2009 Artists in Residence

Based in Toronto and New York City, video artist Brendan Fernandes will create a new video work that will explore how cultural objects lose their specification through their dissemination as capital. Focusing specifically on how African masks sold on Canal Street and outside museums in the city function outside their place of origin, the artist will investigate his subject through video documentation of his interactions with the African immigrants who sell these masks. The finished work will be presented as a multi-channel video and sculptural installation at Harvestworks. Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Brendan Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the 1990s. He completed the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2007 and is represented by Diaz Contemporary (Toronto).

New York-based interactive artist and designer David Hindman will develop a interactive musical performance piece using custom designed hardware and software. Described as The Public Instrument-Controlled Video Game Competition, the work will incorporate new music, software, and musical gaming interfaces that will result in performances in New York City. David Hindman is a regular contributor to the New Instruments for Musical Expression Conference (NIME) and recently appears as a guest speaker at the 2007 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego. He is a graduate of NYU’s ITP program.

New York City-based saxophonist, composer and sound artist, Briggan Krauss will create a 5.1 surround sound composition entitled Tesseract. Inspired by the geometrical shape, the tesseract, the intent of this work is to create music based on the experience of perceiving individual auditory events as shapes that interact and evolve in a kind of kinetic, mutable work of sculpture. The completed work will be performed and exhibited in New York City and will be reproduced for distribution as a DVD. Briggan Krauss is well known in the NY Creative Music community where he has worked with Wayne Horvitz, Bill Frisell, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Anthony Coleman, Steven Bernstein’s Sex Mob and others.

New York City-based visual artist Saya Woolfalk will digitize and animate a series of her drawings and produce a sound component to create a ten-minute animation called The Land of the Pleasure Machines. Described as a fictional future constructed for the investigation of human possibilities and impossibilities, this new animation will be presented at the Studio Museum in Harlem in November 2009. Saya Woolfalk is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the Moti Hasson Gallery (NYC), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and others.