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Black Public Media (BPM) and the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts are collaborators on a residency for independent filmmakers, creative technologists and artists who need access to emerging-tech equipment, studio time or workspace. The in-person residency was launched on the campus of University of Nebraska-Lincoln during the summer of 2022. Emerging technologies include, but are not limited to, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics, and 3D printing. Candidates may also choose to focus on older technologies, such as projection mapping, multichannel video, VFX, or 3D animation. Residency funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Johnny Carson Foundation.
Country: USA
Project: School Sagas
Angela Tucker is an Emmy and Webby Award winning director, writer and producer who makes nonfiction and fiction films. Her most recent directorial projects include The Trees Remember, a series in collaboration with Rei Co-Op Studios and A New Orleans Noel, an upcoming Lifetime holiday film starring Keisha Knight Pulliam and Patti LaBelle.
Past work includes “All Skinfolk, Ain’t Kinfolk”, a documentary short which aired on PBS’ Reel South; All Styles, a dance narrative feature available on Showtime. “Black Folk Don’t”, a documentary web series featured in Time Magazine’s “10 Ideas That Are Changing Your Life”, and “(A)sexual”, a feature length documentary about people who experience no sexual attraction that streamed on Netflix and Hulu. She was a producer of “Belly of the Beast” (dir. Erika Cohn) which broadcast on PBS’ Independent Lens and was a NY Times Critics’ Pick.
As founder of TuckerGurl Inc, a boutique production company in New Orleans, Angela is passionate about stories that highlight underrepresented communities in unconventional ways. She received her MFA in Film from Columbia University and BA from Wesleyan University. She is represented by Corrine Aquino and Haley Jones at Artists First.
Georgiana was named an NCU Fellow in 2023. At the time, she was a junior at Alabama A&M University studying Computer Science with a background in machine learning, where she has interned at companies like Rockstar Games, Apple, and Activision. She will be an incoming Microsoft Research intern where she will focus on building applications in creative AI and was a previous Black Ambition Prize HBCU Winner. Outside of machine learning, she is a co-founder for Squidpunk, a collaborative studio focused on creating diverse animated and interactive experiences, and co-producer for Howard University’s Film Organization upcoming anthology series “Where’s Everybody At?” (2023). You can find her replaying her favorite video games and reading fanfiction about her favorite characters.
T. Lang creates, writes and teaches poetic expressions of dance, which illustrates deep, arousing investigations relevant to issues of identity, history and community. Through the vehicle of contemporary modern dance with emphasis on the interdisciplinarity, Lang’s work communicates perspectives with depth and a movement style that captures the attention of the viewer with its evocative physicality, technical range and emotional viability. Her work is inspired by the desire to invite audiences into personal and subjective experiences of inspiration, family stories, shared history; a fascination with the connections in between; and the desire to investigate them together on the dance floor. After years of choreography, academia, and performance, Lang continues to explore new mediums, such as AR and VR technology, and various modes of collaboration, to immerse audiences in what she hopes are powerful, transformative experiences. T. Lang connects dance, space, technology, and creative collaborators to move audiences into a greater understanding of our past, present and future.
With commissions from the High Museum of Art, Goat Farm Arts Center, Flux Projects and more Lang stays engaged with the next generation of movement artists through her summer dance intensive SWEATSHOP and Founding Director and owner of The Movement Lab ATL, an interdisciplinary incubator for creativity T. Lang is an Associate Professor and inaugural department chair of Dance Performance and Choreography at Spelman College. She is also the 2022 Emory University Arts and Social Justice Fellow, and the 2023 recipient of Princeton University’s Collaboration and Research Grant award.
Conrad is an educator, and media maker from Buffalo, NY. His works include short documentaries, and episodic doc series, exploring artistic practice and history. His work is included in the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s collection of Buffalo Artists, and Termite TV and has screened on BPTM and WHYY. He is a production facilitator with the Precious Places Project, and works as an educator and facilitator with Scribe Video Center, PhillyCAM, and WHYY.
J. Bird Lathon is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and filmmaker. He has created logos, original typefaces, sportswear, motion graphics, animated sequences, and books. As a filmmaker, he is interested in a cinema of artists, outcasts, eccentrics, and iconoclasts who are aesthetically irreverent, innovative and informative. His shorts, The Process and Ms. Right Now (2001), received a Special Acknowledgement at the 2002 Black International Cinema Festival in Berlin. His short, Numbers From A Montgomery Jail (2007), a poetic account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, premiered at the 2007 Nashville Film Festival. His latest, Impaled & Inhaled (2020), uses his personal photographs and original poetry to relate his experiences about the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center and was conceived during his first Artist In Residency at Hastings College. He is currently creative producing To The Fireflies , the feature debut of award-winning documentary filmmaker Kerri Gawryn, which in its development stage and was accepted into Sundance Co//ab programs for producing and directing actors in 2020.
Eboni was most recently on crew for HBO’s Mare of Easttown. She has been an active Sundance Collab Community Leader. Her work with EZ Exposures (her boutique photography company) has recently been seen on NBC10 and President Joe Biden’s Instagram. She is also a member of Councilman Isaiah Thomas’s Arts & Culture Taskforce.
Currently, Eboni writing and producing films and various media projects via her production company, Pearl’s Girl Productions.
Andrea “Philly” Walls is a multidisciplinary artist, informed and inspired by the writers and visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement. She is the founder of Museum of Black Joy and among the first cohort of artists to be designated as Philadelphia Cultural Treasures. She is pleased that her writing, scholarship, and visual art have been supported by organizations she admires, including the Leeway Foundation, VONA/Voices Workshops for Writers of Color; Black Public Media; MIT Open Documentary Lab, Hedgebrook Residencies for Women Authoring Change; The Colored Girls Museum; Writers Room at Drexel University; The Studio Museum of Harlem; The Women’s Mobile Museum, Eastern State Penitentiary; Mural Arts Philadelphia; and FabYouth Philly. In addition to The Museum of Black Joy, Andrea is the creator and curator of The D’Archive.com, author of the poetry chapbook, Ultraviolet Catastrophe (Thread Makes Blanket Press) and the digital web-collection, The Black Body Curve. com. She finds joy in the small things.
Johannes Barfield is an interdisciplinary sample-based visual and sound artist who works in installation, video, photography, extended reality (XR), collage, sound, and music. His work explores childhood memories, joy, and appropriation as a means for survival, the restitution of artifacts, extinction, and the music played at family cookouts. He was born and raised in Winston-Salem, N.C., and received his MFA in photography and film from Virginia Commonwealth University. He resides in Albuquerque, N.M., where he is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the honors college department at the University of New Mexico.
