2018 Artist Scholarships

Daniel Neumann

Daniel Neumann is a Brooklyn-based sound artist, organizer and audio engineer, originally from Germany. He holds a master’s degree in media art from the Academy of Visual Art Leipzig and also studied electronic music composition under Emanuele Casale in Catania, Italy. In his artistic practice he is using conceptual and often collaborative strategies to explore sound, sound material and its modulation through space, situation and media. Curatorially he runs an event series in NYC and Berlin (CT::SWaM) that engages in spatial sound works and focussed listening.

As an audio engineer a special field he has been tackling in the past years are concerts featuring electroacoustic music and multi-channel live audio. These concerts usually require a complex speaker setup, unusual miking techniques for instruments and high quality sound reinforcement.

Associated project: CHANNELS.applied

Neumann’s new continual composition piece CHANNELS.applied was initiated in the form of a sound installation at Fridman Gallery in January 2018. The sonic “raw” material of CHANNELS, as well as recordings, will be applied to various architectural spaces and systems in form of future performances and installations. The intital patch used in a performance in 2017 will be […]

Danny Bracken

Danny Bracken’s creative practice explores technological change and its impact on our perceptions and experiences of the people and places that surround us. Employing contemporary and historic references, the work examines the role of the physical in our progressively intangible existence.

Associated project: A Stillness in the Dark

A Stillness in the Dark is a subtly interactive installation. Using multi-channel sound and electroluminescent wire the work will explore the use of space, movement, and interactivity. Built with Max/MSP interfacing with a microcontroller, the installation will play a musical sequence that is synchronized to sections of wire, illuminating as sound plays. As people enter the space, a camera will detect their movement and pause the work, and turning on when there is stillness.

Simona Prives

Simona Prives is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose work includes painting, drawing, and time-based media. Having received her MFA from Pratt Institute, Prives creates animated collages that incorporate a variety of themes and materials. Her work explores the dialectic of growth and decay and examines our complex relationship between the organic and the man-made.

Prives has been awarded multiple residencies and fellowships, including Yaddo, the Harvestworks New Works Residency, VCCA, Vermont Studio Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute Thematic Residency and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia. Prives’ work has been shown in galleries throughout New York and the United States, as well as at the China Arts Museum in Shanghai and in Tokyo, Japan.

Recently in 2022, Prives was commissioned by MTA Arts & Design to create a 52 channel, site-specific video installation in Fulton Center, Lower Manhattan. Entitled “Even While The Dust Moves,” the installation is displayed across the 52 large video screens within the Fulton Center complex and Dey Street passage. Hundreds of layers of a wide range of media — including video, drawings, ink paintings, and printmaking — comprise each animated artwork within the larger whole. As travelers move through the three levels of Fulton Center, they are presented with scenes of diverse landmasses and skies, interwoven with reimagined environments on which acrobats, dancers, and workers all move.

Prives currently teaches art and design at Parsons The Newschool, New York University and is an associate professor at CUNY, Hostos in the Bronx.

Associated project: We Said We Didn’t See it Coming

We Said We Didn’t See It Coming is an immersive interactive installation that represents an examination of our complex relationship between the organic and the man-made and offers a multi-sensorial construction of reality. The work is a dynamic choreography between the audience, musical compositions and video animations, presented in multiple life-sized projections, that plays with the viewer’s perception of time and place. The experience will offer dreamscapes that ignite a fragmented memory.

Xiameng (Summer) Lin

Associated project: Interactive Installation

Inspired by the Italian Pavilion at Caramoor (Katonah, NY), Lin will create an interactive installation, which is also a multichannel composition. The Italian Pavilion magically “freezes” sounds made strictly within the boundaries. These sounds keep building up to a point where they sound like a landscape composition and a sonic texture. This acoustic feature often inspires passengers to make interesting sounds or sing. Using microphones and sound processing, Lin will reproduce this experience.

Stephanie Gray

Associated project: Do You Know What A Magician Is?

Stephanie Gray’s film-video, “Do You Know What A Magician Is?” explores the process of communication and hearing, as one with a hearing loss. With a mix of found and original video/film footage and sonic experimentation, this work will immerse viewers in the world of those with “less” hearing and dissect the ways in which we […]