Recent and Upcoming Performances, Appearances, etc.
Peter Gena


Passages (NYC version, see below) ran at the Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, February 2-29, 2008

Genesis (see below), was on exhibit at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (November 3, 2007 to February 17, 2008). It was also installed at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Canada, September 20 to December 2, 2007, and the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain (September 25 to November 11, 2007).

Visiting Artist at the Art Students League of New York, NYC, October 20, 2007.

Joe Hill Fantasy (1993, rev. 2007), was presented as part of the Avant-garde Music Series at the Cultural Center of Chicago, October 17, 2007. The performance featured Thomas Buckner, baritone; "Blue" Gene Tyranny, piano; Douglas Ewart, winds; and Gena, computer.

Passages (see below) ran in the show Out There, at the Art Students League of New York, NYC, October 4-31, 2007.

Passages (2007), a permanent, interactive installation by Steve Waldeck with music by Peter Gena is running in the Technology Building at the College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL - dedication date: August 16, 2007.

A live audio feed of the 17-year Cicada Brood XIII from my yard in Glenview, IL was streaming on the Locus Sonus Audio Streaming Project site, ca. 7AM to 7PM CDT from June 1 until July 7, 2007. The activity will not to return to the Chicago area until 2024!
• Read the feature article in the Arts & Entertainment section of the Chicago Tribune, Sunday, June 10, 2007 here.
• The feature segment from Chicago Public Radio's Eight-Forty-Eight morning show (July 6, 2007) can be heard by clicking here.
• Listen from a selection of recorded excerpts of the 17-year Cicada Brood XIII from Glenview, IL by clicking here.

Immunoglobulin (2005/06), was installed at BIOS 4 (Arte biotecnológico y ambiental), a group exhibition and conference on biotechnological and environmental art at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla, Spain, May 3 until September 9, 2007.

Genesis (see below), was on exhibit at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland, April 14 to August 12, 2007. It also ran at the School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, "Human Nature: Future World", February 9-March 9, 2007

Immunoglobuline - Aix (2005/06), ran at the ESAA, March 21, 2007, Aix en Provence, France.

Visiting artist at the École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, March 19 to 25, 2007, Aix en Provence, France.

Immunoglobulin (2005/06), was installed at Computing Music IV, Fünfzig Jahre Computermusik, in the Alte Feuerwache Köln, Cologne, 3-5 November 2006.

École Nationale Supérieure d'Art, Villa Arson, Nice, October 30 - Nov. 2, 2006.

For Morton Feldman (1988), for solo piano performed by Rei Hotoda at the Sound Field 2006 Festival in Chicago, at Pianoforte Chicago, October 14, 2006.

Decorated by the French government at the rank of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2006)

DNA Music Installation (Bellagio version, 2005), at Pandemic Night, an electronic arts and music festival during La Notte Bianca 2006, Mediateca di Santa Teresa, Milano, June 24. Artist statement: Peter Gena 24 giugno!

Genesis (see below), was on exhibit at the Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, March 27 to June 2, 2006.

Visiting artist at the École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, March 29 to April 3, 2006, Aix en Provence, France.

DNA-PNO (2005), a computer installation for DNA sequences and disklavier, was on exhibit at the Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, December 7, 2005 to February 24, 2006.

Visiting artist at the École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, November 1 to 7, 2005, Aix en Provence, France.

US premieres of La Peste per pianoforte–la mano destra, Botox á 5, Chopin's Catarrh (cf2), and Collagen for disklavier, took place at Musicircus, September 25, 2005 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Lecture/presentation: DNA Music, Recent Work, on April 28, 2005 at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy.

Stabiles (1976) and Valse (1977), were performed by Swiss pianist Iris Gerber during ThrouGh Spaces, das andere amerika entdeckt (3) Das Notenarchiv AMERICAN von Grete Sultan, der Pianistin John Cages, on April 12, 2005 at the Alte Schmiede Kunstverein in Vienna.

In residence at the Villa Serbelloni: Rockefeller Study and Conference Center, April 5 to May 3, 2005, Bellagio, Italy.

Visiting artist at the École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, March 1 to 9, 2005, Aix en Provence.

La Peste per pianoforte–la mano destra, was premiered on solo disklavier during a concert, Compatible/Downloadable at the Festival d'Automne (Des oeuvres dans la ville II / Works into the town II), on December 6, 2004 in the Maurice Fleuret Theatre, CNSMD (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris), Paris.

Genesis (by Eduardo Kac, with DNA manipulation by Dr. Charles Strom and music by Peter Gena), was on exhibit at the Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, November 25, 2004 to February 28, 2005. It also ran at the Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois, September 10 to November 28, 2004; the Museo de Arte y Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru, July 20 to October 20, 2004; the Fundación Telefónica, Santiago de Chile, March 9, 2004 to June 6, 2004; the Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Jan 25 to May 23, 2004; the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, February 26 to April 3, 2004; Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany, February 13 to April. 4, 2004; the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, December 13, 2003 to February 22, 2004; the YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, January to February, 2004; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 25, 2003 to January 25, 2004; the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, August 26 – December 14, 2003; and the Contemporary Art Museum, Monterrey, Mexico, July 03 to October 03, 2003. Click here for Genesis exhibition history.

The DNA pieces, Elastin, and excerpts from Testosterone/Progesterone and Music from Genesis were in the most recent Collective Jukebox 4.03, at the Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Villa Ghirlanda, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano), from April 1 to 30, 2004. The actual hi-fidelity jukebox contains selections by some 500 artists worldwide.

Illinois Arts Council artist fellowship award in Interdisciplinary/Computer Art, FY 2003.

DNA pieces, (see above) were included in the Collective Jukebox 4.02 at the Kuenstlerhaus Bremen (Germany), from June 13 to July 20, 2003. Version 4.01 ran at the Festival Acces-s in Pau, France. Version 4.0 was in Geneva, Switzerland from March to September, 2002. Version 3.1 appeared from June through October, 2001 at the Opera Cafe, Place Broglie, Strasbourg, France. Other DNA works were included previously at the Galerie ERSEP/Université Lille 3, in Tourcoing, France, the Kunstervein Bregenz in Austria, and the Contemporary Museum of Art in Lyon.

Valse, included in The Waltz Project, San Francisco Ballet, 2003 Season: April 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 12.