2008 Artists in Residence
Awarded Artists:
Shelley Hirsch
Shelley Hirsch is an award winning, critically acclaimed vocalist, composer, and storyteller whose solo compositions, staged multimedia works, improvisations, radio plays, surround sound pieces, installations and collaborations havebeen produced and presented in concert halls, clubs, festivals, theaters, museums, galleries and on radio, film and television on five continents. She has received awards. fellowships, grants and residencies from Creative Capital, NYFA, NYSCA, Mary Flagler Carey Trust, NEA and AIRS from the DAAD, Yaddo, Montalvo Arts Center and many more.
Laura Vitale
Laura Vitale has been making audio works and installations from field recordings since 2002. The audio incorporates music and language into field recordings so that the disparate elements complement each other while maintaining the integrity of their individual traditions.
Vitale’s works have been projected and distributed in various cities including Chicago, New York City, and Boston. Vitale has been artist-in-residence at Harvestworks in 2008.
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.
Shana Moulton
Shana Moulton creates oblique and evocative narratives in her video and performance works. Her video work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at Art in General, New York; Migros Museum, Zurich; and Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris. Moulton’s performances have been presented at venues including The Kitchen, New York and PERFORMA 09, New York. The Van Lier Residency supported Ms. Moulton’s evening-length music theater piece, entitled Whispering Pines 10. The work involves the use of interactive controllers, electroacoustic instrumentation, and multi-channel projection.
Derek Frantz
Derek Frantz’s residency will see an evolution of his experiments with human conductivity. He works with an interactive console at which the user wears conductive gloves or slippers to interact with light circuits which are routed to a webcam. A vast amount of pixels are processed by his special geometry localization programs, which then translate into visual brightness chains and musical sample sequences. Derek graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz.
Christine Sugrue
Using mirrors of various size and orientation, Christine Sugrue’s installation passes and fragments a digital projection through a space. Algorhitmically generated forms will be able to move through space in two and three dimensions as the projection area is fragmented through the space, splitting into smaller unique moments. Spatialized sound will also amplify the experience. Christine was an artist in residence at Hangar, Barcelona, Eyebeam, NYC, and ars electronica, Linz.
Laure Drogul
A knitting needle working symphony. Approxomately forty knitter-performers knit in unison creating a singular knit object-environment. The knitters needles will be equipped with mini pick-up microphones, and the knitters will be networked to send in these sounds via internet. The sound is then recorded, played and mixed in a live installation: a virtual knitting circle-score as immersive audio-video environment. Laure recently received the Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize.
Bill Hsu
Using timbral characteristics such as brightness, pitch/noise, roughness, and inharmonicity, Bill Hsu is able to track contours of timbral variation over a musical gesture, and use these contours to synthesize responses. In collaboration with saxophonist John Butcher, they will develop new pieces that leverage the functionality of this system. Bill is currently Associate professor at San Francisco State University.
William Cusick
William Cusick will create a surround sound score to a psychological horror story of an American business man whose life inexplicably begins to mirror a series of Japanese ghost stories. The piece, tentatively titled “Americana Kamikaze”, will develop first as a video installation during the residency and the story will be told in English with sequences in Japanese.
Joseph Delappe
Delappe combines video imagery of minituare dioramas depicting the aftermath of Iraq roadside bombings with images streamed from American traffic surveillance cams. He will use the residency to further expand his explorations on kinetic sculptural installation, computer control, interactivity and live content on the internet. Working with electronic and New Media since 1983, his works have been showed in the U.S. and abroad.
Jeff Thompson
Jeff Thompson is a multimedia artist including sculpture, video, music and performance. He is living and working in New York. Thompson will use his fellowship to realize a series of systematically evolving sculptural and sound pieces using Max/MSP and Jitter. Utilizing natural sounds derived from the growth of plants, the position of butterflies in an aviary and chirping crickets, he will digitally process the sound into data and re-feed the sound back into the space creating and ever evolving loop. Thompson has received his MFA at Rutgers University and has completed the Harvestworks Max/MSP Certification Program. He has collections in US and Ireland and has lectured in Dallas. His work has received a VanDerlip Travel award and has received several artist-in-residencies. He has performed and exhibited his work in Italy, US, Argentina, Poland and Palestine.