Lucy Helton is a visual artist whose fictitious and prophetic landscapes address contemporary environmental concerns by offering a sublime vision of the planet's uncertain future. Born in London, she received her master’s degree in fine art photography from Hartford Art School, CT, in 2014. Seeing visual arts as a means of engagement, Helton uses concept-specific technologies to image the relationship between human beings and the landscapes we inhabit. Gaining a HAM (amateur) radio license, she continues to test the boundaries of art and technology by making both long and short-range image transmissions. Helton’s books are collected by the Cleveland Institute of Art, MoMA, MET, Brooklyn Museum, Houston Center of Photography, Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the David M. Rubinstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, among others.

Jason E Geistweidt is a trans-disciplinary artist working at the nexus of music technology, physical computing, creative coding, networked systems, digital fabrication, interactive installation, and performance. Grounding his research is the use of purpose-built computational tools and systems for generating media via procedural, yet aleatoric or otherwise chance methodologies. Conceptually the work is playing with ideas of control, intention, and expectation within the creative process. His approach is experimental and works to interconnect disparate systems in a desire to make the intangible — data, networks, computation, and the like — tangible through their transduction into objects, events, and experiences. Dr. Geistweidt holds a PhD in Music Composition from the Sonic Arts Research Center (SARC), Queen’s University Belfast, as well as Master of Arts in Music Technology from the University of Limerick. He currently teaches in the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo, coordinating the activities of the Extensible Media Lab.

LUCY HELTON

SELECT Exhibitions + AWARDS

• Media Arts Assistance Fund for Artists (MAAF) / Wavefarm Transmission Arts Grant New York 2022 - awarded

• London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) / Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant 2022-2025- awarded

• Photobooks: Art Page by Page, GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig, Germany, November 2021 - April 2022

• Prix Pictet ‘Fire’ 2021 - nominee

• These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins, Horizon Avenue Gallery, Photo Saint Germain, Paris, 2019

• The Earth Itself, Brighton Photo Fringe 2018, England - Solo Installation, 2018

• Look Up at the Sky, Sala Muncunill, Terrassa, Spain, 2018

• Actions of Consequence, A3 Artist residency, San Antonio, Texas, USA - Solo Show, 2016

• Golden Hour: Thoughts on the Contemporary Photo Book, Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA, 2015

• The Anamorphsis Prize, 2015 - shortlisted

• Paris Photo - Aperture First Book Award, 2015 - shortlisted

• Dummy Award Kassel, 2015 - shortlisted

• MACK First Book Award, 2015 - nominee

Jason e Geistweidt

SELECT EXHIBITIONS + PERFORMANCES + AWARDS

• Making Strange, collaboration with Jason Livingston, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York, 2021

• Unsettling Time, Space 204, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 2019

• foldings, Audio-visual improvisation for laptop and projector Black Box Concert Series, School of Music, University of Buffalo, 2019 (performance)

• CTM Festival HackLab Fellow, Berlin, Germany, 2018 - awarded

• A picture agrees with which the same infinite song (2018) Sensor design and programming for mapping a dancers motions to granular synthesis via the Wekinator AI package. Developed as part of a collaborative performance upon invitation to Berlin's CTM Festival MusicMaker HackLab, 2018