2018 Workspace Residents

Laura Splan

Laura Splan’s work explores intersections of art, science, technology and craft. Her conceptually based projects examine the material manifestations of our mutable relationship with the human body. She reconsiders perceptions and representations of the corporeal with a range of traditional and new media techniques. She often combines the quotidian with the unfamiliar to interrogate culturally constructed notions of order and disorder, function and dysfunction. Her frequent combinations of textiles with technology challenge values of “the hand” in creative production and question notions of agency and chance in aesthetics. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Associated project: Material Expressions

Material Expressions is a new series of kinetic sculptures whose movement is triggered by biosensors. Motorized components of the sculptures will be actuated by a live performer’s movement through electromyography (EMG) electrodes. Changing levels of electricity in muscles will control motorized movement of sculptural apparatus. The sculptures will incorporate found materials, handcrafted elements and 3D-printed forms. The project explores the potential for objects to embody corporeal experience and to materialize the unseen machinations of the human body.

Andrea DeFelice

Andréa DeFelice was born in New York and currently live/works in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in sculpture/installation from Queens College, and is faculty of the Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute. Her work has shown in various forms as performances, installation, screenings, and in part of collaborative and public intervention projects.

Exhibition venues include The Austrian Cultural Forum, The Invisible Dog, The Parlour Bushwick, and Momenta Art. She’s exhibited internationally in galleries and alternative spaces including Periferic 8 Biennial for Contemporary Art: Art As Gift, in Iași, Romania; LEAP (Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance), in Berlin; It’s The Political Economy, Stupid, Contemporary Art Center in Thessaloniki, Greece; and Hotspots, at Hafnarborg in Hafnarfjördur, Iceland. She’s participated in several artist and engineering residencies in Europe and in the US, including Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York, and Hafnarborg: Hafnarfjördur Centre of Culture & Fine Art in Iceland.

Associated project: Lemon Bomb Face

Lemon Bomb Face is an ongoing series of mechanized light paintings where words are hidden and revealed by two types of light: ultraviolet and daylight. I Win Well is part 2 of the series. The linear-motion mechanism carries a dual light fixture back and forth across the face of a mounted board. Text is painted on the board with UV pigment, applied with customized 3D-printed rubber stamps. The light fixture creates a vertical division across the board, revealing the text as the UV light illuminates the fluorescence bi-product, and the daylight conceals it.

Catherine McCurry

Catherine McCurry is an artist, musician and creative technologist based in Brooklyn New York. Through her work, she explores scientific concepts and uses technology to create new paradigms for interactive and participatory storytelling. Her work spans multiple media including performance, film, sound, software, and installation.

Associated project: That Time When

That Time When is a mixed reality narrative – a VR experience mapped to a physical installation that unfolds as viewers move through it. The project combines neuroscience, physicality, sound, and comedy, presenting itself as an amusement park-style exhibit in which participants walk through the memories of an unnamed research subject. She is the first person to have her brain scanned with micron-level precision, then meticulously mapped over the course of many decades.

Brian McCorkle

Brian McCorkle is a composer, performer, and digital artist. In addition to his solo work and with the composer’s collective Varispeed, he is the Co-Director of the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) with Esther Neff.

Associated project: 11 Attempted Decompositions

An act of composition in reverse, an antidote to composer-as-landowner, a Decomposition is defined as a series of musical decisions rather than a predetermined melody or harmony. Each Decomposition is based around a different focal point: light, timbre, loudness, note, meaning, contact, conversation, periodicity, presence, and absence. Over the course of 2018 individual recording sessions […]

Tali Hinkis

Associated project: Fremd Comfort Zone

Fremd Comfort Zone is a new wearable and spatial technology environment for immersive audiovisual performances. Combining original textile designs, biosensors, and embedded spatial sensors, the suits and space will be used to establish deeper connections between performers, instruments, and audience. This new work is a continuation of LoVid’s ongoing practice combining handmade audio/video instruments, wearable and mobile technology, and visceral video performances and installations.