Dilate Ensemble joined special guest Sarah Weaver, Director of NowNetArts (NY), for a conversation in the field of network arts. This event was part of the “Improvising the Net(Work)” residency in partnership with CounterPulse.

The conversation focused on Dilate Ensemble’s unique explorations pushing the boundaries of telematic networks resulting in their CATENA performance in January.

Andy Slater, who begins his CripTech residency at Thoughtworks Arts this spring, received the prestigious United States Artists - UNBOUND Fellowship Award in media.

The USA Fellowship is a $50,000 unrestricted award granted to 63 artists, thinkers, and makers who represent communities across 23 states and Puerto Rico.

As part of the Improvising the Net(Work) residency in partnership with CounterPulse, residents Dilate Ensemble presented CATENA on January 13th and 14th. This hybrid audio-visual performance took place both live online and in-person.

Dilate Ensemble became a creative collective at the start of the pandemic out of a shared love of improvisation coupled with a sense of urgency to find ways to connect and create in real-time over distance.

Throughout the summer and fall of 2021, a diverse international cohort of artists, designers, technologists and makers created innovative artworks responding to the global climate emergency.

Participants from Singapore, Switzerland, India and South Asia, Germany, and the United States were incubated by technology and art mentors, including ThoughtWorks Arts directors Andy McWilliams and Ellen Pearlman in partnership with BeFantastic (India/Singapore), Art-A-Hack and Thoughtworks Arts.

We are pleased to announce that artists Olivia Ting and Andy Slater have been jointly awarded residencies with Thoughtworks Arts, in partnership with Leonardo/ISAST’s CripTech Incubator program.

The residencies will take place during 2022 as part of the larger Leonardo CripTech Incubator. The program supports artists focusing on disability innovation and offers multiple residencies, workshops, presentations, publication and education.

Ars Electronica’s A New Digital Deal 2021 Festival brought together Thoughtworks Arts director Ellen Pearlman, CounterPulse director Julie Phelps, and Zero1 director Shamsher Virk for Co-creation Containers - a dynamic round-table discussion on building community by digital infrastructure.

Ars Electronica is the largest and most time-honored new media arts festival in the world, going back more than thirty years. It was designed to take the Digital Revolution’s emergence as an opportunity to examine potential futures and to focus investigations at the intersection of art, technology, and society.

Our new residents, h0t Club & Dilate Ensemble presented their work September 15th online as part of the annual CounterPulse Festival, based in San Francisco.

The two collaborative collectives will participate in Thoughtworks Arts 16-week residency with our partner CounterPulse, including the greater Bay area creative community.