Event Category: Events

FETA Foundation pairs with the Miami Beach Orchid Society in the creation of the first annual Orchids and Arts Festival

Saturday, May 4 and Sunday May 5, 2024

10AM-4PM

Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140.

The Orchids & Arts Festival, scheduled for May 4th-5th, 2024, promises a weekend dedicated to celebrating orchids. Co-hosted by the Miami Beach Orchid Society, Foundation for Emerging Technologies, and Miami Beach Botanical Garden, the festival will feature orchid and art exhibits, musical performances, dance showcases, educational sessions, and a vibrant vendors market. Emphasizing our Florida native orchid species, the festival aims to raise awareness about the importance of preserving our delicate ecosystems. The festival takes place at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden. See the program schedule below.

Ticket price is $5, and children are free. Get your ticket here.

The Orchid Adventure by Juraj Kojš will be a series of short music, dance and storytelling performance activations about the Florida native Butterfly Orchid Encyclia tampensis featuring Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer.

At the garden entrance. Orchid Music: A sound installation presenting sonifications of 15 Florida native orchid species DNA by Juraj Kojš. Throughout the weekend.

At the Fountain. FEME: The University of Miami’s Frost Electronic Music Ensemble will perform orchid-inspired electronic music on laptops. Spring 2024 FEME members include Audrey  Puschinsky, Kelsey Gallagher, Jiajie Liu, Rodrigo Castro, Indigo Knecht, Rubens Jose Salles Peixinho, Edward Shilts, Chawin Temsittichok, David Vess and Hayden Stacki. Director: Juraj Kojš

At the Gazebo. Rachel Joy Weiss will present a meditative and educational Augmented Reality Installation on Israeli orchid species in the garden’s Gazebo. Throughout the weekend.

At the Banyan Room. Harold Golen Gallery features orchid paintings by El Gato Gomez, Mariana Kojšova and others. Throughout the weekend.

Saturday, May 4:

1PM: At the entrance. The Orchid Adventure: Tell Me Who You Are. Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer

1:10PM: At the Japanese Garden. Million Orchid Seeds. Andrea Labbee, dance solo. Pioneer Winter Collective

1:30PM: At the Fountain: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: José Hernández Sánchez: Bee’s Piece, Chawin Temsittichok: Artificial Intimacy

2PM: The Banyan Room Patio: The Orchid Adventure: Orchid is a Music Score. Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer

2:30PM: At the Fountain: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: FEME Orchid Music: Brassia caudata

3PM: The Eucalyptus Alley: The Orchid Adventure: Many Orchids, Muchas, Muchas! Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer

3:30PM: At the Fountain: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: Joo Won Park: Singaporean Crosswalk  

Sunday, May 5:

1PM: At the Fountain: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: José Hernández Sánchez: Bee’s Piece, Chawin Temsittichok: Artificial Intimacy

1:30PM: At the entrance. The Orchid Adventure: Tell Me Who You Are. Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer

1:40PM: At the Japanese Garden. Million Orchid Seeds. Andrea Labbee, dance solo

2PM: At the Fountain: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: FEME Orchid Music: Brassia caudata

2:30PM: The Banyan Room Patio: The Orchid Adventure: Orchid is a Music Score. Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer

3PM: At the Fountain: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: Joo Won Park: Singaporean Crosswalk  

3:30PM: The Eucalyptus Alley: The Orchid Adventure: Many Orchids, Muchas, Muchas! Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer

Orchid Vendors on the lawn:

Soroa Orchids, Orchid Eros (Hawaii), So Orchids, Florida Orchid House, Jim-N-I Orchids, Mac’s Orchids, Orchids in Bloom, Quest Orchids

Orchid-related vendors

OFE International: Orchid Supplies, Kawaii Universe: orchid clothing, Orchidabilia and Ingram’s Better Orchid Books, The Branch: Imaginative Orchid Mounts, Glasshouse Creations: Orchid Decor

Orchid Bench Exhibit. Throughout the weekend.

Banyan Room Patio: Talks on various orchid topics by orchid experts.

Saturday, May 4:

11AM-11:50AM: Growing Tips by Carlos Cahiz (OFE International)

12PM-12:50PM: Intro to Orchid Culture by Melana Davison (Jim-N-I Orchids)

Sunday, May 5:

11AM-11:50AM: Growing Tips by Carlos Cahiz (OFE International)

12PM-12:50PM: Cattleya Culture by Lou Lodyga (An esteemed American Orchid Society judge)

PUBLIC INVITATION: 

Bring your show stopping orchid on Thursday, May 2, 2-4PM or Friday, May 3, 9-11AM to be a part of the show throughout the weekend and be possibly judged by the AOS committee.

Friday, May 3,  11AM-3PM: American Orchid Society (AOS) judging. PUBLIC

With the support of Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

Meet the Artist series features Troy Rogers and his Weaving the Mesh artist talk.

Monday, February 12, 8-9 pm EST on Zoom

With support from the FETA Foundation and a 2023 McKnight Composer Fellowship, Rogers recently completed a six-week artist residency in Miami. His artist talk, “Weaving the mesh” will touch upon various ways in which his work designs, fabricates, and tends to mesh networks of several types, from a 3d-printed body suit and interspecies music making with dolphins, both of which were aspects of his residency, to HEXAS (Hexagonal Exta-territorial Aquautonomous State), a standardized series of regular hexagonal floating platforms stitched together by community members to create a floating stage and platform for research in underwater music making—a subproject of the underwater music festival SubSuperior, which weaves together artistic communities in Duluth, Miami, Detroit, and beyond.

Join us and ask questions. Discover and engage!

Get your free ticket here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-the-artist-troy-rogers-tickets-827007731387

About Troy Rogers:

Troy Rogers (Duluth, MN) is deeply involved in the creation, performance, and dissemination of early 21st century semi-nomadic robot herder’s music. His Robot Rickshaw was a human-driven cart full of musical robots designed for all-terrain performance scenarios ranging from guerrilla drive-by rapid-fire black-MIDI-burst-spewing dadaist street interventions to extended duration post-human dronecore therapy sessions. His instruments and performances joyfully teeter between mind-bending wonder and catastrophic failure, underscoring both a skepticism for the chances of contemporary civilization surviving its technological adolescence, and yet an unwavering belief in the power and potential in humans as amplifiers of low probabilistic states.

More about Troy Rogers: https://www.instagram.com/robotrickshaw/

Feta Foundation: https://www.fetafoundation.com/

Poster Photo credit: Paul Lundgren, Perfect Duluth Day

With the support of Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

FETA and The Bridge Miami

present

REMNANT MIAMI

Jaap Blonk (The Netherlands) and Benjamin Shahoulian (Miami) with friends

Poetry and Electronic Sound

Saturday, October 28, 2023

7PM-12AM

The Bridge Miami: 4220 NW 7th Ave, Miami, FL 33127

Admission (includes a grilled cheese):

$15 pre-sale on Eventbrite: https://remnantmiami.eventbrite.com

$20 at the door

The iconic Dutch poet, performer and electronic musician Jaap Blonk visits Miami. He is joined with a troupe of Miami-based poets and performers curated by Benjamin Shahoulian. The opening DJ set will feature Miami own Jose Hernandez Sanchez.

As a vocalist, Jaap Blonk is unique for his powerful stage presence and almost childlike freedom in improvisation, combined with a keen grasp of structure. He has performed around the world, on all continents, including Miami several times. With the use of live electronics and interactive visuals the scope and range of his concerts has acquired a considerable extension.

Jaap Blonk will introduce his work, placing it in the context of its roots: sound poetry, improvisation and new music. He will present both historic sound poetry and his own work, in the form of snippets of live performance, projection of texts and scores, sound examples, including his work with other musicians and / or with electronics, and video fragments. Jaap will then present his set Dr. Voxoid’s Next Move filled with poetry and electronics.

Benjamin Shahoulian is a poet, comedian, mc and event host from Miami Florida. He is a high caliber spoken word artist of many talents and has an eclectic approach to his craft. He touches upon the great poetic movements of history and reinterprets forms, concepts, and syntax through a modern, sometimes romantic and often ridiculous lens. He has produced events and collaborated with Miami’s most treasured creatives for many years and will introduce some of them at this event. He himself will be reciting brain breaking poems and spitting tongue twisting rhymes over mind boggling beats.

With the support of the The Bridge Miami and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

FETA

presents

Closer Encounters activities and panel

and

A talk by Gustavo Matamoros, the 2018 FETA Prize in Sound Art Judge

Saturday, September 23, 2018 at 7PM

Ballet Flamenco La Rosa aka Mango Theater Studio

74 NE 150^th Street, Miami, FL 33161

                    Free Admission

FETA invites you to experience a set of activities and discussion about Juraj Kojš and Pi Winter’s Knight Challenge Award project Closer Encounters. The project aims to rediscover, reclaim and nurture our sense of intimacy and connectiveness in the post-pandemic era. In our activities segment, we will explore real-time sensors (accelerometers and gyroscopes) in music and movement making environments. Then, the panel discussion about three 2023 performances of Closer Encounters will follow, featuring Juraj Kojš, Pioneer Winter, Laura Merisier (Miami Sound Space) Betzaida Ferrer and Dimitry Chamy. After a short break Gustavo Matamoros, the 2018 FETA Prize in Sound Art Judge will present his talk “Sound: audible manifestation of change” about his recent art practices. The FETA Prize in Sound Art was established in 2013 to promote a broad range of contemporary American sound and installation artists and ran for 7 years. The digital archive of the winners, finalists and judges are posted on https://fetafoundation.org/feta-sound-prize-virtual-archives/

Supported by FETA Foundation, Knight Foundation and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

FETA workshop and performance at Underwater Music Festival

Friday, July 7, 2023 6-8PM

Mote Marine Laboratory’s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration

24244 Overseas Highway
Summerland Key, FL 33042

—

Music for Dolphins

July 8, 2023 10AM-2PM

Looe Key Reef

Free admission

Join Nicole Martinez, Troy Rogers and Juraj Kojs for the second edition of music making and listening under water. Fantastical sonic ecologies emerge through a singular access, unveiling primordial experiences.

We are joining the forces of this year’s Underwater Music Festival 2023.  Our workshop will happen on July 7, 2023 from 6-8PM at the Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration on Summerland Key, Fl. The trio will share their newest underwater technology-based explorations and engagements with the water.

Then on July 8, 10AM-2PM, the trio will perform underwater close to the Looe Key Reef their new production Music for the Dolphins via the underwater speaker system. Join the pod and flotilla, and hear the music yourself.

Water-friendly attire encouraged.

With the support of the The Bridge Miami, Harold Golen Gallery  and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

The Bridge Miami and FETA invite you to participate in

If I only had a garden…

People, plants, and the opossum play.

An exploratory collaborative art and garden-making experience.

March 17, 2023: 8PM-midnight

March 18, 2023 : 2-7PM

 

The Bridge Miami: 4220 NW 7th Ave, Miami, FL 33127

Spring is in the air: FETA and the Bridge Miami keep fantasizing about a shared experience in which everybody participates. We begin with a night of electronic music featuring Rat Bastard, Black Mayonnaise, Ghost Flower, Nicole Martinez and Juraj Kojs on Friday, March 17 (8PM-midnight).

Then, we reconvene at the Bridge on Saturday, March 18 to revisit the garden we began creating last year, an outdoor place in which plants, arts and technologies grow together intertwined by collective dynamic imagination. Dream it. Make it. Together.=

From 2-7PM, we work with plants, explore movement engagement, do a meditation, brew a sun tea and jam at the sunset, focusing on the interaction between emergence, passing and sustainability through the lens of the plantological exploration.

Participate. Learn. Play.

With the support of the The Bridge, Harold Golen Gallery  and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

Adventures of the Multicultural Nomadic Piano

PLEASE POST YOUR IMPRESSIONS @fetafoundation & @bridge4220

Experience the multicultural traveling piano

November 30-December 4, 2022

The Bridge Miami

4220 NW 7th Ave, Miami, FL 33127

AND

Temporary spots around Miami

Admission by donation

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adventures-of-a-nomadic-piano-tickets-474710220047

https://fb.me/e/2QY0nkBaF

 

 

FETA in collaboration with The Bridge Miami present a festival of participatory experiences in which the Multicultural Nomadic Piano requests your presence as a creator of its physical and sonic pathways. You will construct, create, perform and observe.

Once upon a time, there manifested a piano navigating outdoor spaces over land, under water and in the air. This summer, Troy Rogers engineered a platform with an upright piano for The Committed Duo (Jennifer Beattie and Juraj Kojs) to perform while floating on the Lake Superior during the exquisite Sub Superior Fest in Duluth, MN. During the performance, the piano wished to be partially submerged, bathed and celebrated.

On December 2, 3 and 4, the Multicultural Nomadic Piano designed by Rachel Weiss is beginning its travel on land. Developed by Rogers, a wheeled platform will carry the piano to its desired destinations. The Committed Duo and friends will co-voice a serenading odyssey Allapattah, Wynwood and Miami Beach neighborhoods.

But first: on November 30 (1-5PM), Troy Rogers will lead an outdoor platform construction workshop, including mechanical and electronic designs at the Bridge Miami.

On Friday, December 2, you are invited to a full day multidisciplinary experience in which you will create for and with the Multicultural Nomadic Piano. During the day, you will be guided by the piano and mentors from a variety of disciplines: Rubens Sales and Da Jin Kim (pianists), Troy Rogers (music and electronics), Rachel Weiss (voice), Nicole Martinez and Juraj Kojs (audio-visual electronics and the garden), Rodrigo Arcaya (visuals) and Pioneer Winter (movement). Whether individual or group project, the fresh creations will be presented at the event at 8PM. Includes music by Tim Watson, Craig Peaslee, Edward Shilts, Armando Torrealba and Joshua Muetzel. Water and snacks will be provided to the participants. Water and snacks will be provided to the participants.

Then, on Saturday, December 3, the Multicultural Nomadic Piano will travel with music through Allapattah and Wynwood in the afternoon led by the Committed Duo (Jennifer Beattie and Juraj Kojš). Meet us at the Bridge Miami at 2PM, or catch us when on a move.

The same night, from 8PM till midnight, the Multicultural Nomadic Piano will be sounding new music pieces composed by the Frost Electronic Music Ensemble (Alvin Phan, Da Jin Kim, Rubens Salles, Dallas Howard, Edward Shilts, Joshua Muetzel, Rodrigo Castro) conducted by Rachel Weiss at the Bridge Miami. Performances by Rat Bastard, Black Mayonnaise, Dialogues (Dion Kerr and Tim Watson) and Nicole Martinez will follow. Join the epic final jam.

On Sunday, December 4, the Multicultural Nomadic Piano asked for a trip to Miami Beach. It will be led by the Committed Duo (Jennifer Beattie and Juraj Kojš).

The piano will return to the Bridge to be ceremonially placed in the garden where it will await the future poets.

Daily schedule:

Wednesday, November 30, 1-5PM at the Bridge: Traveling piano construction and design workshop with Troy Rogers

Friday, December 2, 10AM-6PM at the Bridge: Multidisciplinary workshop: collaborate with the piano on a multidisciplinary creation. Mentors: Rubens Sales and Da Jin Kim (pianists), Troy Rogers (music and electronics), Rachel Weiss (voice), Nicole Martinez and Juraj Kojs (audio-visual electronics and the garden), Rodrigo Arcaya (visuals) and Pioneer Winter (movement). Projects to be presented at an 8PM event.

Saturday, December 3, 2-5PM at multiple locations: The piano travels to serenade the neighbors. Led by the Committed Duo (Jennifer Beattie and Juraj Kojš). Meet us at the Bridge at 2PM

Saturday, December 3, 8PM-12AM: Evening of works for the piano and electronics, including FEME Laptop Ensemble, Rat Bastard, Black Mayonnaise, Dialogues (Dion Kerr and Tim Watson) and Nicole Martinez.

Sunday, December 4, 3-8PM: The piano travels to Miami Beach. Led by the Committed Duo (Jennifer Beattie and Juraj Kojš).

With the support of The Bridge Miami, Harold Golen Gallery and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

 

Meet the Artist series features a chat with Alba Triana, the FETA Prize in Sound Art 2019 judge.

Meet the Artist series continues! Next Wednesday, we will feature a chat with the FETA Prize in Sound Art 2019 judge Alba Triana moderated by Juraj Kojš.

FETA Foundation invites you to Meet the Artist, the series of online events dedicated to some of the most talented contemporary sound artists.

On Wednesday, September 28, at 7-8 pm EST on Zoom, we introduce you to ALBA TRIANA, discussing her world of sound art.

Join us and ask questions. Discover and engage!

Get your ticket here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-the-artist-alba-triana-tickets-424127906987

About Alba Triana:

Alba Triana is a Colombian-born sound and intermedia artist. Through immersive installations, sound and light sculptures, and vibrational objects, Alba’s work explores the relationship between our human condition and the essence of the natural world. Delving into vibration, energy, interconnectedness, and nature’s self-organization, Triana’s oeuvre probes how the vitality of everything, the alive and inert, greatly determines who we are and what emerges from ourselves.

Alba has received the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (Italy/US), South Arts State Fellowship (FL, US), and was the winner of awards in Colombia such as IDCT National Composition Contest, National Electroacoustic Music Contest, “Otto de Greiff” National Contest, and Alliance Française Best Exhibition 2008. She has obtained commissions, residences, and grants from Pro Helvetia (Switzerland), Kronos Quartet, Oolite Arts (US), GMEB (France), and the Ministry of Culture (Colombia).

Her work has been shown at 104, Biennale des Arts Numériques de Paris (France), Orange County Museum of Art (CA, US), CMMAS (Mexico), International Symposium of Electronic Arts, and Museum of Modern Art of Bogota (Colombia), among others. It belongs to art collections in Europe, Latin America, and the US, including the Otazu Collection and the Banco de la República de Colombia collection.

More about Alba Triana: https://www.albatriana.com/

Feta Foundation: https://www.fetafoundation.com/

FETA Prize in Sound Art Archive: https://fetafoundation.org/feta-sound-prize-virtual-archives/

The FETA Prize in Sound Art was established in 2013 to promote a broad range of contemporary American sound and installation artists. This page serves as a compendium of winners, finalists, and judges that represent a wonderfully diverse collection of contemporary sound art.

Meet the Artist series features a chat with Natacha Diels, one of the FETA Prize in Sound Art 2019 judges.