Ivana Dama is a sound artist and researcher holding an MFA from Yale University. She previously graduated from UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture with a degree in Design Media Arts and Digital Humanities. Her multidisciplinary work spans audio-video installations, robotics, web projects, and music performances, with a focus on inventions and technologies surrounding air raid sirens.
Her current research explores the development of a tool that signals urgency for both social and ecological issues, tracing connections between the two as they often occur simultaneously. Her work has been featured in over thirty group shows, and she has presented solo exhibitions in Portland and Los Angeles. In addition to her artistic practice, she previously served as Assistant Director of the UCLA ArtSci Center and has been a visiting critic and professor in the Sound Art MFA program at Columbia University.
After earning his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Paul Geluso completed a Masters of Music in Music Technology at NYU Steinhardt’s acclaimed graduate program. Later and as the chief audio engineer at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts for more than 10 years, he was immersed into the audio art scene, working with a vast array of musicians, composers and experimental media artists who use sound in their creative work.
Kevin Ramsay is a composer, producer, recording/mixing/mastering/sound engineer, and musician on several critically acclaimed international albums. Brooklyn born and based, Ramsay’s work focuses primarily on theoretical, practical aspects of sound recording/reproduction with unpredictable pairings of acoustic and electronic instruments. Kevin’s current works explore new ways to capture, mix, and process immersive audio for playback, on multichannel sound systems.
Ramsay serves as Lead Sound Engineer at Harvestworks Digital Media, he continues to collaborate with a variety of international artists committed to using sound as their main creative medium. Kevin has worked with notable artist such as Michael Byron, Henry Threadgil, Art Jones, Joan Jonas, Pauline Kim- Harris and Conrad Harris (String Noise), Anne Tardos, Danilio Correale, Maria Grand, Prince Harvey, Emilio Vavarella, Malik Ameer Crumpler, Daniel Belquer, Jon-Carlos Evans and many others.
I’ve been working in music and film studios in NYC for over 23 years, pretty much doing anything: singing in front of the mic, recording behind the console, putting up mics, scoring films, running Foley, getting the right Sound effects, cleaning up noise on Dialog tracks, playing the piano, cutting music to film and being enthusiastic when a 1 frame nudge makes all the difference, mixing Orchestra pieces, mastering records….
A short bio: Arriving in NYC via Berlin and Salzburg I released several CDs on John Zorn’s label Tzadik and on GP music and was a guest on numerous recordings. I’ve received several composition grants and the music pieces were performed in Berlin, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Salzburg and Vienna (a.m.o.)
I sang Chinese Music as a member of the Chinese Hai-Tien choir with Mrs. Pi-Chu Hsiao for over seven years and recorded with Gary Lucas Chinese pop music of the 30’s and 50’s for label blue.
For Film I also work as a sound and music editor/assistant and mixer with directors such as Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Abigail Child, Ethan Coen, Robert Duvall, Rob Marshall, Sophie Barthes, and Amie Siegel.
Danielle McPhatter is an interdisciplinary programmer, musician and artist interested in alternative modes of storytelling. She expresses her passions for the sonic and visual arts via the creation of interactive narrative experiences, games and installations. Her experience with virtual and augmented realities, motion tracking, creative programming and physical computing in both the visual and audio domains combine with her knowledge of a variety of programming languages and software environments to forge new forms of interaction and modes of connectivity between media, machines, and mankind.
A New York City native, Matthew Ostrowski is a composer, performer, and installation artist working primarily with electronics and sound. He studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, and the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. He has shared the stage with everyone from John Zorn and David Behrman to a trio of Elvis impersonators. He has been the technical advisor for the Macarthur fellowship-winning choreographer Elizabeth Streb and presently develops custom software for musicians and installations.
He has performed from Australia to California, including the Melbourne Festival, the Audio Art festival in Krakow, Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, New Music America, the Festival Musiques Innovatrices in France, Stroom in Switzerland, PS 1, Wien Modern, and many other venues worldwide. Ostrowski has received fellowships from STEIM in Amsterdam, the Media Alliance in New York, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and many others.
Melody Loveless is an artist, musician, performer and educator who works with creative and interactive technologies. Her expertise includes teaching first-time users and programmers, consulting other educators on curriculum, and showing artists how to incorporate Max into their practice to create interdisciplinary projects. She believes in technology’s potential to empower others to create art and enjoys sharing techniques and ideas with others.
As an artist and performer, Melody Loveless uses Max alongside a variety of other technologies and tools. Her work ranges from generative sound installations, live coding performance, multisensory performance, interactive installations, long duration performance art, multichannel sound, and more. As an educator, she has extensive experience teaching people of various ages, backgrounds, and abilities. She has taught creative technologies and programming languages at various institutions and organizations, including New York University, Harvestworks, the New School, and Hunter College. She is part of Cycling 74’s Max Certified Trainer Program.
Yonatan Rozin is a multidisciplinary interactive technologist, prototyper, educator and percussionist based in New York City. His practice frequently involves experimenting with novel combinations of existing technologies and mediums across the genres of installation and live performance.
As a freelance interactive art consultant and current engineer at the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, he has worked with numerous independent artists to help incorporate bespoke interactive technology solutions into their own art practices. Yonatan has given multiple workshops at institutions including Harvestworks, NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and NYC Resistor and aims to spread awareness of the values of multidisciplinary thinking as a part of both the creative ideation and development process.
Yonatan holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Professional Studies from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he completed a 1-year research residency and recently served as an adjunct instructor.