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The Harvestworks Technology Immersion Program (TIPS) is a professional development program offering new media artists and independent media producers from underserved communities a comprehensive experience in the creation of artworks that employ emerging technologies. These works can include data sonification or visualization systems, Virtual and Augmented Reality, biosensors, camera and eye tracking, geo-locative and new methods to engage with social media and communities.
It offers up to a $2000 artist stipend in addition to education, workspace, technical programmers, access to equipment, networking events and public presentation opportunities.
The video shows excerpts from the master classes that happened in the Technology Immersion Program online in 2021 and 2022. The first excerpt features Melody Loveless with her TIP artist Sabina Rosas followed by an excerpt of Sabina’s evaluation of the program. The next excerpt is with composer Michael Shumacher as he conducted his master class on multi-channel sound. It is followed by a discussion excerpt by TIP artist Amina Ross during that same session.
In the three years that we have offered the program, recipients have included Amina Ross, Selwa Abd, Shanthal Caba Mojica, Ahmed El-Shaer, Eva Davidova, Alexandra Strada, C. Lavendar Suarez, Alliah George, Anais Maviel, Devin Kenny and Sabina Rosas.
The Harvestworks Technology Immersion Program (TIPS) is a professional development program offering new media artists and independent media producers from underserved communities a comprehensive experience in the creation of artworks that employ emerging technologies. These works can include data sonification or visualization systems, Virtual and Augmented Reality, biosensors, camera and eye tracking, geo-locative and new methods to engage with social media and communities.
It offers up to a $2000 artist stipend in addition to education, workspace, technical programmers, access to equipment, networking events and public presentation opportunities.
The video shows excerpts from the master classes that happened in the Technology Immersion Program online in 2021 and 2022. The first excerpt features Melody Loveless with her TIP artist Sabina Rosas followed by an excerpt of Sabina’s evaluation of the program. The next excerpt is with composer Michael Shumacher as he conducted his master class on multi-channel sound. It is followed by a discussion excerpt by TIP artist Amina Ross during that same session.
In the three years that we have offered the program, recipients have included Amina Ross, Selwa Abd, Shanthal Caba Mojica, Ahmed El-Shaer, Eva Davidova, Alexandra Strada, C. Lavendar Suarez, Alliah George, Anais Maviel, Devin Kenny and Sabina Rosas.
![Harvestworks Work Samples 2025 with subtitles
Work Sample No. 3 – Harvestworks Work Samples 2025
Artists: Various Artists-in-Residence (2024): Tansy Xiao, Adelle Lin and Matt Pinner, Monica Duncan and Senem Pirler, Victoria Vesna
Title of Work: Harvestworks Work Samples 2025
Date Created: 2025
Timecodes and Artists:
00:00 Tansy Xiao – LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)
01:11 Adelle Lin and Matt Pinner – Star Catcher
02:22 Monica Duncan and Senem Pirler – Tears for Lost Frequencies
04:13 Victoria Vesna – [SUN] Flower Plasma
All works were created at the Harvestworks studio and presented in the Harvestworks Art and Technology Program on Governors Island during the summer of 2024.
- Tansy Xiao’s LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) is a non-linear virtual environment that adopts a non-anthropocentric approach. Streaming real-time biometric data from performers movements, brain activity, and bioprocess data from living microbiomes such as slime mold and yeast into the virtual ecosystem, LUCA explores the collective agency and interconnectivity among diverse living entities.
- Adelle Lin and Matt Pinner’s Star Catcher is an immersive installation that encourages participants to engage with their environment in a playful and imaginative manner. Using projection and magical objects, the installation creates a simulated night sky, brimming with an ethereal constellation of stars that participants can catch. Blurring the line between audience and performer, participants become symbolically connected to the power of imagination and the wonder of the universe.
- Monica Duncan and Senem Pirler’s Tears for Lost Frequencies is a performative installation that explores our complex relationship with plastic through the act of improvisation. The artists aim to highlight plastic as a material that cannot be separated from the “natural”: a substance that is everywhere and is becoming both our “nature” and our “uninvited” collaborator. In Tears for Lost Frequencies, microplastics found in tears become material witnesses to the experience of hearing loss and a speculative space for plastic healing.
- Victoria Vesna’s [SUN] Flower Waves explores the harmonious interaction between sunflowers and Alfvén waves, demonstrating how art and science converge to reveal deeper understandings. Sunflowers, with their heliotropic movement, symbolize growth and energy, while Alfvén waves in plasma transport energy along magnetic field lines—crucial for understanding space weather and solar phenomena. Harvestworks Work Samples 2025 with subtitles](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qQ5Q14XbHvc/mqdefault.jpg)









