2025 Technology Immersion Program
Awarded Artists:
TUG Collective
TUG Collective braids together creativity, critique, and citizenship through interdisciplinary art practice. Fostering social cohesion among community partners invested in civic engagement, we create contact zones where people can generate insights about, and produce actions around, contemporary social issues, all of which manifests in diverse artistic forms including performance, multi-media installation, and site-specific interactions. Recent projects include: Borders, Corridors, and Lines of Desire, an installation of seven works that exposes the seams of some of the most poetic visions that US-Americans have of themselves as a country founded on the ideals of freedom, democracy, and inclusion; and sea/sky, blood, earth, you, a multi-faceted project and art exhibition in support of Freedom & Captivity, a humanities initiative for an abolitionist future, that brought together prison-reform advocates and Returning Citizens in Maine to gather some meaning about fragility, resilience, and the performance of care. Currently, TUG is developing Do Not Forgive My Hands, a multi-media installation that establishes pathways of associations regarding how humans twist things around them—animals, objects, emotions—toward violence.
Associated project: Cadence Interrupted (a ritual for one)
Caroline Garcia
Caroline Garcia is a culturally promiscuous, interdisciplinary artist. She works across performance, moving image, and installation through a hybridized aesthetic of cross-cultural movement, embodied research, and new media. Her practice traverses a highly personalized aggregation of distinct systems that interlace ethnotraditional forms of knowledge (such as dance, botany, poetry, and ceramics) with digital technologies (including green screening, robotics, motion capture, extended realities [AR/VR], and 3D processes).
Janessa Clark
Janessa Clark is a BESSIE Award-nominated choreographer, dance filmmaker, performer, and installation artist. Her practice combines dance, video, new technology, and language to create movement-driven art for stage, screen, and site-specific environments. The work created nourishes a desire to challenge traditional modes of choreography and spectatorship through co-authorship. Janessa holds an MA in Performance Practices and Research from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and a BFA in Choreography from Arizona State University. She founded and directed the New York City-based dance collective, Janessa Clark/KILTERBOX, from 2001-2012 which she dissolved to form nomadthenewcompany, which worked from Stockholm 2012-2018.
Richard Nathaniel (Yo Vinyl Richie)
Richard Nathaniel is a composer and performer, he has always viewed the turntable as more than just a tool for playing records—it is an instrument, a conduit for creative expression. For years, he has been immersed in the world of music, crafting sounds and experiences that transcend the boundaries of genre and convention. His most recent compositions have been improvised experimental performances that explore reflective topics or shared contexts through collaboration. Constantly exposed to new ways of thinking and creating through turntablism, he is encouraged to step out of his comfort zone and take risks, whether by incorporating unconventional sounds into his compositions or experimenting with Butch Morris’s Conduction lexicon in his performance techniques.
Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江)
Qiujiang Levi Lu 卢秋江 is an experimental musician, media artist, and composer whose work centers on the body as a site of sonic transformation. Through custom-built electroacoustic instruments, feedback systems, and live performance, Lu explores how sound can become intimate, unstable, and physically charged. Their practice often extends the body through cyborg-like augmentations, including intraoral microphone-speaker systems and amplified laptop instruments, creating performances that merge ritual, noise, and embodied technology.
Drawing from Chinese lineages while engaging themes of queerness, spirituality, and body dysmorphia, Lu creates choreographed, improvisatory works that invite audiences into a deeply physical mode of listening. Their work has been presented internationally at venues and festivals including MATA Festival, Send + Receive, High Zero, IRCAM Forum, Kallelse Festival, and e-flux. Lu has received commissions from TAK Ensemble, Popebama, Luke Helker, and Ensemble Decipher, and support from the EY Emergent Futures Fellowship and NEW INC. They have been artist-in-residence at The New School, ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks TIP, and ElektronmusikStudion Stockholm, and are a lecturer in music at the University of Pennsylvania. Lu holds degrees from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and Stony Brook University.