and interactive works. Students are encouraged to bring their own ideas to walk through the technical challenges that they face and to find solutions together. We will cover linking software together, common communication protocols and an introduction to Pure Data (freely available to download for every operating system). We will work with data from sensors in real time including electroencephylograph (EEG), heart rate, breath rate, electrodermal activity (EDA), physical distance as well as pre-existing data sets. Folks interested in the course should bring their laptop with any software that they would like to control (e.g. Ableton Live, VDMX, Resolume, Signal Culture Apps, etc) and a pair of headphones. The workshop will run approximately 3 hours.

GH05+H4CK

 - 5/1 - @wavefield.nyc - Live Remix & Rescore by Videopunks An All Hardware Re-Imagining of the 1995 Landmark Cyberpunk Anime. IYKYK.
 May 1st, 2025 - 7PM - $15 Suggested - NOTAFLOF with special guests @gammavibes & @duality.live 
A Complete Rework - we strip all the score, leaving the dialog and sound effects, cut the film down to an hour, completely retime every edit, and create a new all hardware score to be performed live.

On #vhs and On Tour 4/18

 4/18 - NY - @millennium_film 4/19 - MD - @mercury_theater 4/20 - DC - HacDC 4/21 - PA - Grays Warehouse 4/23 - CT - @bestvideohamden 4/26 - MA - @thehotelvernon 4/27 - MA - @visions.video 4/28 - NY - @nofunshows 
 4/29 - NY - The Psychic Garden 5/1 - NY - @wavefield.nyc +more tba

Come learn the foundations of Electronic music production and performance with Chris Clark. Chris Clark aka Lazy love is a London-raised, Chicago-based music producer, DJ, electronic artist, and composer, whose sound sits between minimal/deep techno, and deep house. He has collaborated with electronic, indie, and alt-pop artists, handling everything from arrangement and live instrumentation to drum programming, synthesis, sound design, and mixing. The workshop will cover a bit of the history of electronic music as well as provide participants with an opportunity to get hands on with sequencers, synths, drum machines, effects, and mixing utilizing wavefields array of audio instruments (if you know, you know...). While this event will have an emphasis on analog first principles and xox style sequencing, no prior experience or music knowledge is required (though it certainly wouldn't hurt!). Limited capacity event. #wavefield #analog #nycevent

April Programming at ≋ 𝑊𝜆𝜈𝜀𝑓𝑖𝜀𝜄𝛿 ≋ ≋Weds, Apr 8th: Open Projector Night ≋Sat, Apr 11th: Live Hardware Electronic Music Workshop w @lazylovemusic ≋Mon, Apr 13th: Video Art Portrait Night ≋Weds, Apr 15th: Intro to Interactive Video Art (Analog) with @cable_visions ≋Mon, Apr 20th: Wavefield Office Hours ≋Weds, Apr 22nd: Interactive Flow: Using Sensor Data to Manipulate Audio and Video w @jenkutler ≋Sat, Apr 25th: Build a Video Synth in TD v2.0 with @permianstrata ≋Sun, Apr 26th: Video Synth 101 with @cable_visions ≋Mon, Apr 27th: Hands on History of Video art with @cable_visions ≋Tues, Apr 28th: Wavefield field trip (free!) @variousartistsnyc w @zenithfoundation ≋Thurs, Apr 30th: Wavefield Monthly Meeting #videoart #nycevents #analog #wavefield

UPDATE: SOLD OUT In this workshop, I will set aside the inherent complexity of TouchDesigner in favor of the exploratory and improvisational spirit of early video art. Using LZX Industries’ modules as a conceptual blueprint, we will build a network that mimics the behavior of classic analog video synthesizers. Along the way, we’ll explore ramps, oscillators, keying, compositing, feedback loops, and other foundational video-synthesis techniques. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a flexible image-generation system that you can continue to expand and customize after the session ends. No prior TouchDesigner experience is required. Just bring a laptop with TouchDesigner installed (the free version is sufficient). [Link in my bio]

March Programming at ≋ 𝑊𝜆𝜈𝜀𝑓𝑖𝜀𝜄𝛿 ≋ ≋Tues, Mar 10th: Open Projector Night (Free!) ≋Thurs, Mar 12th: Intro to Interactive Video Art (Analog) with @cable_visions ≋Sun, Mar 15th: Video Art Portrait Night ≋Weds, Mar 18th: Hands on History of Video art with @cable_visions ≋Sun, Mar 22nd: Wavefield Office Hours ≋Weds, Mar 25th: Video Synth 101 with @cable_visions ≋Sat, Mar 28th: Saturday Morning Cartoons and Waffles ≋Sun, Mar 29th: Wavefield Monthly Meeting See You in the Field of Waves!

303 Day: A Celebration of the TB303 @ Wavefield! In 1981, deep within the laboratory of the Roland Corporation, Japan; Tadao Kikumoto invented the TB-303. But when Kikumoto heard it was being used to create the acid sound, he ordered that all TB-303s should be recalled and DESTROYED. However, soon after - Kikumoto discovered that the last remaining TB-303 was in fact owned by Wavefield and a motley crew of musicans and he vowed to destroy both Wavefield and the TB-303, putting an end to the acid sound FOREVER!!! Come help us resist Kikumoto's wiley attempts and celebrate the instrument that started it all, the TB303 on Tuesday March 3rd! Join us for a night of live hardware acid sets and live visuals, featuring immamuscia, Swami Sound, Tim O'keefe, and Vinton Surf. This event will run from 7 to late (11ish) Happy 303 Day! #wavefield #tb303 #analog #nycevent