Project Areas

Research Work was established to facilitate the creation of research projects that are produced outside academia, for a general audience; employ Internet-specific methods of presentation; and serve a public best reached by making the work available for free online.

Research Work is supported in part by the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York Council for the Humanities.

Immaterial Literature was established to facilitate the production of creative writing—fiction, poetry, prose—that engages other media (and artists), considers the particular formal qualities of the Web as a medium, and speaks to a diverse and widespread readership. Triple Canopy believes that recent technological developments, and consequent changes in the way literature is produced and consumed, compel writers to develop new forms for crafting their work and articulating their ideas—from critical essays that employ multimedia to prose poems and short stories that mine the potential of interactive tools—and that their work benefits greatly from such consideration. Editorial staff provide emerging and mid-career writers with exacting and attentive editorial and production assistance, from the early phases of development to the final, published work.

Immaterial Literature is supported in part by the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Internet as Material was established to support emerging and midcareer artists who have never before made work specifically for the Web in the production of an online project. These projects further Triple Canopy's mission by utilizing the Internet—which is too often understood as a channel for the transfer of information—as a medium for the development of artworks that actively engage readers and viewers. By facilitating the use of the Internet as raw or appropriated material, comparable to acrylic paint or magazine clippings, these commissions also help to broaden and diversify the narrowly defined, and technically challenging, field of Internet-based art. Typically, projects are conceived in collaboration with editorial staff and employ the technical assistance of a staff Web developer. Equal attention is paid to the animating ideas of the project and the use of the Internet's particular properties to articulate those ideas technically and aesthetically. What results is not a mere presentation but an artwork that can be viewed by an audience much larger and more diverse than that enjoyed by any gallery or publisher of artist books.

Internet as Material is supported in part by the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Thinking Through Images was established to foster conversations about images and videos of cultural, political, and social relevance, between artists, writers, researchers, and other engaged cultural practitioners working in different fields. The program aims to facilitate close readings of popular media and fine art—from nineteenth-century paintings to Internet memes to documentation of current events—that consider these cultural products in a common context. Participants are often emerging or under-recognized artists or writers making timely work in their individual fields. The result is a primary, critical text that asks probing questions about our relationship with visual media, and that is of interest to the general public and specialists alike. Thinking Through Images enlarges fields of research and cultural practice to encompass what artists make as well as what citizens around the world consume each day.

Thinking Through Images is supported in part by the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

New Media Reporting was established to provide journalists an outlet for—and provide them with the technical resources and expertise to realize—in-depth, critical reports executed in multiple media, with the goal of providing an immersive experience of stories and subjects. Under the auspices of this project area, Triple Canopy commissions writers, photographers, sound artists, and others to create works of long-form narrative journalism that utilize—and are meaningfully augmented by—all tools available to them on the Web, including audio, video, interactive graphics, social media, hyperlinks, and running conversations with readers that continue to enlarge the context of an article long after it has been published. In doing so, Triple Canopy aims to chart a new model for long-form journalism that combines the flexibility and dynamism of new media with the careful attention to reporting and analysis that characterizes the best general-interest magazines.

New Media Reporting is supported in part by the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

New Programming was established to support the development of exhibitions, panel discussions, performances, film screenings, and other public events that examine the intersection of culture, politics, and technology. It serves the general public by offering unique, low-cost educational experiences at community-based nonprofit spaces in the United States and elsewhere. Additionally, it commissions curators, educators, researchers, and artists to develop work to be presented before a live audience. Presenters work closely with editorial staff, paying equal attention to the animating ideas of the project and the forms through which they're articulated, employing all available tools of communication and drawing from various disciplines and perspectives in order to reach a broad and diverse audience. In doing so, Triple Canopy generates material that is rooted in real-world encounters between its collaborators and its audience; such dialogues are then expanded to include readers around the world when they are published online.

New Programming is supported in part by the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York Council for the Humanities.