Fellowships 2025

p5.score is a choreographic project that uses p5.js to generate a visual iconography through code, creating a dynamic and interactive dance performance environment. Central to p5.score are workshops designed for choreographers and dancers to engage with computational thinking, experiment with algorithmic choreography, and explore new relationships between body and code. These sessions invite participants to reimagine the role of the computer in dance-making, fostering creative dialogue between movement, code, and visual form.

“Where Has the Lake Gone?” is an immersive installation where experimental cartography articulates different scales and dimensions of Mexico City to tells its history from the perspective of its bodies of water. Originally built on a lake, the city currently suffers from constant droughts caused by uncontrolled growth and exploitation of its water resources. The installation will juxtapose archival information on urban mapping and infrastructure, historical and live data on climate information and water resources, and data produced experimentally for the installation. The project aims to make visible the environmental problems facing the city and their relationship to urban development.

“Body as Data: Enhancing the Luna Library for Real-Time Storytelling in Live Performances” enhances the Luna Video Mapping Library for Processing, simplifying real-time projection mapping and computer vision for live performances. By adding user-friendly functions—such as background subtraction, blob tracking, and generative content interaction—it enables artists to create immersive visuals with minimal coding. The addition of a GUI simplifies setup, enabling artists without coding skills to use the tool. Designed for performers, the system translates movement into dynamic projections, blending physical and digital elements. As an open-source initiative, it prioritizes accessibility and community engagement.

Using the generative capacity of protest as a "glitch", which can create an opening, The Future Protest invites a wider public to contemplate the Lagos Lagoon’s sonic histories. The project explores the Lagoon’s ecology through a phonocenic lens and asks how the Lagoon hears and what the effects of this hearing are. On a digital platform that streams a video feed of the present-day Lagoon, participants record a description of a protest they would like to hold in the future. Through a poethic algorithm which derives energy values from pauses and gaps within the speaker's recording, a speculative and ephemeral mangrove forest re/maps and un/situates the Lagoon as we know it.

Network Gong Ensemble Archive is a communal sonic experience site, an experimental interactive auditory archive of Southeast Asian sound cultures. It is rooted in alternative collaboration and agency-sharing practices, drawing from the communal gathering of a gong ensemble based on Southeast Asian Indigenous musical rituals.
The archive serves as an experimental repository for sound culture data, allowing us to explore ways to gather, digitize, compile, and capture nuanced and embodied sounds that reflect Southeast Asian traditions. Sound cultures are primarily passed down aurally, and intonation diversity is common and valued.

“Call / Code / Response” explores how creative coding can extend the expressive qualities of live performance, drawing from and merging with practices of hip-hop, slam poetry, and call-and-response. Using p5.js, a team of artists, researchers, and technologists will collaborate with youth creators to co-create interactive visuals that respond to the performer’s delivery and invite audience participation. Grounded in practices of collective authorship, the project will transform sound and movements into interactive and participatory performances that reflect lived experience, cultural memory, and the transformative potential of immersive storytelling.