We are a co-artist duo that practices at the intersection of new media and bioart. Tyson Houseman is an Indigenous (Nehiyaw/Plains Cree) interdisciplinary video artist, puppeteer, and filmmaker, and Jessica Reisch is a creative technologist, motion designer, and educator. Tyson’s practice focuses on aspects of contemporary Indigeneity, and the intersections between live video performance and time-based media, while Jessica works in collaboration with biological rhythms and ecosystems, focusing primarily on fungal life.

Our collaborative, research-based art practice aims to recontextualize human-centric perspectives as embedded within a broader and more inclusive multispecies framework in response to a rapidly shifting global climate. Our work is guided by a sustainable and land-informed practice that draws from Houseman’s Indigenous Nehiyaw background and teachings, employing methodologies of reciprocation and exchange between humans and place-based ecologies and utilizing sustainable artmaking and technology practices.

During our residency, we created a generative audiovisual project titled Stream Cycles, which is a site-specific projection installation created using video and audio field recordings gathered from Stony Brook State Park near Alfred, NY and processed through Max MSP. We also experimented with the Sandin IP to create experimental video work with feedback loops.

Tyson adjusting Camera 1 on the Sandin IP.

Jessica and Tyson observing feedback loops from the Sandin IP, I.

Jessica and Tyson observing feedback loops from the Sandin IP, II.

Feedback Loop, Sandin IP Experiment, Work Sample I.

Feedback Loop, Sandin IP Experiment, Work Sample II.

Jessica and Tyson setting up projectors to run Stream Cycles.

Jessica making adjustments to Stream Cycles.

Stream Cycles, Work Sample.