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Shauna Moulton – interactive performance
Shauna Moulton's work examines bodily and spiritual anxieties and their relationship to popular culture, self-help goods and functionless cosnumer objects. Using feedback and interactive video to double the protagonists presence, she will add an improvisational quality and confuse the relationship between live object and mediated object. The piece will be shown at PDX film festival in Oregon.
 
Derek Frantz – interactive performance
Derek Frantz's residency will see an evolution of his experiments with human conductivity.  He works with an interactive console at which the user wears conductive gloves or slippers to interact with light circuits which are routed to a webcam.  A vast amount of pixels are processed by his special geometry localization programs, which then translate into visual brightness chains and musical sample sequences. Derek graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz.
 
Christine Sugrue – interactive performance
Using mirrors of various size and orientation, Christine Sugrue's installation passes and fragments a digital projection through a space. Algorhitmically generated forms will be able to move through space in two and three dimensions as the projection area is fragmented through the space, splitting into smaller unique moments. Spatialized sound will also amplify the experience. Christine was an artist in residence at Hangar, Barcelona, Eyebeam, NYC, and ars electronica, Linz.
 
Laure Drogul – networked interactive performance
A knitting needle working symphony. Approxomately forty knitter-performers knit in unison creating a singular knit object-environment. The knitters needles will be equipped with mini pick-up microphones, and the knitters will be networked to send in these sounds via internet. The sound is then recorded, played and mixed in a live installation: a virtual knitting circle-score as immersive audio-video environment. Laure recently received the Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize.
 
Sawako Kato - music
A 5.1 surrond sound journey  through two megalopolises, NYC and Tokyo. Field recordings and recordings representing the artist's personal memories are amplified, mixed, layered, processed and mutated with digital signal techniques.  "A journey resonating between tiny breaths and large cities." Sawako's  works appeared on over 30 CDs, and has recently received a commission from the Jerome Foundation.
 
Shelley Hirsch - music
Shelley Hirsch  will complete "Kaddish for Him and Her", a 5.1 surround sound choral piece in memory of the artist’s late parents. The listener is immersed in a field of moving voices:  a Greek chorus of the artist’s parents and sisters, family voices from prerecorded interviews, and the voices of Hirsch, spoken and sung.  These are multitracked, spatialized and processed to create an experience of place. The piece will be presented at various places in the US and Europe. Shelley recently received the Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize in Music.
 
Jane Rigler - music
A new composition for two flutes and electronics that deals with the dreams, tendencies and cycles of the human physical and spiritual existence.  She is researching Butoh techniques and considering how the slower, sharper, precise gestures of this form may inform and inspire flutists who interact simultaneously with electronics. She received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, and was a resident at Art Omi and Create@iEar.
 
Bill Hsu - music
Using timbral characteristics such as brightness, pitch/noise, roughness, and inharmonicity, Bill Hsu is able to track contours of timbral variation over a musical gesture, and use these contours to synthesize responses.  In collaboration with saxophonist John Butcher, they will develop new pieces that leverage the functionality of this system. Bill is currently Associate professor at San Francisco State University.
 
William Cusick - video
William Cusick will create a surround sound score to a psychological horror story of an American business man whose life inexplicably begins to mirror a series of Japanese ghost stories. The piece, tentatively titled "Americana Kamikaze", will develop first as a video installation during the residency and the story will be told in English with sequences in Japanese.
 
Jessica Peavey - video
The Fatback Series explores spaces and contexts of food in the African American tradition and the effects of food on the African American female psychology and physiology.  Using multiple synchronized soundtracks the simulation of conversations among characters in each channel, Jessica will develop an interactive new media work about food in the viewers community. She recently received a Smack Mellon Artist In Residency, and a grant from the Franklin Furnace Foundation.
 
Joseph Delappe - web
Delappe combines video imagery of minituare dioramas depicting the aftermath of Iraq roadside bombings with images streamed from American traffic surveillance cams.  He will use the residency to further expand his explorations on kinetic sculptural installation, computer control, interactivity and live content on the internet. Working with electronic and New Media since 1983, his works have been showed in the U.S. and abroad.

 

The following artists were chosen as alternates: Maya Suess, Joe Diebes, Brian Block, and Eunjung Hwang.
 
The following artists were awarded educational scholarships:
Penelope Umbrico, Andy Deck, Mary-Beth Gregg, Phillys Bulkin-Lehrer, Paul Amitai, and Gisburg.