NEWT Miami: Experiments in Light, Color & Sound (NEWT) is a public art installation inspired by Isaac Newton’s idea that every primary color correlates to a musical note. At sundown from November 10 to 15, the 19-story LED wall of the InterContinental Miami hotel will become a digital canvas for performative architecture. Lights, bright colors, and geometric shapes, all prompting accompanying sounds—imagine an animated symphony—will become a living, moving part of Miami’s skyline, seen throughout the city as well as online at projectnewt.com, available for live-listening. Given the InterContinental’s visibility, one can sit on the bay, log onto the website on their phone to hear the music, and enjoy the show, a temporary musical planetarium.
Working as a conversational springboard, NEWT co-creators Dejha Carrington and Kelly Nunes hope to foster a dialogue about the ways in which the arts can foster a city’s overall growth, utilizing existing architecture and programming to create new ventures and ideas. Says Carrington, “Almost as significant as the NEWT installation itself is how this project hopes to mobilize different communities with diverse programming.” In thinking of NEWT’s primary goal, the installation will debut in tandem with a series of accompanying events, located all over the city. See below for details.
NEWT EVENTS CALENDAR
Free and Open the Public*
Can A Light That Transforms a Night Sky Also Transform a City?
-Beth Dunlop
Tuesday, November 3 | 6:30PM Reception | 7PM Panel Discussion and Q & A
What’s NEW(T) Miami? In Conversation with Public Space Challenge Winners
NEWT and ARTtuesdays/MIAMI—with the generous support of the The Miami Foundation and MDC Museum of Art + Design—present a lively conversation led by Stuart Kennedy (The Miami Foundation) with Dejha Carrington (NEWT, YoungArts), Ralph Rosado (Top Them Off, Rosado & Associates), and with Ilana Vardy (ARTtuesdays/Miami)
Cocktails by Bombay Sapphire, and with Perrier
RSVP at arttuesdaysmiami@gmail.com
MDC Museum of Art +Design at Freedom Tower
600 Biscayne Blvd., Downtown Miami
Tuesday, November 10 | 8 – 10AM
Caffeinated Conversations
A wake-up-call-to-action about experiential storytelling and performative architecture with NEWT, moderated by The New Tropic and hosted by the Arts & Entertainment District
RSVP at aedistrictmiami.
Canvas Miami
1630 NE 1st Ave., Arts + Entertainment District
aedistrictmiami.com | thenewtr
Wednesday, November 11 | 6 – 7:15PM
Yoga in the Park: NEWT EDITION
Bayfront Park and NEWT combine in an extrasensory edition of yoga with wireless LED headphones by Silent Revolution and beverages by jugofresh and Perrier. Instructor Paul Richardson will be guiding the class (Atomic Yoga Miami).
Bring your own mats and towel, all participants must be at least 18yrs and sign a waiver
Tina Hills Pavilion at Bayfront Park
301 N. Biscayne Blvd. (south end of the park), Downtown
Thursday, November 12 | 6:30PM Cocktails | 7PM Conversation and Q & A
Changing Spaces: Transforming space through technology and art
A Rendez-Vous with Women, Innovation & Technology (WIT) of emergeAmericas, Avra Jain (developer), Brandi Reddick (Miami Dade County Art in Public Places), and moderated by Dejha Carrington (NEWT, YoungArts). Technology has allowed for the exchange of ideas to become a disembodied practice, but what happens when we cement our thoughts and works in a space of brick and mortar?
Jewel Box at YoungArts
2100 Biscayne Blvd., Downtown
Free with RSVP, visit website for details
emergeamericas.org/wit | young
Shining a light on events and happenings throughout the city, visit projectnewt.com or pick-up a program at various locations throughout the city after October 23 for additional listings and features by partner organizations and creatives including local author Vanessa Garcia (White Light, Shade Mountain Press, 2015), O, Miami, CreativeMornings, Centro Cultural Espanol Miami.
*For the complete schedule of events, visit projectnewt.com, email info@projectnewt.com or follow us on Instragram @projectnewt
This project has been generously made possible by the 2015 Public Space Challenge – a program of The Miami Foundation, the Miami Downtown Development Authority, and the Awesome Foundation’s Miami Chapter; and with the support of Long-Sharp Gallery, Bombay Sapphire, and 126 backers on Kickstarter.