2012/13 Artists in Residence
Awarded Artists:
Lori Napoleon (Antenes)
Lori Napoleon (Antenes) is a composer, electronic musician, and sound artist known for her work with custom analog synthesizers and experimental electronic music. Her practice explores immersive sonic environments, blending modular and granular synthesis, processed binaural recordings, and layered electronic textures.
Napoleon has been active in New York’s experimental music community for decades, performing at venues, festivals, and media-arts spaces while developing a distinctive approach to live electronic performance. Her work bridges electronic composition and sound design, emphasizing the tactile and expressive possibilities of analog and digital sound synthesis.
Associated project: Multi-channel sound composition
Suzanne Thorpe
Suzanne Thorpe is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar whose creative research intersects electronic music, feminist and ecological theory. She interweaves critical listening practices with acoustic ecology, improvisation and technology to craft immersive sound engagements and creative research sites that question circulations of power within human and nonhuman systems. As an electroacoustic flutist and sound artist she’s performed and exhibited internationally, has a large discography, with releases on Columbia Records, Beggars Banquet, Geffin, V2, and her research has been published in journals and edited volumes.
Thorpe has been granted several residencies and awards for her artistry and research, such as the Frog Peak Collective Award for innovative research in technology, a Gold Record from the Recording Industry Association of Americas, as well as grants from the MAP Fund, NYSCA, New Music USA and Harvestworks Digital Media Foundation. Thorpe holds an MFA in Electronic Music & Media from Mills College, a Ph.D. in Integrative Studies from the University of California, San Diego, and is a certified Deep Listening Instructor, having studied in depth with pioneering composer and Deep Listening Founder Pauline Oliveros. Most recently she was a Mellon Fellow and member of the Society of Fellows at Columbia University, and is currently Assistant Professor of Sound Studies at Manhattan College. She also remains a co-founder and director of TECHNE, a nonprofit arts-education organization dedicated to dismantling social and cultural barriers in technical learning environments.
Associated project: Phloq
Lauren Petty
Lauren Petty is a digital media artist working in video, film, sound, installation, interactive design and performance, she is a longtime collaborator of multi-disciplinary artist Shaun Irons. Their work has been exhibited in diverse locations in New York and internationally and was recently seen at BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory, HERE, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, The Governors Island Art Fair, and was broadcast on PBS’s Reel NY.
Jakob Dwight
Jakob Dwight will be developing a gaming experience/performance called N’Chi: Visions of a New World, which will allow users to act as new nations on an imaginary planet where they will compose and participate in an on-going sci-fi narrative, both online and in the real world. It will be part online gaming experience, and part performance with an art-making component. In addition to the project’s game-play aspect, N’Chi will develop an online e-journal, radio station, and a lecture series. After completing several years of college in Florida, Jakob came to New York in 2005 to study with the Art Students League. He has had residencies in the US and Germany, and has shown his work in NY, Los Angeles, GA, Austria, and Germany.
Associated project: N’Chi: Visions of a New World
Adam Kendall
Adam Kendall will be working on Toys’ Opera, a small, universe of serially-controlled HO trains, models, and cameras that are visually and sonically integrated with live and pre-recorded multi-channel audio and video. He will compose a new visual and audio operetta for singer, speaker, and cellist. Adam is a videographer and musician based in Brooklyn. He has also been an instructor and event organizer for various groups including Harvestworks, the vBrooklyn video festival, and the Video Composition Workshop.
Associated project: Toys’ Opera,
Abigail Child
Abigail Child will create a 16mm feature length experimental film and digital installation. Acknowledged as a pioneer in montage, she will continue to address the interplay between sound and image in her project/first part of a trilogy A SHAPE OF ERROR: Part 1. of Heroines. The project will construct imaginary home movies that retell the lives of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife Mary Wollstonecraft. The work will play with the borders between digital technology and film and different points of view in order to disarm narrative and discover a dialogic visual conversation. Child’s film will feature music by the acclaimed composer Zeena Parkins. It has previewed at the 2012 Rotterdam Film Festival, in the Netherlands. Abigail has been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having completed more than thirty film/video works & installations and written 6 books.
Associated project: A SHAPE OF ERROR: Part 1. of Heroines
Daniel Temkin
Daniel Temkin, inspired by the Robot Psychics of India, Temkin plans to build retro-style robot sculptures specially designed to interact with public spaces in New York City. What could a psychic robot offer to New York City? His interactive sculptures will deliver perplexing advice and advertise venues that don’t exist. They will blend street performance with sculpture as they interact with people in the confusion of a Midtown crowd. Daniel Temkin has a MFA in Advanced Photographic Studes; International Center of Photography / Bard College.
For information on the Robot Psychics of India: http://blogs.discovermagazine.
Juraj Kojs
Juraj Kojs will create A-touch De-touch, an experimental interdisciplinary work that develops the metaphor of prosthesis as a vehicle for expressing our attachment to and detachment from the world. Eight performers (4 Spider and 4 Ant characters) will build an ecosystem that engages audience members in tactile interactions through analog and digital body extensions such as kitchen utensils, tennis rackets, violin bows, wireless cameras, Wii game controllers, iPads and iPhones. The project will be premiered in a black box theater in Miami in the spring 2012. Juraj Kojs is a Slovakian composer, performer, multimedia artist, producer, researcher and educator living in the US. He is the director of Foundation for Music Technologies (FETA) in Miami, FL.
Associated project: A-touch De-touch
Rachel Mason‘s
Rachel Mason‘s new body of work presents a nonlinear play based on several fictional characters she is developing in tandem with a new body of sculpture. The project will take a variety of forms- a series of videos, live performance and public interventions exploring human psychosis through rock songs. Mason most recently completed a musical feature film, “The Lives of Hamilton Fish” and she is a resident at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Mason has written three operas, recorded ten full length albums of songs, and has toured, screened films, exhibited sculpture, video and performance at galleries and museums internationally. She often collaborates with other musicians, dancers, actors, and other artists to realize large scale multi-media experimental works. She has exhibited and performed at the Queens Museum, Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Henry Gallery in Seattle, James Gallery at CUNY, University Art Museum in Buffalo, Sculpture Center, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard and Occidental College, Kunsthalle Zurich, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, The New Museum, Park Avenue Armory, Art in General, La Mama, Galapagos, Dixon Place, and Empac Center for Performance in Troy among other venues. www.rachelannmason.com