2018 Artists in Residence

Beth Bradfish is a composer and sound artist whose goal is to bring her audience as close to sound as possible – like a musician holding a cello to his or her heart. The permeability and physical intimacy of sound is the foundation of experiences she creates and invites her audiences to participate in. She composes for chamber ensembles, orchestras as well as installations and sound objects she designs.

Mark Cetilia is a sound / media artist working at the nexus of analog and digital technologies. Exploring the possibilities of generative systems in art, design, and sound practice, Cetilia’s work is an exercise in carefully controlled chaos. Over the past two decades, he has worked to develop idiomatic performance systems utilizing custom hardware and software, manifesting in a rich tapestry of sound and image.

Lauren McCarthy is an artist based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn whose work explores social and technological systems for being a person and interacting with other people. She makes software, performances, videos, and other things on the internet.

Amanda Gutiérrez (b. 1978, Mexico City) explores the experience of home, belonging, and cultural identity by bringing into focus details of everyday practices whose ordinary status makes it particularly hard for us to notice their key role in defining who we are. Trained and graduated initially as a stage designer from The National School of Theater, Gutiérrez uses a range of media such as sound art and performance art to investigate how these conditions of everyday life set the stage for our experiences and in doing so shape our individual and collective identities.

Approaching these questions from immigrants’ perspectives continues to be of special interest to Gutiérrez, who completed her MFA in Media and Performance Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently elaborating the academic dimension of her work regarding the aesthetic of the walk as a person of color. Accordingly, these techniques also constitute the core of the pedagogical practice Gutiérrez has developed over a decade of teaching in diverse settings ranging from high schools on Chicago’s South Side to a senior center on New York’s Upper West Side, including academic institutions such as The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Connecticut College, Columbia University, and Rutgers University in the Department of Film Studies.

Gutiérrez has held numerous art residencies at FACT, Liverpool in the UK, ZKM in Germany, TAV in Taiwan, Bolit Art Center in Spain, and her work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as The Liverpool Biennale in 2012, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. A recipient of a grant from the National System of Art Creators, in Mexico, Gutiérrez recently was the recipient of the residencies at the New York Camera Club, Harvestworks, and MISE-EN_PLACE Bushwick.

Prince Harvey is a NYC based artist/musician most famously known for recording his first album in an Apple Store. Harvey spent most of his childhood on the tiny island of Dominica where he started writing songs at the age of 8, influenced by late 90s rappers. At 14, his family moved to New York and since then he has been composing and producing alternative hip-hop music, praised by both mainstream and underground audiences.

Harvey’s music has been featured in The New York Times, Noisey, Billboard, VICE, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, The Fader, and Afropunk among others. Upon, release of his first album, PHATASS, he’s been mentioned by major music and news publications, as well as celebrities like Lil Wayne, Russell Simmons and Talib Kweli.

In 2017, he created STAY BOLD: 100 DAYS 100 SONGS, where he released a song a day for 100 days as a protest against Trump.

Andrew Neumann is an artist who works in a variety of media, including photography, video, sculpture, installation, and electronic/interactive music. His original artistic output consisted of single channel videos and films. He then moved on to integrate a variety of electronic and digital technologies into his sculptural work. In addition, he has been building electronic musical interfaces, and is active in electro-acoustic improvisation. He has studios in Brooklyn, NY and Boston, MA.

Klaas von Karlos is the musical alter ego of Berlin-based filmmaker, audiovisual artist and writer Jon-Carlos Evans. A native of Saint Louis, USA, he holds a BA in Film Production from Webster University-Saint Louis and an MFA in Media Arts Production from CUNY-City College of New York. Under the alias Klaas von Karlos, he is also a live member of the band BIINDS. His most recent projects include the 2016 album “The Mansa Musa Affair, the Naked Sweatshop EP with vocalist Kyoka Jinjabrew, and the film, “All Tomorrow’s Children.”

Julia Sinelnikova is an interdisciplinary artist who works with holograms, performance, and digital culture. Her light installations have been exhibited internationally, and she has performed widely as The Oracle of Vector Gallery. She has received commissions from NYC Parks Department, Pace University, Michael Madden (Maroon 5), Refinery29, GIPHY, Webster Hall, and Norte Maar. Heavily inspired by electronic music, Sinelnikova has designed sculptural sets for performers including Lee Burridge, Machinedrum, The GZA (Wu Tang Clan), Peaches, Juliana Huxtable, and Aurora Halal. Selected profiles of her work have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Office Magazine, VICE, Artnet, Huffington Post, The Creators Project, PAPER Mag, and The New Criterion. Her work has been presented at the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, The Oulu Museum of Art, and Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. Sinelnikova has also exhibited site-specific installations for Miami Art Week / Art Basel annually since 2011. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from The Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY). She lives and works in Brooklyn.

In 2018 Sinelnikova advanced her practice via partnerships with two museums. The Tides Institute and Museum in Maine offered the artist a one month residency and commissioned a public installation. In the fall, Sinelnikova was offered a one year scholarship to participate in The New Museum’s NEW INC incubator program, where she is working within a technology-oriented community to launch an immersive artist agency. She also presented two solo exhibitions: one in January at Superchief Gallery NYC, and another in December at Lazy Susan Gallery in Lower Manhattan. She was sponsored by Harvestworks NYC for the entire calendar year, through which she developed a new iteration of the code for “Data Log,” her interactive video and sculpture project. The resulting commission will be display this summer as part of New York Electronic Arts Festival on Governors Island, NYC. Sinelnikova is represented by Wallplay NYC and Cement Gallery (EU).

Jakob Steensen is a Danish artist and art director based in New York. He has masters of Art and New Media from Central St. Martins and Copenhagen University, and has most recently exhibited at Time Square for the Midnight Moment, at Carnegie Museum of Art, The Moving Image Fair, NYC, MAXXI, Museum of Modern Art, WIRED annual conference, FRIEZE in London, Podium in Oslo, Ok Corral in Copenhagen, 86 Project Space, Brooklyn, Sleep Center, China Town and at London Science Museum.

Amy M. Youngs creates eco art, interactive sculptures, and digital media works that explore interdependencies between technology, plants and animals. Her practice-based research involves entanglements with the non-human, constructing ecosystems, and seeing through the eyes of machines. She has created installations that amplify the sounds and movements of living worms, indoor ecosystems that grow edible plants, a multi-channel interactive video sculpture for a science museum, and community-based, participatory video, social media and public web cam projects.

Youngs has exhibited her works nationally and internationally at venues such as the Te Papa Museum in New Zealand, the Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre in Norway, the Biennale of Electronic Arts in Australia, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Spain and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. She has earned an Individual Artist Grant from the Ohio Arts Council, contributed writing to interdisciplinary publications such as Leonardo, and the recent book, Robots and Art, and her work has been profiled in books such as, What’s Next? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art. She has lectured widely, at venues such as the Australian Centre For the Moving Image in Melbourne, Australia and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. She received a BA in Art from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2001 she joined the faculty at the Ohio State University where she is currently working as an Associate Professor of Art, leading interdisciplinary grant projects, and teaching courses in digital media, eco art, and art/science.

Eva von Schweinitz is a German-American interdisciplinary theater- and filmmaker. Her work has been presented at Tribeca Film Festival, The Bushwick Starr, The Brick, The Doxsee, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Homeless Shelters, Prelude NYC, and across Germany and its neighboring countries. As projection designer, Eva has worked with Elevator Repair Service on MEASURE FOR MEASURE (The Public), ARGUENDO (Associate Designer, The Public, OBIE Award Outstanding Projection Design), and THE SOUND AND THE FURY (New York Theatre Workshop, The Public). Further video/sound design collaborations include: Sibyl Kempson, Superhero Clubhouse, Eliza Bent, Sarah Hughes, and Piehole. Evais a founding member of pulk fiktion, a German theater collective which was awarded the 2016 George Tabori Advancement Award. MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College. BA in Film from International Filmschool Cologne.

Kyle deCamp is an interdisciplinary artist. She writes, designs, directs and performs at intersections of media, architecture, theater, performance and choreography drawing on multiple perspectives, exploring interactions of art, history, technology and individual lives. Her multi-focused projects combine varied perspectives to create hybrid experiences of space in live performance. Rome Prize Fellow in Design, American Academy in Rome 2017.

John Kelly is a performance and visual artist. His character-driven dance theatre works focus on the threats of survival resulting from the personal and public struggles encountered by artists and social outsiders, and the nature of creative genius. Kelly’s visual artwork frequently involves self-portraiture, including drawing and painting, photography and video; 2 of his films ‘The Dagmar Onassis Story’ and ‘The Mona Lisa’ were recently acquired for the permanent collection of MOMA. His solo exhibition ‘Sideways Into The Shadows’ includes 52 hand drawn memorial portraits of friends and lovers lost to the AIDS epidemic, and dated journal transcriptions rendered on paper, was recently exhibited at Howl! Arts.