Woody Sullender is a media artist and musician based in Queens, NY. His
pieces encompass a myriad of media including sculpture, video games, performance,
theater, music, installation, architecture, origami, and sonic weaponry. His recent
work utilizes video game space as an arena to undermine specific modernist
ideologies and rituals of music reception. Previously, Sullender was recognized as a
pre-eminent experimental banjo improviser. Sullender has performed internationally
at venues such as the Kitchen (with Sergei Tcherepnin + Okkyung Lee), Issue Project
Room (Brooklyn, NY), the River to River Festival, the Schindler House (Los Angeles),
Knockdown Center (NYC), SculptureCenter (NYC), Abrons Art Center (NYC), Les Instants
Chavirés (Paris), Chicago Cultural Center, DNK-Amsterdam (with Seamus Cater), and
many others. He recently completed the Art & Code cohort at NEW INC (partnered with
Rhizome and the New Museum) and has been an artist in residence or visiting artist
at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn), STEIM (Amsterdam), Harvestworks (NYC), Peabody
Institute at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (NYC) and
Brown University’s MEME program. His work has been reviewed internationally by such
widely disparate publications as Wire Magazine, Art in America, Fast Company, and
Maximumrocknroll. Other projects include the music album “Four Movements”
constructed in video game space, as well as a special music review issue of EAR WAVE
EVENT written entirely by AI. Additionally over the past few years, Sullender has
worked on re-interpreting the work of Maryanne Amacher at venues such as the
Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and REDCAT (Los Angeles) as a member of Supreme
Connections, as well as in collaboration with Daniel Neumann and members of
Yarn/Wire. Among other activities, he is founding co-editor (will Bill Dietz) of the
sonic arts publication Ear Wave Event.
