CAMPBIENT invites a new guest artist every year to bring their experience, knowledge, and enthusiasm to the residency. Guest artists camp out alongside the resident artists, sharing meals, ideas, and camaraderie. Typically guest artists will present and discuss their work, and have a wide latitude to engage the process in whatever means they choose, all in an informal and supportive context.
2026
Lisa Schonberg
Lisa Schonberg is a composer, percussionist, and ecological sound artist. Informed by her background in entomology, Schonberg composes music with a focus on cryptic sounds of insects to bring attention to these sound worlds, often collaborating with ecologists. Her recent work includes music composition systems that interact with insect sound in real time. She has produced work on ant bioacoustics in the Brazilian Amazon, urban insects, cellular frequencies, old-growth forests, endangered Hawaiian bees, and fungi. She is the author of Text Scores for Getting to Know the Invertebrates, The Hylaeus Project, and the The DIY Guide to Drums, and has presented work at the Nobel Prize Museum, Staten Island Museum, Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art, FILE Festival, EMST Athens, SALT Istanbul, Henry Gallery, and Museo Reina Sofia. She has completed residencies with Cebimar Biological Station (BR), Wave Farm, Labverde (BR), the Banff Centre, Pioneer Works, & HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, and has received support from the New York State Council on the Arts, Oregon Arts Commission, Regional Arts and Culture Commission, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Center for Deep Listening. Schonberg earned a Masters in Environmental Studies at Evergreen State College (WA) and a PhD in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY). Photo of Lisa by Lucy Bohnsack.
2025
Gordon Hempton
Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, The Sound Tracker ®, has circled the globe three times in pursuit of the Earth’s rarest sounds. His sound portraits which record quickly vanishing natural soundscapes have been featured in People magazine and a national PBS television documentary, Vanishing Dawn Chorus, which earned him an Emmy. Hempton provides professional audio services to media producers, including Microsoft, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and Discovery Channel. Recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rolex Awards for Enterprise he is co-author of One Square Inch of Silence: One Man’s Quest to Preserve Quiet (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2010) and Founding Partner of Quiet Parks International. Gordon Hempton speaks widely about the importance of listening.
2024
Perri Lynch Howard
Perri Lynch Howard is an artist dedicated to forging new narratives from the front lines of climate change. Working in the context of extreme environments is an essential aspect of Howard’s practice, driving her curiosity to seek a deeper sense of place, beyond the dichotomy of near and far. Her artwork resides within the emerging genre of New Polar Aesthetics, expressed through painting, drawing, sculpture and sound. More info at Velocity Made Good.
2023
Mary Edwards
Mary Edwards is a composer and environmental sound artist whose interdisciplinary practice encompasses themes of temporality, impermanence, nostalgia and the natural world that recur throughout her work. She is interested in the invisible architecture and the emotive, historic, cinematic and spatial properties of sound. Listening is an inherent and integral part of her process in conveying how all sounds have the potential to be habitable, and can be transformative once you get inside them, as they are simultaneously intimate and immense. More info Mary Edwards Music.
2022
Betsey Biggs
I’m a composer and studio artist based in Boulder, Colorado. My work connects the dots between music, sound, visual art, place, storytelling, and technology, and has been described by The New Yorker as “psychologically complex, exposing how we orient ourselves with our ears.” Over the years I’ve written a book, worked as a video editor and producer, composed string quartets and multimedia operas, created big participatory art projects, earned a Ph.D. in music composition at Princeton University, and taught music, multimedia, public art, and video at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Colorado, where I currently serve as Assistant Professor. I’ve given talks about my work at Harvard, the New Museum, and lots of other wonderful places. More info at Betsey Biggs Studio.
2021
Anna Friz
Anna Friz creates media art, sound and transmission art, working across platforms to present installations, broadcasts, films and performances. Her creative and scholarly works often reflect upon media ecologies, land use, infrastructures, time perception, radio and transmission art histories, and critical fictions. She specializes in self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. Currently her focus is on a series of audiovisual works under the title We Build Ruins, which expressively consider mining and industrial corridors in the high altitude desert in northern Chile; Useful Radio, a live performance and installation created with Jeff Kolar based on Rick Prelinger’s radio listening archives; and Water Line/Estuary Almanac, a 365-day composition based on the tidal patterns of the Fraser River in Vancouver created with Absolute Value of Noise for DeutschlandFunk Kultur and ORF Kunstradio, of the German and Austrian public radio. More info at Nice Little Static.