Heft Transmission: REDSHIFT by Ashley Zelinskie and illich Mujica
🔻REDSHIFT🔺
Light in Service of sound · Sound in service of light
Ashley Zelinskie × illich Mujica
The evening begins with a listening session from NASA's Golden Record, the sounds of Earth encoded on a disc and launched into deep space in 1977 aboard Voyager. A message from us to whatever might be out there.
What follows is the reply...
REDSHIFT: a two-hour live audiovisual performance in which Zelinskie's custom system interprets imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope in real time, driven by Mujica's music. Bass frequencies reshape the Carina Nebula. Beats surge the camera through galaxy clusters. The harmonic content shifts the color temperature of every pixel from cold blue-violet to warm orange-red tracing the Doppler effect, the same physics that governs both light waves and sound waves, across the visible spectrum.
The Golden Record asked the universe a question. REDSHIFT listens for the answer.
See a teaser for the event here.
This intimate, limited capacity event will begin seated, and is part of TRANSMISSIONS – a series of live performances at Heft gallery in the LES, using the new ultra hi-fi listening system by Joe Doucet, and a 32 foot Projection wall.
Two drink tickets are supplied for each attendee.
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About the Aritsts
Ashley Zelinskie
Zelinskie is Brooklyn-based conceptual artist utilizing a post-New Media approach, wherein the media employed are merely vehicles in service of underlying concepts, she is attempting the process of translating our vast history into an eternal and universal language, while focusing on humanity as a small part of a larger whole. Her works span a variety of media, from sculpture, canvas and print works, to digital art, VR, and holograms. Each artwork is created using cutting edge technology such as 3D printing, computer-guided laser cutting, satellite plating technology, and gaming engines. Her work focuses on visualizing data in abstract forms and finding new and interesting ways to describe complex ideas.
Ashley’s work has been featured by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vice, Popular Science, Space.com, and Hyperallergic. Her work forms part of the permanent collection of the US Department of State Art in Embassies Program, The Whitney Museum’s artport collection, and has been exhibited at Sotheby’s New York, ArtScience Museum in Singapore and most recently Art Center Nabi in Seoul. Ashley is a former resident of New Inc.—the New Museum’s Art and Technology Incubator—and the Shapeways x Museum of Art and design “Out of Hand” exhibition residency. She is currently working in coordination with NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Smithsonian and she is a member of Onassis ONX XR studio in New York City.
illich Mujica
Mujica is a Venezuelan-born, New York City-bred DJ, producer, musical curator and architect who commands the dance floor, creating an emotional journey that lifts the crowd into cosmic realms of self-discovery. He understands a DJ performance as an intimate, communal journey; a delicate dance in which a listener’s and a DJ’s energy combine to create a unique experience each and every time.
About Transmissions and Volume Speakers
Heft
NYC art gallery partnering with artists who use, and address, the ubiquitous systems of contemporary life. Partnering with a fluid roster of artists, the gallery shows a wide spectrum of work – emphasizing inventive uses of traditional materials, memorable experiences, and provocative artworks that are rapidly gaining recognition for advancing the New Systems
art movement.
Heft has created the TRANSMISSIONS initiative to bring together important musical experiences with a range of systems based fine artworks at their LES gallery. Running from May 15 - June 12th, Heft
VOLUMES Listening System
Volumes Speakers are conceived as spatial instruments rather than conventional audio equipment. Each unit integrates five drivers, including front- and rear-firing elements that create a layered, multidirectional sound field. Paired with dedicated stereo subwoofers, the system produces both clarity and physical weight. Sound moves through the room rather than projecting from a fixed point, extending beyond the conventional stereo image. The result is an embodied listening experience where rhythm, frequency, and spatial information are perceived through the body as well as the ear.
Joe Doucet is a designer, entrepreneur, inventor, and creative director whose work sits at the intersection of design, innovation, and sustainability. Named by Forbes as “the living blueprint for the 21st-century designer,” Doucet has received numerous awards including the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Smithsonian, and he holds multiple patents shaping how design touches everyday life.
Produced by Projekt Blank & Heft Gallery