2019 New Works Residency

  • Natacha Diels

    Natacha Diels’ work combines choreographed movement, improvisation, video, instrumental practice, and cynical play to create worlds of curiosity and unease. Recent activities include Papillon and the Dancing Cranes, for construction cranes (Borealis Festival 2018), and Beautiful Trouble, a forthcoming TV mini-series of music videos and performances with the JACK Quartet (2019-20). With a focus on […]

  • Katherine Bennett

    As a new media, fiber, and installation artist, Katherine Bennett builds interactive systems exploring our emerging futures of the digital experience. She utilizes sound and light to represent people, relationships and activities that happen in other spaces and times. She creates a delicate presence of these entities, developing the architecture to facilitate them; choreograph within […]

  • Dafna Naphtali

    Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist, electronic-musician composer/performer and singer. She creates works for multi-channel audio, musical robots, and interactive soundwalks, drawing on her eclectic musical background (jazz, rock, gospel, contemporary classical, experimental improvisation) in work with musicians and video artists in the US and abroad. Projects and recordings include “Landmine” an interactive work for pianist […]

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  • Zeelie Brown

    Zeelie Brown is an interdisciplinary artist whose spiritual work conjures together Afro-Atlantic religious cultures to form Soulscapes–black, transfeminine, utopic, technopolitical sanctuaries. By utilizing sound, textiles, and installation, her practice manifests revolutionary beauty to offer spaces of anti-patriarchal gentleness, light, and warmth. Zeelie has performed at RISD, Flux Factory, Elsewhere, Recess Gallery, Project Row Houses and […]

  • Nicole Goodwin

    Nicole Goodwin is the author of Warcries, as well as the 2018-2019 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient, the 2018 Ragdale Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship Recipient, 2017 EMERGENYC Hemispheric Institute Fellow as well as the 2013-2014 Queer Art Mentorship Queer Art Literary Fellow. She published the articles “Talking with My Daughter…” and “Why is this Happening in […]

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  • Susie Ibarra

    Susie Ibarra is interested musically and culturally in the connection of avant-garde and traditional culture. In 2004 Ibarra began work in cultural and environmental preservation with The Philippine Eagle Foundation, and Indigenous and children’s groups in the Philippines, US, Asia/Pacific and globally. With Composer/Percussionist Roberto Rodriguez, Ibarra Co-founded Song of the Bird King (SOTBK) in […]

  • Ranjit Bhatnagar

    Ranjit Bhatnagar works in music, installation, and text, with a particular interest in algorithmic techniques and in improvisation at all stages of creation. His works have been exhibited across the United States and in Europe. He has performed recently with Lea Bertucci, Qubit and Margaret Leng Tan, and recently published a book of algorithmic poetry, […]

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  • Jenn Grossman

    Jenn Grossman is an audiovisual artist, experimental composer, and sound sculptor based in Brooklyn, NY. She is concerned with the expansive physical and psycho-spatial potentials of sensory experience within a culture of commodification, turning the mundane into the transportive and other-worldly. With sound sculpture, she expands “every-day” industrial objects and materials into affective, emotive, expressive […]

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  • Sabine Gruffat

    Sabine Gruffat is a digital media artist and filmmaker living and working in North Carolina. Currently she is Assistant Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. Sabine’s films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival in Japan, The Ann Arbor Film Festival and Migrating Forms in […]