Sarah Rothberg & Yotam Mann
"Searching for Answers in All the Wrong Places"
"Searching for Answers in All the Wrong Places"
In Searching for Answers in All the Wrong Places, Sarah Rothberg and Yotam Mann confront us with a sound performance that has live-acting puppet avatars dancing in a real-time music environment generated by AI tools. Rothberg performs as an avatar in a user-defined virtual world in which both the live sound is influenced by her and she is influenced by the live sound. A space of communication is created between analogue spectator space and live-generated digitality: “songs” that explore questions as visual-acoustic vignettes – possibly even posed by the live audience – creating a unique visual and sonic space.
As the avatar searches for answers online, the environment and soundscape are altered by musician Yotam Mann. Mann uses his own platform to create AI music, looping the avatar’s words and phrases to create an increasingly dense and chaotic effect.
Vitae
Sarah Rothberg creates playful, poetic and usually a bit weird experiences that are meant to invite us to rethink our relationship to the world. She works with different forms and media from VR/AR to installation, performance, video or writing exercises and workshops. All of these experiential experiments can be experienced in a variety of contexts: in galleries, museums, at festivals, in Google Docs, at the Consumer Electronics Expo, on screens in the New York underground, in Apple stores around the world, on Zoom Calls, on secret Twitter accounts or at MoMA (unofficially) through hosts* such as bitforms gallery, Rhizome, NRW-forum, MTA Arts, Sotheby’s S2, CultureHub, Gray Area Foundation.
Sarah is a lecturer at NYU (interactive media at ITP), a member of ONX Studio, a mentor/former at NEW INC, part of collaborations such as MORE&MORE UNLIMITED and IS THIS THING ON? and a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow.
Yotam Mann is a musician and instrument maker. His career has been dedicated to discovering how new technologies can progress music. Since studying music and computer science at U.C. Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Yotam has worked with grammy award-winning artists, authored foundational software libraries for music production, and created instruments and interactive music projects enjoyed by millions.
Yotam was part of the inaugural class at NEW INC, adjunct professor at ITP NYU Tisch, and 2016 Creative Capital Grantee in Emerging Fields, and part of Betaworks’ 2020 AudioCamp.
Sarah Rothberg & Yotam Mann
© Sarah Rothberg
Saturday | 10/06/23 | 21:00
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