Harvestworks is pleased to present, Block of Ice + 1/60, a new multimedia performance installation exploring issues of labor and water ecology by 2007 VanLier Fellow, Tobaron Waxman. The work uses the artist’s own brainwave patterns, generated while he sleeps in the gallery space, to control a Max/MSP software patch, which will dynamically locate Web images pertaining to water in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The images are then manipulated and projected onto a block of ice using Jitter software. As the projection surface (i.e. the ice block) melts, it is filtered into bottles and made available for the gallery visitors to drink, in order that they may assimilate an aspect of the biofeedback loop into their own body. Each bottle is then made available as a unique artist's multiple, with a label derived from the image projected while it was filled. Proceeds from sale of the multiple go to non-profit organizations addressing issues of labor and/or hydrology. For more information: http://www.tobaron.com BIOGRAPHY: Tobaron Waxman is an interdisciplinary time-based artist, specializing in performance and digital media currently living in Toronto, Canada. He recently completed an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he also taught Voice in the Performance department. He has presented at universities and venues in Tel Aviv, Berlin, Hong Kong and London. His videos have been screened in London, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison, Sao Paulo, Porto Allegre, Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Toronto, New York and Amsterdam. About Harvestworks – www.harvestworks.org Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental work created with digital technologies. Our programs are made possible with funds from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the Jerome Foundation, media The foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, The New York State Music Fund, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, The Argosy Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation, The NY Community Trust, The Andy Warhol Foundation and the Friends of Harvestworks. About Soho Nights An evening of special programming and extended hours by not-for-profit visual arts institutions located in SoHo: Apexart, Art in General, Artists Space, Dia Art Foundation, The Drawing Center, ecoartspace, Harvestworks and the Swiss Institute. Admission is free!