Tess Oldfield

Tess Oldfield is a composer and artist working across sound, performance, video, and installation. Their current practice explores computational composition through the creation of digital extensions for acoustic instruments. Investigating the cultural contexts of singing and the interplay between industrial and biological systems, Oldfield’s work examines how technology augments and amplifies the body. By transforming found tools into transducers and digital/analog prosthetics, they expand the performative voice.

Oldfield holds an MFA in Digital + Media from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and has exhibited nationally, including at ACRE Projects, Yale University Sculpture Gallery, New Bedford Art Museum, and Boston Cyberarts. They have been a resident artist at ACRE and the Bemis Center, where they were the Sound Art and Experimental Music Resident. Oldfield is a Critic/Lecturer at RISD in Experimental Foundation Studies and Art and Computation. They live and work in Providence, RI.