20th Anniversary Celebration for The Foundation for Art & Healing
October 15, 2024
Alvin Ailey Studios, New York, NY
Celebrating with The Foundation for Art and Healing with projections floor to ceiling at the always dynamic Alvin Ailey Studios.
Featured Artists
David Bennett (United States)
RADIATION (2023)
David Bennett is a digital artist, motion designer, and creative director, whose work is process oriented and centered on the moving image. Drawn to immediacy and impermanence, he explores saturated, hyper-frequency visuals that oscillate between abstract and figurative digitized glimpses of daily life and random ephemera. The work is often deconstructed and remixed for new iterations. It combines planned patterns, colors, and rhythms with chance, generative, and procedural methods, sometimes using machine learning or AI. Music and sound inspire his rhythmic and sequencing choices. He lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.
Joshua Davis (United States)
“The Deepest of Space” (2020)
New York City-based Joshua Davis has made a career since 1995 as an image maker using programming. He writes his own code to produce user interactions and to generate visual compositions according to rule-based, randomized processes.
Davis was an early web designer. He was introduced to the internet by a design student friend at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he studied illustration and art history. After a year of illustrating by day and programming by night, cash-strapped Davis was offered a job to write HTML for Pratt’s web site. He dropped out of Pratt in his junior year to work in the new field of design technology.
Ian Gouldstone (United Kingdom)
“Anonymous Enemy Procession” 2018
London-based Ian Gouldstone is a founder of the Australian games collective Pachinko Pictures, a former member of the Computational Creativity Group at Goldsmiths, and also the Gesture and Narrative Language Group at the MITMedia Lab. With a mathematics degree from Harvard University he later studied animation at the Royal College of Art and received a Master of Fine Art at Goldsmiths.
Gouldstone is a former trustee of Deptford X, London’s longest-running visual art festival.
A BAFTA-winning artist and filmmaker Gouldstone’s work incorporates games, animation and new media. He has shown at or hosted festivals internationally that include Digital Graffiti in Alys Beach, Florida; LUMA Projections Arts Festival in Binghamton, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; the Chengdu Biennale in China; The Eden Project in Cornwall, United Kingdom; The Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne; Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria; The National Videogame Arcade in Nottingham, England; The Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia; and SLEEPCENTER in New York City.
Matt Pearson (aka zenbullets) (United Kingdom)
Frosti (2013)
Matt Pearson refers to himself as a “Maker of abstract things. Author of ‘Generative Art: A Practical Guide Using Processing.” In a 2013 issue of Vice magazine, Pearson “ponders whether we’re entering a new artistic era, one defined by the possibilities of real-time art” in an article titled, “The Third Era of Visual Art Is Finally Upon Us.”
