In January 2022, The 4th wAVe Digital Arts Intensive brought together Gallatin students and alumni musicians and video artists. Three ensembles embarked on a unique and collective experiment to explore, expand, and challenge the boundaries of the creative process. Together, they collaborated across time zones to develop an original audiovisual work.
Introduction to a 4th wAVe showcase
4th wAVe was founded in 2019 by Gallatin faculty member Kwami Coleman, Gallatin alumna Rosie Kaplan (BA ’08), and Noah Kaplan (Princeton University) as a three-week music workshop for Gallatin students and alumni with the goal of fostering a unique community of artist-scholars by cultivating an environment of creative freedom, academic rigor and cultural cross-pollination. In January 2022, The 4th wAVe Digital Arts Intensive evolved into a fully virtual one-week program, which brought together Gallatin students and alumni musicians and video artists within and beyond New York City, and around the world. Three ensembles, Rococo June, ARRT, and PLESK, embarked on a unique and collective experiment to explore, expand, and challenge the boundaries of the creative process. Together, they collaborated through remote channels (i.e. SMS, WhatsApp, Discord, email, etc.) and across time zones to develop an original audio-visual work.
“(ノ ∀ )ノ⌒･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ ･*☆( ( ω( ω (☆ω☆) ω )ω ) )C= C= C= C= C=┌(;・ω・)┘” by Rococo June
Akin to a hypnosis script, a voice beckons you to enter an inner realm which houses the digital and analog, the mundane and strange. Play in an open field, ruminate your love life in a rocking chair, dance under the gaze of eternally unblinking eyeballs.
Roccoco June is led by Rosie Kaplan and features students and alumni Connie Li, Rob Walker, Conny Zhao, and Jun Zhao.
“ULTIMATUM” by ARRT
“ULTIMATUM” is a commentary on human disruption of nature—whether that be in the form of excessive work and the anxiety that comes with it, climate change and environmental destruction, or capitalism.
ARRT is led by Noah Kaplan,and features students and alumni Roza Chervinsky, Ryan Gross, Tanya Gupta, and Alexandra Skora
“Anthropo Scene” by PLESK
“Anthropo Scene,” explores in its totality the variety of intense emotions we human beings experience as a result of existing in a world in which we are dominant.
PLESK is led by Kwami Coleman and features students and alumni Pilar Cerón, Sarah Galvin, Evelyn Guirguis, and Leo Yablans.