Artist and engineer Joaquin Fargas is at the midpoint of his Thoughtworks Arts Residency at Mars College in the Southern California desert. He traveled from his home in Argentina in early January to work on robotics and sustainability in harsh environments.

Joaquin began his residency aiding with the construction of the temporary building housing the nomadic Mars community. The team constructed a wall of solar panels to help power the structure, which will only be in use during the first three months of the year due to the intense desert heat and will be disassembled afterwards.

Parallel residencies have been awarded for projects to take place at Mars College in Bombay Beach, California. The residencies will run simultaneously during January through March 2023.

Residents will be on-site participating alongside other Mars College community members, associating virtually with Thoughtworks employees globally to support their project ambitions.

Thoughtworks Arts Improvising the Net(Work) residents h0t club, featuring Miller Puckette (author of PureData), Kate Bergstrom, and Martim S. Galvão debuted their experimental multimedia performance Freeicecream.network at Counterpulse’s Homecoming Gala on May 7th, in San Francisco.

Freeicecream.network is an experimental multimedia performance that explores how our desire for connection and delicious treats entangles us with networks of information technologies.

Join us on Saturday, May 7th 2022 as art collective h0t club present their World Premiere of Freeicecream.network at CounterPulse’s annual Gala art party and auction event in San Fransisco.

h0t club, featuring Miller Puckette (author of PureData), Kate Bergstrom, and Martim S. Galvão debut their experimental multimedia performance Freeicecream.network that explores how our desire for connection and delicious treats entangles us with networks of information technologies.

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

CATENA, a non-looping visual and densely textured sound environment allows performers and audience members to experience livestreams from two different physical locations inside CounterPulse’s Tenderloin District building, located in San Francisco.

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 with artist fellows presenting works-in-progress at Leonardo LASER salons and final works at the Arizona State University California Center in Los Angeles.

We are pleased to announce the Improvising the Net(Work) Residency has been jointly awarded to two creative collectives, h0t club and Dilate Ensemble.

The two collectives will be in residence simultaneously at Thoughtworks Arts and CounterPulse, a leading performing arts incubator.