
Ashley Mbogoni - 2020 BFA
Ashley Mbogoni Channeling is key. Emotions, experiences, perspectives. All are transferred to the canvas or to video. To connect to the audience, to share, to truly…

Ashley Mbogoni Channeling is key. Emotions, experiences, perspectives. All are transferred to the canvas or to video. To connect to the audience, to share, to truly…

Vivian Lin I wanted to make an object whose purpose was to be filled with memories – i.e. the bodies of those that I want to…
Microbiome Rift In her book Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making, Yuriko Saito poses embracing more misshapen or ugly vegetables. Approximately 1/3 of fruits…

Josh Lee Aquariums make profit by presenting simulation for its customers. The audience gets entertained witnessing the marine life that they cannot experience day to day.…

Eric Lee I seek to use digital media, sculpture, and interactive elements to create works that surface the level of absurdity that exists in the interaction…

Annabel Keelty Annabel Keelty is a mixed media artist born in Baltimore, Maryland. Her worcenters around gender and intimacy through hyper-feminine and overly saturated visuals, and…

Curtis Ho / Hyo-Jung Song Uncle Boy’s Landscaping is the given name for the collaborative practice of Hyo-Jung Song (b. 1998, Philadelphia, U.S.) and Curtis Ho…

Max Haughey somewhere but not there isn't a place you go to; it's a place you end up. look and listen; you might like to stay…

Sophie Galowitz suddenly revealing itself: this continuous mesh of back end spaces first, we discovered the private golf course, which somehow extends miles behind and between…
MENGNI ZHANG In Touch A Tactile Language Encoder Nature has proven to us through evolution that by organizing weak and uninformed individuals into a swarm, the…
JENIFER WIGHTMAN Mud Painting: Bacterial Performativity Bioart Installation These creative experiments in bioart exhibit “mud paintings” that foreground microbes existing within mud to photosynthesize pigments. As…
GRACE TROXELL Microbiome Rift Microbiome Rift, an outdoor sculpture situated on the Arts Quad, dissolves boundaries between internal and external, contained and container, animate and inanimate.…
NATASHA RAHEJA A Gregarious Species What do bugs and borders have to do with each other? In 2019, thousands of gregarious desert locust swarms flew across…
PIYAWAT LOUILARPPRASERT Sonic Stigmergy and Swarm Granulation The concept of stigmergy is referring to ideas and activities of self-organization in wide range of spheres such as…
DENISE GREEN Fashion in Transit From the aesthetics of transportation mechanisms themselves to the clothing and accessories worn by bodies in motion, fashion affects and is…
MARIANTHI PAPALEXANDRI ALEXANDRI Generators Generators centers on a set of hand-crank generators that convert mechanical motion into electrical energy to directly drive and synchronize a swarm…
MATT DALLOS Libe Slope Meadow Walk the path through the meadow. Grasses stand head high on both sides. Through chaotic plant stems you see fragments of…
JENNIFER BIRKELAND/JAMIE VANUCCHI Swarming the Susquehanna This installation represents the uneasy relationship between nature and community through a field condition of floodplain homes on display on…
J. ROBERT LENNON Stigmergium The idea of the swarm is highly applicable to the music we make, and this project will lean heavily into the concept,…

Heading text The contemporary dystopia, suburbs have been the historic playground of discrimination as they are a landscape build to divide. With barriers barely visible, this…

Nadia Chernova I am a Russian-American multidisciplinary artist. My work deals with the issues of cultural fluidity, politics of queerness/+gender and the post-soviet immigrant identity. I…

MADISON CHALFANT In my interdisciplinary practice I examine how our physical carriages, human psyches and our natures are conditioned by physical environments and the objects that…

Ellie Beaudry Ellie Beaudry’s practice engages with current environmental issues by exploring human connections with the natural environment. Her recent work, an exhibition titled Nether Ithaca,…

AIZA AHMED The drawings explore a world full of possibilities, comprising of multiple characters, objects, and settings. There is a duality of looseness of line and…
WENDY S. WALTERS Good People of Fresh Creek Basin: Notes on Climate Change (2020) Creative Writing Performance This essay examines the early signs of forced migration…
SAM VAN AKEN The Tree of 40 Fruit (2008-2020) Bioart Installation This creative blend of art and science provides an extravagant habitat for the natural swarm…
KYUNGWON MOON/JOONHO JEON The Ways of Folding Space and Flying (2015) Video Installation The Ways of Folding Space & Flying is a multi-channel film installation created…
SARA JIMENEZ At what point does the world unfold? (2020) Printed Fabric Installation The Biennial is commissioning a new outdoor installation from the exciting emergent New…
MARIA HUPFIELD One Person Exhibition (2020) Felt, Sculpture, Video, Performance Maria Hupfield will retool the gallery space as a laboratory, as a performance venue, and as…
CARRIE MAE WEEMS Heave Two-part Video Installation Housed in specially designed structures on the Art Quad, the two-part installation, “Heave,” incorporates photography, video, text, spoken word,…
KEN FEINGOLD The Animal, Vegetable, Mineralness of Everything (2004) Robotics and AI An international pioneer of robotic and artificial intelligence art, Ken Feingold exhibits this compelling…
XU BING Precarious Natural Swarms (2020) Mixed Media As a proposal for a permanent installation for the Cornell Botanic Gardens, the celebrated Chinese artist and Cornell…
LAURIE ANDERSON/HSIN-CHIEN HUANG To the Moon (2018), Virtual Reality Installation The pioneering American performance artist, Laurie Anderson, again collaborates with the creative Taiwanese technology artist, Hsin-Chien…

The Whale Listening Project “The Whale Listening Project” is a three-day celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the multi-platinum recording, “Songs of the Humpback Whale.” Thursday,…

Space in Friction In space in friction, two performers (etc,) activate two large custom made instruments—made from aluminum panels and PVC tubes—with their bodies and their…

Iyanah Bativala: Coast COAST is a narrative short film written and directed by Iyanah Bativala. The film follows two people from vastly varying socioeconomic backgrounds, in…

Locally Grown Dance: Tunneling “Tunneling”, is about subversive transformation/transgression or directed and confined movement, a concept that can produce extensively complex and diverse critical and theoretical…

Ithaca Sounding 2020 Date:January 30 - February 2, 2020 Location:Multiple Locations Host:Richard Valitutto Links: Center for Historical Keyboards Department of Music Society for the Humanities Johnson…