@CPR | Jay Reinier: Wave Collapse

When does computation overflow into being? Wave Collapse, by multimedia artist Jay Reinier, explores technology pushed to the brink, spilling into climate change and system failure. The piece integrates immersive projections, live-processed voice, and interactive digital instruments. Concrete poetry combines with cyberpunk in a tapestry of conflicting fragments, telling a story of hubristic science and machine intelligence in a time of rupture and regeneration.

The performance is presented as part of Reinier's thesis project for the Performance & Interactive Media Arts MFA at Brooklyn College. Featured performers include brynn asha walker and ari glenn mombrea. Additional visuals and sound design by Jack Hamill and brynn asha walker.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jay Reinier is an experimental vocalist, media artist, and coder. They create software systems, generative instruments and interactive digital art, spanning live performance, websites, and multimedia installations. Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Reinier investigates the rapid growth of technology and its effects on the environment. Their work draws from posthumanist theory to expand into animal and machine subjectivities. Reinier is a 2024-25 student fellow at Social Practice CUNY, and their performances have been featured at Harvestworks, LiveCodeNYC, and Millennium Film Workshop. They also perform livecode functions as j.palindrome, and work in production at Center for Performance Research and other NYC venues.

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