2020 Workspace Residents

Awarded Artists:

Katherine Behar

Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist and critical theorist of new media. Through feminism and materialism, she explores gender, race, class, and labor in contemporary digital culture. She is known for projects that mix low and high technologies to create hybrid forms that are by turns humorous and sensuous.

Behar is a 2023 Creative Capital Awardee in Technology. Her artwork is exhibited throughout North America and Europe and held in private collections. Beall Center for Art+Technology presented her major solo exhibition Ack! Knowledge! Work! Pera Museum presented Data’s Entry | Veri Girişi, a survey exhibition and catalog documenting eight years of work. Additional solo exhibitions include Shelf Life, a site-specific installation at Trinity College, Backups, appearing at Framingham State University and E-Waste, premiering with catalog at University of Kentucky and traveling to Boston Cyberarts Gallery. Her robotic installation, Anonymous Autonomous, received work-in-progress solo exhibitions at Robert Morris University and University of Michigan. She collaborates with Marianne M. Kim as DISORIENTALISM.

Todd Anderson

Todd Anderson is a digital poet and web artist focused on building websites and Chrome extensions for use in live performance as both a solo performer and member of the digital performance group H0t Club. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Code + Liberal Arts at Eugene Lang College of the New School. He also helps run Babycastles, an indie-game gallery and event space, the Illuminator, a guerrilla projection collective and School for Poetic Computation, an artist-run creative tech school. He is perhaps best known as the host and curator of WordHack, the five-years-running language + technology talk series every third Thursday at Babycastles.

Dakota Gearhart

Dakota Gearhart is an artist and educator based in Queens, NY. Her work is rooted in video yet spans performance, sound, text, sculpture, collage, and room-sized multimedia installations. She uses found materials she collects at places like microbiology labs, spam folders, and industrial dumps. She bundles together her interests in perception, biology, queerness, the role of technology and intimacy, humor, and the importance of world-building to articulate more creative and less oppressive futures.

Mike Bullock

Mike Bullock is a composer, improviser, visual artist, and writer based in Western Massachusetts. Bullock has been performing since the mid-90s at venues across the US and in Europe, including Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden; Instants Chavirés in Paris; Café OTO in London; Experimental Intermedia and ISSUE Project Room in New York City; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; and EMPAC in Troy, NY. In June 2015, Bullock received a Performance Grant from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. Bullock is an Ambassador for The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland [KREV] and also serves as the KREV Minister of Fine Noise and Light.

Sarah Weaver

Sarah Weaver, Ph.D. is a New York-based contemporary composer, conductor, technologist, educator, and researcher working internationally as a specialist in Network Arts. Network Arts utilizes the internet as an artistic medium and is also conceived as a metaphor for localized works. Weaver is Director of the Sarah Weaver Ensemble, NowNet Arts Ensemble, and NowNet Arts Inc. including the NowNet Arts Festival and NowNet Arts Conference.