The Hybrid Body Lab is pleased to announce Morgan Chen will be its Artist-in-Residence for 2022. All applications have been carefully reviewed and five finalists have been chosen. After interviewing the five finalists, we have arrived at our decision.
Morgan's background in makeup and beauty and her exploration of pushing them into the digital world impressed our organizers and members. With her fresh approach to cyber feminism and decolonization, she pushes the boundaries between traditional makeup culture and digital technology. The expertise she possesses in makeup art and her exploration of expression in the digital age would offer us a unique perspective on our research in the lab. Looking forward to this collaboration in the first Hybrid Body Lab Artist-in-Residence program!
In the meantime, we would like to thank all the applicants who submitted incredible proposals to our program and all the committee members who provided valuable feedback to each applicant.
Morgan Chen
Morgan Chen is a writer and makeup artist from Southern California. She has designed a variety of makeup and special fx applications for a diverse range of physical features. Currently, she is a master’s candidate at NYU ITP, where she experiments with combining the technical and digital with body-focused art. Morgan is interested in makeup as a form of narrative and expression of anti-colonial and anti-oriental identity. She has used biomaterials, digital avatars and face filters in her work.
Image courtesy Morgan Chen
Hybrid Body Lab Artist-in-Residence 2022 Finalist
JU-EH
JU-EH (Juecheng Chen), a male soprano trained at the Guildhall School Of Music & Drama in London, UK and The New School’s Mannes School of Music in New York, NY, specializes in developing non-human roles in contemporary opera such as Lonely Spirit (Meredith Monk's opera “Atlas” at the L.A. Philharmonic, in which he sang 6 soprano high Cs); Siren (Ellis Ludwig-Leone’s “The Night Falls” with American Opera Projects); and the Moon (Garrett Fisher’s “Blood Moon” with Beth Morrison Projects, in which he sings 4 octaves with self-conducted choreography); among others.
Image courtesy JU-EH
Veleta Vancza
Veleta Vancza has been working as an artist for almost 30 years. She began her career as an art/studio jeweler creating one-of-a-kind conceptual works. More recently she has been working on a larger scale creating sculpture, wall pieces & installations using vitreous enamel on metal integrated with new technologies such as sound-mapping & 3D rendering software. She is recognized for her experimental use of vitreous enamel as an adhesive, as well as her innovations with phosphorescent enamels.
Image courtesy Veleta Vancza
Rin Jung
RIN JUNG is an artist, filmmaker and writer from Korea. They make art and write in extensive and interdisciplinary genres and mediums to capture and remember unspoken stories and memories through personal and political narratives. They explore personal emotions and affects, especially trauma, melancholia, and violence through critical perspective, while inquiring for new ways of human becoming through cultural and political layers of such experiences. When it comes to tattoo and body art practice, they are working on "In the Ashes of Memory: Trauma Bujeok Project", a project incorporating trauma and memory with bodily and artistic transmutation inspired by Korean shamanistic practice. They are currently studying Comparative Literature at Cornell University.
Image courtesy Rin Jung
Terumi Saito
Terumi Saito is an Artist/Designer from Japan. Her work underscores the significance inherent to the textile arts by way of its tactile foundation and visual communication. Saito's work aims to reconcile the dichotomy between the spiritual and the existential by leveraging a textile practice to communicate these sentiments through the fundamental senses of touch and sight. Her practice has since developed to incorporate traditions of the textile arts including Peruvian, Guatemalan, American, and her own native Japanese. She received her BFA in Graphic Design from Tama Art University and MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design.
Image courtesy Terumi Saito
ORGANIZERS
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
Director, Hybrid Body Lab
Assistant Professor of Human Centered Design, Cornell University
Jingwen Zhu
PhD Student, Hybrid Body Lab
Human Centered Design, Cornell University
SELECTION COMMITTEE / BOARD OF ADVISORS
The selection committee and organizers will work together to determine the finalists. The organizers will ultimately select the chosen resident.
Jaleesa Reed, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor of Human Centered Design, Cornell University
Dr. Jaleesa Reed is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design. Her primary research interest is in millennial Black women’s beauty culture and beauty retail spaces. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on connecting human geography, feminist studies, and merchandising in the fashion, apparel, and textile industries.
Sarah Gotowka
Artist
Owner & Directer, Luna Fiber Studio
Sarah Gotowka is a practicing textile artist and instructor. She has been weaving since 2005, and has been growing natural dyes since 2010. She received her BFA in Fibers and Material Studies from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2007, and her MFA in Fibers and Material Practices from Concordia University in Montreal in 2013. Since moving to the Ithaca area she has taught at SUNY Cortland, Cornell University, Ithaca College, The Johnson Museum of Art, Wells College, and New Roots Charter School.
Oksana Ani
Sr. Designer for Advanced Knit, Nike Inc.
Interdisciplinary Designer, Thinker, Explorer
Oksana Ani is an experienced Designer, Thinker, Explorer and visual communicator who excels in cross-functional collaborations. Oksana leads innovation platforms that focus on impactful and sustainable product that is empowered by storytelling. She holds a Master's degree focused in Fashion Design from Royal College of Art and Innovation from MIT Media Lab. She is currently a Sr. Designer for Advanced Knit at Nike Inc.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This residency is funded by the National Science Foundation and a Cornell University College of Human Ecology Engaged Research Grant.
We are grateful to Laura Devendorf, Leah Buechley, and Jennifer Jacobs for their earlier work in Experimental Weaving and Clay Residencies which inspired this endeavor!