Jess Rowland is a sound artist, musician and composer. Much of her work explores the relationship between technologies, popular culture and other absurdities, investigating the weirdness of reality and how we all deal with it. She is currently adjunct faculty at The School of Visual Arts in New York teaching Sound Art and has presented her work internationally. Recent installations and performances include Columbia University, Visible Futures Lab, NY Electronic Arts Festival, and Berkeley Art Museum. She is currently working on the release of a unique video collection exploring the misappropriation of corporate computerized technologies.
Artists In Residence
Benton C Bainbridge is a Bronx, NY media artist who creates videos, interactive artworks, immersive installations and live A/V performances with custom digital, analog and optical systems of his own design. He VJ'd for two Beastie Boys world tours, made analog video synthesizer FX for TV On The Radio’s “Staring at the Sun” music video, and co-created Whitney Museum’s best-attended live event with video ensemble The Poool. Bentonhas been resident media artist at American Museum of Natural History's "One Step Beyond" since its inception; One Step Beyond is now in its 10th season. Bainbridge is faculty at School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Arts department. His work is collected in the Rose Goldsen Media Archives at Cornell University and at the Getty Research Institute
Joshua Clayton is a New York-based artist and academic. His research-oriented creative practice encompasses material artifacts and ephemeral situations, digital and analog media. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Joshua studied art and design before moving to Tokyo in 2002 and New York in 2005. He completed a master’s degree in interactive telecommunications and currently teaches at New York University. Joshua’s interests range from semiotics, mysticism, and epistemology to landscape, geolocation, and environmental phenomena
Ria Rajan is an Indian visual artist and designer.
Her work spans across mediums both analog and digital, including drawing, painting, image making, sculptural explorations and interventions in spaces. She has been invited to participate in multiple public art projects such as Urban Avant Garde (Bangalore), Investment Zone (Bangalore), Figment (NY) and was a member of the erstwhile art collective Jaaga Juice.
Clara Fialho (American, b. Brazil, 1984) is a New York-based artist. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union on a full scholarship and had her first solo exhibition in Chelsea at age 22. Since then, she has been exhibiting extensively throughout the country and abroad. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including the New York Times, and the cover of New York Spaces Magazine"
Emmaline Payette (b. 1987) is a multi-disciplinary artist working to transform spaces into ecological installations built from discreet items like living plants, found material and detritus. Her work is centered on questions of ecology, and often mimics this interest formally through installation and engagement based works. For projects like stonedplastic Emmaline intercepts materials like post-consumer plastic bags, sourced from her immediate community, to create naturally informed and interactive installations that appear to be piles of rocks. Beyond her studio practice, her work relies on direct engagement: from calls for material to bio-remediation through planting projects to stick and poke tattoos. She is also the founder of ECO AGE, a collaborative project with sonic sculptor Paulapart, creating happenings that merge art, sound, and performance. Emmaline has exhibited work in New York NY, Boston MA and abroad. She attended Vermont Studio Center in 2013. Emmaline studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated from Union College in 2009 with a BA in Anthropology.
