B. Covington Sam-Sumana (US)
Eyebeam Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – Phase 1
B. Covington Sam-Sumana was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina during the mid-1990s. They work to interrogate matters related to currency, transience, narratology, and system metabolism. Their interrogations have spawned sound projects, objects of generative design, forays into speculative finance, video, text, and visual art. Covington has presented works of music composition, performance, and installation at institutions such as The ICA London, The New Museum, Tate Modern, and The Atlanta Contemporary. In 2019 they released their first collection of essays, i was born in ww3: the exorcism of Kaye – fifteen laws of virtuality, violence, and asymmetry told in fifteen awful phrases.
For Rapid Response Phase 1, B Covington Sam-Sumana will research the creation of a new type of award process that does not rely upon the surveillance and visibility of its recipients typical of many capital awards. The New Millennium Almanac 2020 Micro-Prize is a micro grant program initiated by the artist as an alternative to pre-existing models and includes a granting program, as well as a short manifesto-style treatise, originally developed while in residence at La Becque. Awardees will range from those across arts, media, sci-tech, and agriculture related inter-disciplines.