New Works Residencies Kenseth Armstead Spook is a multimedia installation project based on the true story of the double agent and slave, James Armistead Lafayette, who gave our insurgent forefathers freedom from the tyranny of the British Empire during the American Revolutionary War. The installation will orchestrate the media and… Continue reading
New Works Residencies Robert B. Lisek FLOAT is an on-line community channel providing a flexible textstream editing solution in real time that is connected with sound and speech tools based on FLEXTEXT software. Tools will be available for users to access, edit, annotate, share, communicate and perform textstreams for worldwide… Continue reading
New Works Residencies Benjamin Aranda Off the Grid consists of video footage gathered using custom-built cameras attached to four pigeons, which is presented on a 2×2 matrix with simultaneous surround-sound that establishes the work’s spatial context. Aranda established Terraswarm Inc. as a design research studio conducting experiments on urban and… Continue reading
New Works Residencies Mary Flanagan Mary Flanagan (Web) for the development of [familiar relativity], a web project concerned with environments, surveillance and natural / physical bodies that involves technology as a way to view or control the organic in real time. A feminist who utilizes both creative practice and criticism to… Continue reading
New Works Residencies Marina Rosenfeld Marina Rosenfeld (Music) for completion of delusional situation, a sound installation inspired by the Paul Celan poem “You–all, all real. I–all delusion.” By creating a surround sound mix with a variety of different sounds, the listener will be able to have a temporary sense of experience… Continue reading
New Works Residencies Ina Archer Ina Archer (Installation) for work on an installation that explores issues surrounding labor and ownership in the film industry, the interactions between racial/ethnic representations and transitional technological movements in media. Ina is an installation and video artist whose works include: Bert Wheeler(ing): Just keep On Doin’… Continue reading
New Works Residencies Zoe Beloff Zoe Beloff (Film/Video) for the completion of the soundtrack for her stereoscopic 16mm b&w film entitled Shadow Land From the Other Side. The film’s title is taken from the 1897 autobiography of Elizabeth d’Esperance, a materializing medium who could produce full body apparitions. Zoe is a… Continue reading
New Works Residencies Ricardo Arias Ricardo Arias for the development and recording of Interactive Mapaphone(s), a self-contained instrument for use in interactive compositions. The piece(s) will utilize mapaphones (hand-held magnetic playback heads) reading prerecorded audio from strips of magnetic tape in conjunction with a variety of sensors feeding into Opcode’s Max… Continue reading
New Works Residencies Ellen Christi Ellen Christi for her work “Simultaneous Imagery,” exploring the combination of electronic and acoustic sounds. The work is scored for electric guitar, bass, cello, drums and voice, processed through a series of overdubbings and manipulations and combined with pre-recorded samples. “Simultaneous Imagery” will be performed at… Continue reading
New Works Residencies Judy Dunaway Judy Dunaway for compositions that will complete a body of work to be released on a CD from Composers Recordings, Inc. The compositions incorporate a 16″ round latex balloon along with other (more or less) conventional instruments. The new pieces will include a duet with the… Continue reading
