About Backslash at Cornell Tech
Backslash advances artists and students whose practices are nonlinear, unconventional, unexpected, adventurous, intense, surprising, questionable, and primed for engagement with new technologies – all symptoms of being "backslash." Backslash lives at Cornell Tech, a digital-age, technology-forward graduate campus of Cornell University in New York City.
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Backslash (\), otherwise known as whack, hack, slosh, bash, backslant, and reversed virgule – and not to be confused with forward slash (/) – is known as an escape character in computer programming, indicating that the characters after the \ should be interpreted outside the normal mode of input and output to do something special.
Backslash Artists
The Backslash Fellowship is a $50,000 fellowship that supports an established practicing artist to create a significant new work of art that engages bleeding-edge digital research and technology. This fellowship provides sustained teamwork with a committed, technical PhD collaborator to enable deep exploration of new artistic forms, expressions and features, and inspire lasting transformation of the artist’s practice.
Backslash Interventions invite emerging and mid-career artists to advance their technical agency and reshape their methodologies and modes of making. Artists join the Backslash community on campus, gaining access to Cornell Tech’s expertise, labs, campus resources, and organic collaboration with faculty and students. Artists receive $8,000 stipends, and up to $3,000 to support student collaborators.
Backslash Microgrants are $500 grants awarded to students pursuing "backslash" art+tech projects. Any current student at Cornell University may apply for a microgrant – yes, that’s undergrad, masters, and PHD students across all campuses!
The Backslash Scholar is a Cornell PhD student who is awarded a $6,000 grant to write critical articles on art+tech topics, focusing on Backslash Artists as well as the broader field.
Cornell Tech
Backslash was founded in 2016 at Cornell Tech, a new graduate campus of Cornell University located on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Cornell Tech brings together faculty, business leaders, tech entrepreneurs, and students in a catalytic environment to produce visionary results grounded in significant needs that will reinvent the way we live in the digital age.
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