2004 Aritists in Residence
Awarded Artists:
Mari Kimura
Mari Kimura, hailed by The New York Times as a “virtuoso playing at the edge,” is a visionary violinist, composer, and educator renowned for merging technology with music. She pioneered “subharmonics,” a groundbreaking bowing technique that extends the violin’s range below its lowest string. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has received the Fromm Commission, a residency at IRCAM, and was honored by the Carnegie Corporation as an ‘Immigrant: Pride of America,’ she is only the second Japanese national to receive this recognition, following Yoko Ono. In 2020, Kimura launched MUGIC®, a wireless motion sensor revolutionizing artistic expression, now used at leading institutions such as Harvard, UC Berkeley, Juilliard, and professional venues such as the Osaka Expo 2025, the Lincoln Center, and the Venice Biennale. Her innovation and entrepreneurial efforts earned her a Certificate of Congressional Recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives. A professor at UC Irvine and longtime Juilliard faculty member, she continues to push musical boundaries through composition and improvisation. In 2025, she was honored with the SEAMUS Award for lifetime achievement in electroacoustic music.
Associated project: Interactive piece between human and machine
Miya Masaoka
Miya Masaoka is an American composer, sound artist and musician. Her work explores bodily perception of vibration, movement and time, while foregrounding complex timbre relationships. She has created a body of work that encompasses interdisciplinary sound art, spatialized sound installations, hybrid acoustic/electronic performance, new Noh operas, choirs, mapping movement of insects, and three-dimensional scores.
Jane Rigler
Flutist, composer and educator, Jane Rigler has performed nationally and internationally as and has been granted numerous awards and residencies nation-wide for her compositions that center on community building, stretching the boundaries of musical performance and audience interaction. Rigler’s works range from solo acoustic pieces to multi-disciplinary interactive electronic ensemble works. Composer Elizabeth Hoffman is the recipient of recognition from Bourges and Prix Ars Electronica for her electroacoustic music, and has collaborated on real-time mixed media works with numerous artists including Ivan Goff, Margaret Lancaster, Marianne Gythfeldt, and the Washington Square Contemporary Music players.
Abigail Child
Abigail Child will create a 16mm feature length experimental film and digital installation. Acknowledged as a pioneer in montage, she will continue to address the interplay between sound and image in her project/first part of a trilogy A SHAPE OF ERROR: Part 1. of Heroines. The project will construct imaginary home movies that retell the lives of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife Mary Wollstonecraft. The work will play with the borders between digital technology and film and different points of view in order to disarm narrative and discover a dialogic visual conversation. Child’s film will feature music by the acclaimed composer Zeena Parkins. It has previewed at the 2012 Rotterdam Film Festival, in the Netherlands. Abigail has been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having completed more than thirty film/video works & installations and written 6 books.
Benjamin Aranda
“Off the Grid” consists of video footage gathered using custom-built cameras attached to four pigeons, which is presented on a 2×2 matrix with simultaneous surround-sound that establishes the work’s spatial context. Aranda established Terraswarm Inc. as a design research studio conducting experiments on urban and media phenomena, and has completed installations for Creative Time at the Brooklyn Anchorage, Storefront for Art and Architecture, as well as the MoMA. Off the Grid is planned for ISEA2004 International Symposium on Electronic Arts.
Associated project: Off the Grid
David Behrman
Associated project: Surround-sound mix
Olivia Block
Block’s project is a Sound Cube installation consisting of cello passages and textural sounds that come in and out of focus in different parts of the space. Block is a Chicago-based electroacoustic composer who has done live composition in numerous international festivals, including the Sonic Light Festival in Amsterdam, the Angelica in Italy, and Outer Ear in Chicago. She also worked with Pauline Oliveros for the “Women: Mixing in Sound” compilation. This installation will appear at the Kitchen in Spring 2004.
Associated project: Sound Cube installation
Jeff Carey
Jeff’s surround sound piece is composed of field recordings of urban and rural Singapore and Malaysia, which are transformed using techniques ranging from soundscape, musique concrete, and G.M. Koenig’s concept of “Field Composition,” to spatialization routines written with Supercollider. Carey is the owner and developer of radiantslab.com, an online platform for artists, record labels, and online sound art projects, and currently has a residency at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in the Netherlands.
Dafna Naftali
“Memobile” explores the similarities between nomads of primitive societies and digital culture by using sounds created with MAX/Jitter to trigger and manipulate video, which is then projected onto a tent structure that houses the performers. Eng has performed live video and sound at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Roulette Intermedium and the Whitney Museum. Naftali specializes in vocal performance using MAX/MSP and teaches at NYU and Harvestworks. They will be performing Memobile at Experimental Intermedia in March.
Associated project: Memobile
E-TEAM — Franziska Lamprecht
1.1 Acre Flat Screen is a documentary of the improvement on a lot in the desert of Utah, which was purchased on eBay. The video was started during the E-Team’s residency at Eyebeam’s moving image department. It is scheduled for screening at Lothringer 13 in Munich.
Associated project: Documentary of the improvement on a lot in the desert of Utah
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.
Associated project: Coincidents
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.
Associated project: Coincidents
Diane Ludin
Memoryflesh is an exploration of the human genome and DNA as a rising world power, and uses touch sensors interfacing with MAX to record a fake suturing process that drives the mix of media montages. Ludin is a Brooklyn based artist whose work has appeared worldwide, including the Ars Electronica, Online traveling exhibition. This project will be launched at Turbulence.org in March 2004.
Associated project: Memoryflesh
Keiko Uenishi
Uenishi’s piece centers on a MAX/MSP patch that allows composition of movement and location of sound mapping, along with an additional hand made midi-controlling device. Also known as o-blatt, Uenishi has performed all over the world both solo and with musicians such as Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins.
Associated project: Composition of movement and location of sound mapping
Wago Kreider
Wago Kreider (Film/Video) for post-production support for Menagerie of the City which examines the animal’s life of New York City’s parks, lakes, refuges, gardens and coastal areas in relation to the urban environment. This imagery and sounds will be juxtaposed with human activity as it is shared by the urban community. The video will premiere at the Langston Hughes Cultural Center in May 2003. Wago has shown his work at Hallwalls, Visual Studies Workshop, Squeeky Wheel, the Pleasuredome, Remote Lounge and the Kitchen.