Tyler Cunningham

Performance maker, writer, dramaturg – Stuttgart, Germany
Participant International Forum 2023

Tyler Cunningham, born 1996, is a performance maker and writer, and he is currently on a Fulbright Research Grant based in Stuttgart. His work thinks through the interstices between artifact and artifice, and his current projects use machine learning to imagine the speculative worlds possible by the gaps that litter history. Specifically, he is looking for his unaccounted-for ancestor Avram Alter.
His projects have been shown with the collectives he co-founded PROMPTUS and NEL2R, most recently with the project “the machines that hold us” at The Music Gallery and as an Artist in Residence at Critical Mass: A Centre for Contemporary Art. He has also written performance reviews and essays for Refuze Review, Peripheral Review and CultureBot.
He studied at the Juilliard School, where he received the John Erskine Prize in Scholastic and Artistic Achievement, and he did graduate work at the University of Toronto and is currently at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart.