Creative Capital

Michael Naimark
Boston, MA

TBD (Sleeping Homeless Sculptures)

This project will result in larger-than-life "3D prints" (i.e., sculptures) of anonymized sleeping homeless people in Los Angeles's Skid Row.

http://www.naimark.net/projects/homeless.html
michael@naimark.net

The Hinterlands
Detroit, MI

The Circuit

The Circuit upends the ten-act Vaudeville evening into an audience-engulfing variety show for outcasts of the Internet age. Developed by The Hinterlands' multi-disciplinary team, The Circuit scours the many voices of American subculture–riot grrrls, b-boys, juggalos and jitters–for clues into who we are in America's second millennium.

The Hinterlands is a collaboration of Richard Newman, Liza Bielby, Barney Baggett, Haleem Rasul, Jon Brumit and Torri Ashford.

http://thehinterlandsensemble.org/
info@thehinterlandsensemble.org

Huong Ngo
Brooklyn, NY

The Mortality Drive

The Mortality Drive explores the question of who is allowed to represent and be represented in our culture's visions of the future. It is an intervention into modes of imagining our future bodies and realities.

http://www.huongngo.com/
hellohuongie@gmail.com

Strange Attractor Theatre Co.
Providence, RI

Enlightenment on E Floor North

Enlightenment on E Floor North will be a touring, ensemble-created play devised by Strange Attractor about museum security guards. Led by company member Jed Hancock-Brainerd, who worked as a museum guard, we are researching guards and developing the piece: a clown-inspired, sub-political, character-driven homage to invisible American workers.

Strange Attractor Theatre Co. is a collaboration of Rebecca Noon, Jed Hanock-Brainerd, Aram Aghazarian, Roblin Davis and Kamili Feelings.

http://www.strangeattractor.org
Info@strangeattractor.org

Danial Nord
San Pedro, CA

The Framing Effect

The Framing Effect uses computerized LEDs to break mass media into its core aesthetic elements of color, light, motion and sound, and reconfigures them to drive hybrid installations that fuse video, sculpture and architecture. The work reframes popular communications in environments that are both seductive and confrontational.

http://danialnord.com/
danialnord@gmail.com

Rika Ohara
Los Angeles, CA

Carmilla

My new feature film, Carmilla, places Le Fanu's female vampire against the backdrop of the historical conflict between East and West and finds the origin of the popular myth in racial and cultural fears that shaped our world.

http://www.bluefat.com/Carmilla.html
nukeage@bluefat.com

Celeste Olalquiaga
New York, NY

A Short HIstory of Petrification

Medusa, of snake-hair and petryifying fame, is a mythological figure that represents the femme fatale. Yet her antecedent, the Gorgoneion, protected fertility from the evil eye. This book studies petrification (the process of turning into stone) through a re-reading of the myth and two associated phenomena: jellyfish or Medusae, and coral formations.

http://www.celesteolalquiaga.com
celesteolalquiaga@yahoo.com

Ed Osborn
Providence, RI

Gain Stage

Gain Stage is a sound installation that shapes acoustic space in relation to a series of physical and mechanical tableaus. Each tableau has a single device which incorporates mechanical amplification or inscription, and its sounds are processed to produce an elliptical relationship between the object and its sonic image.

http://www.roving.net
info@roving.net

Jordan Parnass
Brooklyn, NY

First Steps

First Steps takes the form of a lushly vegetated spiral staircase folly, perched adjacent to Socrates Sculpture Park's shoreline. Reaching down to the water's surface and up to a height of nine feet above ground, the structure encourages visitors to experience the park's unique post-industrial waterfront edge, while also functioning as an experiential open-loop bioremediation system.

http://jpda.net/projects/socrates-folly-first-steps
jordan@jpda.net