2015 Artists in Residence
Awarded Artists:
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.
Michael J. Schumacher
Michael J. Schumacher (lead artist) has a long history working with multichannel sound, sound art installations, as a curator, gallery director and composer. He earned his Doctorate in Music Composition from Juilliard and has been creating computer-based installations since the 1990s. He founded and directed Diapason, New York’s only gallery devoted to sound art, from 1996-2014. Diapason’s archive continues to be presented in spaces throughout the world. Schumacher also has extensive experience in the popular music world, having released three records with his rock band, dinmachine.
Joseph Morris
Joseph Morris is a media artist known to make emotive machines. His work is occupied with the affectual space of somatic relationships between our bodies and physical space. He is immersed in the creation of machines that resemble the body through the gesture of breathing. His work engages with ephemerality, perception, movement, space, and time to generate subjectivity, and through that action creates a sensorial relationship with gestural presence. His New Works Residency project is a solar wind chime, which is a data sonification system that pulls real time data from the ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) satellite. This sonification system will interpret the solar wind data live, and use it to synthesize dimensional sound in an open sound and video installation.
Maxwell Abeles
Maxwell Abeles started the creative company MAKS. As the company has evolved it has now become a form of guerrilla theatre. They put special emphasis on creating multimedia systems which are then used in rituals and performances in public squares across the boroughs of New York. “Theatre is the defining end point,” says Maxwell. His residency with Harvestworks will result in a performance system incorporating animatronic masks, instruments, sensors, voltage controlled canvases, and electronic controllers.
Lea Bertucci
Lea Bertucci is a sound artist and composer whose work bridges performance, installation and multichannel activations of acoustic space. As an instrumentalist, she focuses on an electro-acoustic preparation of the Bass Clarinet that utilizes speaker feedback as an extension of the instrument. In recent years, her projects have expanded to site-specific improvisation, compositions for electronics and instruments, multichannel sound installations and music concrete collage.
MV Carbon
M.V. Carbon is a Brooklyn based composer and sound artist who is recognized for her non-traditional approach to music.
Tommy Martinez
Tommy Martinez Creates music and software for the internet, embedded devices, and for live multichannel performance. Also is currently a professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and the Integrated Design & Media (IDM) program where he teaches courses in electronic art.
Sougwen Chung
Sougwen Chung is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores transitional edges. Her practice spans installation, sculpture, still image, drawing, and performance, informing her multi-faceted approach to experiential art. Her installations involve multiple layers of light on intricate structures, taking a variety of media and transforming it into spatial experiences. Melapoeia is an immersive interactive installation which exists in virtual and physical reality. VR headsets are situated in various parts of a vertiginous structure, each offering a different audiovisual experience of the piece. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in North America, Europe and Asia. Recent venues include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Geneva, Switzerland MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, and 319 Scholes in Brooklyn, New York.
Annie Gosfield
Annie Gosfield is a composer whose work combines notated and improvised music, electronic and acoustic sounds. During her New Works Residency she will create a large-scale spatialized work inspired by the processes, perceptions, and sounds of jammed radio signals. Fragments of the original rare recordings will be used, from abstract timbres to text-based transmissions. She will also reference the jamming process by digitally altering the sounds of acoustic instruments, with elements shifting in a sound field where music, noise, and pure signal meld and collide. The end result will be displayed in NYC and Prague. Active as a writer and teacher, she is a regular contributor to the New York Times series “The Score,” and has been the Milhaud Professor of composition at Mills College, a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and a visiting artist at Cal Arts.
Jane Rigler
Flutist, composer and educator, Jane Rigler has performed nationally and internationally as and has been granted numerous awards and residencies nation-wide for her compositions that center on community building, stretching the boundaries of musical performance and audience interaction. Rigler’s works range from solo acoustic pieces to multi-disciplinary interactive electronic ensemble works. Composer Elizabeth Hoffman is the recipient of recognition from Bourges and Prix Ars Electronica for her electroacoustic music, and has collaborated on real-time mixed media works with numerous artists including Ivan Goff, Margaret Lancaster, Marianne Gythfeldt, and the Washington Square Contemporary Music players.
Elizabeth Hoffman
Composer Elizabeth Hoffman is the recipient of recognition from Bourges and Prix Ars Electronica for her electroacoustic music, and has collaborated on real-time mixed media works with numerous artists including Ivan Goff, Margaret Lancaster, Marianne Gythfeldt, and the Washington Square Contemporary Music players.
Nisi Jacobs
Nisi Jacobs is a songwriter/composer and video/sound editor specializing in immersive 3D. Feels Like Rita is the pop rock project of Nisi Jacobs. Feel Like Rita’s film score credits include Eternal Beach and Abstract Eternalisms which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in the Summer and Fall of 2021, respectively. Jacobs was granted the sole Creative Writing award upon graduation from Stuyvesant by Angela’s Ashes author, Frank McCourt, earned a BFA from Cooper Union, instructed image and sound editing for NYU and Apple, plays the bass and electronics, composes film music and reggaehop trance grooves for other-worldly experiences and rituals, and is the inventor of Liquid Dance Yoga.
– IMDb mini biography by: Nisi Jacobs
Jill Taffet
Jill Taffet is a moving image artist who creates media installations, video projection and public art projects. She holds a BFA from Cooper Union and a MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. During her residency at Harvestworks she will create a site-specific immersive multi-channel video projection that uses camera and eye tracking to trigger the movement of animation elements and sounds. Biosensors will collect biometric data from the spectator and individualize the experience with generative art elements based on blood pressure and pulse rate.
Michael Theodore
Michael Theodore is a composer, improviser, and practicing visual artist, who studied at the Yale School of Music and UCSD. He is currently Associate Professor of Music Composition and Technology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Director of the ATLAS Center for Media, Arts and Performance. Theodore’s technology–informed work with sound, visual media or both has been presented across the nation and the world. David Shively performs concert and installation works in media ranging from Hungarian cimbalom to percussion to analog electronics and feedback systems.
David Shively
David Shively performs concert and installation works in media ranging from Hungarian cimbalom to percussion to analog electronics and feedback systems.
Bohyun Yoon
Bohyun Yoon is from Korea and currently living in Richmond Virginia. He is an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. His residency project involves art making with glass and digital audio systems. Inspired by the idea of sound from clear glass, he will create avenues for this glass to become a sonic instrument. He plans to use different materials like multi channel audio system, contact microphone and amplifiers as his projects Glass Helmet (2004), Glass Tube (2012), and Glassorganism (2013). The sound of glass caused through physical alterations or vibrations has always fascinated him, and this led him to experiment with making glass more visible through sound.