May 2024. Awarded a Saas-Fee Summer Art Institute (SFSAI) scholarship, NZ artist Gill Gatfield will participate in SFSAI 2024 New York City with 25 international artists, researchers and writers. Founded in 2015 by artist and theorist Warren Neidich, the nomadic art academy convenes intensive programs in contemporary critical theory in Berlin, Paris and New York. The 2024 program: 'Art, Apparatus and Neural-Digital Entanglement in Cognitive Capitalism' maps artistic forms of resistance in order to critically engage with new neural and brain-based technologies.  The program comprises seminars, deep readings, experimental workshops, gallery meetings, and public lectures led by an interdisciplinary faculty, in NYC 2024 comprising: Defne Ayas, Davide Balula, Suparna Choudhury, Stephanie Dinkins, Thyrza Goodeve, Lyle Ashton Harris, Isaac Julien, Liz Magic Laser, Reza Negarestani, Warren Neidich, Alison Nguyen, Diane Severin Nguyen, Barry Schwabsky, Martha Schwendener, Mindy Seu, and Anuradha Vikram. Gill Gatfield will present her AI-AR research at SFSIA and activate the digital monument HALO at Brooklyn Bridge Park from June-July 2024.