2005 Artists in Residence
Awarded Artists:
Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill is a pioneering American composer, saxophonist, and flutist known for his innovative contributions to avant-garde jazz and contemporary music. Emerging from the creative music scene of Chicago and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Threadgill has spent decades developing a highly original musical language that blends improvisation, complex composition, and unconventional instrumentation.
In 2016, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his album In for a Penny, In for a Pound, becoming only the third jazz artist ever to receive the honor. His work has had a profound influence on contemporary composition and experimental jazz, and he continues to perform and compose internationally.
Jillian McDonald
Jillian McDonald is a dual citizen Canadian-American artist living in Brooklyn and Troy, NY. She received an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College at City University of New York and is a professor at Pace University.
Exhibitions and screenings were held at PS122 Gallery, Undercurrent, Air Circulation, and FiveMyles in New York; The Art Gallery of Regina in Saskatchewan; Régart, La Bande Vidéo, and AxeNéo7 in Québec; aCinema in Milwaukee; Philip Steele Gallery in Denver; and The Esker Foundation in Calgary. She has mounted performances for 50 to 1000 performers in natural and urban settings in Tempe at The Arizona State University Art Museum, in Sweden in collaboration with Lilith Performance Studio, and in Toronto at La Nuit Blanche. A CBC IDEAS documentary profiles her videos, which were also reviewed in The New York Times and Canadian Art. Critical discussion appears in The Transatlantic Zombie by Sarah Lauro and Deconstructing Brad Pitt, edited by Christopher Schaberg. Awards include grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts and The Canada Council for the Arts, and participation in numerous international residencies such as Wave Farm in Acra, NY, The Arctic Circle Artist & Scientist Residency in Svalbard, Norway, The Headlands Center for the Arts in California, Sporobole in Sherbrooke, Québec, the Glenfiddich Canadian Art Prize in Dufftown, Scotland, and The Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada.
Zeena Parkins
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. Concurrently, Parkins self-designed a series of one-of-a kind electric instruments. She leans into the harp’s physical limitations pushing its boundaries and impossibilities. In her compositions, Parkins utilizes collections, recombination, historic proximities, geography, tactility, spatial configurations and movement. Sonic presence and personality is revealed in explorations of subtle frequency shifts, feedback, over and under tones, melodic fragments, timbral and gestural intervals, perception, and residues.
Associated project: Urban Renewal, or Planned Abandonmen
Rashaad Newsome
Rashaad Newsome is an interdisciplinary artist working with videos, performances, sculptures and photographs that interrogate notions of cultural/social signifiers as well as how they are formed. He was born in New Orleans and lives and works in New York City. Newsome will use his fellowship to create the next version of his latest work Shade Compositions, a multi-sensory live performance consisting of a varying number of black females performing a choreographed action piece for presentations at The Kitchen, New York in 2009.
Associated project: The Conductor
Robert B. Lisek
FLOAT is an on-line community channel providing a flexible textstream editing solution in real time that is connected with sound and speech tools based on FLEXTEXT software. Tools will be available for users to access, edit, annotate, share, communicate and perform textstreams for worldwide transmission. Robert is an artist, mathematician and a founder of Fundamental Research Lab.
Marc Lafia
“Permutations of a Thousand and One Nights” is a three channel video installation with surround sound. The piece explores computation as both a metaphor and an engine that produces change, differentiation and autopoiesis. Marc has shown his work at the Whitney Museum, Exit Art, Thomas Erben Gallery and in Germany and Japan.
Associated project: Permutations of a Thousand and One Nights
Terry Nauheim
Terry’s piece will use surround sound video installation built from recorded and processed sound fragments of hand-cast record negatives and corresponding drawings. Terry recently exhibited her work at Sculpture Center in NYC and will collaborate with the Library for American Broadcasting, Univeristy of Maryland on the new work.
Associated project: Sound video installation
Olen Hsu
MAX/MSP is used to translate the numerical codes of digitized embroidery patterns into the twelve tones of the Western musical scale. Olen also uses a process to select and extract pitches relating to Claude Debussy’s harmonic modes to create a score for a string quartet. The work will be presented at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in Fall 2005.
Associated project: Numerical codes of digitized embroidery patterns
Jin-Yo Mok
“Light Bead Curtain” is the third object in a series called the MusicBox project. MusicBox is a sound instrument that integrates an old-fashioned music box with a crank handle by replacing the pins with LEDs and the notes with photo sensors for user interaction. Ahmi Wolf has worked at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam as lead developer. Jin-Yo Mok has shown her work in Chicago and New York, and at the Seoul Museum of Art in Korea.
Associated project: Light Bead Curtain
Ahmi Wolf
“Light Bead Curtain” is the third object in a series called the MusicBox project. MusicBox is a sound instrument that integrates an old-fashioned music box with a crank handle by replacing the pins with LEDs and the notes with photo sensors for user interaction. Ahmi Wolf has worked at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam as lead developer. Jin-Yo Mok has shown her work in Chicago and New York, and at the Seoul Museum of Art in Korea.