2021 Technology Immersion Program
Awarded Artists:
Anaïs Maviel
Anaïs Maviel is a multidisciplinary artist whose work transforms spiritual concepts into immersive sensory experience, treating perception itself as a medium. A composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, she works across traditional and experimental practices to explore the power of sound to shape reality and highlight the stakes of cultural multiplicity. She moves fluidly between song, choral, instrumental, and orchestral music, as well as interactive staging, drawing on sacred geometry and cosmologies of sound as structural foundations.
Through an aesthetically layered vocabulary and embodied processes, she creates multidimensional, “spiritually illuminating” experiences (New York City Jazz Record). Her expansive collaborations across mediums include Alarm Will Sound, Craig Taborn, Meshell Ndegeocello, Meredith Monk, Merce Cunningham Trust, Okwui Okpokwasili, Sean Webley, and Nene Humphrey.Jazz Right Now has called her a “unique aesthetic visionary.” She is a recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship (2019), the American Composers Forum Create Award (2020), the Jerome Foundation Fellowship (2021–2022), the New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship (2022), New Music USA’s Next Jazz Legacy (2023), and a nominee for the Herb Alpert Award in Music Composition (2023).
She holds a master’s degree from Paris Diderot University in modern literature, aesthetics, and contemporary thought, which led her to write about music and utopia in the creolized world. Her essays and poetry can be read in her intentional newsletters.
Devin Kenny
Devin Kenny is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, musician, and independent curator living in Queens, NY. Born on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, he relocated to New York City to begin his studies at The Cooper Union. He has since continued his practice through the defunct Bruce High Quality Foundation University, and Trade School, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, SOMA Mexico, MFAH Core, and the Whitney Independent Study Program, collaborations with Triple Canopy, Rhizome, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Performa, and various art and music venues in New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles California, and elsewhere including The Kitchen, Performance Space, Recess, REDCAT, and MoMA PS1.
Sabina Rosas
Sabina was born in Tajikistan in 1991. The civil war brought upon the country with the independence from the Soviet Union had to move to Turkmenistan in 1993. Because of dictatorial conditions, she had to relocate to Crimea in 2000 to finish middle school. In 2003 moved back to Tajikistan, where she graduated high school. Upon graduation was admitted to the Polytechnic University of Tajikistan directly to a sophomore year to pursue a painting major. It was decided that she would attain a bright future if her parents sent her to America. In 2009 at the age of 17, she moved alone to the States, hoping to enroll in The Art Institute of Chicago only when the family faced financial difficulties. Knowing just a few people in New York who could help find a job and a place to live, she relocated to Forest Hills in 2010, where she lived and worked various jobs while pursuing an associates degree at BMCC CUNY. In 2016 having little savings, she took a chance and relocated to Westchester to pursue a bachelor’s in New Media at Purchase College full time. Since 2019 has been living and working in NYC.
Dan Joseph
Dan Joseph is a composer, curator and writer based in New York City. He began his career in the early ‘80s as a drummer in the vibrant punk scene of his native Washington, DC. Soon after, he became active in the experimental tape music underground, producing ambient-industrial works for various independent labels. He spent the ‘90s in California where he studied at CalArts and Mills College. His principal teachers include Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran and Mel Powell. Equally influential were his studies with Terry Riley during several workshops in California and Colorado.
As an artist who embraces the musical multiplicity of our time, Dan works simultaneously in a variety of media and contexts, including instrumental chamber music, electroacoustic computer music, free improvisation, electronica, and sound art. Since the late 1990s, the hammer dulcimer has been the primary vehicle for his music. As a performer he is active with his own chamber ensemble, The Dan Joseph Ensemble, as well as in various improvisational collaborations and as a frequent soloist. Recent projects include the JCC Trio with composer-performers Tom Chiu and Jason Cady.
Dan’s work has been presented at Merkin Concert Hall, Diapason Gallery for Sound, Harvestworks, Roulette, Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, Human Resources (CA), Harrison House (CA) and other venues. He has received commissions from the New York State Council of the Arts, Gamelan Son of Lion, sfSoundGroup, baritone Thomas Buckner, and clarinetist Matt Ingalls. Dan has held residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.
Active for many years as a curator and presenter, he currently produces the monthly music and sound series Musical Ecologies at The Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn. His writings on music have appeared in Musicworks Magazine (Toronto), The Brooklyn Rail, NewMusicBox.org.