2017 Workspace Residents

Stephan Moore is a composer, improviser, audio artist, sound designer, teacher, and curator based in Chicago. His creative work currently manifests as electronic studio compositions, solo and group improvisations, sound installation works, scores for collaborative performance pieces, and sound designs for unusual circumstances. Evidence, his long-standing project with Scott Smallwood, has performed widely and released several recordings over the past 15 years. He is the president of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, and is a member of The Nerve Tank, a canary torsi, Composers Inside Electronics, and the Wingspace Theatrical Collective. He toured for several years as a musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and has worked with artists as diverse as Pauline Oliveros, Anthony McCall, and Animal Collective. He is a lecturer in Sound Art and Sound Design in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at Northwestern University.

Claudia Hart has been active as an artist, curator and critic since 1988. She works with digital trompe l’oeil as a medium, directing theater and making media objects of all kinds. These include multi-channel 3D animation installations, sculptures using industrial production techniques such as Rapid Prototyping, CNC routing, and virtual and mixed reality environments, and augmented-reality custom apps.

Working as a graphic designer in the commercial industry and the underground experimental audiovisual scene for a decade in New York City has strongly influenced Chika’s artistic practice, shifting it from a one-way communication to the audience into a fully interactive experience that uses technology to establish a moment of co-creation with the public.Her work creates what she describes as the symphony of light: creating minimalist geometric shapes and visuals that explore dark space while inviting people to reinvent themselves through the relationship between objects and images. Light and sound are the main elements she uses in her installations, which are ultimately a visual performance that experiments with improvisational communication and immediate interaction with the audience in real time.

Sarah Rothberg is a multimedia artist working in a variety of formats: installations, virtual worlds, websites, writing. Her work conveys relationships between complex systems (the internet, global economics, human memory) and personal life, with a sense of humor and vulnerability. As of late, she has found herself swimming the depths in the current wave of Virtual Reality, as Direct of Experience at VRB (Samsung Accelerator), professor of “DIY VR” and “Directing Virtual Reality” at Tisch, NYU, and through her own virtual reality creations, which have been shown at venues such as Bitforms, Illinois State University Gallery, MUTEK festival, and most recently LACMA (with the Hereafter Institute).

Yotam Mann is a composer and programmer who creates interactive music in the form of apps, websites, and installations. He is driven by the idea that interactivity allows for new and exciting ways of engaging with music, transcending the composer/consumer relationship. He is a recipient of the Creative Capital Award in Emerging Fields category, an inaugural member of the New Museum Incubator and an adjunct professor at ITP, NYU Tisch, where he teaches Tone.js, a widely used javascript library he developed for creating interactive music in the browser.