Criss~Crossing The Divine is an interactive artwork that addresses the ever-expanding religious intolerance that fuels violence and global wars. To underscore that intolerance is a function of something other than different religious beliefs, Nina Yankowitz’ multi-faith sanctuary empowers individuals to be in dialogue with 46,000 original scriptures from five diverse Faiths: The Old Testament, New Testament, The Quran, The Hindu Rig Vedas, and Buddhist texts. With interactive wands the individual curates topics and assigns more or less importance to each topic-word they select to explore while the database software parses and integrates the player’s topic-word (more or less importance) assignments to determine which three hundred color-coded search/results will display. The participant later learns from which religions their color-coded scripture results originated at a dedicated website. The architects of faith have created a flexible body of governing laws that have the propensity to grow and change through generations. The process of playing the games acknowledges that as the world turns, our personal perspectives change and accordingly what we search to find within the scriptures shifts. This insures that this kind of search can never settle into a permanent groove. The goal is to attain new questions and discover new personal search-result perspectives that are found from individual’s quests, ad infinitum and with no amen. Robotic mannequins representing devotees from each of the five faiths, perform a quintessential gesture like actors onstage, communicating with “The other” inside and out of a video projecting on the wall. The scenario depicts a world where religious intolerance perpetually causes ‘HOUSES OF WORSHIP’ to become ‘HOUSES OF WARSHIP’ shattering all shelters of faith.
Select Press “Criss~Crossing The Divine” Interactive installation - Guild Hall Museum 6/21 – 7/28/2014 New York Times - Paste into browser http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/nyregion/playing-word-games-with-sacred-texts.html East Hampton Star - Paste in browser http://easthamptonstar.com/Lead-C/2014708/Nina-Yankowitz-Searching-Sacred-Texts Link to other projects - Paste in browser http://nyartprojects.com/content/links2012.pdf
Nina Yankowitz, Artist, U.S.A. - Concept, Creative director, Sanctuary design, Video composite projections Interactive Games developed with: Mauri Kaipainen Se. Multi-perspective search engine design Peter Koger, Vienna, Software/hardware Interface design
Robotics team: Seat-O-Mypants, Qing Tian Chen, Mark Kleback Barry Holden, U.S.A. Project Coordinator Updated from “CROSSINGS” interactive installation developed with team 2007
Thessaloniki Biennale Premiere, Greece 2009 Thanks to: Pia Tikka, Rasmus Vuori, e-MobilArt, and Michael Hussar
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INSTRUCTIONS TO ESTABLISH HOW YOU WANT YOUR TOPICS SEARCHED:
“SEEK & SEARCH~SLIDER GAME”
Using wands in the “Search & Seek Slider Game”, people can select, move & place, topic-words along each of five lines; towards the left to decrease the value of importance to the topic, or to the right to assign more importance to the topic, while at the same time, color-coded scripture/results display relevant perspectives on a wall.
* Touch tip of wand on red button and tap to search for topics that are important to you. Keep tapping until you see a topic you want to select.
* Slide topic-word to assign more or less importance to the topic: (Least importance towards left - Most importance towards right). As you slide topic-words, the color-coded scripture results will accordingly change.
* Repeat this on each of five lines in the “Seek & Search Game”
* Retrieve your results at our dedicated website.
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INSTRUCTIONS TO ESTABLISH HOW YOU WANT YOUR TOPICS SEARCHED: “VIRTUAL VORTEX PAINT GAME”
Using a paintbrush wand in the “Spiral Vortex Virtual Paint Game” you slide each selected topic thru virtual paint & locate the word on the spiral to assign more or less importance to your chosen topic; more importance towards center of spiral and less importance is closer to the paint tube. At the same time, color-coded scripture/results display relevant perspectives on the wall. * Pick up interactive paintbrush wand and tap the red button on paint tube to squeeze out topics and repeat until you
find and choose the topic-word you want to explore on each of the five spiral lines.
* Click on the topic-word you select and slide it thru virtual paint to place it on each of the five spiral tracks to assign more or less importance to your topic.
(LESS importance is closer to the paint tube - MORE importance is towards the center of the vortex)
* When ready, press “Save” and record your code #_ _ _ _ to learn from which faiths your color-coded scripture search/results came from.
* Retrieve your results at our dedicated website.
“Playing the game at the heart of the piece”. Credit Gordon M. Grant for The New York Times Continue
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Nina Yankowitz 106 Spring St #2N New York 10012 USA [email protected] 917~575~0671
2014 “Criss~Crossing The Divine” - Installation-robotic Devotees, Interactive Games with team, Curator Christina Mossaides, Director, Guild Hall Museum. E.Hampton NY 6-7/2014
2012 Global Warming Bursting Seams, Solo Exhibit Museum Quarter, Vienna 2012 “Nature Incorporated” ARTSITES, NY 2011 Museum of Modern Art, Kiev, Ukraine 2011 Third Woman interactive fashions/Performance/Film`Game Galapagos NY Director N.Yankowitz 2010 Third Woman interactive film/Viral performances, Xian China 2010 National Academy Museum New York 185th Annual Exhibit, NY 2010 “Third Woman” interactive film Game Thessaloniki Biennale Third Woman, U. of Bath England 2009 “Third Woman” interactive film/Performance Interventions, State Mus.Of Contemp.Art Greece 2009 “Crossings” interactive Installation Thessaloniki Biennale, State Mus.Of contemp. Art, Greece 2009 “Third Woman”, Vienna Underground Kurstplatz, Vienna 2009 “Third Woman” Interactive Installation, Kunsthalle, Vienna 2008 Tile project Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad, India 2008 Chiang Hai International, Beijing 2008 Mishkin Gallery Installation “Buried Treasures Secrets in Science” S. Kraskin, New York City 2006 Saatchi and Saatchi, New York City 2005-07 Kiosk.Edu. and A.I.A. NYC 2005 Guild Hall Museum Garden, Kiosk.Edu, E. Hampton, New York 2005 Chicago Art Fair, Kiosk.Edu - Public Art Installation 2005 Bologna Art Fair, Flash Art Show, Bologna Italy 1998 Art In General, NYC. "Scale Changes" 1997 TZ Art and Co., NYC 1990 Katonah Museum of Art, The Technological Muse 1996 The Bass Museum, Miami, Florida1987 Snug Harbor Museum, Staten Island, N.Y 1985 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA 1982 Sound (Fall 1982): "Hell's Breath” Installation by Nina Yankowitz curator Bill Hellerman 1981 Maryland Museum of Fine Arts, Baltimore, MD 1973 Whitney Biennial (Biennial Premiere) “Thread Readings” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY 1973 Brockton Museum, Boston, MA 1972 Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conn. Works on paper 1972 Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany, American Women Artists 1972 Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art 1972 The Art Institute of Chicago, "American Artists Today" 1972 Suffolk Museum, Stonybrook, NY 1971 Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH 1970 Museum of Modern Art, NY 1970 Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conn. "Highlights" 1970 Trinity College Museum, Hartford, Conn.
SELECTED CONFERENCES GRANTS & AWARDS Siggraph Asia2013 curatorial reviewer on 12 person global committee Art Gallery team I.S.E.A. 2012 Conference-Interactive presentation performance 2010 Innovation Conference Athens Greece Presenter Eva Kekou 2010 Transliteracy Conference, Athens Greece 2009 ICIDS interactive storytelling Conference, Portugal 2009 eMobiLart Symposium-Interactive Projects Thessaloniki Gr. 2009 eMobiLart Symposium Katowice Poland presenter Dimitris Charitos 2001-12 U.S.A. Artists grant~Interactive project-Pinball Brain Game
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2001 Visiting Artist/Architect, American Academy in Rome 1997/8 Pollock-Krasner Foundation 1981 Individual artist grant NYC 1979 National Endowment For the Arts, Art in Public Places Grant 1976 C.A.P.S. Grant, New York State Council on the Arts Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, Mass 1969 The City Center of New York,"5 Pieces for the Stage" 1967 New York City Parks Dept., Central Park Sculpture SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, ARTIST BOOKS, VIDEOS, PERFORMANCES 2012 Critics Pick New York Time Out, Third Woman Interactive Performance/Film Game 2010 M.I.T. Press, Leonardo Vol. 43,Issue No.5, 2010 pg 500-501: Author Nina Yankowitz Crossings http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/suppl/10.1162/LEON_a_00053/suppl_file/LEON435-Yankowitz-eSupp1.mp4 M.I.T. Press, Leonardo Vol. 43,Issue No. 5, 494-5 The Third Woman Interactive Film/Game co-author Supplement 1: The Third Woman Interactive Movie Documentary (mp4 18 MB) http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/suppl/10.1162/LEON_a_00049/suppl_file/LEON435-Rieser-eSupp1.mp4 2010 Third Woman Short Documentary with Lujan Gorczynski Voices of The Eye & Scenario Sounds Presentations NYankowitz distribution Printed Matter N.Y 2009 CROSSINGS: the video produced with Lujan Gorczynski 2009 The Third Woman Video Tease w,Lujan Gorczynski, Karsplatz Ubahn, project space Vienna Scenario Sounds, Personae Mimickings distributed by Printed Matter N.Y. CONFERENCES - DIGITAL PERFORMANCES - PRESENTATIONS I.S.E.A. 2012 Conference-Interactive presentation performance, 2012 Crossings Interactive Flat Screen Game Version Developed by Nina Yankowitz, & Peter Koger & Barry Holden 2010 Stefanie Wuschitz, Lesley Flanigan’s “Mz Baltazar's Laboratory” 2010 The School Of Visual Arts, New York City Here, There Everywhere Conference Boston, Mass. “Projections”, Public Art Fantasies CD Yankowitz&Holden, Dia Center for Book Arts, “Bare Bones”, Curator and Catalogue Essay, published by TZ Art and Co., NYC “Sonorità prospettiche: suono, ambiente, immagine = Perspective sonorities "Technicians of the Sacred", Jerome Rothenberg “Personae Mimickings", Washington Square Church, Sound Poetry Festival, NYC "Scenario Sounds", by Nina Yankowitz, published by Street Editions, NYC “Avante Garde” Festival, "Sound Tapes", NYC Anthology, Text-Sound Texts William Morrow, Inc. New Wilderness Letter, J. Rothenberg, "Notes from the Ground", Vol.1, No.5 Anthology, Richard Kostelanetz, "Scenario Series", Critical Assembling “Voices of the Eye”, by Nina Yankowitz, publisher Stefanotti Gallery New York SELECTED ARTICLES, CATALOGUES INCLUDE: 2014 New York Times “ Playing Word Games With Sacred Texts”, Joyce Beckenstein 2014 East Hampton Star “Nina Yankowitz Searching Sacred Texts” Mark Segal 2013 Soho Life Feature about Donald Judd-Nina Yankowitz Quotes 2012 Retrospective article Nina Yankowitz Re-Rights Re-Writes WAJ Fall, Joyce Beckenstein 2012 Art Of The Times2012-13 Nature Incorporated, Beckenstein, Fall/Winter, pg 28,29 2012 Soho Life Imagined World feature article Roman Kudryashov 9/2012 2012 "Nina Yankowitz Re-Rights/Re-writes"Joyce Beckenstein, Woman'sArtJournal, editor Joan Marter 2011 Critics Pick New York Time Out Magazine, Third Woman Interactive Performance/Film Game 2010 NY Times Academy Gives Art Some Wiggle Room By Karen Rosenberg Feb.18, 2010 2010 Not Just the Whitney Biennial – Artopia by John Perrault 2009 The Heretics Joan Braderman film Art Forum Mag. By Ed Halter Oct. 2009 Interactive Storytelling: Second Joint International Conference Page 340 Ido A. Iurgel computers 2009 360 pages Pia Tikka (Finland), Nina Yankowitz (USA) 2008 Being Watched:Yvonne Rainer&The1960sCarrie Lambert-Beatty yankowitzPg.283,299,340 Continue
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2008 Sackler Center Archive, Brooklyn Museum Brklyn. NY 2005 Chicago Sun, April 2005 Southampton Press, August
2004 Art News Magazine, Outside/In, Lily Wei, March pg. 134 2002 The East Hampton Star, “Nina Yankowitz Art Of The Moment” Robert Long 1999 The New York Times, Sun. Dec. 12 1999 Public Art Review, Fall/Winter '99 issue 21, volume II 1998 New York Times, Sept. 13, Helen Harrison 1998 Dan's Papers, Easthampton, NY, Aug. 2 1997 The New York Times, Oct. 31, Holland Cotter 1997 The Herald, Sept 19 1996 Kansas City Star, Fri. Aug. 30 1995 Art Press, French Edition, Author Sol Ostrow 1994 New York Times, Sunday, Sept.4 SELECT MULTIMEDIA PROJECT LINKS & PRESS New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/nyregion/playing-word-games-with-sacred-texts.html East Hampton Star http://easthamptonstar.com/Lead-C/2014708/Nina-Yankowitz-Searching-Sacred-Texts Project Links Page http://nyartprojects.com/content/links2012.pdf http://nyartprojects.com/articles/Yankowitz_Retrospective_Beckenstein_1967-2012.pdf http://www.nyartprojects.com/Videos/ThirdWoman_Article_Schenker.pdf www.nyartprojects.com/Videos/Third_Woman_Inter_Perf_FilmGame_NY.pdf http://www.nyartprojects.com/Videos/Global_Warming_NY.mp4 http://www.nyartprojects.com/Vienna/GlobalWarming.mp4 http://www.nyartprojects.com/Videos/Third_Woman_Inter_Perf_FilmGame_NY.pdf http://www.nyartprojects.com/Videos/Third_Woman_Interactive_Movie_Documentary.mp4 http://www.nyartprojects.com/CrossingsVideo/Crossings_Interactive_Installation_Documentary.mp4 http://www.nyartprojects.com/crossings/Crossings_Interactive_Game_2Versions.pdf http://www.nyartprojects.com/Videos/MultiFaith_Spin.mov http://www.nyartprojects.com/Videos/BuriedTreasures_Secrets_In_Science_Stories_Yankowitz.m4v http://www.nyartprojects.com/CloudHouseVideo/Cloud_House2.mp4 www.nyartprojects.com/Videos/Third_Woman_FilmGame_NY_Documentary.mp4 CONFERENCES - DIGITAL PERFORMANCES - PRESENTATIONS I.S.E.A. 2012 Conference-Interactive presentation performance, 2012 Crossings Interactive Flat Screen Game 2010 Stefanie Wuschitz, Lesley Flanigan’s “Mz Baltazar's Laboratory” 2010 The School Of Visual Arts, New York City Here There Everywhere Conference Boston, Mass. Projections, CD Yankowitz&Holden, Dia Center for Book Arts, “Bare Bones", Curator and Catalogue Essay, published by TZ Art and Co., NYC Sonorità prospettiche: suono, ambiente, immagine = Perspective sonorities “Technicians of the Sacred", Jerome Rothenberg "Personae Mimickings", Washington Square Church, Sound Poetry Festival, NYC "Scenario Sounds", author Nina Yankowitz, published by Street Editions, NYC Avante Garde Festival, "Sound Tapes", NYC Anthology, Text-Sound Texts William Morrow, Inc. New Wilderness Letter, J. Rothenberg, "Notes from the Ground", Vol.1, No.5 Anthology, Richard Kostelanetz, "Scenario Series", Critical Assembling Voices of the Eye, author Nina Yankowitz, published by Stefanotti Gallery
