I agree with Maida. How can this request be addressed? Jennifer Predock-Linnell --On Monday, September 17, 2001 7:50 AM -0400 "m.withers" <m.withers@verizon.net> wrote: > 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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