2016 Artists in Residence
Awarded Artists:
Raphaele Shirley
Raphaele Shirley is a Franco-American multimedia artist based in New York City and upstate New York. Her work spans technology-based sculptural pieces, public art, place-making social interventions, and performance. She has presented solo and collaborative projects at venues including The Queens Museum, the Museum of Moving Image, the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York, the NCCA, the 2nd Moscow Biennale, and the Hermitage Museum in Russia, The Linz Museum in Austria, and The Kai Art Center in Estonia, among others. Her collaborators range from renowned composers to theater directors, architects, and technology experts. Raphaele, along with Algis Kizys, received the 2023 Wave Farm Grant for their performance piece 20F. She has also been an artist-in-residence at Harvestworks NYC with Rhys Chatham and GH Hovagimyan (2016) and The Arctic Circle (2009/2010). Raphaele has received several grants from the Norwegian Arts Council and awards for her collaborative projects.
G.H. Hovagimyan
G.H. Hovagimyan is an experimental artist working in a variety of forms. He was one of the first artists in New York to start working with the Internet in the early nineties. His work ranges from new media and hypertext works to digital performance art, video art, augmented reality and interactive installations.
His works have been exhibited at MoMA, Mass MoCA, The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, The
Walker Art Center, Jeu De Paume, MAC Marseille, MAC Lyon, Pompidou Center, Lincoln Center, ICA The
Clocktower, The Kitchen, The Alternative Museum, Eyebeam Art & Technology, List Visual Arts Center,
La Gaite Du Lyrique, Stuttgart Kunstverein, Steim Institute, the Moscow Center for Contemporary Art,
Postmasters Gallery, Pace Digital Gallery.
He has also exhibited works in major festivals and art fairs including; 2o Encuentro de Cultura Digital, Art Basel Miami, Pulse Miami, Art Cologne, Split Film Festival, Conflux Festival, Video Dumbo, Scope Art Fair, Frieze Art Fair, Avignon Numerique, The Documenta, Interferences 2nd International Festival of Urban Multimedia Arts, Les Musiques, Marseille and Prix Ars Electronica 98 where he won an award for
his collaborative work with Peter Sinclair.
His works are in the collections of The Walker Art Center, The Whitney Museum, The Alternative Museum, Computer Fine Arts Collection and Perpetual Art Machine
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.
Alfredo Salazar-Caro
Alfredo Salazar-Caro is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He has been integrating VR/AR into his artistic practice since 2013 and has been lecturing on the subject since 2014 at institutions such as NYU, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University. He is also the co-founder and Creative Director of DiMoDA, the Digital Museum of Digital Art, a virtual museum dedicated to commissioning and exhibiting XR artworks by contemporary artists.
Shelley Hirsch
Shelley Hirsch is an award winning, critically acclaimed vocalist, composer, and storyteller whose solo compositions, staged multimedia works, improvisations, radio plays, surround sound pieces, installations and collaborations havebeen produced and presented in concert halls, clubs, festivals, theaters, museums, galleries and on radio, film and television on five continents. She has received awards. fellowships, grants and residencies from Creative Capital, NYFA, NYSCA, Mary Flagler Carey Trust, NEA and AIRS from the DAAD, Yaddo, Montalvo Arts Center and many more.
Daniel Fishkin
Composer, sound artist, and instrument builder Daniel Fishkin has studied with renowned artists and performed as a soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra. Daniel received his MA at Wesleyan College and currently teaches an analog synthesis course at Bard College.
Faith Holland
Faith Holland is an interdisciplinary artist and curator whose practice focuses on gender and sexuality’s relationship to the Internet. She received her BA in Media Studies at Vassar College and her MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally as well as featured in The Sunday Times UK, Artforum, and other well known publications. Faith was a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Finalist in Digital/Electronic Art. She also had her first solo show at Transfer Gallery in 2015.
Rhys Chatham
Rhys Chatham is a composer/performer from NY currently living in Paris. Having played in the groups of Tony Conrad and La Monte Young during the early seventies, his current projects include his orchestras of 100-200 electric guitars as well as his smaller Guitar Trio configuration.
Richard Jochum
Richard Jochum is a post-conceptual sculptor and media artist whose art work is based in a variety of media, including video, photography and installation, and has been exhibited domestically and internationally in more than 100 group and solo exhibitions. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna (Austria) and an MFA in Sculpture and Media Art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Austria). His most recent solo exhibition is currently on display in Traismauer/Austria (Fine Art Galerie) with upcoming solo exhibitions at Peekskill (WCC Digital Media Arts Center) and at the Gallery Bundo (South-Korea) in Spring 2017.
Okkyung Lee
Okkyung Lee, a New York-based artist and South Korea native, has created a body of work blurring genre boundaries through collaborations and compositions while pushing the limitation of contemporary cello performance 
techniques. Her music draws from noise and extended techniques, jazz, Western classical, and Korean traditional and popular music. She has released more than 20 albums including the latest solo record Ghil produced by Lasse Marhaug on Editions Mego/Ideologic Organ.
Thessia Machado
Thessia Machado is a visual/sound artist and instrument builder. Her work investigates the physicality of sound and its effect on our perception of space.
As an extension of this practice, and under the moniker link, she performs electronic and electro-acoustic experimental music with hand-made and modified instruments.
Thessia’s installations and video pieces have been exhibited in New York, London, Philadelphia, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Berlin and Athens, She has participated in several residencies worldwide and is a recipient of fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin (upcoming), the New York Foundation for the Arts, Experimental Television Center and The Bronx Museum. She recently participated in the exhibition Curious Sound Objects at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery.
Zibuokle Martinaityte
Recently named by WQXR a “textural magician”, Lithuanian-born composer Žibuokle Martinaityte has a growing reputation for her innovative chamber and orchestral music. She studied composition at the Lithuanian Music Academy and had commissions with MATA festival, Barlow Endowment and won the “Look&Listen” Composers
Competition Prize (NYC). Her music has been performed by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Canada), the Smith Quartet (UK), ERGO Ensemble (Canada), The Orchestra of Mons Royal Conservatoire (Belgium), the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Lithuanian National Symphony
Wolfgang Gil
Wolfgang Gil, a Harvestworks Workspace resident, explores sound as a plastic medium, crafting sonic events that can be expanded, compressed, and twisted; filling, narrowing, dividing, coloring, saturating, and emptying the space of listening.
PAUL D.MILLER
PAUL D.MILLER (aka DJ SPOOKY) is a composer, renowned multimedia artist and writer whose work immerses audiences in a blend of genres, global culture, and environmental and social issues. Miller has been traveling around India recently to work on his latest project, “The Heart of a River” which will showcase the new XTH Sense, a unique biocreative instrument. With the collaboration of Heidi Boisvert and Marco Donnarumma, co-founders at XTH, Miller will explore ideas about art and data and bring those ideas to different logical extremes. He is joined by choreographer Jody Sperling, whose body gestures will generate electronic tones and visuals based on muscle sounds and motion data captured by the XTH Sense.