Cal Fish is a cross-disciplinary, non-binary artist from Sea Cliff, New York, currently based in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Their work is multi-modal and immersive, often employing interactive sonic tools and sculptures, experimental pop music, video, and sewn soft and social sculpture. Cal has performed and shared work across North America and parts of Europe, and frequently organizes multimedia events in New York. Since 2015, Cal has developed projects focused on making connections between ecologies, public spaces, and empathy audible through collaboration, performance, and public installation.

Their work may incorporate electromagnetic fields, sounding utilitarian objects, FM hijacking, oral histories, resonant frequencies, up-cycled quilts, interactive websites, archive building, and conductive thread. Cal uses familiar, comforting objects and public settings—combined with deep social archiving and sonic tools perceived as magical—to create environments for critical play and technological-ecological discovery.

Cal graduated from Bard College in 2018, where they studied sound, studio art, and experimental humanities. Since then, they have worked as an artist, touring musician, and teacher. In recent years, Cal has shared work at venues including; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, ISSUE Project Room, The Shed, BAM, Chelsea Factory, Governors Island, Flux Factory, Outpost Artist Resource, Chaos Computer, 285 Kent, 411 Kent, the Canal Street Research Association, Internet Explorer, and Cittipunkt.

Since 2018, Cal has hosted the radio show Anthroapology on Newtown Radio and has worked in collaboration with Kyle Marshall Choreography as a sound designer. They are also a long-term resident artist and co-manager at The Living Gallery in Brooklyn, where they make and sell up-cycled clothing, help host events, and maintain a community refrigerator. In 2021, Cal founded the multimedia label and phone line Call Waitn, which offers free audio streaming over the phone.

photos courtesy of ISSUE Project Room