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 Check out this article for “I Care If You Listen” with interviews with the presenters! (including me)
https://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2016/04/gender-music/

Gender in Music Hackathon

Explore the role of gender in music.

Saturday, April 30th, 2016
Noon to 10:00 PM

45 W 18th St, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10011

Schedule

11:30 AM – Doors open
12:00 PM – Talks and performances:
– Feminist activist & MIA drummer Kiran Gandhi
– NYU Women in Computing on adjective analysis & gender portrayals in lyrics
– Banghra Basement’s DJ Rheka
– New media artist D’hana Perry
– Biotechnological sound artist Erin Gee
1:00 PM – Hacking Starts, optional brainstorming & collaborator-finding session
8:00 PM – Performances and demonstrations of hacks

Artist talk and Catalogue Launch for Vocales Digitales

I will be giving an artist talk on Saturday April 23rd at Hamilton Artists’ Inc. to support my solo exhibition Vocales Digitales.  The event will also feature a catalogue launch, featuring a bilingual publication that includes essays by philosopher Eric Lewis and curator Maiko Tanaka.

The next day on Sunday April 24th I will be giving an artists’ workshop that introduces the Teensy microcontroller through basic electronics and biosensors.

 

New VR artwork commission from Trinity Square Video

I’m thrilled to announce that Trinity Square Video will be presenting new artworks for Virtual Reality interfaces in 2016-2017, including a new commissioned work by myself!  The work will feature pop music’s potential military applications in a first-person shooter style video game – expect autotuned voices, virtual pop stars, and new embodiments of my emotional biosensor hardware to take shape in this new work.

The project will feature Alex M. Lee as head artistic designer as well as work by Marlon Kroll and Roxanne Baril-Bédard.  I’ll continue to post teasers, hardware updates and more through this summer 2016!

Conversations in Contemporary Art

Conversations in Contemporary Art Presents Erin Gee: Concordia University, Montreal

Thursday, February 11, 2016, 6pm

Le jeudi 11 fevrier à 18h00

Concordia University Fine Arts
VA Building 114
1395 René Lévesque Blvd West, Montreal
L’université de Concordia, 1395 René Lévesque Ouest, Montréal

Admission for all Conversations in Contemporary Art events is FREE and open to the general public. Seating is first come, first serve. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. The lectures will be held in English.

Tous les événements du programme Conversation in Contemporary Art sont gratuits et ouverts au public. Les sièges sont assignés selon le principe du premier arrivé, premier servi. Les portes ouvrent à 17h30. Les conférences se dérouleront en anglais.

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ERIN GEE is a Montreal-based artist and composer who explores human voices in electronic bodies, re-locating boundaries of musical form through technological interfaces. Her work in emotion-driven musical robotics, algorithmic music performance, interactive sonic sculpture/scores and digitally-inspired musical compositions have been recently presented at device_art festival, Croatia (2015), University of Toronto Art Center (2015), Trinity Square Video, Toronto (2015), Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal (2015), and Cirque du Soleil International Headquarters, Montreal (2014). Her work has been reviewed in Scientific American, VICE, National Post, and La Presse. Gee is currently teaching in the Communications department of Concordia University on topics of sound, gender and technology.
“There are layers of interrelation that all humans have, where we are objectified, reduced to our utility, treated as objects rather than subjects, reacting to and acting through a subject or group of people more powerful than we are. I want to make work that tries to bridge the gap, to create musical systems and worlds where the subject tries to learn the language of the object, to assume that the thing we assumed to be an object in fact has a voice, and it is important to listen.”

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Artiste et compositrice établie à Montréal, Erin Gee explore les voix humaines des corps électroniques, repoussant les frontières de la musique au moyen d’interfaces technologiques. Ses œuvres – robots musicaux mus par les émotions, performance musicale algorithmique, sculptures ou partitions soniques interactives ainsi que compositions d’inspiration numérique – ont récemment été présentées en Croatie, au Festival Device_art (2015), à Toronto, au Centre d’art de l’Université de Toronto (2015) et au centre Trinity Square Video (2015), et à Montréal, au Musée d’art contemporain (2015) et au siège social international du Cirque du Soleil (2014). Son travail a fait l’objet d’articles dans Scientific American, VICE, National Post et La Presse. Par ailleurs, son enseignement au Département de communication de l’Université Concordia touche au son, au genre et à la technologie.

« Tous les humains entretiennent diverses relations réciproques selon lesquelles ils sont réduits à leur plus simple utilité. Traités comme des objets, plutôt que des sujets, ils agissent par l’intermédiaire d’un individu ou d’un groupe plus puissant qu’ils ne le sont et y réagissent. Je m’efforce dans mon œuvre de combler ce fossé en créant des systèmes et des mondes musicaux où le sujet tente d’apprendre le langage de l’objet. En effet, je crois que ce que nous supposons être un objet possède en fait une voix qu’il est important d’écouter. »
About the event: Conversations in Contemporary Art is a visiting artist lecture series and graduate-level course sponsored by Concordia’s Studio Arts MFA Program. CICA provides a unique opportunity to hear distinguished artists, critics, writers and curators from the Canadian and international community speak about their practices.

Vocales Digitales

Erin Gee
Vocales Digitales
March 26 – May 14

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 26, 2:00-4:00pm

Artist Talk and Catalogue Launch: April 23, 2:00pm
Biosensor/Arduino Workshop: April 24, 10 am (full day) $25 registration required
Original Performance with Daniel Àñez and the Hamilton Children’s Choir (June 25, 2016)

Hamilton Artists Inc. is pleased to present Vocales Digitales, a solo exhibition by new media artist and composer Erin Gee, featuring installations exploring the potentials of human voices in electronic bodies as well as electronic voices in human bodies. Based on a robust research practice, Gee draws from neuroaesthetics, a field that investigates the potentials of neurological and physiological data, as both the basis of, and inspiration for, her technologically complex installations. Turning the inside out, Gee culls data from physiological sources such as the human larynx as well as intangible sources such as human emotions, and transforms them into highly realized aesthetic and musical compositions. Using languages of notation, code, and data, Gee explores the flesh and experience of human bodies, seeking out poetic languages of machine visualization to return the quantitative once more into a space of aesthetics through the experience of music.

The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual publication featuring essays by Maiko Tanaka and Eric Lewis. The catalogue launch will be accompanied by an artist talk and will take place April 23, at 2:00 pm. The catalogue can be downloaded HERE (4.5mb).

Erin Gee - Rhubarb, rhubarb, peas and carrots

Rhubarb, rhubarb, peas and carrots

Rhubarb, rhubarb, peas and carrots, Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina SK), July 17-September 5, 2015. Review in National Gallery of Canada Magazine

Erin Gee at Flesh of the World - Photo by Myfanwy Ashmore

Flesh of the World

Erin Gee - Vocaloid Gig At Nocturne (X + 1)

Nocturne (x + 1)

Nocturne (x + 1) at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal // February 20th, 2015. Reviews and interviews at Creator’s Project: Spend a Night at the Museum, Surrounded by Digital Art and BOOOOOOOM magazine.

“X+1 at Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal. For the next Nocturne du Mac (Friday February 20) :

X+1 unfurls the universe and aesthetics of net art and web culture. For this Nocturne evening, the walls of the circular architectural space of the Rotonde will be enlivened and filled with a profusion of images. Networking and exchange activities, along with many different creations by local and international artists, will merge together before being retranscribed in a unique, immersive, visual experience.

The originators of the project⎯Erin Gee, Benoit Palop, Sabrina Ratté and Tristan Stevens⎯have invited artists from their personal networks who, in turn, have each invited another artist, a method of selection that emphasizes URL social activities and the open source, exponential nature of creation in the Internet age: hence the designator X+1.

As part of this event, Sabrina Ratté and Roger Tellier-Craig will put on an audiovisual performance at 8 p.m., which will be followed by a performance by hybrid characters created by Erin Gee. Max D. (Deglazer) will move about the space and project his creations live throughout the evening.”

Participating artists:

Morehshin Allahyari, Anthony Antonellis, LaTurbo Avedon, Jeremy Bailey, Masha Batsea, John Boyle-Singfield, Brenna Murphy & Birch Cooper, Jennifer Chan, Max D. (Deglazer), M. Plummer Fernandez, Adam Ferriss, Carrie Gates, Émilie Gervais, Erin Gee, Claudia Hart, Anna Hawkins, Faith Holland, Zahid Jiwa, Alex M. Lee, Sara Ludy, Claudia Mate, Lorna Mills, Adriana Minolti, Sam Newell, Maryann Norman, Aoto Oouchi, Eva Papamargariti, Lorena Prain, Sabrina Ratté, Rafia Santana, Nicolas Sassoon, Tristan Stevens, Roger Tellier-Craig,  Josh Tonies, Reid Urban and Krist Wood.

View the Press Release