2010/11 Artists in Residence

Awarded Artists:

Matthew Ostrowski

A New York City native, Matthew Ostrowski is a composer, performer, and installation artist working primarily with electronics and sound. He studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, and the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. He has shared the stage with everyone from John Zorn and David Behrman to a trio of Elvis impersonators. He has been the technical advisor for the Macarthur fellowship-winning choreographer Elizabeth Streb and presently develops custom software for musicians and installations.

He has performed from Australia to California, including the Melbourne Festival, the Audio Art festival in Krakow, Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, New Music America, the Festival Musiques Innovatrices in France, Stroom in Switzerland, PS 1, Wien Modern, and many other venues worldwide. Ostrowski has received fellowships from STEIM in Amsterdam, the Media Alliance in New York, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and many others.

Laetitia Sonami

Sonami’s sound performances, live film collaborations and sound installations focus on issues of presence and participation. She has devised new gestural controllers for performance and applies new technologies and appropriated media to achieve an expression of immediacy through sound, place and body.

Recent collaborations include an improvisation duo, Sparrows and Ortolans, with James Fei; and She is a Butcher in my dreams for Zeena Parkins.

Sonami has performed at numerous festivals across the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and China. Awards include the Alpert Award in the Arts (2002), Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Award (2000), the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (2000), Studio Pass-Harvestworks Residency (2001), and a Creative Work Fund Award (2000) for a collaboration with Nick Bertoni and the Tinkers Workshop. Sonami lives in Oakland, California and was a guest professor in the Music Department at Mills College, CA until its demise in the spring of 2023.

LOVELY MUSIC is to release Sonami’s double CD “Dangerous Women” featuring her works from 1985-2005. The CD is available here:

Woody Sullender

Woody Sullender is a media artist and musician based in Queens, NY. His pieces encompass a myriad of media including sculpture, video games, performance, theater, music, installation, architecture, origami, and sonic weaponry. His recent work utilizes video game space as an arena to undermine specific modernist ideologies and rituals of music reception. Previously, Sullender was recognized as a pre-eminent experimental banjo improviser.

Sullender has performed internationally at venues such as the Kitchen (with Sergei Tcherepnin + Okkyung Lee), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY), the River to River Festival, the Schindler House (Los Angeles), Knockdown Center (NYC), SculptureCenter (NYC), Abrons Art Center (NYC), Les Instants Chavirés (Paris), Chicago Cultural Center, DNK-Amsterdam (with Seamus Cater), and many others. He recently completed the Art & Code cohort at NEW INC (partnered with Rhizome and the New Museum) and has been an artist in residence or visiting artist at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn), STEIM (Amsterdam), Harvestworks (NYC), Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (NYC) and Brown University’s MEME program. His work has been reviewed internationally by such widely disparate publications as Wire Magazine, Art in America, Fast Company, and Maximumrocknroll.

Other projects include the music album “Four Movements” constructed in video game space, as well as a special music review issue of EAR WAVE EVENT written entirely by AI. Additionally over the past few years, Sullender has worked on re-interpreting the work of Maryanne Amacher at venues such as the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and REDCAT (Los Angeles) as a member of Supreme Connections, as well as in collaboration with Daniel Neumann and members of Yarn/Wire.

Among other activities, he is founding co-editor (will Bill Dietz) of the sonic arts publication Ear Wave Event

Dafna Naphtali

Dafna Naphtali is an electronic-musician and vocalist who composes and performs experimental and interactive electroacoustic music, creating projects over the past 20+ years with live sound-processing of voice and other instruments, multi-channel audio, and musical robots. These performative “instruments” are all built on her programming in Max/MSP. Dafna also creates audio augmented-reality soundwalk compositions/apps for the U-GRUVE AR platform. All her projects draw on her eclectic musical background in jazz, classical, rock and near-eastern music.

Jacolby Satterwhite

New York City-based multi-media artist Jacolby Satterwhite has constructed a collaboration of at least 400 drawings for a complex virtual world. This world is used to critique the body and transform themes in heroism, science fiction, family, disco culture, and queer theory. His work was performed at the Robert Melee’s Talent Show and the Movement Research Festival of 2010. In addition to a Skowhegan Residency he has a BFA from Maryland Institute College of the Arts, an MFA from U of Penn and has performed at Weerrq! PS 1 MoMa in 2010.

Satoshi Takeishi

New York- based composer and improvisor, Satoshi Takeishi, will create a multichannel audio performance piece inspired by Australian Aborigine’s paintings and David Tudor’s Rainforest IV. This project “Whirlpools” will create a sound space where the visible world and the invisible world co-exist in the same sphere. His performance will be taken place at the Roulette. Takeishi is a native of Mito, Japan and has studied music at Berklee College of music in Boston, Massachusetts.

Tristan Perich

New York City- based performer, composer, and visual artist Tristan Perich will explore a series of compositions for the Transit ensemble: clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano. The newe work, From One explores new ways that the physical and the electronic can interact, for example, as an electronic accompaniment, as a video installation, as dance, and as visual art . On October 14, 2010 at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, NY Perich will be performing From One. He has studied art, music and electronics at Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He has been recognized by WIRE Magazine and was the artist in Residence of the Philip Academy in Andover, MA.

Bora Yoon

New York-based multi-media artist Bora Yoon will be developing a wireless controller created by a constellation of sensors placed on the body, processed by custom software that creates a true hybrid synthesis of movement, music, and visual art. The intent of this performance will be to build an organic bridge between the mechanical and the human. The Body Electric will be performed in Germany and Thailand in the near future. Yoon has performed for many at the Lincoln Center and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Also, Yoon has been a part of the UNSOUND festival and the MMIX Festival of Interactive Technology.

Lisa Kirk

New York-based exhibition artist Lisa Kirk will create a new work called “backyard adversaries” a four- channel large- scale projection with intricate sound engineering. With its disorienting imagery, complex soundscape, and hyper- real aesthetic, the work serves as a critique of recent political events, the media coverage surrounding them, and the subliminal impact of these images and events on youths. This exhibit will be displayed at Invisible- Exports. Kirk has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California and was born in Newport, RI.

Jonathan Ehrenberg

New York City-based videographer Jonathan Ehrenberg, is producing a new video project inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Rashmon. With the help of actors, sets, and costumes Ehrenberg will portray a basic story that will unfold three times with the subjective point of view from one of the characters. He has a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art, and is an instructor at Pace University for Digital Imaging and Digital Design.

Louisa Armbrust

Lousia Armburst is born in Ottawa, Canada. A visual artist who attended MA visual arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. A few of the exhibitions she has done are Free Range Hocky, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art Grand Rapids, MI, FIGMENT NYC, art festival, Governor’s Island, New York, NY, and 2005 Biennial Blow Out, junior: Kenny Schachter.

Phillip Stearns

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.