\Art Fellowship 2023 is now in the works!
\Art Award 2022 with Jen Liu and Soul Choi coming soon!
\Art Award 2021 with Christie Neptune and Heidi He coming sooner!
Devin Kenny, Bil Leon, and Kelly Sun
Tohuwabohu is a nonlinear universal media control app for live performances. More about Tohuwabohu.
\Art, pronounced “backslash art”, funds far-out works of art and technology.
\Art lives at Cornell Tech, a digital-age, technology-forward graduate campus of Cornell University in New York City. \Art collides students, faculty, and artists, both on and off campus, providing grants for works of art and technology that are uniquely unconventional.
Miao Ying, Ben Hwang, and Michael Barron
The project is inspired by AI neural network machine learning, medieval christian indulgences mechanisms, conflicting political ideologies, popular online Chinese S&M romance novels, and the recently emerged “social credit system” in China. More about Pilgrimage into Walden Twelve.
Starting in 2023, \Art awards a fellowship to a visiting artist to collaborate with Cornell Tech faculty and students on a significant work of art that engages bleeding edge digital research and technology. The fellowship offers sustained teamwork with creative and innovative technologists, enabling deep exploration of new artistic forms, expressions and features, and is intended to provoke novel opportunities for the artist’s work.
From 2016 to 2022, \Art awarded a major grant each year to a practicing NYC-based artist and one or two Cornell Tech graduates to collaborate full-time on a significant work of art that used bleeding edge digital technology.
Check out past \Art Awards: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016.
Mika Tajima, Christy Cui, and Jacob Lee
In New Humans, emergent gatherings of synthetic humans rise from the surface of a black ferrofluid pool. More about New Humans.
Kate Gilmore, Nishad Prinja, and Renee Essess
“They Call Us a Storm” is a performance made for the Museum of the City of New York as part of the \Art Fellowship at Cornell Tech. More about They Call Us A Storm.
Matthew Weinstein, Alap Parikh, and Brandon Plaster
I began my \Art process by asking a question, “what is anti interactivity, or what is the negative space around interactivity?” More about The Living End.
\Art awards $500 Microgrants on a rolling basis to assist current Cornell University students pursuing art works, art tools, or other art activities that use emerging digital technologies. Read more about \Art Microgrants.
Backslash (\), otherwise known as whack, hack, slosh, bash, backslant, and reversed virgule--and not to be confused with forward slash (/)--is known as an escape character in computer programming, indicating that the characters after the \ should be interpreted outside the normal mode of input and output to do something special.
Cornell Tech is a new graduate campus of Cornell University located on Roosevelt Island in New York City. It brings together faculty, business leaders, tech entrepreneurs, and students in a catalytic environment to produce visionary results grounded in significant needs that will reinvent the way we live in the digital age. Read more about Cornell Tech.
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