NEW YORK, NY.- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts today announced its 2026-2027 class of Collider Fellows.

The nine-month Fellowship gives six artists the time, space, and support to pursue creative research and experimentation, free from conventional commission requirements such as a final product or project.

The Fellows receive studio space, both at Lincoln Center and at Collider collaborator Onassis ONX, the Onassis Foundation’s global platform for art and advanced technologies; financial stipends; artistic and administrative support from Lincoln Center staff; and regular opportunities to collaborate with one another.

This year's cohort brings together artists working across immersive media, performance, film, sound, installation, and digital art. Together, they are exploring how emerging technologies can expand access, deepen audience engagement, reimagine storytelling, and create new forms of live performance.

“We believe one of the most powerful uses of technology is to bring people together and deepen our understanding of one another,” said Mariko Silver, President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. “Through Collider, we are proud to support artists whose work expands what's possible while keeping human connection at the center.”

“The artists in this year's cohort are approaching technology in deeply personal and inventive ways, using it to explore questions of memory, participation, identity, and connection,” said Shanta Thake, Ehrenkranz Chief Artistic Officer at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. “We’re proud to support the conversations, collaborations, and unexpected forms of creativity that will emerge over the course of the residency.”

“One of the most rewarding aspects of the Collider Fellowship is the opportunity to support artists at a moment of exploration and discovery,” said Jordana Leigh, Senior Vice President of Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. “By giving these Fellows the time and resources to experiment, we're helping foster ideas that expand what's possible in the performing arts—creating new ways to experience art and connect with audiences.”

“When technology becomes part of the fabric of everyday life, artists can help us see how it shapes the ways we move, connect, and understand one another,” said Prodromos Tsiavos, Head of Digital Development and Innovation at the Onassis Foundation and Head of Onassis ONX. “The Collider Fellowship gives artists the freedom to investigate those questions without knowing in advance what form their work will take. We are proud to collaborate with Lincoln Center on this initiative by offering the fellowship cohort access to our studio spaces and a broader community of creatives working with technology in new and unexpected ways.”

The 2026-2027 Collider Fellows are:

• Ben Joseph Andrews is a disabled new media artist from Australia. His practice uses embodied technologies to create collective experiences that expand perceptions, reawaken curiosity, and instill a sense of awe and wonder to the mundane. His work has won numerous awards, including IDFA’s Best Immersive Non-Fiction (2023), and has exhibited at places such as Venice Cinema Biennale, Sundance, Khōj New Delhi, ACMI, CPH:DOX, MIT and Watershed.

• sister sylvester is a multimedia artist and amateur microbiologist. Drawing on history, science and technology, her work explores what is lost when complex, unstable phenomena are flattened into legible, totalizing systems. An Onassis ONX member, her recent installation works, Constantinopoliad (2025) and Drinking Brecht (2024) have toured to festivals and venues including Venice International Film Festival, CPH:DOX, IDFA, Thessaloniki Film Festival, SXSW, ITA and Onassis Stegi.

• Lisa Jamhoury is a Lebanese-American artist working across live performance, installation, and physical media. She creates and directs cinematically rich, embodied experiences that recenter human agency in the digital age. An Onassis ONX member, Lisa's work has been recognized by Ars Electronica, The Lumen Prize, SXSW, Meta Open Arts, IDFA DocLab, Google xStory, TEDx, and more.

• Rucyl Mills works with sound and systems. Her practice spans performance, installation, and instrument design, using sound to express concepts that are not easily seen, including time, natural forces, emotion, identity, and physics. Her work combines improvisation, algorithmic composition, and interactive technologies to create environments where complex systems can be experienced directly, proving that patterns in data echo our human experience.

• Tamara Shogaolu is an Emmy® Award-winning and Peabody-nominated filmmaker, interdisciplinary artist, and creative technologist creating story worlds across film, immersive media, live performance, games, and emerging technology. Founder of Ado Ato Pictures, her work has been presented internationally from MoMA to Sundance, with collaborations spanning PBS FRONTLINE, Netflix, Hulu, and Niantic. She is currently developing the immersive opera The Invisible Woman.

• Ashley Zelinskie is a Brooklyn-based conceptual artist and an Onassis ONX Member whose post–New Media practice translates humanity’s history into a universal visual language. Working across sculpture, print, digital art, VR, and holography, she uses technologies including 3D printing, laser cutting, satellite plating, and gaming engines to transform complex scientific and philosophical ideas into abstract forms.

As part of Lincoln Center's commitment to supporting these innovative artists beyond their Fellowship, Lincoln Center and Onassis ONX will host open studios throughout the season, offering opportunities to engage with the Fellows' evolving projects.

The 2026-27 Fellows join a growing community of Collider alumni whose work continues to push the boundaries of art and technology. This fall, former Lincoln Center Collider Fellow Andrew Schneider brings PLAZA to Lincoln Center, a multidisciplinary, multi-week experience that explores the coincidences and connections that emerge in shared public space, offering audiences a new way to experience the campus and one another; and former Collider Fellow Sam Rolfes brings Mustang Speedrun to the Unsound Festival at Lincoln Center. These upcoming projects by Collider alumni highlight how ideas incubated through the Fellowship can evolve into large-scale public experiences and performances.