In Other Forms

New York based electro-acoustic composer / improviser Zeena Parkins is a pioneer of contemporary harp practices. Using expanded techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing she has re-defined the instrument’s capacities.

Michael Candy is an NYC-based artist known for kinetic sculptures, interactive installations, and video works that challenge the socio-political implications of contemporary technology. His practice navigates shifting landscapes of automation, mythology, and agency, constructing engineered phenomena that reconfigure space and perception.

“Testu Collective’s Listening to the Ether extends the artists’ ongoing investigation into electromagnetic phenomena and the invisible forces that shape our technological environment. At the center of the installation is a magnetic drum machine inspired by Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction. As magnetized wheels rotate, their changing magnetic fields are translated into electrical signals and rendered audible as rhythm and tone.

“Angela Ferraiolo is a computational artist and researcher whose live systems investigate how artificial forms acquire history, difference, and changing capacities over time. Her current work develops Constructed Sentience, a framework for exploring how computational entities may individuate through memory, constraint, instability, and sustained interaction. Rather than using computation to represent intelligence, she creates artworks in which form and behavior emerge through continued operation.

Wendi Yan is a New York-based artist, writer and technologist. She constructs speculative epistemologies through research-driven worldbuilding and metafictional simulation. She uses CGI technology, game engines, conceptual sculpture to probe the artifice of knowledge, examine the boundaries of the scientific self, and imagine alternative historical timelines in the psychogeography of the East and West.

Blinn and Lambert is the collaborative name of Brooklyn-based artists Nicholas Steindorf and Kyle Williams. The duo began working together in 2016 to expand their practice in optical media, video, and animation.