Portrait of Michelle Jaffé

Educated as an American teenager in London, Jaffé earned a BA Honours in Fine Arts & French Literature from the University of East Anglia in England. Childhood exposure to Asian art influenced her visual sensibility. Eastern depictions of space and their evocation of so much with such economy, informs her work’s formal clarity.

Jaffé has exhibited at NYU Audio Lab 230 at 370 Media Commons, Brooklyn, NY, The New Media Gallery, Vancouver, Beall Center for Art + Technology, UC Irvine, Duke University Power Plant Gallery, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Harvestworks Govenor's Island, WhiteBox, Culture Lab LIC, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Milton Art Bank, PA, Morlan Gallery at Transylvania University, Lexington, KY and solo shows in New York City at 11 Rivington, Bosi Contemporary, Wald & Po Kim Foundation, Susan Berko-Conde Gallery. 

Jaffé was awarded a 2025 Pollinator grant, a New Works Commission grant from Harvestworks Digital Media in 2023, 4 Individual Artist grants from NYSCA, 3 QAF grants from Queens Council on the Arts and is a 4 time fiscally sponsored artist of NYFA and has been a panelist for NYSCA. 

Jaffé was Artist-in-Residence to the Computer Music Department at Brooklyn College and was awarded residencies at the Exchange Museum and The Newlyn Gallery in England, MacDowell Colony and Djerassi.

Video work, “Tea with Estelle” is in the museum collection of Listasafn Islands National Gallery of Iceland. Jaffé has 30 accessory design works in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology and Palais Galliera - Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris. 

American sculptor and intermedia artist Michelle Jaffé creates time-based experiential and immersive works that prompt active listening and awareness in space. Her sculpture, sound and video installations present complex experiential propositions. To enter them, can increase awareness of the volatile structures percolating in the underbelly of society. Jaffé sculpts sound in space, through cutting edge programing in SuperCollider, Reaper, Max & speaker technologies of Holosonic & Wave Field Synthesis and geo-location through Wi-Fi, Cellular Data, UWB and Bluetooth. She works with sound to expand sculptural experience, as a gestalt to forge new neural connections, by engaging mind, body & limbic brain simultaneously.

Seminal influences: at a young age, Jaffé was transported by the immensity of Stanley Kubrick’s vision for “2001”: powerful images paired with compelling sound design. Other influences are LaMonte Young's "Well Tuned Piano" where overtones hang in the air as cumulative vibrational mass; and experiencing the physical, disorienting effect of Richard Serra’s “Tilted Arcs”. Jaffé shares a sensibility for scale with Jackson Pollock and a sense for the comedic and the theatrical with Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Wilson and Pina Bausch.

Photo of Michelle Jaffé working on Wappen Field in her studio
Photo of Michelle Jaffé in her studio

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae •

  • 2025

    NYU 370 Media Lab, GRIFTER’s Gambit-Composition 1, Video/Sound Installation, New York, NY

    2024

    Culture Lab, Behind the Mask: The Art of Women Welders, Wappen Field, curator Tess Howsam, Long Island City, NY

    Jaffé Open Studio, GRIFTER’s Gambit-Composition 1 sound installation, NYSCA New Media grant

    2023

    Harvestworks Govenor's Island, LocaleS3, Harvestworks New Works Residency award

    2021

    11 Rivington pop up, Murmur/Mutter/Yell, Sound installation, NYSCA New Media grant

    2019

    WhiteBox, Differing Facets in our Distinct Futures, (Soul Junk) 3-Person show by Lara Pan, NY

    2017

    Milton Art Bank, Milton, PA, Soul Junk, 3 Channel Video & Sound installation

    2016

    NYCEMF, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Abrons Arts Center2015

    2015

    Transylvania University, Home and Field: Digital Explorations of Community, Lexington, KY

    2014

    Valentine Gallery, Neural, Work-in-Progress, NY

    2013

    Valentine Gallery, Neural: Cleave, Work-in-Progress, Ridgewood, NY

    2012

    Bosi Contemporary, Wappen Field, NY

    Bushwick Open Studios 2012, Wappen Field, NY

    Queens Art Express 2012, Queens Council on the Arts, Wappen Field, NY

    Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery, Non-Profit Foundation, Awakening, NY, NY

    2011

    Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Wappen Field, Grand Rapids, MI

    Park Avenue Armory, Shen Wei Dance Residency, Watusi Regime, NY

    2010

    Susan Berko-Conde Gallery/E.M Berko Archive, New Work, NY, NY

    2008

    Broadway Gallery, Malka Lubelski Foundation, Wappen Field: Work In Progress

    Djerassi, Bed of Nails, Iraq 4000, Site-Specific Installation, Woodside, CA

    Site Specific Installation, PS1’s Backside, Long Island City, NY

    2005

    Brooklyn College, The Booth Project, Sound Installation, Electro-Acoustic Festival, NY

    2004

    150 m3 Largus, Austellungs und Projektraum, Cologne, Germany

    Susan Conde Gallery, Vestments: New Sculpture, NY

    2002

    Alison Bradley Salon, New Work, NY

    Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Vestment, Sound Sculpture, NY

  • 2024

    Museum Wilhelm Morgener, Raum Schroth, 3d, curators Julianne Rogge & Ivo Ringe, Soest, Germany

    2023

    Listasafn Islands National Gallery of Iceland, museum permanent collection, gift of

    Helgi Þorgils-Friðjónsson and Rakel Halldorsdottir, Reykjavík, Iceland, Tea with Estelle: Covid

    2022

    White Box, Ballots not Bullets, (Crossing the Fire Wall), New York

    Van der Grinten Galerie, The Shoe Show, curator Ruth Marten, Cologne, Germany

    Southampton Art Center, A Celebration of Trees, curator Laurie Dolphin, Southampton, NY

    2018

    Artworks Advisory, Under the Parachute of Shapes & Colors, curated by Lara Pan, NY, NY

    Newlyn Art Gallery, Structures Residency, Newlyn, UK

    2017

    New Media Gallery, Vancouver, Voicing, (Wappen Field ) with Marcus Coates and Martin Backes

    Platform Art Fair Film Festival, Anyone Can Apply for the Job, New York

    AptArt, A View from the Cloud, curated by Nina Colosi, Streaming Museum, New York

    IUCA+D Art Gallery, Indiana University, In Conversation, curated by Stephanie Buhmann, Columbus

    The Power Plant, Duke University, Soundings: Protest\Politics\Dissent, Durham, NC

    2016

    Sunview Luncheonette, curated by Michael Schumacher, “Estelle” Performance, NY

    Stony Brook University, Fifty years of Music and Technology, From Sine Waves to Robots, NY

    The Exchange Museum, Restructured, Penzance, England

    Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University,In Conversation, by Stephanie Buhmann, NY

    2015

    Bosi Contemporary, Come to Bed!, 3-Person show curated by Roya Sachs, NY

    Songs For Presidents, Total Styrene--True Believer, curated by Lizzie Scott, NY

    Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, In Conversation, curator: Stephanie Buhmann, NY

    2014

    Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery Foundation, Painting Black, curator Ivo Ringe, NY

    George Washington University, L.W. Brady Art Gallery, What Not to Wear: Women Sculptors, DC

    2013

    Beall Center for Art + Technology, UC Irvine, Sight & Sound, Wappen Field

    Wave Hill, Tandem Pursuits: Armor & Ichthyology, New York

    Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, All of Me, New York

    NYFA Benefit, Wappen Field, curated by David Terry

    2012

    Arizona State University, Momentum: Women/Art/Technology, symposium by Muriel Magenta

    1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, To be a Lady: a century of women in the arts, curated by Jason Andrew, New York

    Queens Museum of Art, DisTorpia, Media series curated by Arlan Londano & Gabriel Roldos

    Queens Museum of Art, Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle

    Norte Maar, Bushwick Open Studios, NY

    New York Foundation for the Arts, NYFA Boot Camp II Exhibition, New York

    2011

    Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Chain Letter, Santa Monica, CA

    2010

    New York Foundation for the Arts, NYFA Boot Camp Exhibition, New York

    ArtWare at The Armory, New York, NY

    2009

    Susan Berko-Conde Gallery/E.M. Berko Archive, The Lightness of Being, New York

    2008

    Islip Art Museum, Fashion Forward, East Islip, NY

    Lehman College Art Gallery, Informed by Function, Bronx, NY

    2007

    Truro Center for the Arts, Castle Hill, 10 Painters Invite 10 Others, MA

    Middlebury College Museum of Art, Transparency, VT

    2006

    Corridor Gallery, Transparency, Reykjavik, Iceland

    2006 Bellevue Biennial Sculpture Exhibition, Bellevue, WA

    Victory Hall, ProArts, Beth Venn, Curator, Jersey City, NJ

    Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich, Vienna Art Fair, Vienna, Austria

    2005

    Sacred Heart University, WetLab: The New Nexus between Art and Science, Fairfield, CT

    150m3 Largus, Projektraum, Uns geht es gut und danke fur den Fisch, Cologne, Germany

    2004

    Islip Art Museum, Site Specifics ‘04, East Islip, NY

    University of California Santa Barbara, Fracturing Fairy Tales, CA

    2003

    New York Studio School, Vulnerability, Bill Jensen, Curator, NY

    2002

    Nexus Gallery, Craig Houser, Curator, NY

    Ceres Gallery, NY, Charlotta Kotik, Curator, NY

    2001

    Barrett Art Center, New Directions 01, Charlotta Kotik, Curator, Poughkeepsie, NY

    New York Studio School, Beckoning Vision, Karen Wilkin, Curator, NY

    2000

    Artist’s Space, Drawing Benefit, NY

    1996

    New York Dharmadhatu/Shambala, Dharmic Expressions, Daniel Berlin, Curator, NY

    1993

    New York Studio School, Drawings, NY

    1987

    Museé de la Mode et du Costume, From the Museum’s Collection, Paris, France

    1983

    New York University, Political Art, Coosje Van Bruggen, Curator, NY

  • 2025

    Pollinator Peer Group supported by Foundation for Contemporary Arts

    2024

    Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant, “Wappen Field” at Culture Lab LIC

    New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Grant for Grifter’s Gambit

    2023

    Queens Council on the Arts, QAF Grant for Grifter’s Gambit

    New York Foundation for the Arts, Fiscal Sponsorship, Grifter’s Gambit

    Harvestworks Digital Media, New Works Residency award for LocaleS3

    2021

    New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Grant for Murmur/Mutter/Yell

    2020

    Queens Council on the Arts, QAF Grant for Murmur/Mutter/Yell

    New York Foundation for the Arts, fiscal sponsorship for Murmur/Mutter/Yell

    2018

    Newlyn Art Gallery, Structure Residency, Newlyn, England

    2016

    The Exchange Museum, Restructured Residency at The Engine Room, Penzance, England

    2014

    Queens Council on the Arts, QAF Grant for Soul Junk

    2013

    New York Foundation for the Arts, Fiscal Sponsorship for Soul Junk

    Queens Council on the Arts, QAF Grant for Neural: Cleave

    2011

    New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Grant, Wappen Field

    2010

    New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp

    2009

    New York Foundation for the Arts, Education Opportunity Grant

    Queens Council on the Arts, NY, Artist Leader Peer Circle

    2008

    New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist grant, Wappen Field

    Queens Council on the Arts, NY, IAI, Independent Artists Initiative

    New York Foundation for the Arts, Fiscal Sponsorship, Wappen Field

    Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Pritzker Foundation Endowed Fellowship, Woodside, CA

    2005

    The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

    2004

    Brooklyn College, Artist-In-Residence, Department of Computer Music, Brooklyn, NY

  • Listasafn Islands National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík

    Palais Galliera - Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

    Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, collection and archives

    The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, NY

  • 2025

    Two Coats of Paint, November 5, 2022, Michelle Jaffe’s multi-sensory encounters: Susan Silas interviews Michelle Jaffé

    2022

    On Autumn Lake, The Collected Essays, Douglas Crase, 2022, Aperture on a Virtual World, p. 340-351

    2019

    New York Studio School, “Michelle Jaffé in conversation with Joy Episalla,” YouTube, @26:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0fmQH0_1dE

    2017

    Lines from London Terrace: Essays, Douglas Crase, 2017, Aperture on a Virtual World, p. 229-238

    Brice Brown Interviews Michelle Jaffé, Soul Junk, 12/17/17, https://vimeo.com/247235694 ‍ ‍

    2016

    M/E/A/N/I/N/G, edited by Mira Schor & Susan Bee, Final Issue, December 17, 2016, http://ayearofpositivethinking.com/2016/12/17/meaning-the-final-issue-on-a-year-of-positive-thinking-7/

    http://parisdiarybylaure.com/cornwall-old-new/#comment-1891 Gorky's Granddaughter, Video Interview November 13, 2016, http://michellejaffe.com/soul-junk

    Paris Diary by Laure de Gramont, http://parisdiarybylaure.com/cornwall-old-new/#comment-1891

    WBAI FM Radio Interview, State of the Arts NYC, Savona Bailey-McClain, July 1, 2016

    New York Studio Conversations: 17 Women Talk About Art, Stephanie Buhmann, p. 174-183

    2015

    News.artnet.com, “The 1 Must See Art Event in NY this Week”, 3/23/2015 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jeffrey-deitch-and-massimiliano-gioni-in-conversation-280065

    Under Main, Christine Huskisson, "To What Do We Belong", October 9, 2015

    Lexington Herald-Leader, September 2015 Gallery Hop Highlights, September 17, 2015

    NYFA Current, A Conversation with Artist Michelle Jaffé, Madeleine Cutrona, April 17, 2015

    Bedford & Bowery, Come to Bed for some Pillow Talk with this Artist, Angelica Frey, 3/26/15

    2014

    Washington Post, In the galleries: Where nature and art come together, Women Sculptors, Mark

    2013

    Queens Tribune, Sound Artist Visits QCA, Trisha Sakhuja, November 21, 2013

    Beall Center for Art + Technology: Interview, Sight and Sound 10/3/2013

    The New York Times, Where Medieval Armor Meets the Aquatic, Susan Hodara, 9/19/13, p. WE9

    StephanieBuhmann.com, Interview 01, Stephanie Buhmann, January 29, 2013

    2012

    A Public Space, Aperture On A Virtual Field, Douglas Crase, Winter No. 17, 2012, p. 68-79

    e_fagia,DisTorpia Media Series, exhibition brochure, Gabriel Roldos & Arlan Landano, p4


    MacDowell Colony Bulletin, Cover, Wappen Field, Vol. 41, No 1 Summer 2012

    NY Arts, 3rd Generation, from Rome to LES, by Sandro Bosi, July 25, 2012

    World Sculpture News, Awakening by Michelle Jaffé, by Robert C. Morgan, Hong Kong

    New York Culture Beat, Awakening by Michelle Jaffé & "Visitors" by Heather Sheehan, Suki Park, March 20, 2012, http://www.nyculturebeat.com/index.php?mid=Art&document_srl=36831

    Wall Street Journal, Arts Scene Sprouts in Ridgewood, Queens, Kavita Mokha, 1/27/2012, p. A20

    2011

    The Profitable Artist, edited by Peter Cobb, Susan Ball, Felicity Hogan, NYFA, p 212, p 218

    Grand Rapids Press, UICA exhibit embodies ArtPrize, Joseph Becherer, 9/27/11, p. A7 https://www.mlive.com/artprize/2011/09/artprize_exhibition_center_review_uica_entries_on_display_have_intelligence_diversity.html

    Fox 17 News, Grand Rapids, Live Interview: Wappen Field, 9/19/11

    Grand Rapids Press, GVSU ArtPrize Project, UICA review, https://www.mlive.com/artprize/2011/10/gvsu_artprize_project_review_of_uica_works.html Dale Johnson, 10/3/11

    http://blog.mlive.com/artprize/print.html?entry=/2011/10/gvsu_artprize_project_uica.html

    Grand Rapids Press, GVSU ArtPrize Project, review of UICA works, Jessica Smith, 10/8/11 https://www.mlive.com/artprize/2011/10/gvsu_artprize_project_review_of_uica_works.html

    Grand Rapids Press, Photo Opening Night UICA, 9/21/11, http://photos.mlive.com/grandrapidspress/2011/10/first_night_of_artprize_crowds_9.html

    Yahoo News, Crowds Check Out Michelle Jaffé’s ArtPrize Entry Wappen Field (photo)

    USA Today, ArtPrize draws Wild, wonderful works to Grand Rapids, October 2011

    Channel 13 Grand Rapids, Jessica Puchala, 9/27/11, http://grcentral.wzzm13.com/news/news/62070-uica-home-helmet-artprize-entry

    Rutgers University, Mason Gross Gallery, Momentum: Women/Art/Technology, http://www.momentum-women-art-technology.com/jaffe.htm

    Art Experience NYC, On Notice, Beyond Art Galleries, Claire Lieberman, Vol 1, No 4 Fall 2011, p 16-33, online magazine

    Art Experience NYC, When Bad is Good, Creativity and the Downturn, Claire Lieberman, Vol 1

    No 3 Summer 2011, p 19-37, online magazine

    2010

    The New York Times, Canterbury Tales in Staten Island and Other Budget Fun, November 4

    California Home & Design, Fjord Collection, April 2010

    New York Spaces, Fjord Collection, March 2010

    The Denver Post, In House: Heartfelt Housewares, February 27, 2010

    The New York Times, Bowls That Could Double as Hats, Elaine Louie, February 4, 2010, D3

    2009

    Walrus, The Whole Story, Helen Humphreys, April 2009, p.48-51

    The New York Times, Where Fashion Meets Its Artistic Match, Benjamin Genocchio, LI edition, January 8, 2009

    2008

    New York Arts Magazine online, The Seen and Unseen, Milton Fletcher, November 2008

    Newsday, Clothes calls: What the artists are saying, Steve Parks, November 28, 2008, p. B22

    The Suffolk County News, Assorted apparel tapered as art, Tinamarie Caputo, 12/18/2008, p. 13

    Islip Bulletin, Assorted apparel tapered as art, Tinamarie Caputo, December 11, 2008, p.12

    The New York Times, Bowls That Could Double as Hats, Elaine Louie, February 4, 2010, D3

    New York Arts Magazine online, The Seen and Unseen, Milton Fletcher, November 2008

    2006

    2006 Bellevue Biennial Sculpture Exhibition, Interview with the Artists, Podcast, WA, August 2006

    City of Bellevue TV, It’s Your City, 2006 Bellevue Biennial Sculpture Exhibition, WA, July 2006

    2005

    Four Seasons, Forbes Publishing, The Home Collection, Brook S. Mason, December 2005, p. 124

    2004

    The New York Times, Site Specifics ‘04, Helen Harrison, July 11, 2004, p. 11, LI edition

    Islip Art Museum, Site Specifics ‘04, Karen Shaw

  • Voices of Anxious Objects, Ken Butler performs at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY, 2019

    Soul Junk Live, Electro Acoustic Music by Joshua Fried, Dafna Naftali, Hans Tammen, Milton Art Bank, 2017

    Correspondences, Tibor de Nagy, New York, NY, 2017

    PS1’s Backside, Chris Coffin, Kristine Robinson, Chris Walsh, Michelle Jaffé, Long Island City, NY, 2008

  • 2022

    Arts Center Capital Region, NY, Co-lead NYSCA Immersive Art & Technology seminar with Seth Cluett

    Arts Center Capital Region, NY, Critical Forum

    2021

    Panel Talk, Murmur/Mutter/Yell, Lara Pan moderator: Carol Parkinson, Sergio Krakowski and Ak2deru

    Panelist for NYSCA Artist Creativity Grant

    Wonsook Kim School of Art at Illinois State University, Visiting Artist

    ArtBox DMV Podcast, Jason T. Edwards interviews Michelle Jaffé, WERA 96.7 FM, Episode #52

    Arts Center Capital Region, NY, Critical Forum

    2020

    Dr. Jill H. Casid in conversation with Michelle Jaffé about Murmur/Mutter/Yell

    Columbia University MFA, Conversation with Michelle Jaffé, Teacher Susanna Coffey

    Arts Center Capital Region, NY, Critical Forum

    2019

    New York Studio School, In Conversation with Joy Episalla, Artist Talk, NY

    Arts Center Capital Region, NY, Critical Forum

    2017

    Leonardo, Laser Talk, in conjunction with Creative Tech Week, LISA-Leaders in Software & Art, with Zachary Kaplan, Ursula Endlicher, NY

    2016

    Queens Council on the Arts, Exhibitions & Representation for Artists, Valerie McKenzie & Nico Wheadon

    Stony Brook University, 50th Anniversary of Experiments in Art & Technology, cDACT

    Creative Tech Week, LISA-Leaders in Software & Art, Expert Talk: My Work, NY

    2015

    Leonardo, Laser Talk, invited by Ellen Levy & Patricia Olynyk, New York

    2013

    Queens Council on the Arts, Third Space, Marta Jovanovic interviews Michelle Jaffé

    2011-14

    Queens Council on the Arts, Artist Leader Peer Circle & LEAP Program, New York


    2010

    NYFA, Ambitious Art Projects and How to Make Them Happen: Four Artists’ Stories

    NYFA, 12 Artists Present, Salon by Catherine Eaton, Roger Smith Hotel, New York

    QMAD at Crossing Art, A-Lab Forum: Artivism, Curator: Hector Canonge, New York

  • 2021

    Michelle Jaffé interviews assume vivid astro focus, Hairy What, Hairy How? Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY

    2019

    Connie Lewallen reads from Bill Berkson's A Frank O'Hara Notebook,Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY

    Ken Butler performs Voices of Anxious Objects at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY

    2018

    Sir Nicholas Serota in Memory of Malcom Morley

    Douglas Crase reads his poetry The Revisionist, The Astropastorals

    A Conversation amongst Artists Delia Brown, Inka Essenhigh, Hilary Harkness, Critic Sarah Rodriguez,

    June 9, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY

    Douglas Crase reads at St. Mark’s Poetry Project, May 9, New York

    Heather Sheehan reads from An Unfinished Novel, excerpt For Dieter, February 20th

    2017

    Brice Brown of Milton Art Bank interviews Michelle Jaffé about Soul Junk, November

    Michelle Jaffé interviews artist Brice Brown about his motivation to create nonprofit Milton Art Bank

    Joshua Fried & Hans Tammen perform Soul Junk Live, excerpts

    Shirley Jaffe, Artist Memorial at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY

  • 2002

    Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, NY, Certificate

    1995

    Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, Associates-Jewelry Making

    1992

    New York Studio School, NY, Sculpture

    1991

    Sculpture Center School, NY, Stone Carving

    1979

    University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, BA Honours, Fine Arts and French Literature

    Dissertation: Henri Michaux: Un Poete Peintre Nietzchien (A Nietzchian Poet Painter)

Photo of Soul Junk projection in Michelle Jaffé's studio
Photo of Michelle Jaffé in Wappen Field installation in her studio
Work in progress in Michelle Jaffé's studio

Artist Statement

Artist Statement •

11/11/23

I create time-based experiential, often immersive works that prompt active listening and corporeal awareness through sculpture, sound and video installations. Since 2003 I work with sound as sculptural material to forge new neural connections. Since 2011 I have worked with vocalists, creating several 27–35-minute compositions. Simultaneously engaging mind and body produces a deeper understanding. I place sound 3-dimensionally in space, programing in SuperCollider, Reaper, Max, deploying cutting edge speaker technologies of Holosonics & Wave Field Synthesis. In my recent New Works Residency exhibition “LocaleS3” at Harvestworks/Govenor’s Island (September 1–October 29, 2023) I programmed sound in 3D virtual shapes spaced around the room. I orchestrate the score in such a way that visitors activate different components of the composition simply by moving through space. Engaging audience thusly, makes them co-composers of a non-linear work as they play the room as an instrument. I accomplish this through position tracking antennas & an app on iPhones.

As participants recognize themes that plague humanity, they become stakeholders in the complex proposition/installations I conceive & produce. I am the sculptor, librettist, composer & videographer. Each work brings sound ever more 3-dimensionally into the participant’s experience puncturing their rational and linguistic defenses.

WAPPEN FIELD (2003–2015) is a confrontational phalanx of 12 chrome plated steel helmets recruiting visitors to enter and hear a 27-minute vocal composition. Each helmet is a resonant chamber, where their dedicated speakers transform the sculptural installation into an immersive audio environment.

SOUL JUNK (2013–2019) is an immersive 3-channel video/sound installation that explores the raw emotions, power & intent conveyed & betrayed by the human voice & facial expression. In the age of the selfie, SOUL JUNK places you inside a female's mind at work, one long oppressed by a power that needs to prevail at all costs.

MURMUR/MUTTER/YELL (2019–) unveils the powerful forces at work in the dark matter of connectivity, exposing how we, the raw material of 21st century colonization, are ripe for manipulation.

GRIFTER’S Gambit (2023–) is an operatic, tragicomic audio/video installation, surrounding the audience in a multi-sensory experience. The libretto attests to archetypal behavior, satirizing foibles that bring us repeatedly into conflict. We experience the collision of personal, social & political desire; pressures that constantly jockey for power & influence.