New York City Urban Field Station Arts and Humanities Residency Program

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Arts and Humanities Residency Plan

The goals of the NYC Urban Field Station'due south Arts and Humanities Residency Program are to bring perspectives from the arts and humanities to urban social-ecological systems and to incubate new relationships with artists and writers to inform our enquiry and land management.  We seek to explore and communicate the value, diversity, and wonder of urban nature, reaching members of the public in new means.  Through their affiliation, artists will take opportunities to be embedded with Urban Field Station staff, projects, and sites, and will share their own work via internal brownbag talks and Science of the Living City public seminars.

An inaugural cohort of New York City-based artists were selected  in June 2016 because of their work at the intersection of art, urban environmental, sustainability, nature, and design. These artists explored ideas that tin can exist incubated via relationships with public agencies working at the nexus of enquiry and natural resource management.

Our second cohort of artists was selected in June 2017 in response to a Request for Proposals. The call emphasized innovative perspectives on the following topics:

1. 1) Urban ecology stewardship; an urban land ethic; understanding the office of borough engagement in ecology systems and community resilience; strengthening cantankerous-cultural and various appointment in environmental stewardship;
2. 2) Fostering urban ecological health through biodiversity and connectivity, nature-based resilience, and nature as source of inspiration and creativity; advancing the discussion on nature's benefits to local communities such as clean air and water; and
3. 3) Restoration, cosmos, and management of NYC nature.

Our tertiary call for artists focused on ecology stewardship, which we define as relations of care between people and nature that can take diverse forms including conservation, management, monitoring and science, education, advancement, and transformation of the local surroundings. In particular, nosotros are interested in better agreement and strengthening civic engagement in ecology stewardship—in the form of individual volunteers, community-based groups, NGOs, and the networks among these groups and with public and individual sectors. We selected a accomplice of two artists in September 2018 in response to this call.

2018 Artists-in-Residence

Dylan Gauthier

Dylan Gauthier is a Brooklyn-based creative person and curator who works through a research-based and collaborative do centered on experiences of urban ecology, architecture, landscape, and social change. Gauthier is a founder of the boat-building and publishing collective Mare Liberum, and of the Sunview Luncheonette, a co-op for fine art, politics, and communalism in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is co-organizer, with Mariel Villeré, of Freshkills Field R/D, an artist-research residency based at NYC's largest former landfill. Gauthier'southward individual and collective projects have been exhibited at the Eye Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, the Parrish Art Museum, CCVA at Harvard University, the 2016 Biennial de Paris (Beirut), (New York:) the Eye for Architecture, The International Studio and Curatorial Plan, the Chimney, the Neuberger Museum at SUNY Purchase, Columbus Higher of Art and Design, the Walker Fine art Center, EFA Projection Space, and other venues in the US and abroad. His writings about art and public space have been published by Contemporary Art Stavanger, Parrish Fine art Museum, Urban Omnibus, Art in Odd Places, and Routledge/Public Fine art Dialogue, among others. In 2015 he was the NEA-supported Ecological Artist-in-Residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP); in 2016 he was a Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellow (NY), and in 2017/18 he was the inaugural Creative person-in-Residence at the Brandywine River Conservancy and Museum of Art, where his immersive video and sound installation highwatermarks was on view from October 2017 to Jan 2018. In 2018 he is a resident at Shandaken Projects at Storm King and was a visiting artist at NYU Abu Dhabi. He co-curated (with Kendra Sullivan) the exhibition Resistance Afterwards Nature at Haverford College in leap of 2017 and Across Species/Beyond Spaces at Cape Cod Modern Firm Trust in 2018. Gauthier received his MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, CUNY ('12), and teaches courses on emerging media in the Department of Flick and Media Studies at Hunter College, and ecological art and design at Parsons/The New Schoolhouse.

Julia Oldham

Julia Oldham is an creative person and storyteller who was raised by a physicist, a rock hound and a pack of dogs in rural Maryland. Born the same year as the 3 Mile Island nuclear blow, Oldham has been consumed by scientific curiosity her entire life, and has sought through her piece of work to understand the unknowable and transcend humanness. She blends digital media and drawing to tell stories that she finds both troubling and beautiful, ranging from the historical tale of Laika the Soviet Space Canis familiaris's journey into orbit to scientific discipline fiction visions of a post-apocalyptic future world populated by high-tech chihuahuas. She received her MFA from the Academy of Chicago and currently lives and works between Eugene, OR and Brooklyn, NY. Oldham has exhibited her work and participated in residencies internationally, with recent solo shows and screenings at BRIC in Brooklyn,NY; the Northwest Pic Middle at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR; and the Royal Nebaker Gallery in Astoria, OR equally part of the 2016 Portland Biennial. For her latest project she traveled to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine to make a film about the stray dogs that live at that place. Julia Oldham's project "Undiscovered Urban center" is a series of altered 360-degree landscapes of New York City that illustrate the dreams of current park volunteers for a future urban center. She will interview park volunteers and other civic stewards citywide and heed to their ideas for an ideal hereafter city that blends nature and urban landscape in profound ways that are not technologically possible withal. Using the tropes of both post-apocalyptic video games and loftier-tech architectural concept art, she will translate their dreams into visual reality, with the ultimate goal of making these undiscovered cityscapes available online to the public.

2017 Artists-in-Residence

Katie Holten

Katie Holten is a visual artist based in New York. She grew upward in rural Ireland and studied at the National College of Fine art & Design in Dublin, the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin, Cornell University in New York, and the Santa Atomic number 26 Institute.

In 2003 Holten represented Ireland at the 50th Venice Biennale. She has had solo museum exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art (2012); Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, (2010); The Bronx Museum, New York (2009); Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany (2008); Nevada Museum of Fine art, Reno (2008) and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2007).

Deeply committed to social causes, especially every bit they pertain to environmental problems, she makes drawings, sculptures, installations, books, public artworks and ephemeral actions that role as poetic alterations to the everyday. Holten often works on site to explore the history, ecology, and other invisible aspects of an environment. At the root of her practice is a fascination with the contingency of life'southward systems – organic and man-made – and the inextricable human relationship between man and the natural world in the historic period of the Anthropocene. Recognizing a crisis of representation as our species adapts to life in the Anthropocene, her book Nearly Trees considers our human relationship with linguistic communication, mural, and perception. She created a Tree Alphabet and used information technology to interpret a compendium of well known, loved, lost and new writing. The consequence is an astonishing fusion of storytelling and art, which celebrates trees and our understanding of them, their by and their future, their potential and their ubiquity.

Matthew Jensen

Matthew Jensen's multi-disciplinary do combines photography with walking, collecting and rigorous site-specific explorations of landscapes. His projects strive to connect people to places by expanding the traditions of landscape photography to include a range of mediums and actions. Each body of work develops from time spent in publicly accessible landscapes or past examining the way different technologies transform this experience.

In 2016 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in photography and a Peter S. Reed Foundation grant for photography. He has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts for his projects Park Wonder in 2016 and The Wilmington Heart for the Written report of Local Landscape in 2013. His photographs are in major public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Fine art and the Brooklyn Museum. In 2015 his solo show, Feels Like Real, debuted at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York. His site-specific projects and walks have been supported and commissioned by the High Line, the Queens Museum, Kenpoku Art Festival, the Brandywine River Museum of Art, the Delaware Contemporary, Storm King Fine art Center, Wave Hill, and Brooklyn Bridge Park, among others.

Jensen is office-time banana professor of photography and studio art at Parsons Schoolhouse of Design at the New School. He received his MFA from the University of Connecticut and BA from Rice Academy.

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Heidi Neilson

Heidi Neilson is an interdisciplinary artist interested in giving visual and sensible class to the connections between people on the ground and above-earth weather condition and infrastructure. Her work includes, recently: Ground Station, a project exploring the detection and use of world-orbiting satellites using ham radio techniques; SP Weather Station, where weather data-gathering instruments serve as a hub for various activities addressing earth'due south atmosphere; and Menu for Mars Supper Club, a series of events to envision and emulate cuisine on Mars. Her often collaborative and publishing-based work is included in over 60 museum and university collections, and her activities have received support from many organizations for exhibitions, production, publication, residencies, and travel, including: the Art Matters Foundation, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Heart for Book Arts, the Klondike Institute of Fine art and Civilization, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Queens Quango on the Arts, Wave Farm, and Women's Studio Workshop. Born in Oregon, Heidi and lives and works in New York. world wide web.heidineilson.com.

Moon Arrow - NYC Summer 2018 - A time lapse compilation of Moon Arrow pointing to the moon on New York City shorelines in the summer of 2018.
Moon Arrow - shorter-individual-installation videos

2016 Artists-in-Residence

Mary Mattingly

Mary Mattingly creates sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces. With the NYC Urban Field Station, she is working on a floating food woods for New York called "Swale". She also recently completed a two-part sculpture, "Pull," for the International Havana Biennial with the Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Mattingly's work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, the Seoul Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and the Palais de Tokyo. In 2009 Mattingly founded the Waterpod Project, a barge-based public space and self-sufficient habitat that hosted over 200,000 visitors in New York. In 2014, an creative person residency on the WetLand launched in Philadelphia. Information technology is being utilized by UPenn's Ecology Humanities program. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from A Blade of Grass, the James L. Knight Foundation, Eyebeam Middle for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, the Harpo Foundation, NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, and the Art Matters Foundation.

SWALE. NYC Urban Field Station creative person-in-residence Mary Mattingly has created a floating food forest that invites the public to cultivate fresh food as the barge travels through NYC harbors and acts as a setting for conversations nigh nutrient and public policy. (Courtesy of A Blade of Grass Foundation's Fieldworks).

Lize Mogel

Lize Mogel is an interdisciplinary artist and counter-cartographer. Her work intersects the fields of pop education, cultural production, public policy, and mapping. She creates maps and mappings that produce new understandings of social and political issues. Her work connects the real history and collective imaginary virtually specific places to larger narratives of global economies. She has mapped public parks in Los Angeles; future territorial disputes in the Arctic; and wastewater economies in New York City. She is co-editor of the book/map collection "An Atlas of Radical Cartography," a project that significantly influenced the conversation and production around mapping and activism. Exhibitions include the Sharjah (U.A.E.), Gwangju (South Korea) and Pittsburgh Biennials, "Greater New York"at PS1, and "Experimental Geography", She has lectured extensively about her piece of work nationally and internationally, including at the 2013 Artistic Fourth dimension Summit. Lize has received grants from the Graham Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Danish Arts Council. She has been an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and a Fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Adam Stoltman

Adam Stoltman is a lensman, editor, media developer and consultant who has been involved in traditional and digital media for over 30 years. At the New York Times Magazine, he was function of the team which produced award-winning visual coverage of globe events including the Autumn of the Eastern Bloc, the Showtime Gulf State of war, Tiananmen Square and the oil fires in Kuwait. At the daily paper, he was instrumental in the transition from analog to digital production processes for the photograph report. His photographic work has appeared in most major publications. He has covered 12 Olympic Games, and has also photographed long term feature stories on cultural figures and artists, including Maya Lin, and Leonard Bernstein. Some of his piece of work is in the permanent drove of the George Eastman Firm International Museum of Photography and Motion-picture show, in Rochester, New York. He has also worked for, and with companies such as Time Warner, Eastman Kodak and The Walt Disney Company, and has advised cultural organizations, foundations and corporates on the intersection of content, culture and technology. In the belatedly 1990's, he co-founded and co-published Journal E, an award-winning online publication, and one of the kickoff to regularly nowadays streaming media content on the internet. Shortly he is working on a long term photographic documentation project on the human relationship between Parks and People in New York City.

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