Mentors
Carrie Dashow [Performance/Video Artist]
Stephan Koplowitz [Director/Choreographer]

Faculty
Jonathan Belcher [Lighting Design]
Lynn Book [VOICElab] Ken Chu [Grant Writing]
Isabelle Deconinck [Publicity]
Alex Galloway [ITP, NYU]
Brad Garton [Computer Music Center, Columbia University]
Tana Hargest [Thinking Technology]
Paul Kaiser [Motion Mapping]
Pauline Oliveros [Deep Listening]
Terence Pender [Computer Music Center, Columbia University]
Jonah Peretti [Eyebeam Atelier]
Stephen Vitiello [30 years of Technology at The Kitchen]
Cathy Weis [Performance & Technology]

Carrie Dashow is a New York based video and performance artist. Her work roots itself in performance and interaction, often generating itself through video installations and single channel screenings. She combines documentary, performance and public space to create content. She works with video and media literacy throughout New York City public schools with various organizations including Henry Street Settlement, Young Audiences, NY, The Dia Center, Electronic Arts Intermix, and Eyebeam Atelier. Her public art works include hello, an attempt to greet 1 million people one by one. hello landed her an invitation to Good Morning America, from which she later produced Hello, GMA, a non traditional documentary. Here she combines original broadcast video with footage taken the same day from a camera hidden in her broach. hello Good Morning America has been featured in festivals from L.A. to St. Petersburg, Russia. She started a website and T-shirt design called I am videotaping you right. Her recent involvement in the MIR2 collaborative space station was awarded a Bessie (2002). She likewise works collaboratively on a video mixing project called the Cook Sister Mixes, serving video crepes at Art in General, and a three course dinner at Exit art. . Presently she is figuring out logistics for her recent work in progress, made possible through a residency at Eyebeam Atelier; 10 cameras, 60 minutes, Caumsett, Long Island; a 10 channel synchronized video installation. Her collaborative project, The Unseen Machine, was recently awarded the media Alliance radio and sound grant for a public sound performance upcoming Summer 2003. Ms. Dashow graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994 with a BFA in New Genres after previously a Media and Communication student at Antioch College in Ohio. She will be attending the MFA program in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Fall 2003.

Stephan Koplowitz is a director/choreographer internationally renown for large-scale, multimedia works sited in architecturally significant urban settings including the Internet-inspired “Webbed Feats” at Bryant Park (199x), “Kohler Korper” (Coal Bodies) for 50 dancers at the Kokerei Factory, Essen, Germany (1999) and “Fenestrations” featuring 72 dancers for the windows of Grand Central Terminal, New York (199x/9). Two short films melding his experience with site-specificity and narrative include “Catching the 5:23” (2002 Hampton International Film Festival). His numerous performance venues include Dance Theater Workshop, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Bates Dances Festival, American Dance Festival, and Lincoln Center. His awards include a Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement in Choreography and six NEA Choreography Fellowships. Since 1984, he has been the Director of Dance at the Packer Collegiate Institute, New York, serving on the Education Technology initiative. In 2003, he will begin a fellowship as part of Dance Theater Workshop’s new Artist Resource and Media Laboratory. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and holds an MFA in Choreography from the University of Utah.

Lynn Book
www.voicelabnyc.com

Internationally known for her interdisciplinary performances - spicy hybrids that make a hot mix of voice, text, electronics, movement and visuals - and adventurous recordings, Lynn Book sings, scats, rants, and wails the impossible into existence. Her current work is notes on desire, a real time hyped-up-text-song performed by the multi media body that digs into drive and will and terror and eros and comes up laughing. She collaborates with composer/percussionist, Kevin Norton and director Valeria Vasilevski, subverting notions of what a vocal concert can be. The three were last together at The Kitchen in Book’s Gorgeous Fever in 1997. She has received awards and citations from MacArthur Foundation for the production of a radio drama to the National Endowment for the Arts for a grant to produce Gorgeous Fever in its first incarnation. The New York Foundation for the Arts has supported many projects with Book as originator, writer, composer, choreographer, and producer, including the The Dice Project, involving the production of a CD of adventurous women composers and a series of live concert and media events at Thundergulch, EAR Studios and The Kitchen. Elsewhere in New York she has performed at the Knitting Factory, HERE, Judson Church and Dixon Place and other venues and in the US including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Cleveland International Performance Art Festival. Lynn Book’s vibrant and influential work has been performed and played via recordings internationally, including a commissioned piece for the Italian label Snowdonia and the real and virtual archive, Jukebox, that originated in France. One of her current projects is Vox Risk Holler, the world’s first performance art chorus; they will be seen at HERE in New York City in May 2003 with Book as conductor. For more info: www.voicelabnyc.com.

Ken Chu
www.creative-capital.org

Ken Chu is an installation artist. He has presented his site-specific work internationally with community-based arts organizations, alternative art spaces, and major art institutions, including The Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York, NY; Panchayat, London, England; the Walsall Museum and Gallery, Walsall, England; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England; Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada; A Space, Toronto, Canada; Asia Society, New York, NY; Artist Space, New York, NY; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; and the Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. His work was included in The Decade Show, Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s, a survey show compiled by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art; and Creative Time's 42nd Street Project.

Ken coordinated Dismantling Invisibility: Asian & Pacific Islander Artists Respond to the AIDS Crisis at Art in General, New York, NY, and Public Mirror: Artists Against Racial Prejudice at the Clocktower Gallery of P.S.1 Museum. He was a panelist on Out in the 90's: Contemporary Perspectives on Gay & Lesbian Art, the first forum on gay and lesbian issues in the arts sponsored by The Whitney Museum of American Art. He co-founded Godzilla: Asian American Art Network (1990-2001), a group of New York-based Asian and Pacific Islander visual artists and arts professionals who established a forum that fostered information exchange, mutual support, documentation, and networking through regular meetings, a newsletter, and exhibitions.

Ken has also worked in arts philanthropy since 1996, and is currently the program director for visual arts and emerging fields at the Creative Capital Foundation. The Foundation provides funding and service support to individual U.S. artists. The emerging fields include all forms of digital arts, as well as experimental literature, multidisciplinary works, and sound art. His responsibilities include overseeing the processing of, and the review of each of the approximately 1,500 annual applications.

Shelley Eshkar is a multimedia artist and experimental animator. Eshkar's innovations in three-dimensional figural drawing and animation has garnered him a unique multidisciplinary reputation in visual art, computer graphics, dance, and architecture. His collaborations with Paul Kaiser include Hand-drawn Spaces, BIPED and Loops (all with Merce Cunningham); Ghostcatching (with Bill T. Jones); and Pedestrian. He has lectured at SIGGRAPH, the Congress of Research in Dance, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, CalPerformances, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Eshkar’s awards include the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Award (1998), the Congress of Research in Dance (2000), and the Bessie Awards (2000). He was a Lubalin Fellow at Cooper Union (1997), and an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA (1999), and an artist-in-residence at the former World Trade Center (2001). His current research is in high-definition lenticular imaging for public art yielding an illusion of movement that shifts with the angle and proximity of the viewer. He holds a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art (1993). www.eshkar.com

Alex Galloway Alexander R. Galloway is a founding member of the software development group RSG and is currently working on a web-based software product called Carnivore--after the FBI software of the same name--that uses packet-sniffing technologies to create vivid depictions of raw data. As a scholar, Alex has written on digital media in popular and academic venues alike. Alex's first book, "PROTOCOL, or, How Control Exists After Decentralization," will appear next year from The MIT Press.

Paul Kaiser is a digital artist whose work has been exhibited at The Kitchen, Lincoln Center, MASS MoCA, the Barbican Center (London), the Pompidou Center, SIGGRAPH, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Whitney Museum and many other venues. His numerous awards include a ComputerWorld/Smithsonian Award (1991); a Guggenheim Fellowship (1996); a Bessie award (2000); and the prestigious Osher Fellowship from The Exploratorium, San Francisco (2001). Kaiser’s virtual dance compositions include Hand-drawn Spaces (1998) and BIPED (1999), both with Merce Cunningham and Shelley Eshkar; Ghostcatching (1999), with Bill T. Jones and Eshkar; and Loops (2001) with Cunningham, Eshkar, and Marc Downie. Pedestrian (2002), a multi-site public artwork created with Shelley Eshkar, opened in New York and is now touring internationally. Recent solo works include Flicker-track + Verge (both 1999-2000); Trace (BAM, 2001),and Inkblot Projections (The Exploratorium, 2002). Kaiser teaches virtual filmmaking at Wesleyan University. He has been an artist in residence at Cooper Union, UC-Irvine, Ohio State University, and in summer 2003 at Arizona State University. www.kaiserworks.com

Pauline Oliveros
www.deeplistening.org

Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer and humanitarian is about opening her own and others' sensibilities it the many facets of sound. Since the 1960's she has influenced American Music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. Many credit her with being the founder of present day meditative music. All of Oliveros' work emphasizes musicianship, attention strategies, and improvisational skills.

She has been celebrated worldwide. During the 1960's John Rockwell named her work Bye Bye Butterfly as one of the most significant of that decade. In the 70's she represented the U.S. at the World's Fair in Osaka, Japan; during the 80's she was honored with a retrospective at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., and the 1990's began with a letter of distinction from the American Music Center presented at Lincoln Center in New York. There is currently a plan for a global celebration of the 50th anniversary of her work in the year 2001. Oliveros work is available on more than 17 recordings produced by companies internationally.

Terry Pender is a composer and musician whose interests range from contemporary multimedia-based works to bluegrass and the mandolin. His works have been performed worldwide, including Japan, China and Greece, as well as across the United States. He has composed for NPR, national network television and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the editor of Mandolin Quarterly, an internationally distributed magazine, and his music is published by Plucked String, Inc. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music and the Manager of the Computer Music Center at Columbia University.

Pender has collaborated on Pedestrian and Trace, and is currently working with Paul Kaiser on Inkblot Projections and on the JP MorganChase Children's Digital Dance and Music Project.

Jonah Peretti
www.eyebeam.org

Jonah Peretti is Director of Research and Development at the Eyebeam center for art and technology in New York City. At Eyebeam, he leads an open laboratory where students, artists, and scientists collaborate on art and technology experiments. Research areas include the history of the artist's workshop, tactical media, memetics, emerging media and social network theory. Jonah created or co-created the Nike Sweatshop email, the New York City Rejection Line, and the BlackPeopleLoveUs.com web site. These empirical media experiments provide an opportunity for Eyebeam R&D to study the dynamics of on-line diffusion. The projects have also been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time magazine, CNN, Good
Morning America, and the Today Show. Jonah’s writing has appeared in The Nation, the Village Voice, Harper’s, Rhizome.org and academic journals. He is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab and an adjunct professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications program.

Lucienne Vidah
www.spinestudio.com

Lucienne Vidah has a BFA in Dance and has produced numerous works for solo performance. She was a guest teacher at The School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, the Trondheim Kunstakademie in Norway and at Mariko Takayasu Dance in Kyoto, Japan. She started to study Iyengar Yoga with Cle Souren at the Iyengar Institute in Amsterdam 15 years ago and now runs Studio SPINE for yoga and biofeedback. Her teachings in yoga are an eclectic mix derived from her varied background in movement studies.