IEA Resident Artist Audra Wolowiec
The Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) announces an exciting line up of resident artists in the Fall semester 2024. Audra Wolowiec is an interdisciplinary artist whose work oscillates between installation, print, sculpture and performance with an emphasis on sound and the material qualities of language.She is interested in how sound can create spaces of listening and connection. Her work has been shown internationally and in the United States at MASS MoCA, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, ICA at MECA (Maine College of Art), Print Center New York, and Art in General. Interviews and reviews have appeared in Artforum, BOMB Magazine, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, and Sound American. Residencies include Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Complex Systems Art and Physics Residency at the University of Oregon supported by a National Science Foundation Grant, Dieu Donné, Center for Book Arts, and a fellowship at the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection. Wolowiec currently teaches at Parsons School of Design and directs the publishing platform Gravel Projects.
The IEA is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Schein-Joseph Endowment and the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr Foundation.
The IEA is a high technology research studio facility within the School of Art and Design, which encourages and supports projects that involve interactive multi-media systems, experimental sonic/video production, digital imaging, and publications. The IEA is committed to developing cultural interactions spurred by technological experimentation and artistic investigations.
The IEA offers two types of residency: Time-based/ New Media and Print Media. The IEA video and sound studio offers artists an integrated system with real-time video, image-processing software, hardware and video capture. The IEA’s Experimental Print Media Program Residency seeks artists who want to explore Digital Printmedia technologies to further and expand their working practice. Artists have access to state-of-the-art digital arts facilities.