THESSIA MACHADO 

is a sound artist and com­pos­er and cur­rent­ly an Inga Maren Otto Fel­low in Music Com­po­si­tion. She per­forms elec­tron­ic and elec­tro-acoustic exper­i­men­tal music with hand-made and mod­i­fied instru­ments under the artis­tic name link. She com­plet­ed her BFA Sum­ma Cum Laude at Hunter Col­lege, after begin­ning her stud­ies in art at the Esco­la de Artes Visuais do Par­que Lage, in Rio de Janeiro.

Macha­do finds the active, expres­sive poten­tial in sculp­tures and inter­ac­tive instal­la­tions with a real-time, live com­po­nent. “Work­ing with sound reveals the air in which we all swim as yet anoth­er mal­leable and respon­sive mate­r­i­al,” she writes. “It bounces and is deflect­ed by space and objects, chang­ing and acquir­ing a new character.”

Machado’s work has been exhib­it­ed in New York and Philadel­phia, as well as in Lon­don, Paris, Ams­ter­dam, Dublin, Berlin, and Athens. She has received fel­low­ships from the New York Foun­da­tion for the Arts, the Exper­i­men­tal Tele­vi­sion Cen­ter, and The Bronx Muse­um. She has been award­ed numer­ous res­i­den­cies, includ­ing at Mac­Dow­ell Colony, the Atlantic Cen­ter for the Arts, and the Irish Muse­um of Mod­ern Art.