Harvestworks is pleased to present 2008 Harvestworks Artists-In-Residence, Joseph DeLappe and Sawako. DeLappe will discuss a work in progress that seeks to create an interactive system that facilitates performative reenactments by "walking" famous routes of protest and pilgrimage through diverse data co-mingled from Flickr, YouTube and live in-studio cameras. Sawako will present A Breath in the Cities, a new 5.1 surround-sound journey about two megalopolises, New York City and Tokyo. Field recordings and other sounds representing the artist's personal memories are amplified, mixed, layered, processed and mutated with digital signal resulting an a work the artist describes as "a journey resonating between tiny breaths and large cities." Sawako is a Tokyo/NYC-based sound sculptor. After beginning in video art, Sawako shifted her focus from the video camera to sound. Her works have appeared on over 30 CDs and she has performed in Japan, USA (Warm Up @ P.S.1/MOMA, WFC, TONIC, Monkey Town, Roulette, Issue Project Room, UCLA Hammer Museum etc), Lisbon (OFFF Festival), London (Institute of Contemporary Art), Paris (Batofar), and Canada (MUTEK Festival). Sawako holds a Master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University and received a B.A. from Environmental Information Department at Keio University, SFC, Japan. Born in Nagoya, Japan, she studied the classical piano over 10 years and Japanese Nohgaku Theatre for 6 years when she was a child. http://www.troncolon.com Joseph DeLappe is an Associate Professor of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada where he runs the Digital Media area. Working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance, electromechanical installation and real-time web-based video transmission have been shown throughout the United States and abroad. In 2007, he launched Iraqimemorial.org, a web based exhibition of and ongoing call for memorial proposals to the many thousands of civilian casualties in the War in Iraq. In 2008, he created a new work, Reenactment: The Salt Satyagraha Online using a specially customized treadmill to walk the entire 240 miles in 26 days to control his avatar, MGandhi, as he journeys throughout Second Life. His work has been presented internationally at Eyebeam Art and Technology, New York, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Camerawork, Sheffield 03, UK, Artist's Space, Sydney, Australia, ISEA 2002 (Nagoya, Japan) among others. www.delappe.net/HOME