Greetings all, Because the original ballot and nominee bios for the elections to the preliminary Board of Directors of IDAT.org was posted right around September 11th, there is concern that those members of the dance-tech list who temporarily unsubscribed may not have received the original ballot, and that those who did may have been too distracted to vote. Therefore we are reissuing the ballot, as it stands, and we are extending the voting period through midnight, October 25th. Although there's been some concern expressed about the makeup of the nomination slate, it was the result of an open process, and it seems inappropriate to try to redress it at this stage. In future years this will be an emphasis. The ballot and bios follow. Please, if you have already voted, do not vote again. If you have not voted yet, this is your chance. The deadline will not be extended again, and any email with a date and time stamp after midnight, October 25th will not be counted. --Thanks Keely 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 two individuals who are not a candidates. 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 Midnight on Thursday, October 25. [ ] 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 ===== Johannes Birringer is an independent choreographer/videomaker and artistic director of AlienNation Co. (www.aliennationcompany.com). His dance-theatre and video works have been shown in Europe, Latin America, and the US. Published books include Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism (1991), Media and Performance (1998), and Performance on the Edge (2000). He is the head of the Dance & Technology Program in the Dance Department at Ohio State University and conducts the Environments Laboratory. He is also a member of the Association for Dance and Performance Telematics (ADaPT), and his current work investigates interactive dance technologies and online communications. [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 ˆ 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. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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