Art & Technology Program

Michael Candy is an NYC-based artist known for kinetic sculptures, interactive installations, and video works that challenge the socio-political implications of contemporary technology. His practice navigates shifting landscapes of automation, mythology, and agency, constructing engineered phenomena that reconfigure space and perception.

His works emerge as social experiments and interventions, transforming environments through movement, light, and interaction. Drawing from robotics and emergent technology, these autonomous systems act within the world rather than merely reflecting it, generating new conditions and anomalies that unfold in real-time.

Wendi Yan is a New York-based artist, writer and technologist. She constructs speculative epistemologies through research-driven worldbuilding and metafictional simulation. She uses CGI technology, game engines, conceptual sculpture to probe the artifice of knowledge, examine the boundaries of the scientific self, and imagine alternative historical timelines in the psychogeography of the East and West. She also collaborates frequently with scientists and engineers, from synthetic biology to astrophysics, to explore the frontier between science and entertainment, between imaging and imagining. Yan’s work has been exhibited internationally, including ArtScience Museum Singapore, HEK Basel, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Ars Electronica Festival, and MU Hybrid Art House. Yan holds an A.B. in History of Science from Princeton University. She was an inaugural Steve Jobs Archive Fellow, the Grand Prix recipient of the 6th VH Award by Hyundai Motor Group, the inaugural resident at A24 Labs, and an Honorary Mention recipient for CERN’s Collide Stockholm residency. She directs the Revival Fund at Analogue Group.

“Angela Ferraiolo is a computational artist and researcher whose live systems investigate how artificial forms acquire history, difference, and changing capacities over time. Her current work develops Constructed Sentience, a framework for exploring how computational entities may individuate through memory, constraint, instability, and sustained interaction. Rather than using computation to represent intelligence, she creates artworks in which form and behavior emerge through continued operation.

Ferraiolo began working with computational systems in game development and interactive media, including projects for Westwood Studios and Electronic Arts. Her work has been exhibited and presented internationally at SIGGRAPH, ISEA, EVA London, xCoAx, Nabi Art Center, the Computer Arts Society, and the New York Film Festival. She was recently artist-in-residence at the Intelligent Engineering Lab at Soka University in Tokyo.”

“Testu Collective’s Listening to the Ether extends the artists’ ongoing investigation into electromagnetic phenomena and the invisible forces that shape our technological environment. At the center of the installation is a magnetic drum machine inspired by Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction. As magnetized wheels rotate, their changing magnetic fields are translated into electrical signals and rendered audible as rhythm and tone.

Replacing conventional drums and mechanical percussion with magnetic flux, the work generates sound through variations in rotational speed, magnetic polarity, and spatial arrangement. Each wheel produces its own shifting frequency and harmonic character, creating an evolving composition of pulses, interference, and vibration. Listening to the Ether transforms an ordinarily imperceptible physical process into a material listening experience, revealing electromagnetism not simply as a scientific principle, but as a rhythmic and compositional force.”

Blinn and Lambert is the collaborative name of Brooklyn-based artists Nicholas Steindorf and Kyle Williams. The duo began working together in 2016 to expand their practice in optical media, video, and animation. Their work has been exhibited throughout New York at Post-Times, Nathalie Karg Gallery, Below Grand, Microscope Gallery, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Selena’s Mountain, as well as at ArtSpace in New Haven, Lower Cavity in Holyoke, MA, at The Campus in Hudson, NY and Izzy Lee Gallery in Los Angeles. Their films have been screened at the Mono No Aware Film Festival in Brooklyn and the Images Festival in Toronto. They have been awarded residencies at the LIFT Film Studio Immersion Program in Toronto, Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, most recently at Parent Company Studio Residency in New York.