2021-22 Artists in Residence
Awarded Artists:
Sylvain Souklaye
Sylvain Souklaye is a French Caribbean Brooklyn-based live artist, sonic maker and author. His craft and mission go beyond and deeper than the question of identity. Following the idea of the rhizome, Souklaye digs in the sensitivity and history laying in the interiority of broken bodies, environmental urgencies and political retribution.
Ivana Dama
Ivana Dama is a sound artist and researcher holding an MFA from Yale University. She previously graduated from UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture with a degree in Design Media Arts and Digital Humanities. Her multidisciplinary work spans audio-video installations, robotics, web projects, and music performances, with a focus on inventions and technologies surrounding air raid sirens.
Her current research explores the development of a tool that signals urgency for both social and ecological issues, tracing connections between the two as they often occur simultaneously. Her work has been featured in over thirty group shows, and she has presented solo exhibitions in Portland and Los Angeles. In addition to her artistic practice, she previously served as Assistant Director of the UCLA ArtSci Center and has been a visiting critic and professor in the Sound Art MFA program at Columbia University.
Associated project: Command and Control
Allison Berkoy
Allison Berkoy is a Brooklyn based artist, exploring the communicative potential of physical-digital environments when combined with mutable storytelling and media. These works take the form of interactive installations, electronic sculptures, and networked audiovisuals; driven by code, sensors, and human bodies. With participatory and absurd narratives, Berkoy’s installations become stages for performance that test the boundaries and etiquette of human-machine interaction as well as human-human relationship.
Allison completed her MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and BS in Theatre from Northwestern University. She is a 2022-2023 Artist in Residence in the Integrated Design + Media (IDM) program at New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, and an Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Technology at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York (CUNY).
Christina Wheeler
Composer, vocalist, multi-instrumental electronic musician, and multimedia artist Christina Wheeler’s sonic explorations include forays in a myriad of styles and forms. She blends an amalgam of improvised electronic music from an array of sources: processed vocals, vocal loops, hand-triggered sampler, theremin, Q-chord, autoharp, electric mbira, and glass armonica. Previous band projects include Wiremouth, Floating People, and BlowOut, and current and past projects span solo song-cycle series, solo instrumental improvisational compositions, immersive solo and ensemble-based multimedia performance and generative installation projects, and collaborations with Nicole Mitchell, Laraaji, Vernon Reid, Hprizm/Priest, Roscoe Mitchell, and The Bakol, with Greg Tate and Satch Hoyt.
A Los Angeles native, Wheeler is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and Manhattan School of Music. She has performed and recorded internationally with numerous artists, including John Cale, Jamie Lidell, Murcof, A Guy Called Gerald, Swayzak, DJ Logic, DJ Olive, Marc Ribot, Chris Whitley, Zeena Parkins, John Carter, Fred Hopkins, and Andrea Parkins. Wheeler was a featured artist with David Byrne: the band toured internationally and performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, and on PBS’s Sessions at West 54th Street. Wheeler performed at Central Park Summerstage’s Joni’s Jazz concert, featuring Joni Mitchell’s music, with Chaka Khan, PM Dawn, Ravi Coltrane, and Vernon Reid.
Associated project: The Magical Garden
C. Lavender Suarez
C. Lavender (Lavender Suarez) is an interdisciplinary sound artist, sound healing practitioner, and educator. Her work spans through live performance, recording, installations, compositions, videos and workshops. She creates immersive aural landscapes for listeners; experiences which are intensely physical, emotional, and ultimately cathartic. She is the author of the book Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives (Anthology Editions), which delves into how listening can be a powerful source of inspiration. C. Lavender has performed, lectured, and hosted workshops at MoMA, The Whitney, The Guggenheim, Hirshhorn Museum, The Rubin Museum, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Museum of the Moving Image, Fridman Gallery, Cafe Oto, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute among other venues. She has albums and recordings featured on the labels Editions Mego, Ecstatic Peace! and RVNG Intl. C. Lavender has been artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works, Harvestworks, A+E Lab (UK), and Wave Farm.
Associated project: A/V Spatial Audio Piece
Viv Corringham
Viv Corringham is a New York based British vocalist, composer and sound artist, active since the late 1970s. Her work includes concerts, soundwalks, workshops and installations, exploring people’s sense of place and the link with personal history and memory. She has received international recognition and her work has been presented in twenty six countries on five continents.
Associated project: Nostalgia for the Here and Now
Miya Masaoka
Miya Masaoka is an American composer, sound artist and musician. Her work explores bodily perception of vibration, movement and time, while foregrounding complex timbre relationships. She has created a body of work that encompasses interdisciplinary sound art, spatialized sound installations, hybrid acoustic/electronic performance, new Noh operas, choirs, mapping movement of insects, and three-dimensional scores.
Associated project: New Multi-channel Installation
Miya’s multi-channel installation will be presented in the 3-dimensional speaker structure in the Immersive Room at Governor’s Island in 2022. Sound will be recorded and diffused to a unique listening experience.
Su Hyun Nam
Su Hyun Nam is an interdisciplinary media artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, technology, science, and philosophy, exploring a nonlinguistic, experiential, and affective relationship with digital media. Her work, including experimental video, interactive media, 3D game art, and media performance, has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues from Spain, UAE, Greece, and Singapore to South Korea. Su Hyun Nam earned an M.F.A in art and technology studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Media Study from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Transmedia and the director of the computer gaming program at Syracuse University.
Associated project: Replica
Kat Mustatea
Kat Mustatea is an artist whose experiments with language and live arts stretch theater into the digital age. A playwright and technologist, she uses metaphors of hybridity and transformation to craft live performances that investigate absurdity, misunderstanding, and what it means to be American. Her TED talk, about algorithms and puppetry, originates a new thesis about the meaning of machines making art. She is a co-curator of EdgeCut, a live performance series that explores our complex relationship to the digital, and a member of NEW INC, the art and tech incubator at The New Museum of Art in New York City. She speaks frequently about the cutting edge of art and technology (recently: SXSW, The Pompidou Center, Ars Electronica, etc.).
Associated project: BodyMouth
Stephanie Rothenberg
Stephanie Rothenberg’s interdisciplinary art draws from digital culture, science and economics to explore symbiotic relationships between human designed systems and biological ecosystems. Moving between real and virtual spaces, she engages a variety of media platforms that include interactive installation, drawing, sculpture, video and performance.
She has exhibited internationally in venues and festivals including MassMOCA (US), Sundance Film Festival (US), House of Electronic Arts / HeK (CH), LABoral (ES), Transmediale (DE), and ZKM Center for Art & Media (DE). She has received awards from Harpo Foundation, NYSCA and Creative Capital among others and has participated in numerous residencies including Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace/LMCC and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in NYC, Santa Fe Art Institute, and ZK/U in Berlin. Her work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and has been widely reviewed including Artforum, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail and Hyperallergic. She is Professor in the Department of Art at University at Buffalo SUNY where she co-directs the Platform Social Design Lab, an interdisciplinary design studio collaborating with local social justice organizations.
Associated project: Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling
Suzanne Thorpe
Suzanne Thorpe is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar whose creative research intersects electronic music, feminist and ecological theory. She interweaves critical listening practices with acoustic ecology, improvisation and technology to craft immersive sound engagements and creative research sites that question circulations of power within human and nonhuman systems. As an electroacoustic flutist and sound artist she’s performed and exhibited internationally, has a large discography, with releases on Columbia Records, Beggars Banquet, Geffin, V2, and her research has been published in journals and edited volumes.
Thorpe has been granted several residencies and awards for her artistry and research, such as the Frog Peak Collective Award for innovative research in technology, a Gold Record from the Recording Industry Association of Americas, as well as grants from the MAP Fund, NYSCA, New Music USA and Harvestworks Digital Media Foundation. Thorpe holds an MFA in Electronic Music & Media from Mills College, a Ph.D. in Integrative Studies from the University of California, San Diego, and is a certified Deep Listening Instructor, having studied in depth with pioneering composer and Deep Listening Founder Pauline Oliveros. Most recently she was a Mellon Fellow and member of the Society of Fellows at Columbia University, and is currently Assistant Professor of Sound Studies at Manhattan College. She also remains a co-founder and director of TECHNE, a nonprofit arts-education organization dedicated to dismantling social and cultural barriers in technical learning environments.
Associated project: Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling
Cleek Schrey
Cleek Schrey is a fiddler, improviser, and composer from Virginia, now based in NYC. Recent engagements include the Beckett in London Festival with Gare St. Lazare, solo appearances at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in Ireland and the Big Ears in Knoxville. He collaborates frequently with David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Shelley Hirsch, and his own ensemble of daxophones with Daniel Fishkin and Ron Shalom.
He has studied composition with Behrman, Paul Caputo, Bunita Marcus, and Ronald Kuivila. The journal Sound Post has noted that Cleek “possesses a rare combination of traits: deep respect for traditional music and the people who make it, and an unbounded curiosity about new directions for sound.”