About Backslash at Cornell Tech
Backslash funds artists 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 $60,000 fellowship that supports a practicing artist in collaborating with Cornell Tech faculty and students on a significant new work of art that engages bleeding-edge digital research and technology. This fellowship offers sustained teamwork with creative and innovative technologists, enables deep exploration of new artistic forms, expressions and features, and inspires novel opportunities for the artist’s work.
Backslash Grants are $10,000 grants awarded to practicing artists producing exceptionally "backslash" work in the field – work that collides art with tech in unique, surprising, unconventional and exciting ways. These Backslash Artists receive honoraria to pursue their work and engage with Cornell Tech faculty and students.
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 $10,000 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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