Spring 2025 Artists-in-Residence

Philip Baljeu is a self-taught video artist living in Toronto, Canada. Working with the mediums of film photography, video, and electronics, they make new media works that explore sculptural forms on electronic displays.  

They create images using a subset of Analog Video Synthesis called Scan Processing. This type of video synthesis allows them to manipulate the once rectangular images into new forms, an origami of the raster. Bending or folding the image plane. Extruding it around the contours of a face. Dissecting it and rearranging it. They start by capturing traditional photographic images like portraits or still life. The images are then inputted to the video synthesizer where they are manipulated, augmented, and distorted. There is also the possibility of creating completely abstract forms without any source image, a pure synthetic sculpture on the screen. 

Ghazal Ramzani is a Berlin-based Iranian dancer, choreographer, dance filmmaker, and facilitator. Her choreographic practice is deeply rooted in indigenous dance forms, particularly Kathak and Iranian movement traditions, and center on marginalized and undocumented stories. With a background from North Iran and deep ties to her working-class heritage, Ghazal’s artistic practice explores personal and communal histories, incorporating diverse media and archives to create a movement language that reflects counter-narratives and sidelined stories. Her work chronicle narratives of injustice, trauma and resistance that intertwine layers of the mythological, the historical, the political and the intimate. Ghazal’s debut dance film, Self-Portrait and Other Ruins, a tribute to her foremothers’ legacy of resistance, has been widely exhibited and nominated at dance festivals, including MOVIN Cannes and Multiplié Dance Film. 

Trained in Kathak at the National School of Kathak in New Delhi under the guidance of esteemed choreographer Rajendra Gangani, she co-founded the Kalatva Collective to challenge conventional Indian performance structures. She also holds an MFA in Contemporary Performative Arts from the University of Gothenburg. 

Ghazal has been an artist-in-residence at the Goethe Institute in India and AirSilo in Austria, with her work showcased at prominent venues like Oyoun in Berlin, Nehru Center London and Triveni Kala Sangam in New Delhi. As a facilitator and Kathak teacher, she founded the Kathak Dance School Berlin, an inclusive space fostering experimentation and critical engagement with tradition. Her current focus is on issues of silencing and censorship, the intersections between colonialism and the climate crisis, and reshaping dance spaces by confronting colonial legacies to cultivate decolonial environments and practices. 

Claudia O’Steen is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines sculpture, video, installation, writing, & performance. Through her research-based practice, she examines shifting landscapes via navigation, exploration, perception, & failure. 

She creates languages to convey distance, scale, & direction, giving evidence to a process that has taken place & creates landscapes supplemented by scientific curiosity & human memory. 

 O’Steen resides in South Carolina & is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Winthrop University. She received a BFA from Watkins College of Art & an MFA in Digital+Media at Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited both nationally & internationally at venues such as The Russian State Arctic and Antarctic Museum, Maajaam Estonia, apexart, Flux Factory, Ohio State University, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, & Atlanta Contemporary amongst others, & has been awarded residencies across the globe at Rabbit Island, Hambidge Center, Wassaic Project, Montalvo, The Arctic Circle, & The National Centre for Contemporary Art St. Petersburg, Russia. 

Reuben Telushkin is an interdisciplinary artist born 1988 in Holyoke, MA. He graduated with a BA in Studio Art from Hampshire College in 2012. He lived in Oakland, CA, exhibiting at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco with a grant from Burnt Oranges. He then moved to Detroit in 2015, where he worked at Allied Media Projects. He was a resident at Talking Dolls Studio, where he exhibited a solo exhibition in 2022. From 2017-2021 he was a National Organizer at Jewish Voice for Peace, working to end US material support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and building common cause between the American Jewish left and the Black liberation movement in the US. Recently he was a Gilbert Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he earned an MFA in 4D Design in 2024. He has exhibited at Brecht Forum in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and he has produced public commissions for Library Street Collective. He was a resident at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ACRE Residency, and is scheduled to attend Surf Point in York, ME and the Interactive Electronic Arts residency at Alfred University. Telushkin’s work synthesizes traditional craft with digital fabrication to problematize binaries of human/machine, ancient/modern, nature/culture, etc. Applying fractal geometric design principles across a diversity of media such as sculpture, sound, writing, and performance, Telushkin takes things apart and puts them back together, in a desire to understand the cycles of imperfect systems.

ariella tai (b. 1987 Queens, NYC) is an experimental filmmaker, artist and independent programmer currently based in Portland, OR. tai is one half of “the first and the last,” a fellowship, workshop and screening series supporting and celebrating the work of black women and femmes in film, video and new media art. They have shown work at Anthology Film Archives, Portland Institute For Contemporary Art, Northwest Film Center, Wa Na Wari, the Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival, MOCA and Smack Mellon, amongst others. 

Max Gausepohl is a composer and sound designer from Hamburg, Germany. In his work as a film sound designer, he is continuously drawn to finding a strong and meaningful relation between two modalities, the visual and auditory. This exploration implies finding cross modal similarities, which has deepened his understanding of similar gestures and dynamics in different fields of sensory experience.  

This insight serves as the foundation for his current research on the perceptual relationship between sound and space, which applies to the development of new performative tools and techniques that integrate spatiality into the process of designing abstract sound. 

Gausepohl’s master’s degree in time-based media and sound design focused on silence as a means of communication inherent to sound design. Following his graduate studies, he has held teaching positions in sound design and music production. Throughout various theatre projects and fulldome planetarium shows, as well as in an academic context through master classes with Nicolas Becker, Gerriet K. Sharma or Mathias Josefson, he gained a profound knowledge of different immersive sound design workflows and spatial audio techniques.