20F

Wisconsin-born Raphaele Shirley is a multimedia artist who lives and works in New York State. Since 1993, she has been dedicated to creative placemaking, working at the intersection of art and technology. Her practice spans sculpture, light art, public art, collaborative works, and performance. Her solo and collaborative projects have been presented at venues such as The Queens Museum; the Museum of the Moving Image; Catskill Art Space; The Emily Harvey Foundation in New York; The HayArt Gallery in Yerevan, Armenia; the NCCA; the 2nd Moscow Biennale in Moscow; and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2023, she received the Wave Farm Media Arts Grant with composer Algis Kizys for their collaborative performance piece 20F. She has held residencies at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center with Rhys Chatham and GH Hovagimyan, and participated in The Arctic Circle expeditionary residency program in 2009 and 2010.

As a musician, Algis Kizys performed/recorded in and with Swans, Foetus, Glenn Branca, Lydia Lunch (various incarnations including Teenage Jesus), Of Cabbages and Kings, Pigface, Bag People, Matthew Barney with Jonathan Bepler, numerous other original and improvisational ensembles. Composed works for film include Gus Van Sant and David Jacobson. Composition/Sound Design include an Eve Sussman video piece in the Smithsonian permanent collection and with Simon Lee as co-director on “Black Beast,” a Ted Hughes poetry work that has toured the world as a one-, two-, and four-channel installation and as a short film. As a director Kizys has several works for stage, currently a film in post, and has co-directed an original hybrid theatre/video work, inspired by old time radio plays which incorporated actors, zoom, original dialogues, and live video spinning on 11 screens. 20F includes live editing, or DJ-ing, a sound collage of manipulated original field recordings, found sound clips, personal recordings, and other elements as counterpoint to the mirrored visuals. 

New York-based photographer and visual artist Michael Lisnet, a BFA graduate of the School of Visual Arts, boasts a diverse 20-year career that encompasses documentary filmmaking, celebrity portraiture for Vogue, and major ad campaigns for clients such as GE and GoogleAI. Lisnet’s photographic practice is driven by an ongoing exploration of the absurd within the mundane, examining what these observations reveal about contemporary society. With the advent of digital technology, he expanded his artistic scope to include video and video art, delving into their profound relationship with time and space. His acclaimed work includes “Siempre,” a solo exhibition at Dillon Galleries in NYC, and he is currently developing “If I Die Before I Wait,” a science fiction trilogy serving as a heartfelt homage to New York City. He is excited to collaborate with Raphaelle and Algis for this new project called 20F, a visual adventure in cold temperatures and snow.