1999 Aritists in Residence
Awarded Artists:
Leroy Jenkins
“Coincidents,” a documentary about the artists African American and Welsh heritages and the effect of migration on identity, uses Jitter to allow Jenkins violin to trigger the video. Jenkins is an internationally renowned composer/violinist who is a founding member of the Association for the Advancement for the Creative Musicians. Griffin is a writer and video maker, who has received awards from the New York foundation for the Arts and The Rockefeller Foundation, and residency grants at Harvestworks, The Atlantic Center, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Mary Griffin
“Coincidents,” a documentary about the artists’ African American and Welsh heritages and the effect of migration on identity, uses Jitter to allow Jenkins’ violin to trigger the video. Jenkins is an internationally renowned composer/violinist who is a founding member of the Association for the Advancement for the Creative Musicians. Griffin is a writer and video maker, who has received awards from the New York foundation for the Arts and The Rockefeller Foundation, and residency grants at Harvestworks, The Atlantic Center, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Chris Mann
Chris Mann (Music) for the development of audio recordings that capture the results of a process that uses Max/MSP to parse phonemes in realtime speech and then spatialize the results. During the residency Chris will record three pieces for solo voice using a 5.1 Surround Sound microphone array as well as a Neumann Kunstkopf dummyhead for a stereo mix. He was an Artist in Residence at Harvestworks and at the Rennselear iEAR studios in 1999, and more recently at Engine 27.
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 software and an I-Cube system. The sensors will control processing of the audio material through aspects of the instrument’ s movements. The resulting compositions are planned for broadcast on WFMU and performance at the Downtown Music Gallery in New York City
Gene Carl
Gene Carl for a new work, Patching Kathleen, with pianist Kathleen Supove. Music performed by Supove on a MIDI keyboard will also control sound parameters through Max patches, with the option of triggering “robot” accompaniment. Each movement will focus on the manipulation of one particular sound parameter. Performances are planned internationally and at The Kitchen in New York City.
Peter D’Agostino
Peter D’Agostino for the completion of Year ZERO ZERO, a video and multimedia installation that takes a personal look at representations of the new millennium in art, religion and technology. The installation will be a synthesis of experimental and documentary forms utilizing the image, sound and text capabilities of interactive CD-ROM and the World Wide Web. Installations are proposed for presentation at The Kitchen, as well as in Brasilia and Rome (the three cities featured in the work).
Kit Fitzgerald
Kit Fitzgerald for the creation of Love Unbound; an interactive work for CD-ROM which juxtaposes concepts of “hot” and “cool” in computer technology. Love Unbound is a exploratory painting which unfolds in many dimensions over time. Fitzgerald is a video and multimedia artist and her videotapes, digital media works and live video performances have been produced and broadcast worldwide. The CD-ROM will be distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix.
Amy Jenkins
Amy Jenkins for the completion of a two-channel video installation entitled Worried House, a piece that will evoke the precarious feelings of transition. Her earlier video installations include Almost Home, Pitch and Roll and Trapped Wasp. Her completed installation will be exhibited at the Anna Kustera Gallery in New York City in 1999.
Prema Murthy
Prema Murthy for the completion of Flicker, a video installation and performance. Her work examines the shifting boundaries of a gendered/socially constructed body by remapping its surface through various forms of new technologies. Flicker, inspired by a 1998 news story of seizures caused by TV strobe effects, utilizes monitored brainwaves as MIDI controllers. The resulting patterns control sounds in such a way as to physically affect the audience. She is a core member of Fakeshop in Brooklyn where the piece will be exhibited in the spring or fall of 1999.
Dean Roberts
Dean Roberts for the development and realization of an audio work intended for radio broadcast, sound installation and CD release. The work has been commissioned for collaboration with WKCR and 5 Beekman Gallery in New York, and Selektion Foundation and Mille Plateaux Recordings in Frankfort. The completed 45-60 minute piece will air simultaneously in New York and Frankfurt, be presented as a month-long gallery installation, and finally released on CD.
Jonathon Rosen
Jonathon Rosen for the completion of a three-part animated variety show on video. He plans on pushing the boundaries of digital animation while including early forms of technology such as analog synthesization and Super-8. His intentions are to create works which are “thoroughly demented and spiritual-minded.”