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and New Performance Technology:

A Summer Intensive Workshop in Performance Telematics

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</color></underline><bold>July 20 through August 3, 2001


</bold>Arizona State University's Department of Dance and Institute for
Studies in the Arts are offering a two-week intensive workshop in
telematic performance. Participants from across the arts are invited to
create a collaborative performance work, led by an interdisciplinary
team of internationally renowned artists from fields such as
choreography, dance and the camera, sound, interactive performance,
telematics and web design. Prior experience in the use of interactive
and telematic technologies is not necessary.


Workshop participants will have the opportunity to work on the
Intelligent Stage and at the Dance Studio Theatre at Arizona State
University. In these interactive environments, on-stage motion-sensing
systems enable performers to control sound, video and lighting through
their performance activity. These two spaces are also linked using
Internet 2 (I2) which allows for virtual partnering across the two
spaces and simultaneous webcast of the rehearsal process and
performances. 


<bold>Areas of Exploration will include:


	Performance/Choreography/Video

</bold>Participants will explore performance, choreography and video on
the interactive stages, learning how to design for the screen and for
interactive environments and how these technological advancements can
enhance their performance art. The camera will be addressed as a
component of performance capable of dramatically altering the viewers'
experience and adding a layer of intimacy to telematic performances.

Through their work with internationally known choreographers, artists
and media designers, participants will explore the possibilities of
creating performances for two sites linked by video, sound and data.


<bold>Sound/Interaction/Internet

</bold>Participants will explore media and sound design using the
interactive environments of the Intelligent Stage and the Dance Studio
Theatre. Working with media designers and artists, they will learn how
to use high-speed Internet to create virtual performances, combining
performers from two different spaces. Elements of internet
presentation, web casting and interactive web participation will also
be considered.


This workshop builds on the success of CELLBYTES 2000, a series of
performance works created by a collaborative team of American and
European artists and technicians.

For more information visit
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</color></underline><bold>Application deadline: March 1, 2001.

</bold>To apply submit a short letter specifying the interests and
values you wish to explore through performance telematics (no more than
500 words) and a resume. Applications will be reviewed, decisions made
and participants notified by April 1, 2001. Enrollment will be limited
to 25. Applicants will be evaluated on artistic experience and
statement of interest. Artists from all artistic disciplines are
encouraged to apply. Prior experience in the use of interactive and
telematic technologies is not necessary. Please indicate your area of
primary interest: movement/choreography, video/image, interactive
media/sound, interactive web/internet, and context/reflection.


<bold>Cost of the Workshop

</bold>There is a workshop fee of $450 that includes the cost for ASU
summer school credit.

Housing options include on campus housing at $10-$15/night and a nearby
hotel for $39/night plus tax.


<bold>Facilities

Intelligent Stage and the Dance Studio Theater

</bold>The <bold>Intelligent Stage</bold> at Arizona State University
has grown out of performer-centered interactive media research
conducted at the Institute for Studies in the Arts. Performer
capabilities are extended through the use of video-based motion-sensing
and wireless hardware sensors to give the performer full control of
video, audio and lighting. Performers essentially partner with a series
of computers creating a new sensory space as they move.

The <bold>Dance Studio Theater</bold> is a 250-seat theater with a
generous stage and a full compliment of lighting and sound equipment.
Located approximately one-half mile from the Intelligent Stage, the
space is also equipped with video-based motion sensing as well as
digital video and audio capabilities.

Together, the Dance Studio Theater and the Intelligent Stage form a
<bold>Teleperformance Crucible</bold> providing opportunities for
research in the creation of distance performance over Internet II. Both
spaces on the ASU campus have compatible motion-sensing equipment as
well as video, audio and control data send and receive capabilities. In
addition to video conferencing possibilities, a person moving in one
space can also affect the stage media in the other space as though they
were actually moving in that second space. Through these links, the two
spaces become parts of one extended stage. 


<bold>Dance Multimedia Learning Center

</bold>The Department of Dance Multimedia Learning Center is designed
to encourage the use of media and computer technology in dance
education at Arizona State University. The eight-station facility is
equipped with video editing, audio editing, human movement modeling and
interactive performance software.


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</color></underline><bold>Faculty


Gene Cooper</bold> is an interactive installation and performance
artist who is focused on exploring the relationships existing between
the natural systems of the body and ecology as mediated through
technology. Much of Cooper's focus lies in the connection between
systems the body such as breathing, heartbeats, electrical impulses,
etc. and natural or environmental systems such as lightening, water
dynamics, ecosystemic properties, etc. The artist has shown and
presented his work internationally in the forms of photography, video,
installation performance, and sculpture. Cooper's experience ranges
from high-end computer animation, to medical visualization, to
e-commerce production, to multimedia development, to ultrasound
servicing. Cooper receives his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute;
Photography and Video, and his MFA at Arizona State University;
Intermedia. Currently, he is Vice-President and co-founder of Four
Chambers Studio, Inc.; an organization dedicated to creating a nexus of
the arts, sciences, technologies, and education.


<bold>Todd Ingalls </bold>received his BM and MM from Arizona State
University in Music Composition. He is skilled in web technologies,
telematics/teleperformance, motion sensing, sound design, music
composition, and interactive video.  Todd recently began a research
position at ASU's Institute for Studies in the Arts, where he
co-manages both the Media Lab and Intelligent Stage as well as
collaborating on projects and working on his own research.


<bold>Scott deLahunta</bold> began in the arts as a dancer and
choreographer. Since 1992, as a partner of Writing Research Associates,
he has organized several international workshop/ symposia projects in
the field of performance including Conversations on Choreography at the
Institute for Choreography and Dance, Cork, Ireland. He taught theory
and composition classes at the School for New Dance Development,
Amsterdam and was a guest professor with the Department of Dramaturgy,
Aarhus University, Denmark where he was also co-organizer of the
Digital Theatre Experimentarium, a project investigating the
relationship between motion capture, animation and live performance
Since Autumn 1998, he has been a consultant for the Laban Centre London
on dance and technology applications and implementation. He is will be
making upcoming presentations and organizing research in autumn 2000 at
DEAF (Rotterdam), ISEA (Paris) and MDDF (Monaco). He is currently a
Research Fellow at Dartington College of Arts; UK where he is
conducting a research project entitled "Ground Work", also supported by
the Arts Council England, investigating the conditions for
collaborations between performing arts and applied science
practitioners. 


<bold>Mary Fitzgerald</bold> has been active in the professional dance
community as a performer, choreographer, teacher and bodyworker since
1984.  She was a member of Kei Takei's <italic>Moving Earth</italic>
for nearly ten years, performing and teaching internationally.  From
1988 to 1993, Ms. Fitzgerald served as an Artistic Director of
<italic>Dancer's Workshop</italic> in Portland, OR, and choreographed
and performed extensively in the community.  Ms. Fitzgerald has been a
guest artist, presenter and faculty member at several colleges,
universities and studios in the United States, Europe, Japan, China,
Mexico and Israel.  Currently she serves on the faculty in the
Department of Dance at Arizona State University, where she recently
received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Fine Arts. 
Ms. Fitzgerald regularly presents her own choreography at ASU and in
the local community, and performs with <italic>A Ludwig Dance
Theatre</italic>.


Performance artist, writer, composer, dancer and saxophonist <bold>Dan
Froot</bold> received a 1991 New York Dance & Performance Award (a.k.a.
BESSIE) for the creation of his music/theater work SEVENTEEN KILOS OF
GARLIC, and is a 2000-01 recipient of a City of Los Angeles Individual
Artist Fellowship. He has composed numerous scores for dance and
theater companies, has taught at colleges and universities around the
country, has created an ongoing series of collaborative duets with
choreographer David Dorfman, and has danced, acted and played music
internationally with the likes of Victoria Marks, Ralph Lemon, Yoshiko
Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks, Mabou Mines, David Cale, Ping Chong
& Co., Dan Hurlin, and the legendary Jeff Weiss. Dan teaches at UCLA's
Department of World Arts and Cultures, where he earned an MFA, and is
an arts-in-education consultant at The Galef Institute.


<bold>Victoria Marks</bold> creates dances for the stage, for film, in
community settings, and for professional dancers. Her work magnifies
and develops the unique characters of the people she works with - and
communicates that, through performance, to a wider audience. Marks was
honored with the 1997 Alpert Award for Outstanding Achievement in
Choreography, and has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the
Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the London Arts Board,
among others. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship in Choreography,
and numerous awards for her dance films, including the Grand Prix in
the Video Danse Festival (1996 and 1995), the Golden Antenae Award from
Bulgaria, the IMZ Award for best screen choreography and the Best of
Show in the Dance Film Association's Dance and the Camera Festival.
Victoria is an associate professor of Choreography and Performance in
the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. 


<bold>John D. Mitchell</bold> is a multidisciplinary composer,
educator, and researcher, concentration on using technology to expand
sensory and creative experiences in the arts and education. He is
director of both the Intelligent Stage Research Facility and the Dance
Multimedia Learning Center at Arizona State University. Mr. Mitchell
has worked with artists from around the world to design and realize
projects ranging from multimedia dance archival models to interactive
multi-site teleperformance initiatives. As a composer and interactive
performance designer Mr. Mitchell has collaborated with numerous
artists to create performance works that have been performed throughout
the Unites States and abroad. John D. Mitchell currently teaches
interdisciplinary media courses in the Department of Dance and serves
as Resident Artist in the Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona
State University. 


<bold>Douglas Rosenberg</bold> has been working in the field of
dance.video since the early 1980's and was the Director of the Video
Archival Program at the American Dance Festival for over a decade. Mr.
Rosenberg is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including a
National Endowment for the Arts/Southwast Media Fellowship, and a
Fellowship from The Soros Foundation in support of the documentary
"Singing Myself a Lullaby", in collaboration with Ellen Bromberg. His
writing on dance/film/video has been published in numerous venues,
including, LEONARDO, Journal of Science and Technology (Published by
MIT Press) and Movement Research Journal. He was recently one of 14
artists/scholars incited to participate in an international research
symposium in Brussels. His video tape "My Grandfather Dances" with
choreographer Anna Hakprin was awarded the Directors Prize at the
International Jewish Festival and recent screenings of his work
include, Riccionne Teatro Teevisione, Ricione, Italy, Mostra Video,
Carcelona and Festival de Video Danza, Buenos Aires, Argentina. His
most recent collaborations with choreographer Li Chiao-Ping were
presented at Danspace, New York in October. Mr. Rosenberg currently
teaches in the Interarts and Technology/Dance programs at University of
Wisconsin-Madison. 


<bold>Christian Ziegler </bold>(Munich, Germany), media artist
graduated in Architecture and Media Art. Since 1993 he has been working
at ZKM Karlruhe (Center for Art and Media), Germany. He has created
many award-winning museum art installations and CD-ROMs in
collaboration with international artists at ZKM Karlsruhe, National
Gallery of Canada, Ballet Frankfurt and Goethe Institute, Germany. He
held a teaching position in Imaging and Digital Arts at UMBC, Baltimore
in 1997-1998 and since 2000 he has been an "Artist in Residence" at ZKM
Karlsruhe where he is working on the development of
<italic>scanned</italic> a Dance Performance Environment. He has been
engaged in several dance and technology projects that explore the
Internet as a possible performance space including
"<italic>delay_01</italic>" http://www.web-stage.de and
<italic>CELLBYTES 2000</italic>.


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