Contributors

Tashi Wada is a Los Angeles–based composer and performer whose works explore harmonic overtones, resonance, and dissonance through precise tuning and gradual changes in pitch. Grounded in the belief that “music should be as direct as possible,” Wada's compositions use apparently simple structures to generate rich and unanticipated perceptual effects. Wada works in relation to American experimental music, microtonal music, and so-called drone music; his practice is also informed by interdisciplinary performance and Fluxus-affiliated artists. He studied composition at CalArts with James Tenney and for many years performed alongside his father, the composer Yoshi Wada. He has presented his music internationally and collaborated with a range of artists, including Charles Curtis, Simone Forti, and Julia Holter. He founded and runs the label Saltern. His most recent album, Nue, was released by RVNG Intl. in 2018. Website

Asiya Wadud is the author of Crosslight for Youngbird, day pulls down the sky/ a filament in gold leaf (written with Okwui Okpokwasili), Syncope, and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. Her work has been supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Danspace Project, Mount Tremper Arts, the New York Public Library, and others. Recent work appears in e-flux journal, Social Text journal, BOMB Magazine, and Makhzin. She teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School, Columbia University, and at Pacific Northwest College of Art.  

Catherine Wagner teaches in the MA program in creative writing at Miami University and lives in Oxford, OH with her son Ambrose. She is the author of the book Nervous Device (City Lights Publishers, 2012).  

Gretchen Wagner is assistant curator in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art, where she most recently organized the exhibitions “Projects 98: Slavs and Tatars” and “Thing/Thought: Fluxus Editions, 1962-1978.” This October, she will assume the position of Curator at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis.  

Caleb Waldorf is an artist and the technology director of Triple Canopy. He currently lives in Berlin. Website

Angie Waller is a New York–based artist who uses her online presence, couchprojects, to document a set of cultural interventions in commercialism, shopping, and social networking. Website

Alice Wang is an artist who makes sculptures and experimental films and lives in Los Angeles and Shanghai. Her work explores the uncanny dimensions of the natural world. She has recently presented work at Capsule Shanghai, Visitor Welcome Center (Los Angeles), K11 Art Foundation (Hong Kong), FLAX Foundation (Los Angeles), Taikang Space (Beijing), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Wang is an assistant professor of arts at New York University Shanghai and co-organizes the Magic Hour.  

Bo Wang is an artist, filmmaker and researcher based in the Netherlands. His works have been exhibited internationally, including venues like Guggenheim Museum and Museum of Modern Art (New York), Garage Museum (Moscow), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Image Forum Festival (Tokyo), CPH:DOX (Copenhagen), Times Museum (Guangzhou), and Para Site (Hong Kong), among others. He received a fellowship from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 2013, and was an artist-in-residency at ACC-Rijksakademie from 2017 to 2018 as well as at NTU CCA in 2016. He is currently a PhD candidate at Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam.  

Emily Wang is a writer and editor. She is a senior editor at Triple Canopy.  

Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of the novel The Border of Paradise, which was called a Best Book of 2016 by NPR. She received a 2018 Whiting Award, was named by Granta as one of the Best of Young American Novelists in 2017, and is the recipient of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize for her forthcoming essay collection, The Collected Schizophrenias (Graywolf, 2019). Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents, she lives in San Francisco. Website

Wang Bing is a Chinese documentary filmmaker. Website

WangShui is a New York-based artist & filmmaker who has exhibited and screened work internationally at venues including New York Film Festival, SculptureCenter, the Shed, the Julia Stoschek Collection, International Film Festival Rotterdam, EMPAC, Triple Canopy, Images Festival, the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, and the Jim Thompson Art Center (Bangkok).  

Gary War  

Nari Ward  

McKenzie Wark is the author of A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, 50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International, and The Beach Beneath the Street, among other books. He teaches at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City.  

Warm Engine is Greta Hansen and Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong, a creative duo that works between art and architecture. Website

Dragging an Ox Through Water Website

Greg Wayne is a neuroscientist at Columbia University.  

Bill Weeden is an actor and songwriter from Manhattan. He has appeared in many plays and films and has hosted television shows. Website

Kathi Weeks is the author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries.  

Tingting Wei is an undergraduate studying Studio Art at New York University. Website

Eliot Weinberger is the series editor of Calligrams: Writings from and on China (New York Review Books) and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India (Harvard University Press). His forthcoming book of essays, The Ghosts of Birds, will be published by New Directions next year.  

Julia Weist es una artista que vive en Nueva York. Sus obras han sido exhibidas extensamente, recientemente en el Shed, la Bienal de Gwangju, el Museo Hong-Gah, el Museo de Queens, el Luminary, y el Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Witte de With. Sus obras publicas incluyen Public Record (Nueva York, 2020), View-Through (Miami, 2017) y Reach (Queens, 2015). En 2019 fue nombrada la Artista Publica-en-Residencia por el Departamento de Registros de la ciudad de Nueva York. Ha escrito para publicaciones como n+1, Frieze, Rhizome y Art in America, y es la autora de los libros de artista Sexy Librarian (2008) y After, About, With (2015). Desde 2016, ha colaborado con el artista Nestor Siré en proyectos que investigan las redes de distribución de medios digitales offline.  

Julia Weist is an artist living in New York. She is the recipient of a 2017 Jerome Foundation Fellowship from the Queens Museum, the 2016 Net-based Audience Prize from Haus Der Elektronischen Künste, Basel, and the 2015 Media Plan Award from the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. Weist is the author of several artist books, including the novel Sexy Librarian (2008) and, most recently, After, About, With (2015). In 2018, Weist is participating in the Gwangju Biennale and the Taiwan International Video Art Biennale. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Queens Museum (New York City), Rhizome, the New Museum (New York City), the Luminary (St. Louis) and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam). Her public artworks include Reach (2015, produced by 14x48, New York) and View-Through (2017, produced by O, Miami). Website

Valerie Werder is a writer, curator, and copy editor of Triple Canopy. She is also editor of Endless Editions and head of research at Dominique Lévy Gallery. Her work has appeared in Interventions, Art + Auction, and numerous exhibition catalogues. She is the coeditor of a collective workbook on artist Karin Schneider titled Situational Diagram.  

Easton West  

Elsa Westreicher is a designer who lives and works between Berlin and Kinshasa, where she was born. Her practice is grounded in an awareness of the conventions of communication and the desire to question and destabilize patterns of reading, especially as they relate to the logic of colonialism. She was an active member of SAVVY Contemporary's Laboratory of Form Ideas, where she initiated the design department and curated the project Spinning Triangles, between 2014 and 2020. She has worked on projects for the GRASSI Museum (Leipzig), Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (Köln), and the Lagos Biennale (Lagos). She has also contributed to Wild Recuperations, a research project organized by District * School without Center at the Archive of the GDR Opposition in Berlin. She is currently collaborating with Orakle Ngoy and the Afrika Diva Collectif in Kinshasa on SPAM: A Radio Programme of Undesired-Desired Messages and TANGO: On the (Dis-)Integration of Times.  

Glen Weyl is Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist (OCTOPEST) and founder of the RadicalxChange Foundation.  

Ryland Wharton is an artist and software engineer currently living in Columbus, Ohio. He runs the studio The Work We Do. Website

What Would an HIV Doula Do? is a collective of artists, activists, academics, chaplains, doulas, health-care practitioners, nurses, filmmakers, AIDS Service Organization employees, dancers, community educators, and others joined in response to the ongoing AIDS crisis. WWHIVDD? understands a doula as someone who holds space for others during times of transition. WWHIVDD? understands HIV as a series of transitions in someone’s life that does not begin with testing or diagnosis and does not end with treatment or death. Asking questions is foundational to the collective’s process. Website

Hannah Whitaker is a photographer and Triple Canopy contributing editor based in New York City. Website

Simone White is the author of Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem Books, 2016), Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse/Dossier Series, 2013), House Envy of All the World (Factory School/Heretical Texts, 2010) and the collaborative poem/painting chapbook Dolly, with Kim Thomas (Q Avenue Press, 2008). A former Cave Canem fellow, she was selected as a New American Poet for Poetry Society of America in 2013 and received a 2017 Whiting Award for poetry. She lives in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.  

Robert Whitman is best known for his seminal and continuing work in creating innovative, non-narrative, imagistic theater pieces. He was a member of a group of visual artists—among them Allan Kaprow, Red Grooms, Jim Dine, and Claes Oldenburg—who began making theatrical work in the early 1960s that was performed in ad hoc spaces on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Whitman has since presented more than forty theater pieces in the United States and abroad—works that are visually and aurally rich, incorporating actors, films, slides, sounds, and evocative props in environments of the artist’s own making.  

Brook Wilensky-Lanford is the author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden (Grove Press, 2011). Her essays and reviews have appeared in Salon, the Huffington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Killing the Buddha, where she is an associate editor. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. Website

Elvia Wilk is a writer living in New York. She’s the author of the novel Oval (2019) and the essay collection Death by Landscape. Her work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the Nation, the Atlantic, Frieze, Artforum, Bookforum, n+1, Granta, and the Baffler, among other publications. She has held editorial positions at Rhizome and transmediale and, since 2019, has been a contributing editor at e-flux journal. She is the recipient of the Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant and a fellowship at the Berggruen Institute.  

Zack Wilks is a musician and Triple Canopy’s grant writer.  

Christopher Williams  

Evan Calder Williams is the author of Combined and Uneven Apocalypse (2011); Roman Letters (2011); and Shard Cinema (2017). He is the translator, with David Fernbach, of Mario Mieli’s Towards a Gay Communism (2018). His writing has appeared in Film Quarterly, WdW Review, Frieze, the Journal of American Studies, Mute, Cultural Politics, and the New Inquiry. He is part of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine and a founding member of the film and research collective 13BC. He has been an artist-in-residence at Issue Project Room and has had solo exhibitions at Mercer Union (Toronto) 80WSE (New York City). He has presented films, performances, and audio works at La Biennale de Montreal, the Serpentine Gallery (London), mumok (Vienna), the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Portikus (Frankfurt), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City), Swiss Institute (New York City), and Artists Space (New York City). He teaches at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies.  

Luke Williams is a writer based in Brussels. He is currently collaborating with Natasha Soobramanien, his co-writer/teacher, on a novel about two writers’ obsession with the island of Diego Garcia, to be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and Semiotext(e) in 2022. They have been serializing their first draft of the novel in various publications.  

Diane Williams ’s most recent book of stories is Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, due out from McSweeney’s in January 2012. She is the editor of the literary annual NOON. Website

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie  

Ben Wizner is the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy & Technology Project and a legal advisor to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  

David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992) was an artist, writer, and activist. Website

Uljana Wolf  

Jonah Wolf studies classics at Brown University. He has written for the College Hill Independent and Paper. He is a former editorial and production assistant for Triple Canopy. Website

Matt Wolf is a filmmaker in New York. His acclaimed film Wild Combination is about the avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell. He’s working on Teenage, a pre-history of teenagers based on a book by Jon Savage. Website

Rebecca Wolff is the author of three volumes of poetry (Manderley, Figment, and The King) and a novel called The Beginners (Riverhead Books, 2011). She is the editor of Fence and Fence Books, the publisher of the Constant Critic, and a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany. A native of Chelsea, NY, she now lives in Hudson, NY. Website

Nate Wooley  

Jacob Wren  

Lynn Wright is a Brooklyn-based composer and musician. He embraces the language of Morton Feldman, the chance of improvisation, and the obscurity afforded by a brief bio. He plays in the band And the Wiremen. Website

B. Wurtz moved to New York in the mid-1980s after studying at the California Institute of the Arts and UC Berkeley. His work has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions and has been included in group shows throughout the US and Europe. Website

Mark Wyse is a Los Angeles–based artist. His most recent book, Seizure, was published by Damiani Editore in 2011. In 2012 and 2013 Wyse displayed his work at Gagosian Gallery, New York; the University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach; and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Website