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HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER
2008 Van Lier Residency Recipients Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center has selected Jeff Thompson and Laura Vitale to receive the Van Lier studio residencies for digital art in 2008. The one-year fellowship is funded through a special grant from the New York Community Trust. The Van Lier grants target young, New York-based artists with financial need and from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the electronic arts. The residencies help advance Van Lier fellows’ professional, post-college development and promote diversity, equity and access in the arts. Laura Vitale is a sound artist working in the tradition of radio drama, inspired by fiction, poetry, electronic music and field recording. Vitale will use her fellowship to realize dramatic radio adaptations. Recording a number of actors and singers and musicians, Vitale will experiment with transforming written voice into an audible voice, creating a new sound sculpture. Vitale is living and working in New York and has performed her radio work in collaboration with Thalia Field and Rick Moody, premiering at the Poetry Project in 2007. Jeff Thompson is a multimedia artist including sculpture, video, music and performance. He is living and working in New York. Thompson will use his fellowship to realize a series of systematically evolving sculptural and sound pieces using Max/MSP and Jitter. Utilizing natural sounds derived from the growth of plants, the position of butterflies in an aviary and chirping crickets, he will digitally process the sound into data and re-feed the sound back into the space creating and ever evolving loop. Thompson has received his MFA at Rutgers University and has completed the Harvestworks Max/MSP Certification Program. He has collections in US and Ireland and has lectured in Dallas. His work has received a VanDerlip Travel award and has received several artist-in-residencies. He has performed and exhibited his work in Italy, US, Argentina, Poland and Palestine. The one-year Van Lier fellowships cover travel and living expenses and include access to training, studio space and production facilities at Harvestworks. Van Lier fellows can take advantage of Harvestworks’ broad-based education program to acquire new skills and work with our staff of engineers, artists and multimedia designers in creating new compositions. Once completed, the compositions will be performed as part of Harvestworks’ Listen In concert series and included in our on-line catalogue. Fellows also receive important career development support through our mentoring and peer-contact programs. Harvestworks is a not-for-profit arts organization founded in 1977 to cultivate artistic talent using digital technologies. While originally focused on electronic music and audio production, Harvestworks now offers video and multimedia studios and technical assistance, providing an on-site environment where artists learn new technologies, create art and exhibit new works in an integrated way. Funding for Harvestworks is provided by The New York State Council on the Arts (a public agency), The National Endowment for the Arts, The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The New York Arts Recovery Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, Meet the Composer, The Aaron Copland Fund, The Jerome Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The JP Morgan Chase Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and the Greenwall Foundation. |
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