NYEAF 2009

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot lives and works in Sète, France. His work merges the realms of the musical and the visual, mining unexpected sources for their musical potential and creating situations or devices in which sonic events get expressed visually or visual informational gets expressed sonically. Calling on ideas about technological production, language, chance operations and systems of translation, Boursier-Mougenot’s work converges multi-sensory phenomena with a cerebral investigation of the mechanisms of sight and sound in his given situations.

Tali Hinkis, Kyle Lapidus, and Douglas Repetto are CCRT, a New York based collaboration that explores human attempts to understand natural phenomena. They develop sculptural and mechanical systems for monitoring, manipulating, and interpreting natural signals such as electromagnetic radiation, ambient temperature gradients, wind, and barometric pressure modulations. CCRT has exhibited work at The New York Electronic Art Festival, free103point9's Transmission Sculpture Park, and turbulance.org.

Shelley Eshkar is a digital artist whose research explores drawing, computer graphics, and human motion. One of his primary tools is motion capture, a technology that digitally captures the movement, but not the physical likeness, of human motion. Eshkar is part of the OpenEnded Group www.openendedgroup.com.

Julia Heyward began her career as a solo performance artist touring America and Europe throughout the 1970s with work that incorporated video, film, monologues and a cappella singing. She has received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, two grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, and several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts.

Eunjung Hwang was born in Seoul Korea. Her animations and new media works have been featured in exhibitions and festivals on an international level. She was a resident fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany (2008-09) and the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck/Austria (2005).

Hisao Ihara is a Digital Media artist born in Tokyo and based in New York City. His work explores the intricate overlay of time and visual perception within immersive video environments. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Paul Kaiser is a digital artist and writer. He spent ten years teaching students with severe learning disabilities, with whom he collaborated on making multimedia depictions of their own minds. From this work, he derived two key ideas - mental space and drawing as performance - which became the points of departure for the solo and collaborative digital artworks he has been making since the mid-90s. Kaiser is part of the OpenEnded Group www.openendedgroup.com.

Ron Kuivila gives concerts and makes installations with electronic instruments of his own design. He regards installations and performance as complementary presentations that highlight different facets of those instruments.

Jessica Ann Peavy was born in Columbus, Ohio and now currently lives and works in New York City. She received her BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and completed a MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts. Peavy was recently granted Residencies at Smack Mellon and Harvestworks and has received grants from Franklin Furnace, and the New York State Council of the Arts.

Christine Sugrue is an artist and programmer working with interactive installations and audio-visual performance. She has been an artist in residence at La Casa de Velázquze, Madrid, Hangar, Barcelona, Harvestworks and Eyebeam, NYC.