Jeff Kolar is a sound artist and curator working in Chicago, USA. His work, described as "speaker-shredding," "wonderfully strange," and characteristically curious," includes cross-platform collaboration, low-powered radio, and live performance. His work activates sound in unconventional, temporary, and ephemeral ways using appropriation and remix as a critical practice. His solo and collaborative projects, installations, and public performances often investigate the mundane sonic nuances of everyday electronic devices. Jeff is the Founder and Artistic Director of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform, which participated in the Museum as Instrument residency. Since 2011, Radius has commissioned over 50 original works by artists from over 20 countries.

Amy Siegel's work focuses on the way space, history and memory inform the way we experience the world. The ghosts of people, objects and moments breathe life into a place, even in their absence. Physical environments are experienced on multiple levels: what we see, what we remember, and the stories we’ve heard. A particular focus of Amy's is shadow play and the space beyond light both visually (in terms of projection and illusion) and metaphorically (exploring dream worlds, death and the psyche).

Amy created Remember Well during her residency. 

Beth Cohen created Object Obituaries during her residency. 

Jon Brumit works creatively with interactive social design, structured improvisation and multi-layered interventions. By design, his objects and public performance situations often produce unpredictable results – occasionally humorous, often sonorous, and always highly interpretable. Brumit has presented solo and collaborative works widely in the US and abroad at venues including the 2008 Whitney Biennial (as Neighborhood Public Radio), MOCAD (Detroit), SF MOMA, the DeYoung Museum (SF), Chelsea Art Museum (NYC), YBCA (SF), Novi Sad Contemporary Museum (Serbia), Cranbrook Museum of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI), the Krannert Museum (Urbana Champlain), Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago), and the Borderline Academy / Fadaiat (Tarifa, Spain).

Joe Jeffers is a co-curator of Museum as Instrument: A Sound Art Residency at Elsewhere. Joe is a musician, producer and Director of 8550 Ohio (Chicago and Chesterhill, OH).

Troy Briggs works with technology and sound and everyday objects to create subtle interventions in public and private space. These moments, ranging from audio jacks that connect the listener to far-away white noise and single, bare light bulbs that tap out morse code messages sent from across the world, speak to delicacy of human connection though the simplest of means.Briggs has exhibited widely in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, including Shane Campbell, Chicago; Rontoms, Portland, OR; A+D Gallery, Chicago; and 6018 North, Chicago, IL. He teaches in Contemporary Practices at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and sculpture, sound and new media at Cathege College. 

Michael Milano develops drawing and sound work through adapting systems of constraint as they are presented by the grid. Specifically drawing on the weaving draft as device to compose audio work, Milano explores the limits of the binary to produce conceptual “weavings.” Milano received a MFA from the Fiber and Material Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Humanities from Shimer College. He has shown at Roots & Culture, threewalls, Peregrine Program, Adds Donna, and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. He recently co-curated the exhibition duckrabbit with Jeff M. Ward at Adds Donna.

David Moré is a sound artist, experimental musician and sculptor. His current projects include listening to weak electromagnetic waves from (maybe) Jupiter using a home built radio telescope. In the past he has collaborated with an elephant-nose fish named Alex Halsted on the creation on biomusic.

Mor is a “sabra” from Tel-Aviv’s wild southern neighborhood. Her love for adventures brought her to North Carolina where she also received a BS degree in Art Management at Appalachian State University. In her spare time she enjoys petting cats and singing Dolly Parton songs.

Born in Ohio. Raised outside Charlotte. Educated in Boone. Zach is on the verge of graduating from Appalachian State University with a bachelor's degree in Art Management with a General Business Minor. An advent art maker himself, Zach has shifted his focus towards the ways in which community engagement can be obtained and utilized through the mysticism of art.

Christine Hargraves explores the intersection of art and spirituality. Her art is inspired by the idea that art can more easily embody concepts that are difficult to express in words. She is particularly interested in art as a helpful therapeutic tool as well as a tool for social activist work. She is a graphic designer by trade and paints in her free time.

"Nice to meet you internet person. I'm a retired professional golf player whose long life dream was to be a video game designer. Sadly my mom didn't believe in television and put me in the golf course at an early age. I believe that its time to pursue my dream and with Elsewhere I hope to gain the knowledge I need to create video games. my favorite games are risk, battleship, and clue. I also do work under Freelance Sloth Corporation" - Diego Vergara

Maggie grew up in Durham, NC and discovered her love for all things artsy at a young age. A recent graduate from Guilford College, she is ready to bring her joy and creative spirit to the world of elsewhere!

Historical research and information preservation have become Cortni's passions. She believes Elsewhere explorers the history of humanity in a new refreshing way that allows for the preservation of history and interaction with the past to seamlessly blend. Her goal is to keep places like Elsewhere thriving in hopes that history will be kept relevant for future generations to enjoy.

2016 House(pitality) Curator

Fhalyshia Orians is an illustrator and crafter who finds inspiration in observation. Interested in the practice of art and aesthetics in the seemingly mundane activities of everyday life, she enjoys overlooked or unseen interventions that play with our relationships to memory, our senses, and the world around us.

2015 Intern

Fhalyshia emerged from a corn field in Northwest Ohio roughly five years ago, and has since received her B.A. in Painting from Guilford College. Her hobbies include crocheting, talking to plants, making playlists for every conceivable situation or mood possible, and taking walks with no intended destination. Can generally be found drinking coffee on the fire escape in the wee hours of the morning.

Sophie Trauberman just sold her machete and skipped town from Portland, Oregon. She is happiest when she is exploring the (she thinks not-so-solid) boundary between institutional organizing//community organizing//life organizing and art-making. Her ~academic~ background is in aesthetics, postmodern social theory, and 20th century american history. Her ~non-academic~ background is in meeting facilitation, event organizing, gamelan music, baking, landscaping, and having strong opinions. Sophie loves to garden, sing karaoke, fry eggs, dance, and support U.

Abena was born and raised in the urban jungles of Accra, Ghana where she discovered her love of art from her pet monkey Jojo. She currently resides in the arctic tundra of Aurora, New York where she is actively pursuing a B.A. in Visual Arts. Areas of special interest include how museums are reconfiguring traditional modes of display.(\__/)(='.'=)(")_(")

Carmen Papalia designs experiences that invite those involved to expand their perceptual mobility and claim access to public and institutional spaces. Often requiring trust and closeness, these engagements disorient the participant in order to introduce new modes of orientation that allow for perceptual and sensorial discovery. An open sourcing of his own embodiment, Papalia’s work makes visible the opportunities for learning and knowing that come available through the non-visual senses. It is a chance to unlearn looking and to help acknowledge, map and name entire unseen bodies of knowledge.

Carmen created Blind Field Shuttle during his residency.

Julie Moore makes quietly delivered middle fingers. Through physical theatre-based and clown performance, installation, video and music she asks a million questions about if technology is making us more or less human, where words/practices/cultures come from, why you think we buy your bullshit, how we allow ourselves to take up space both physically and socially, and where you got those snacks.

Julie created Verasimilitude during her residency.

Kelly Jones is terribly fond of manatees, glitter, good stories, and dance parties. She is a North Carolinian who has a tendency to abandon her home state for large chunks of time for the charm and confusion of New Orleans. Kelly switches hats often; she has been a baker, a banker, a bartender, a ghost writer, an educator, and an events organizer. In her spare time she writes poetry, runs The Gambler Mag, splashes around in bodies of water, and tries to come to terms with the concept of infinity.