It is with this series of work, titled “Representations of Memory” which Henry spent the bulk of his time exploring during his residency. The Polaroid photos were scanned on the SciTex EverSmart Pro scanner and enlarged from their small standard size to 24×32″ prints on the Epson 7900. In addition to this series, Henry also printed and constructed a set of accordion fold books based on this photo series, printing from the Epson 7900 and using our Epilog Laser Cutter to etch and cut out the covers.

Below are some photos of Henry at work and a selection of his images.

Luftwerk spent much of their residency at the IEA working and making tests for a new series of installations that will be opening in Chicago in September 2013. A large focus of this was on tests for projection mapping onto a color spectrum to be displayed on one wall of the gallery space. Once mapped, Sean and Petra could project and assign different colors to any square in the color prints and effectively change it to any other color, giving them the ability to create moving, amorphous, shifting color spectra. Luftwerk were also generous enough to do an artist talk and discuss their work and process with the students of the Alfred University School of Art and Design and Alfred State College Digital Media and Animation program.

Below are some photos of their work and visit.

The main project, the books, utilized almost every printing facility we have. The pages were of a heavy weight paper cut down to size on the large guillotine cutter, then printed upon. The covers were also cut to size on this guillotine and the titles hand stamped using a rubber stamp made on-site with our Epilog Laser Cutter. The image index pages were folded to size with a brochure folding machine we have from the 1960′s and then all of the covers and pages were collated, hand-punched, and Wire-O bound.

Below are some photos of Desiree’s multiple projects in process.

Kiki’s time in the IEA focused on making digital images for prints which she plans to work back into later in her studio in New York. These prints were made of images of her hands holding various natural objects, such as mica, a seashell, a potato, and an egg. She also left us with a set of images of an owl she drew onto which we are going to try to experiment with to make a four color (CMYK) woodblock or linoblock print with in the near future.

Below are some of the digital images Kiki constructed during her residency.

During his residency, Jason spent much of his time processing video from a recent trip to Malaysia looking at the different aspects of their culture, such as religion, commercialism, and the economies of Malaysia’s people. In addition, he worked on a Max/msp/Jitter patch ultimately for a three-channel interactive, proximity sensing installation which uses flicker techniques to compare and present to viewers the aspects of his Malaysia recordings.

It should be noted that Jason and his wife, Debora, are currently trying to set up an Artist Residency site of their own. Called Signal Culture Jason and Debora hope to channel the energy of the Experimental Television Center of Owego, NY and establish a site for artists, toolmakers, curators, critics, and art historians in the field of media art to work, do research, and exchange ideas. They ultimately wish to construct an experimental media studio with real-time analog and digital image processing equipment, custom made hardware and software, a variety of interactive interfaces and alternative imaging devices that can be configured in a modular studio setup. They currently have an indiegogo fundraising campaign up which, at the time of this entry, has 36 days to raise the funds they need to start their Signal Culture site. We wish them all the best and hope their project reaches its fundraising goals.

Below are some photos of Jason at work during his residency.

Below are some images of Phillip during his time here as well as some stills of videos he made. A video produced during his time can be found here.

During her residency, Kristin collaborated with several of the students enrolled in the undergraduate program of the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics of Alfred University. In front of green screens, participants were asked to perform actions with objects like one may see in stock video often utilized in commercial media. Much of this was mixed live, and Kristin plans to further process these recordings in her own studio. She also spent time with the Sandin video processor and recorded a lot of video for use in future projects.

In addition to photos, a video sample of Brett collaborating with Michaela can be found below.

Applications for these opportunities are due by January 25th, 2013.

Please see the Apply page for more details.