Harvestworks is pleased to announce the 2024 Technology Immersion Program (TIP) for these Artists who have a passion for learning the tools of digital media but do not have the research, training and equipment necessary to produce artworks in this medium. Artist were selected by Carol Parkinson, Executive Director, Harvestworks and Heidi Boisvert: CEO and Creative Director of futurePerfect Lab. Assistant Professor of AI & the Arts, Immersive Performance Technologies, School of Theatre & Dance, University of Florida.
Caroline Garcia is a culturally promiscuous, interdisciplinary artist. She works across performance, moving image, and installation through a hybridized aesthetic of cross-cultural movement, embodied research, and new media. Her practice traverses a highly personalized aggregation of distinct systems that interlace ethnotraditional forms of knowledge (such as dance, botany, poetry, and ceramics) with digital technologies (including green screening, robotics, motion capture, extended realities [AR/VR], and 3D processes).
Janessa Clark is a BESSIE Award-nominated choreographer, dance filmmaker, performer, and installation artist. Her practice combines dance, video, new technology, and language to create movement-driven art for stage, screen, and site-specific environments. The work created nourishes a desire to challenge traditional modes of choreography and spectatorship through co-authorship. Janessa holds an MA in Performance Practices and Research from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and a BFA in Choreography from Arizona State University. She founded and directed the New York City-based dance collective, Janessa Clark/KILTERBOX, from 2001-2012 which she dissolved to form nomadthenewcompany, which worked from Stockholm 2012-2018.
Richard Nathaniel is a composer and performer, he has always viewed the turntable as more than just a tool for playing records—it is an instrument, a conduit for creative expression. For years, he has been immersed in the world of music, crafting sounds and experiences that transcend the boundaries of genre and convention. His most recent compositions have been improvised experimental performances that explore reflective topics or shared contexts through collaboration. Constantly exposed to new ways of thinking and creating through turntablism, he is encouraged to step out of his comfort zone and take risks, whether by incorporating unconventional sounds into his compositions or experimenting with Butch Morris’s Conduction lexicon in his performance techniques.
Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江) is a NYC-based performance artist, improviser, composer, and educator. Their work transforms the body into a sonic object through interactions with movements and audio technology, provoking embodied experience in the audience and examining the boundaries between identity, sound, and space. Lu designs Max/MSP-based electroacoustic feedback systems with cyborg-like body augmentations inspired by Objectophilia/animism, which include special microphones and speakers placed within bodily orifices, an augmented amplified laptop, and a custom-mapped flight joystick controller. Their resulting performances consist of choreographed, ritualistic improvisations that build on ancient Chinese drumming traditions and explore body dysmorphia, sexuality, spirituality, and mortality, linking together sound, movement, and violence in divine ceremony.