GOLAN LEVIN bitforms gallery nyc 529 west 20th street / 2nd floor 212.366.6939  OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, November 30, 2007, 6:30-8:30  pm A New York event that is not to miss. Bitforms presents the first solo exhibition by artist Golan Levin. Known for his  work in audiovisual performance and interactive software art, Levin presents five intimate new  systems at bitforms gallery. A rare opportunity to experience Levin's work firsthand, this exhibition  will conclude with an artist's talk at the gallery on 12 January, 2008 at 4:00 PM.     Levin's new works signal a shift in his interests toward spectatorship and the human gaze as a means of activating visual art  experiences. The presence and imagery in most of  these pieces is constructed from the artworks' own history of being observed. Golan Levin's (b.  1972, New York) work combines equal measures of the whimsical, the provocative, and the sublime in a wide variety of online, installation and  performance media. He is known for the conception  and creation of Dialtones: A  Telesymphony, a concert whose sounds are  wholly performed through the carefully choreographed dialing and ringing of the audience's own mobile phones, and for interactive  information visualizations like The Secret Lives of Numbers and The Dumpster, which offer novel perspectives onto millions of online communications. Levin's other recent  performance and installation projects use augmented-reality technologies to create real-time, multi-person visualizations of their participants' speech and  gestures.   Levin's work has been  presented in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, the New  Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kitchen, and the Neuberger Museum, all in New York; the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan; the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo, Japan;  and the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie  (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, among other venues. His funding credits include grants from Creative Capital, The New York State Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller MAP Fund, The Greenwall Foundation, the Langlois Foundation, and the Arts  Council of England. Levin received undergraduate  and graduate degrees from the MIT Media  Laboratory, where he studied in the Aesthetics and  Computation Group. Presently Levin is Associate  Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art at Carnegie  Mellon University, where he also holds Courtesy  Appointments in the School of Computer Science and  the School of Design. For more information goto www.bitforms.com

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