Sonic media artist Elise Kermani has created original audio work for theater, film and dance since 1985 and has produced several CD's on the IshtarLab Recordings Label since 1992. She has a background in performance art and is known for her work exploring technology, language and the female body. Her current multimedia work on the internet is an extension of her fascination with ancient writing and modern philosophy. She is a recipient of many grants including Franklin Furnace, Grand Marnier, Electronic Arts Grant Program, Meet the Composer and the Puffin Foundation and her work has been reviewed in several publications including The Village Voice, High Performance, Los Angeles Times, and Time Out New York. From 1996-2000 she was the Executive Producer of the Electronic Arts Performance Series at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. http://ishtar.cdemusic.org
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Barbara Kilpatrick is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. Her sculpture, photographs and paintings have been included in group shows in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Washington DC. She has had two solo exhibitions in New York City, most recently at The Kitchen in November 2000. Since 1996, she has collaborated with dancers and choreographers, especially Vicky Shick. Their work has been seen at the 92nd Street Y/Harkness Dance Project, The Kitchen, PS 122, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, and Movement Research at Judson Church. Kilpatrick and Shick were also artists in residence with Companie Christiane Blaise in Grenoble. http://ishtar.cdemusic.org/bk.html
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Lisa Naugle, Assistant Professor of Dance at The University of California, Irvine where she is responsible for research activites in the Motion Capture Studio, received her MFA from New York University, Tisch School of The Arts. She is currently working on her Ph.D thesis titled, "Collaborative Online Methods in Dance". Lisa was a member of The Nancy Hauser Dance Company and has performed with several companies in the United States and Canada. Her background as a dancer includes training with Hanya Holm, Alwin Nikolais, Merce Cunningham, Eric Hawkins and others. She has taught at the Julliard School, New York University, Marymount College, Simon Fraser University and has been a guest artist at universities and colleges in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. She is co-author of "Dancing in Cyberspace: Creating With The Virtual Body", the first totally on online choreography course. Her papers and publications have been presented at CORD, SDHS, MTAC, ICKL, IDAT '99, Korean Society for Dance, Dancing with the Mouse Conference and in Dance Research Journal, Journal of Distance Education, and IEEE Multimedia. Her research and creative activity includes computer-based applications for dance such as motion capture, telematic performance, and dancer-controlled interactivity. Lisa's telematic performance works, The Cassandra Project and Janus/Ghost Stories integrating dance, music and theatre from different geographical locations in the United States, Canada and Eastern Europe. She is a founding member of ADaPT (Association for Dance and Performance Telematics. Lisa is the recipient of the Cecil and Ida Green Honors Professor's Award, 2000. Her videodance, inviTRIO was presented in the Dance and the Camera Festival, 2001 in New York City. Her choreography has been presented in London, Amsterdam, Germany, Italy, Poland, Budapest and Canada, and the USA. Her most recent works, SPLIT, PORTAL, and INVISIBLE WALLS are part of a trilogy that involve digital image processing techniques and live performance. Lisa teachs modern dance, improvisation, choreography, digital technologies and motion capture at UCI. http://dance.arts.uci.edu/lnaugle/
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Composer Sarah Plant was Associate Music Director, arranger, flutist for Ang Lee's Oscar-nominated feature, "Eat Drink Man Woman." She has scored feature and documentary films, including "Juliette of the Herbs" (PBS), "Borderline Fractures," "For Love of Julian," and the six-part series, "In the Eye of the Spirit." She has composed for "Bravo Profiles: Julie Taymor," for installations at the American Museum of Natural History, and for the Bill T. Jones Dance Company. Her compositions have been performed at the Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Recital Hall, the Public Theater, Spoleto Festival, and on radio and TV.
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Kathleen Ruíz, is a digital media artist who has exhibited her work in the U.S., Europe and Japan. She creates interactive virtual environments, simulations and digital photographs that express issues about the structure of perception, behavior & interaction, and restructured reality. Ruiz is a Professor of Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she develops and teaches courses in digital imaging, virtual environments/3D web, cyberarts, advanced digital 3D and experimental gaming. She is represented by The Sandra Gering Gallery in New York City. She has taught and developed curriculum at the School of Visual Arts, New York University and others. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Wired, El Pais, USA Today, Aperture, Leonardo, Art News, ARTI and others. She has received numerous awards including the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Award, a New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Percent for Art Commission and a recent Electronic Media & Film Exhibition NYSCA grant for her new work which comments on violence in computer games and the confluence of the real and the imaginary. http://www.rpi.edu/~ruiz/
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Vicky Shick has been involved in the New York City dance community since the late 1970s. She was a member of the Trisha Brown Company for six years and received a New York Dance and Performance Award (a "Bessie") for performance. Shick has performed with many other choreographers, including Yoshiko Chuma, Irene Hultman, Wendy Perron, Stephen Petronio, Marta Renzi, Susan Rethorst, and Sara Rudner. Shick's choreography has been shown in New York City at The Kitchen, Dance Theatre Workshop, PS 1, Movement Research at Judson Church, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, The Dia Foundation, Dixon Place, University Settlement House, and the Harkness Dance Project at the 92nd Street Y. Vicky Shick teaches regularly in New York at Movement Research and the Trisha Brown Studio. She has also taught at universities, festivals, and the workshops and throughout Europe.
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