Werktank
Werktank
Werktank is a production platform for media art. Our main mission is the realisation and distribution of installation art that investigates the relation between technology and perception.Werktank functions as a work tool for the artist and puts its artistic, technical and productional expertise at the disposal of young and emerging artists. We accompany the artist through all the phases of the creation process of media art, from the research process till the final realisation and active distribution of the work, by offering residencies, financial and productional support.Every year we give new artists the opportunity to work in Werktank, ...
La Pocha Nostra
La Pocha Nostra is a transdisciplinary arts organization & 501-c3 non-profit that provides a support network and forum for artists of various disciplines, generations, gender complexities and ethnic backgrounds. La Pocha is devoted to erasing the borders between art and politics, art practice and theory, artist and spectator. For 30 years, LPN has intensely focused on the notion of collaboration across national borders, race, gender and generations as an act of radical citizen diplomacy and as a means to create “ephemeral communities” of rebel artists.
La Pocha Nostra’s performance work mixes experimental aesthetics, activist politics, Spanglish humor and audience ...
Working Name Studios
Working Name Studios is an Oakland based, collectively owned and organized arts institution building equity for underrepresented creative practices, ideas, and people. We publish limited edition artist projects focusing on sound, text, and visual forms – as well as host events that engage, support, enhance, and evolve humanity’s ability to connect with ourselves and each other through material and conceptual artistic practice.
Zekarias Musele Thompson
Zekarias Musele Thompson (b. 1983, they/them/their) is an artist based in Oakland, CA, and Reykjavik, IS often working in sonic composition, mark-making, photography, collaborative group practice & performance, and writing. Their practice is concerned with humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures—and how we bring them into material form. Zekarias' work has been presented at the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The Wattis Institute, The Lab, and the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. They have performed at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Gray Area in the ...
Vincent Brisebois
Vincent Brisebois, boasting over 25 years of expertise, designs cutting-edge technology solutions for both 2D and 3D production across the visual effects, video game, and design landscapes. As Senior Developer Relations Manager at NVIDIA, he leverages his diverse roles from developer marketing for graphics and XR to community development for Omniverse. He leveraged his extensive workflow knowledge gained collaborating on projects ranging from stereoscopic conversion at Disney, lighting pipelines in games at Electronic Arts and Bungie as well as architectural design, commercials, and installation art with David Lynch.
Previously, as VP of Product Development at DAZ3D, Vincent led the engineering ...
