2023 Artists in Residence

Brittany Engel-Adams is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher living in New York City. She received her MFA in Dance from The University of the Arts. Brittany has danced with Yvonne Rainer, Okwui Okpokwasili, Pat Catterson, Pam Tanowitz, Netta Yerushalmy, Emily Coates, Donna Uchizono, Annie–B Parson, Ailey ll and more. Brittany performed across disciplines for projects like Sleep No More (immersive theater); The White Album (multimedia theater) directed by Lars Jan; 10019 (site-specific performance) choreographed by Naomi Goldberg Haas. She is a co-star in the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire and is featured in the film Chiraq directed by Spike Lee.

Brittany uses digital technologies in her choreographic work to interrogate the way we perceive the here and now and to test the limits or the capaciousness of the imagination. Her work has been presented at Works and Process at The Guggenheim Museum; Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater at Rutgers University; Symphony Space, PS261, and Kumble Theater in New York City.

Currently, Brittany is on the faculty at Rutgers University and NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing and performs with Pam Tanowitz Dance and Big Dance Theater.

Sound artist Kamari Carter and artist and composer Julian Day focus on social topics like power relationship, identity system, etc. Their works have been presented in multiple venues like Moma, RISD Museum, Tate Modern, MASS MoCa, etc.

Michelle Jaffé is a New York inter-media artist creating time-based experiential works. Since 2002 she weaves sound together with sculpture, video & performance. Jaffé has worked with numerous speaker technologies & software to expand sculptural experience, by placing sound physically in specific space. Jaffé mines sound as powerful sensory experience; forging new neural connections by engaging mind, body & limbic brain simultaneously.

Lisa Moren is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with emerging media, bio-matter, public space, AR\XR and works-on-paper. She has exhibited her work at the Chelsea Art Museum, Creative Time, and the Drawing Center in New York, the Cranbrook Art Museum and international venues including uShaka Museum (South Africa), Ars Electronica (Austria), and Akademie der Kunste (Germany), and the Artists Research Network (Australia) and has a forthcoming one-person exhibition at the Peale Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. She received the National Endowment for the Arts award, is a Fulbright Scholar; a multi-year recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council and CEC Artslink International and the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fellowship in Film and Media at Johns Hopkins University.

Her work has appeared in Performance Research; Visible Language; Inter Arts Actuel; New Media Caucus for her curated work“Algorithmic Pollution: Artists working with Dataveillance and Societies of Control” and “CYBER IN|SECURITY” for Washington Projects for the Arts (WPA); and her books on Intermedia; and Issues in Contemporary Theory for “Command Z: Artists Working with Phenomena and Technology.” Lisa Moren is a Professor of Visual Art and Intermedia and Digital Art (IMDA) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC); is an Affiliate Faculty at the Imaging Research Center (IRC) UMBC; and taught at FAMU and AVU in Prague; and the University of California San Diego (UCSD).

Luke Stewart is a musician, performer, improviser-composer, organizer, and writer-researcher whose work represents a deep reverence for the history and tradition of Creative Music: a tradition which encompasses the diverse styles of expression within the body of Black Music in the United States, Africa, and throughout the world. Stewart’s regular ensembles include Irreversible Entanglements, SILT Trio, Exposure Quintet, and the experimental rock duo Blacks’ Myths; he also performs regularly in numerous collaborations.

Over the years, Stewart has performed at Arts for Art’s Vision Festival, New York, NY; Winter Jazzfest, New York, NY; The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C; Rhizome DC, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN; the BIMHUIS, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark, among many other venues and festivals in the United States and abroad. As a scholar, Stewart has also performed and lectured at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY; George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; University of Montana, Missoula, MT; New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; and the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

Jessica Segall is an artist that needs discipline. Hostile and threatened landscapes are the sites for her work. While embedded in these sites, she plays with both the risk of engaging with the environment and the vulnerability of the environment itself, examining a queer ecology. Jessica’s work is built on a foundation of research that often includes cross-disciplinary collaboration with scientists, activists, plants and animals.

She exhibits her work internationally, including at COP 26, The Fries Museum, The Coreana Museum of Art, The Havana Bienal, The Queens Museum of Art, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The National Museum of Jewish American History, The Inside Out Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Vojvodina, The National Gallery of Indonesia, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Split, Croatia, The Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, The Bangkok Biennial and The National Symposium for Electronic Art. Jessica is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2025 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow. She received grants from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, Mondriaan Fonds, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, The Harpo Foundation, The Virginia A Groot Foundation, The FST Studioprojects Fund, The Puffin Foundation, The Arts Envoy Program, Culture Moves Europe and Art Matters. She attended residencies at Van Eyck Academie, MacDowell, Skowhegan, Art Omi, The Huntington Caltech Art + Research Residency and The New Mexico Museum of Art among others. Her work has been featured in Cabinet Magazine, e-flux Criticism, Frieze, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Mousse Magazine and Art in America. Her work is in the collections of the Museum de Domijnen, The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art and the Aura Contemporary Art Foundation. She received her MFA from Columbia University and her BA from Bard College. Jessica teaches classes and workshops on Ecofeminism and Interspecies Design and is the current Guest Lecturer in Sculpture at Sarah Lawrence College.

Tansy Xiao is an artist, curator, and writer based in New York. Undertaking interdisciplinary collaborations involving human participants, technological systems, and non-anthropogenic organisms, Xiao creates theatrical installations with non-linear narratives. Her work explores the immense power and inherent inadequacy of language through the assemblage of stochastic audio and recontextualized objects. She finds solace in the unknown, ludicrousness in the authorities, and absurdity in the geopolitical demarcations that separate and differentiate people.

Xiao’s work has been shown at Queens Museum, New Media Caucus, Piksel Festival, Sound Scene at Hirshhorn Museum, IRCAM Forum, Technarte, NARS Foundation, HASTAC Conference, UKAI Projects, Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Porto, Osaka University of Art, Taipei Digital Arts Festival, WIP Arts and Technology Festival, New Adventures in Sound Art, among others. She has received grants and support from NYSCA Electronic Media & Film | Wave Farm, Brooklyn Arts Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.

Mónica de la Torre is a poet and essayist who explores interdisciplinary art through translation, performance, and visual art. She has published several books in both English and Spanish and her writings has appeared on several periodicals. Her most recent book, Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat), centers on experimental translation. Other books include The Happy End/All Welcome (Ugly Duckling Presse)—a riff on Kafka’s Amerika—and Public Domain. She has published several books in Spanish, including Taller de Taquimecanografía (Tumbona), written jointly with the eponymous women artists’ collective she co-founded. She is a contributing editor to BOMB Magazine and, with Alex Balgiu, co-edited the anthology Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 (Primary Information). She is recipient of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry and a 2022 Creative Capital grant. She teaches poetry at Brooklyn College.