It is my opinion that the list of nominees should include more names of women. This list is not representative of the field of dance, for sure, and I suspect also not representative of the field of practicing artists involved with dance/technology. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration of this request. Maida Withers > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu > [mailto:owner-dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu]On Behalf Of Keely > Isaak Meehan > Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:54 PM > To: dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu > Subject: Re: ELECTION OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS for Idat.org > > > Richard, > > One question before I vote... Does a vote for Company in Space or > Palindrome > count as one vote or two? > > ----Original Message Follows---- > > Greetings all > > Apologies for the delay in getting this out, but here at last is the > slate of proposed Directors who will be responsible for forming the > new dance and technology organisation, tentatively titled IDAT.org. > This will be a member organisation serving those involved in dance > and technology. The initial board will have five members, and votes > will be collated by an individual who is not a candidate. Please cut > the voting paper section only and e-mail to votes@idat.org by the > deadline shown below. > > > ======== CUT HERE ================== > > > Nominations for the Preliminary Board of Directors > > Vote for no more than FIVE candidates. > Send by e-mail to votes@idat.org by 5pm on Sunday, September 30. > > [ ] Johannes Birringer > [ ] (Company in Space) John McCormick & Hellen Sky > [ ] Kent De Spain > [ ] Keitha Manning > [ ] John Mitchell > [ ] Lisa Naugle > [ ] (Palindrome) Robert Wechsler & Frieder Weiss > [ ] Jennifer Parker-Starbuck > [ ] Richard Povall > [ ] Douglas Rosenberg > [ ] Scott Sutherland > [ ] Peter V. Swendsen > > > ======== CUT HERE ================== > > Bios > > ===== > [Company in Space] John McCormick is a choreographer and co-artistic > director of Company in Space. He is a choreographer and electronic > artists. His work with the company ranges from designing real time > computer interactive systems, real time vision orchestration, new > applications of telecommunications systems to deliver interative art > as well as overall concept and direction of image, choreography and > technology. John is currently an artist in residence ar RMIT's > interactive Information Information Institute researching live > interactive performance over the internet. As well as creating > electronic artworks, john has created a number of cross art events > and performance installations. He has taught and performed in China, > HongKong and Taiwan and has been invited to teach within a range of > Internantional Dance and Technology Workshops inlcuding Dutch > Electronic Arts Festival 2000, e- phos TRANSDANCE Athens 2001. He has > presented work with CIS in many national and international festivals. > > Hellen Sky co-artistic director is a choreographer/performer/director > and co-artistic director of Company in Space. Her work for Company in > Space draws on her diverse experience in the performing and visual > arts and her interest in the body, architecture and virtual space. > She has choregraphed for companies and independent dance contexts in > Australia and Overseas. In 1998 she ahd John won a Green room award > for oustanding creativity in performance for Escape Velocity. Hellen > is a graduate of the VCA the Australian Ballet School and was a > founding member of Circus Oz and the innovative theatre group the > Australian Performing Group. She is a founder and Artistic Director > of Dancehouse. In 2001 She developed with John INCARNATE duel site > performance in assosciation with the Hong Kong Arts Centre for the > Digital Now Festival March 2001 and is Directing Architecture of > Biography a multi artform collaboration to be seen virtually in The > Behind the Scenes Program of MIFA 2001 and presented LIVE in 2002. > > ===== > > Kent De Spain is a dance/multimedia artist and writer who has been > exploring the use of technology in dance performance and > documentation for almost 25 years. He has worked for more than a > decade as a professional dance videographer, doing both concert > documentation and video adaptations for numerous artists including > Hellmut Gottschild, Simone Forti, and Bebe Miller. He has also > created video, sound, and lighting components for numerous > performances of his own works and collaborations. He has toured > throughout the United States, including performances at Jacob’s > Pillow, Judson Church, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and many > others, and he has been the recipient of several awards and > fellowships, including the Pew Fellowship in the Arts for > Choreography and an Established Choreographer’s Fellowship from the > Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has been a Visiting > Artist/Professor at the University of Georgia, Ohio State University, > U.C.L.A., and the University of North Carolina – Greensboro, has > taught numerous master classes both in America and abroad, and has > designed and taught a university course in Dance/Video. He has served > on the Dance and Technology Committee at Ohio State University, and > presently serves as the dance and technology scholar on the Advisory > Board for Dance Research Journal. His recent articles, "Dance and > Technology: A Pas de Deux for Posthumans" and "Notes from the > Dance/Tech Front Lines", plus his presentations at Dancing with the > Mouse and other conferences have established him as an important > voice in the discourse surrounding the critical and theoretical > implications of the interface between the moving human body and > technology. > > ===== > > KEITHA DONNELLY MANNING, Ed.D., is currently on the faculty of Texas > Christian University as a theoritican which provides an excellent > opportunity to advocate arts, technology, and education. TCU has > created a choreographic computer lab/teaching-broadcast facility and > established a dedicated dance server to expand the use of technology. > Recently, she was the Program Chairperson for the International Dance > and Technology '99 conference, the coordinator of the IDAT '99 Panels > and Roundtables, the coordinator of the 2000 Dancing with the Mouse: > Texas Style conference, co-coordinator of the 1999 Dancing With the > Mouse: Format for the Future, editor of the NDAlistserve (1997-2000), > Vice President of Dance Science, Medicine and Technology (1997-1999) > and currently serves as their site coordinator for future MOUSE > conferences and produces the conference proceedings. While acting as > the "Technology person" in many organizations she has also served/is > serving on numerous Boards of Directors/technology committees and > received numerous citations for educating dance organizations to the > benefits of technology. She has anxiously awaited the formation of an > IDAT organization and is interested in focusing her energies in this > area. Current projects include: Research on University Dance > Technologists, Sound/dance imaging choreography, Cecchetti Method > DVDs, providing dance technology workshops and keeping dancers > informed through listserves. Degrees are held in Dance (Performance) > from Adelphi University (B.A.), in Interdisciplinary studies (Dance, > Theatre and Gifted and Talented Education) from the University of > North Texas (M.A.), and in Dance (Dance Education and Instructional > Technology) from Temple University (Ed.D.). -- > > ===== > > John D. Mitchell is a multi-disciplinary composer, educator and > researcher, concentrating on using technology to expand sensory and > creative experiences in arts and education. He is the 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 research > projects ranging from multimedia dance archival models to interactive > multi-site tele-performance initiatives. > As a proponent of using new communication and information systems in > dance creation and education, Mr. Mitchell has helped to create many > opportunities for dance practitioners, educators and students to > learn about and experience new technologies. Events such as the > International Dance and Technology Conference'99 (IDAT99), Cellbytes > 2000, and the Summer Workshop in Dance and Performance Telematics > open up new performance and educational possibilities to wider > population. As founding chairman of the Association for Dance and > Performance Telematics (ADAPT http://isa.hc.asu.edu/adapt) Mr. > Mitchell heads a group of five research universities in exploring and > examining a range of possibilities available in this new medium. > As a composer and interactive performance designer, Mr. Mitchell has > collaborated with numerous artists to create performance works that > have been performed throughout United States and abroad. John D. > Mitchell currently teaches interdisciplinary media in the Department > of Dance and serves as a Resident Artist in the Institute of Studies > in the Arts at Arizona State University. > For information on the Intelligent Stage and projects completed over > the last ten years please see http://isa.hc.asu.edu/istage. > > ===== > > LISA NAUGLE, Assistant Professor of Dance at The University of > California, Irvine 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, Viola Farber and others. She has taught at the Julliard > School, New York University, Marymount College, Simon Fraser > University and is has been a guest artist at several universities and > colleges in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. Lisa has been > working with motion capture technology since 1998, and is the first > to integrate this animation technique into a university dance > curriculum. 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 > also includes internet performance and sensor technology. Lisa began > choreographing for telematic performances in 1996. Projects such as > The Cassandra Project and Janus/Ghost Stories integrate dance, music > and theatre from different geographical locations in the United > States, Canada and Eastern Europe. She is one of five founding > members 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. Lisa's choreography has > been presented in London, Amsterdam, Germany, Italy, Poland, > Budapest, Canada and the USA. Her most recent works SPLIT, PORTAL, > and INVISIBLE WALLS are part of a trilogy that involve digital image > processing techniques, motion tracking sensors and live performance. > Lisa teaches modern dance, improvisation, choreography, digital > technology and motion capture at the University of California at > Irvine. > > ===== > > [Palindrome] Robert Wechsler (robert@palindrome.de) studied > biochemistry and molecular genetics at Ames, Iowa in the United > States. A transfer to dance and > choreography (at State University of New York in Purchase ,BFA > and New York > University, MA) did not lessen his interest in science. In New York City > (1975-1984) he trained under the tutelage under Merce Cunningham and > worked in various New York-based modern dance companies. He became a > founding > member of the Palindrome Dance Company in 1982. For choreography he was > selected for a Fulbright Fellowship (1983) and grants from the Marshall > Fund (1984), the Epstein Foundation (1984) and the city of Nürnberg > (1989-present). From 1985 to 1995 he taught dance and choreography at the > University of Erlangen in Germany. Starting in 1995 he began a series of > collaborative projects with computer engineer Frieder Weiß and in so doing > realized a new artistic direction in his work. Palindrome became an > "Inter-media Performance Group" -- dance seen as an element in a dynamic > and relationship with other media realized or augmented by computer-driven > systems. This shift in focus, and the new generation of work it has > precipitated, has been accompanied by international engagements, workshops > and critical acclaim including 6 European and 4 U.S. tours as well as a > trip in 1991 to Argentina. He has presented his work at numerous > scientific conferences including the International Computer Music > Conference (ICMC), the Seventh International Theater Arts Conference, the > first and third International Conferences on Dance and Technology. He has > written numerous articles concerned with dance and new media for Leonardo > Magazine, IEEE of Technology and Society Magazine, Ballet International, > Dance Magazine, Dance Research Journal, Nouvelle de Danse and Der Tanz der > Dinge. In 2001 he became the first artist-in-residence at 01-Plus > Institute for Art, Design and Media Technology at the State College of > Design in Nürnberg,Germany. > > > Frieder Weiß (frieder@palindrome.de) is a free-lance computer engineer > working for various companies in Germany and United States (for example > Bosch and Siemens). His specialization is in the area of quality control > and computer-imaging systems. He is a designer of software and hardware > besides being a musician with the groups Thevomefüme, American Drama Group > Europe, Nürnberger Jazz Art Ensemble. Together with installation artist > Reiner Hofmann he developed an interactive installation work for the DATEV > comapny. It is called 'Lichtbild' and uses camera interactive technology > to track the motion of individuals in an entrance hall and convert them to > light patterns on the adjacent wall. Starting in 1995 he has worked with > Palindrome as Interactive Systems Designer and together with Robert > Wechsler he has conceived and realized dozens of performance and > installation projects. He is the author of the EyeCon motion-tracking and > analysis software system. EyeCon is touted as one of the most > flexible and > user-friendly systems of its kind in existence and is being used by > artists, singers, dancers and theater companies the world over. Mr. Weiß > has also designed miniaturized portable devises to allow the individual > muscle contractions of a dancer's body to control other media, as > well as a > system making the dancer's heartbeat audible and available to > control other > media (such as the tempo of the music). Since 2001he has been became > Director of the Media Laboratory at 01-Plus Institute for Art, Design and > Media Technology at the State College of Design in Nürnberg, Germany. > Since Spring 2001 he is also Director of the Media Lab of the 01plus > Institute for Art, Design and Mediatechnology based at the Design College > in Nürnberg. > > > ===== > > Jennifer Parker-Starbuck is a ABD from the City University of New > York Graduate Center. Her dissertation is titled Cyborg Theatre: > Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia. She has a > chapter on dancer Cathy Weis and her Internet Performance forthcoming > in an anthology on disability and performance from the University of > Michigan Press (edited by Phillip Auslander and Carrie Sandahl). > Additionally, Jennifer has been teaching at Baruch College in New > York for several years. She has numerous reviews and articles in > other scholarly publications. > > ===== > > RICHARD POVALL is a digital artist, composer and researcher, > co-Director of half/angel (with Jools Gilson-Ellis), and a Director > (currently Chair) of Aune Head Arts in the UK. His work centres on > the making of intelligent environments for performance using > motion-sensing and computer-vision tools. Current major projects > include the earth diaries (in collaboration with The Eden Project in > Cornwall), and Spinstren a visual-theatre work. Recent projects > include The Secret Project a dance-theatre project co-produced by, > and premiered at the Banff Centre in Canada in October 1999, and by > the Institute for Choreography and Dance in Cork, Ireland (formerly > Firkin Crane); and mouthplace, an artists' CD-Rom. He has held Senior > Research Fellowships at Middlesex University (London) and at > Dartington College of Arts (where he was also Senior Lecturer in New > Performance Media). He has taught in numerous colleges and > universities, and was Director of the Division of Contemporary at > Oberlin Conservatory of Music in the US from 1997-1999. Povall holds > a BA(Hons) in Music from Dartington College of Arts, an MFA in Music > Composition and Electronic Media from the Center for Contemporary > Music at Mills College (Calif., USA), and is currently completing a > PhD with the University of Plymouth. He lives in the southwest of > England, on the edge of Dartmoor. > > ===== > > Douglas Rosenberg 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. He is both an > independent producer/director and scholar of dance for the camera and > has worked with numerous choreographers and dance companies > including, Pilobolus, Erick Hawkins, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Co., > Eiko and Koma, Molissa Fenley, Li Chiao-Ping and others. Mr. > Rosenberg is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including an > National Endowment For the Arts/Southeast Media Fellowship, a Bay > Area Dance Coalition Izzie Award, an Independant Production Fund > Video Project Grant and most recently, 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 has been invited to present papers and lectures > at conferences and locations across the country and abroad, > including, the International Dance and Technology conference, > Performance Studies Conference, and the College Art Association > Conference and taught workshops on Dance for the Camera in Buenos > Aires, the American Dance Festival and universities across the > country. He was recently one of 14 artists/scholars chosen to > participate in an international research symposium in Brussels. His > documentary, "Singing Myself A Lullaby", made in collaboration with > Ellen Bromberg, recently aired on Wisconsin Public Television and his > work in dance video has been screened around the world. Mr. Rosenberg > recently taught in a 2 week workshop on Dance and Performance > Technology at The Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona State > University and is currently a member of ADAPT, the Association for > Dance and Performance Telematics. In 1999 he organized the first > International Dance For the Camera Symposium at the University of > Wisconsin, Madison, where he is currently an assistant professor in > the Dance and Interarts and Technology Program. > > ===== > > SCOTT SUTHERLAND is a dance-technologist specializing in interactive > media applications in the arts, computer-based tools for dance > documentation and preservation, and dance photography. From 1988 > through 1995, he was on staff at Ohio State University's Department > of Dance, where he developed the LabanWriter Labanotation editor > software with Lucy Venable and co-founded the Multimedia Dance > Prototype project with Dr. Vera Maletic and Dr. A. William Smith. > Sutherland has also been the Technology Director for the Indiana > University Herron School of Art, a faculty member in New Media > Department of the I.U. School of Informatics, and a practicing > programmer and web developer in various industries. Sutherland > currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, where he manages the idat > mailing list, moderates the five-hundred-member dance-tech mailing > list, maintains the Dance & Technology Zone web site (soon to be > dance-technology.org) and works as a project manager in the eHealth > department of Cincinnati Children's Hospital. > > ===== > > > Peter V. Swendsen is a graduate student at the Mills College Center > for Contemporary Music, where he is in the final months of his MFA in > Electronic Music and Recording Media. He received his BM from the > Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Technology in Music and Related > Arts. His work has been seen in Boston, Cleveland, Washington, > Austin, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, and throughout the Bay Area. Swendsen > has studied composition with Richard Povall, Gary Lee Nelson, and > Kristine H. Burns, and is currently working with Gail Wight, Chris > Brown, Maggi Payne, Fred Frith, and Pauline Oliveros at Mills. > Swendsen is currently creating and performing with interactive > environments, dance, installation, video, and sound. > > Much of my recent musical output has been produced specifically for > modern dance pieces. Driven by several exciting commissions and > collaborations, I have created over a dozen new pieces of electronic > music for dance in the last two years. My collaborative involvement > with dancers and choreographers has been one in which I am not only > composing the music, but also helping to create and inform all > elements of the piece. This strategy, in which each collaborator is > part of the creative process from beginning to end, is particularly > rewarding and exciting to me. My work with technology and dance has > also involved creating video (both as accompaniment to live > performance, and as video dance) and interactive systems. My most > current work is concerned with implementing these systems in aerial > dance situations. A new, evening-length collection of pieces will be > realized this fall in collaboration with choreographer Lisa Russo. > This work will make use of various media and interactive > technologies-including Mark Coniglio's new software, Isadora-and will > feature at least two pieces for aerial dance. > > Many of the issues and ideas revealed by recent creative endeavors > have also led me to research projects, such as "Contextualizing the > Contemporary: The Influence of John Cage and Merce Cunningham on > Emerging Forms of Technological Art," a paper which seeks to explore > the impact of these great collaborators on technologies within and > outside of their own fields, while comparing how quickly and deeply > each embraced technology in his own work. Work is also underway on my > current research, which attempts to present a current definition of > "interdisciplinarity" while exploring its role and relevance in > higher education. > > Much more can found on my website: http://www.earthlink.net/~vinding > > > > > ORIGINAL CALL > > > > Call for nominations to the Board of Directors of IDAT. > > As part of the formation of a professional organisation supporting > the area of Dance and Technology (tentatively titled IDAT for > International Dance & Technology, taken from the prior conferences of > the same name), this is a call for nominations for preliminary > members of the Board of Directors. > > The preliminary Board will take on the responsibility of forming the > organisation, and will continue in office until such time as the > first Annual General Meeting takes place, and the full membership of > the organisation is given the opportunity to vote for a Board of > Directors. > > We are looking for a preliminary Board with up to six members. If we > receive six or fewer nominations, then all those nominated will form > the Board of Directors. If we receive more than six nominations, then > an online election will take place on the dancetech mailing list. > This will give members of the dancetech community the opportunity to > elect the first slate of Directors for the organisation. > Particularly, we are looking for people with a known commitment to > this area, who have a strong sense of the issues facing the > community, and who are willing to commit some time to the venture of > forming and constituting an international organisation. It is highly > desirable that the Board have an international makeup. Directors will > not be paid, nor, at the moment, will expenses be covered by the > organisation. > > You may nominate yourself. If you nominate someone else, it is > essential that you check with them first to ensure that they are > willing to be elected. There is no limit to the number of people you > may nominate. > > Nominations should be sent by e-mail to board-nominations@idat.org no > later than 12 noon on Friday, August 24, 2001. Nominations should > include name of Nominator, name of Nominee, address of Nominee, > e-mail address of Nominee, short bio/cv statement of Nominee. > > > -- > R i c h a r d P o v a l l > digital artist; co-artistic director, half/angel > http://www.halfangel.org.uk; richard@halfangel.org.uk > ================================================= > Court Gate Cottage, Harbourneford, South Brent, Devon TQ10 9DT UK. > Home/Studio: +44 (0)1364 72044 Fax: +44 (0)1364 72046 > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp >
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