Berlin-based composer and saxophonist Andre Vida has performed widely as a soloist and has collaborated with a diverse group of artists including Anthony Braxton, Kevin Blechdom, Tim Exile, Yona Friedman, Jean-Baptiste Decavele, and Jamie Lidell. Most recently he has worked closely with Anri Sala on multi-media installations at the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Roman Ampitheatre in Arles (produced by the LUMA foundation), and the Museum of Modern Art in Louisiana, Denmark. He is currently working on a commission for a new solo work to be performed at Global Art Forum 7 in Doha and Dubai in 2013. Vida's compositional work focuses on the medium and materiality of scoring and includes explorations of animation, lighting, and costume design as essential elements of a compositional system that reflects the physicality of performance practice. These works have been performed in installation by members of CalArts, the St. Louis Symphony, The European Saxophone Ensemble, Fersteinn, and by the numerous experimental musicians who performed with Vida weekly during a three-year residency in Berlin. A three-disc box set of his work from 1995 - 2011 was released on PAN and he has been featured in The Wire, TANK, Monopol, and Electronic Beats.

Claudia Hart is an artist working with post photographic simulations technology to create media installations, objects and images. For the past fifteen years, she has used virtual imaging and 3D animation to create hyper-feminine, often erotic installations, sculptures and photo integrations that deal with issues of representation, the role of the computer in shifting values about identity and the real and what might be considered “natural.” Her works are polemical and meant to interject an emotional subjectivity into what is typically the aggressive, hardcore iconography adopted by the computer graphics industry.

Claudia Hart is represented by bitforms gallery, NY.  She is a former IDMagazine as well as an Artforum editor and is an Associate Professor in the department of Film Video New Media and Animation at the School of theArt Institute of Chicago, where she developed a special program,“experimental 3D,” in which she developed new pedagogical structures for teaching computer animation in the context of the avant-garde and experimental film.

Lauren McCarthy is a designer/artist/programmer/person. She holds an MFA from UCLA Design | Media Arts. Her work explores the structures and systems of social interactions, identity, and self-representation, and the potential for technology to mediate, manipulate, and evolve these interactions. She is fascinated by the slightly uncomfortable moments when patterns are shifted, expectations are broken, and participants become aware of the system (and the spaces beyond).

Currently at Sosolimited, and formerly at Small Design Firm, Lauren has worked on installations for the London Eye, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, IBM, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello. She has also worked at Oblong and the MIT Media Lab. She is part-time faculty at RISD.

Her artwork has been shown in a variety of contexts, including the Conflux Festival, SIGGRAPH, LACMA, Japan Media Arts Festival, File Festival, WIRED Store, and probably to you without you knowing it at some point while interacting with her.

Katayoun Vaziri  was born and raised in Iran and is currently based in New York. Vaziri draws on a wide range of cultural references to question the linearity of political and social narratives. She received an MFA from Yale University in 2009 and a BFA from Tehran University in 2005. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in San Francisco, London, and Dubai and she has held residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 2010, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in Ithaca, New York in 2011and over the Fall 2012, she was visiting lecturer at Ohio State University. In addition to her artistic practice, Vaziri is segment producer for BBC Farsi TV, focusing on art scene of New York. She is currently working on "I ran into Iran", a radio pod cast, which is part of Creative Times' Reports series.

For her Eyebeam Residency Katayoun will be collaborating with Hadjar Homaei.