2013/14 Artists in Residence
Awarded Artists:
Margaret Schedel
With an interdisciplinary career blending classical training in cello and composition, sound/audio data research, and innovative computational arts education, Margaret Anne Schedel transcends the boundaries of disparate fields to produce integrated work at the nexus of computation and the arts. Her diverse creative output spans the interactive multimedia operas, virtual reality experiences, sound art, video game scores, and compositions for a wide variety of classical instruments or custom controllers with interactive audio and video processing. A Professor in the Department of Music, at Stony Brook University she currently serves as the Chair of the Art Department and teaches computer music at Peabody Conservatory.
Associated project: The Self
Dan Joseph
Dan Joseph is a composer, curator and writer based in New York City. He began his career in the early ‘80s as a drummer in the vibrant punk scene of his native Washington, DC. Soon after, he became active in the experimental tape music underground, producing ambient-industrial works for various independent labels. He spent the ‘90s in California where he studied at CalArts and Mills College. His principal teachers include Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran and Mel Powell. Equally influential were his studies with Terry Riley during several workshops in California and Colorado.
As an artist who embraces the musical multiplicity of our time, Dan works simultaneously in a variety of media and contexts, including instrumental chamber music, electroacoustic computer music, free improvisation, electronica, and sound art. Since the late 1990s, the hammer dulcimer has been the primary vehicle for his music. As a performer he is active with his own chamber ensemble, The Dan Joseph Ensemble, as well as in various improvisational collaborations and as a frequent soloist. Recent projects include the JCC Trio with composer-performers Tom Chiu and Jason Cady.
Dan’s work has been presented at Merkin Concert Hall, Diapason Gallery for Sound, Harvestworks, Roulette, Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, Human Resources (CA), Harrison House (CA) and other venues. He has received commissions from the New York State Council of the Arts, Gamelan Son of Lion, sfSoundGroup, baritone Thomas Buckner, and clarinetist Matt Ingalls. Dan has held residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.
Active for many years as a curator and presenter, he currently produces the monthly music and sound series Musical Ecologies at The Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn. His writings on music have appeared in Musicworks Magazine (Toronto), The Brooklyn Rail, NewMusicBox.org.
Christina Campanella
CHRISTINA CAMPANELLA (Composer, Sound Artist) works with music and sound across artistic disciplines. Her pieces for theater, film, concert and installation have been shown throughout the U.S. and Europe (EMPAC, Museum at MIT, HERE, Harvestworks/NY Electronic Art Festival, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Simultan, Romania, and Noorderzon, the Netherlands), including Red Fly/Blue Bottle (co-created with writer Stephanie Fleischmann). She has also been an actor/vocalist in downtown theater and independent film since 1998, played keyboards with various New York bands, and is a frequent collaborator of composer/sound artist Joe Diebes (WOW, botch, i/o). In 2018, Christina will perform in Diebes’ opera oyster at Roulette in Brooklyn. She is a recipient of three NYSCA Individual Artist Commissions in Film, Media, and New Technologies and support from LMCC, Mid-Atlantic Arts, American Music Center, Whitman College and NYS Music Fund. Website: http://xtinasworld.com
Associated project: I Went To The Lighthouse (and It Wasn’t There)
Andrew Demirjian
Andrew Demirjian is an artist who uses databases, computer programming and audiovisual production to create experimental portraits and landscapes. At Harvestworks he creates Music For Subtitles, a database artwork that uses a large collection of still images from subtitled movies as its source material to create a new digital poem that is a video with multi-channel sound. In the work, static images are isolated from their original context and woven into a new narrative whole.
Associated project: Music For Subtitles
Ed Osborn
Ed Osborn works with many forms of electronic media including installation, video, sound, and performance. At Harvestworks he will create Palm House Transect, a large-scale, site-specific sound installation developed for the greenhouse at the Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown, New York. Built in 1881, it is one of the earliest iron-frame greenhouses in North America and, at 376 feet long, one of the largest of its time. The piece consists of a generative sound composition played through a set of three-dozen loudspeakers spread irregularly throughout the greenhouse structure.
Associated project: Palm House Transect
Art Jones
Art Jones works with photography, the moving image, audio, and hybrid media. He will create Hypercartogram, a sound installation with projected video. It is a multichannel, interactive audio map of several cities, punctuated by live action and animated video projected onto a sculptural collage of urban spaces.
Associated project: Hypercartogram
Takashi Horisaki
Takashi Horisaki and Nina Horisaki-Christens are New York-based sculptors whose work has been exhibited internationally. At Harvestworks they will create Metabolic Morpho-Historia, an interactive performance to be presented at a Soho art space. The project is based on the architectural history of Soho, and will integrate architectural casts made of colored latex, stretched over plastic and wire structures that incorporate sensors, to create modular components that, when rearranged over the course of the performance, trigger sound and/or video refragmented remix mimicking processes of urban development.
Associated project: Metabolic Morpho-Historia
Steven Litt
Steven Litt is a designer, programmer, and self-taught musician currently living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. At Harvestworks he will design an easy to use, self-amplified, externally controllable robotic percussion instrument, and elaborately document and open-source every aspect of it (software, hardware, fabrication, and use) so it can be used by other artists, as well as duplicated, potentially improved, and expanded. The device is called SuperDrum. He will use his time at Harvestworks to build the first batch, create audio and video to promote the project, and prepare his first performance with us.
Nina Horisaki-Christens
Takashi Horisaki and Nina Horisaki-Christens are New York-based sculptors whose work has been exhibited internationally. At Harvestworks they will create Metabolic Morpho-Historia, an interactive performance to be presented at a Soho art space. The project is based on the architectural history of Soho, and will integrate architectural casts made of colored latex, stretched over plastic and wire structures that incorporate sensors, to create modular components that, when rearranged over the course of the performance, trigger sound and/or video refragmented remix mimicking processes of urban development.
Associated project: Metabolic Morpho-Historia
Andrea Parkins
Andrea Parkins is a composer, sound artist and electroacoustic performer who engages with interactive electronic activities. At Harvestworks she creates Three Rooms In The Memory Palace, a 3-part electroacoustic work reflecting her ongoing exploration of poetic interrelationships between physical/acoustical spaces, objects, and human gesture. The work will be presented at a location divisible into 3 separate acoustical spaces (“Rooms”) with 2 locations designated for multi -channel/multi-diffusion installations, and a third for presentation of a live 20-minute electroacoustic piece, scored for a small ensemble with quad-spatialized electronics.
Associated project: Three Rooms in the Memory Palace
Dana Karwas
Dana Karwas is a designer and educator working in interactive media including installation, architecture, video, web, art, and user centered design.
Associated project: Eyes In The Sky
Gabriel Winer
Associated project: Eyes In The Sky
John Driscoll
ohn Driscoll is a founding member of Composers Inside Electronics and has collaborated on and managed the Rainforest IV project since its inception in 1973.
Associated project: Virtual Sound Objects
Weiwei Jin
Weiwei Jin is a Sweden/UK based composer, sound/multimedia artist, producer and pianist, whom works in both electronic and acoustic music.
Associated project: The Self
Amber Hawk Swanson
Amber Hawk Swanson makes durational performances, lifeworks, and sculptures