2007 Van Lier Scholarship Recipients
Awarded Artists:
Tobaron Waxman
Tobaron Waxman will use the scholarship to create Block of Ice + 1/60. The work uses the artists own brainwave patterns to control a Max patch, which will dynamically locate Web images pertaining to water in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and affect and project them onscreen using Jitter. Among other awards, Waxmans work has received three Canada Council for the Arts grants, and his films have been screened in Brazil, Germany, and across the US.
Associated project: Block of Ice + 1/60
Hisao Ihara
Video artist Hisao Iharas installation will consist of multiple screens and an array of sounds and video altered through realtime processing. Ihara, who has received NYFA and NYSCA fellowships, has exhibited throughout the New York and Seattle area.