image courtesy of Ruth Sergel, visiting artist-in-residence (2009) from the launch of her public project: $700 Billion for the Arts: Because we are too big to fail!
**WE ARE CURRENTLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ARTIST RESIDENCY - Applications due by midnight on January 31st***
Funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, Squeaky Wheel offers residency opportunities for regional and international media artists. In accordance with our mission to provide the public with access to equipment, technical facilities, media education and exhibition opportunities, our residencies are for emerging and established media artists who are dedicated to create compelling and innovative works that challenge the conventions of media. Media artists of all kinds are encouraged to submit - from interactive a/v performance artists to persons of a traditional filmmaking background. Both residencies provide free access to our technical facilities and equipment to further creative investigations and offer an exhibition opportunity in the form of a premiere screening, performance or installation.
If you are interested to learn more about these opportunities, visit the Regional Artist Access Residency (RAAR!) or the International Media Artist Residency page for more information and to download the application.
MEET THE 2011-2012 RAAR Participants, whose new work will be premiered in March 2012:
Catherine Archias is a public interest lawyer who is interested in the intersection of art and law, and how pictures, visual representation and storytelling can be used to create a dialogue about important legal theories and concepts of justice. During her residency, she is making a short documentary film about health care reform law, which debates whether or not Obama-care is constitutional. This film will combine the use of animation and found footage.
Catharine has a BFA in Photography and New Media from Kansas City Art Institute. In 2006, she participated as an artist and a resident at the Flux Factory in NYC. During this time, she was allso an editorial work scholar for the Aperture Foundation.
Debora Bernagozzi has been working on custom built interface for realitime audio and video processing using Max/MSP/Jitter and Korg Midi Controllers. Her goal is to create an a/v interface that mimics the realtime analog processes that were available at the Experimental Television Center. Using this interface, she will create a series of single channel videos. She is also planning a to do a live video processing performance during the event.
She received her BFA in Art with a concentration in Video from the Atlanta College of Art in 1999 and her MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University in 2002. She was also a frequent artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY. In 2007 she curated "Experimental Video at the Incubator", comprised of work by artists from Bosnia, Korea, Canada and the US. She currently resides in Rochester and her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad. To learn more about Debora's work, visit her website: http://deborabernagozzi.com/
Patrick Cain is creating a live audio-visual performance piece, which will incorporate found sound objects and hand-colored film loops to manipulate sound and light. In addition, he is working on an interactive gallery installation, which will encourage viewers to interact with an array of sound objects and film loops. His installation and performance invites the audience to question our sonic world through sound, color and shadow play.
Patrick is a multi genre artist who lives in Buffalo, New York. His work includes found sound sculpture, social sculptures, poetry and movement. He has worked with the New Phoenix Theater, Subversive Theatre, and the Irish Classical Theater. He has performed at Soundlab, The Vault, El Buen Amigo, Rust Belt Books, Squeaky Wheel, Artspace and on the streets of Buffalo. This will be his first installation for a gallery exhibition.
Thomas Stoll is working on an audio-visual installation/video that meditates on themes of growth and decay in human-built landscapes and spaces. During his residency, he has been building custom built audio and visual software for video and sound, using SuperCollider (digital audio), OpenCV (computer vision), and Openframeworks (C++ library/framework).
Tom is a composer and programmer based in Buffalo. He studied computer music and composition at the University at Buffalo, teaching electronic and computer music for four years. In 2010, Tom was awarded a PhD in Music Composition. Specializing in cutting-edge music programming, he creates software to be used by composers interested in creative digital audio. While continuing to develop software and present research related to his dissertation work—corpus-based processing—he has launched a software company focused on developing applications for mobile devices. He currently teaches a workshop at Squeaky Wheel in IOS/Android/Openframeworks programming. For more information about Thomas, visit www.kitefishlabs.com || www.corpora-sonorus.com
