INVOLUTION 2 - ARTISTS - PERFORMANCES - DOCUMENTATION
Amoeba Technology
Amoeba Technology is a NYC based collective comprised of electronic musicians,live video and film artists, DJs and temporary environment architects. Since 1995, Amoeba has been engagedin a broad spectrum of activities, including: recording projects, live performances, installations, psychoacoustic research and multimedia productions. The crew is comprised of live and recording-based audio performances, live video projection montage, dj sets, film manipulation artists as well as visual and multi sensory environment installations.
www.amoebatechnology.net
Sean Clute
Sean Clute is an inventor of sound, installation, and performance. He has built and performed in geodesic domes, suspended pods, and interactive sonic environments. Included in his list of accomplishments are performances of original work at Mills College, The Kitchen, La Ma Ma etc.,Hayden Planetarium,Times Square Deli Dance, La Case A Chocs (Switzerland), Uspannwerk Kreuzberg (Germany), Shabla Solar Eclipse Festival (Bulgaria), Smack Mellon, CBGB'S, The Frying Pan, Lounge Ax (Chicago), House of Clouds (Albuquerque), Salvation Theater (LA), , and 23 Windows.
www.seanclute.com
Zemi 17
Taylor Kuffner, aka Zemi 17 is a NYC based composer, multi-media artist, analog and digital instrument builder and DJ. He is the co-founder, director and technical/conceptual designer of the experimental arts group the Ransom Corp. Taylor is also the co-founder of the community art studio 23 Windows in Bushwick, Brooklyn. He is the co-curator of the experimental multi media Resonant Wave Festival of art, culture, and advacement held in Berlin, May and June of 2002 and is a current member of the Dreamspell think tank, devoted to pardigm composing and shifting.
www.resonant-wave.net
Nick Fox- Gieg
Nick Fox-Gieg is a video artist and theatrical designer. His short works
have been shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and on television in Canada, Israel, and the Netherlands. His theatrical video design has been featured in the Festival dÕAvignon production Boxed In and in the Broadway musical Squonk. He was an artist-in-residence at the STEIM Center in 2002, and in 2001 and 2003 he was awarded Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships.
www.fox-gieg.com
Pauline Jennings
Pauline Jennings graduated in 2000 from the Pennsylvania State University with a B.A. in Integrative Arts and an Honors Degree in Theater Arts. She was the founder and directer Synergy, a multidisciplinary performance company involving visual artists, musicians, actors and dancers. Pauline is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Arts Degree in Dance Performance Choreography at Mills College in Oakland, CA. She has performed as a soloist with the Corey Roberts Dance Company and has recently had choreography presented by the East Bay Choreographer's Alliance. Additionally, Pauline has served as a Teaching Intern for the AXIS Dance Company.
Readymade Dance Theater Company
Readymade Dance Theater is based in Albuqerque, New Mexico and directed by Zsolt Palcza. He produced his first American show, The Passion of Dracula, for the Madison Theater Guild in Wisconsin, setting the movement piece in an insane asylum instead of a castle. He joined forced with dancer/choreographer/teacher Elizabeth Lende and University of New Mexico (UNM) Associate Professor/Art Director Gordon Kennedy in 1998 while making The Mysteries and What’s So Funny? a dance theater/chess game about the legendary Marcel Duchamp. In 2001, the trio founded RDTC along with writer Whitney Woodward, and were soon joined by dancer Tim Schettino, a graduate student in choreography and one of the department’s most prolific dancers.
Bill Wolter
Bill Wolter is a musician/composer, multimedia artist, and sound engineer from the San Francisco Bay Area. His work hovers around the sounds of experimental rock, jazz, and new music, emphasizing rhythmic quirkiness and melodic angularity. Bill is an accomplished electric guitarist and bassist. He has also studied composition with Fred Frith and Alvin Curran at Mills College. Most recently he has been working on a track for a Wesley Willis tribute album.
Shelley Burgon
Shelley Burgon is a harpist/computerist originally from San Francisco, CA. She holds a BA in Music from SFSU and an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College. As a soloist Shelley focuses on live computer processing of the harp using the program Supercollider. Before moving to New York in 2002 Shelley formed acoustic duos with Fred Frith and Brett Larner (koto). Her current duo involves bassist Trevor Dunn. She performs frequently in and around NY at venues such as Tonic and Barbes.
Dorsey Dunn
Dorsey Dunn was rasied in East Asia and a veteran of many cities, Dorsey Dunn is a San Francisco-based artist. His work in sound, text, and image, in the form of installations, performances, and written and recorded works, is an extended mediation on the perimeters of language, the movements of silence , and the vagaries of comprehension.
www.internantstudio.com
Amy Nielsen
Amy Nielson is a dancer, actor, singer, and designer.She performed in Calderon de la BarcaÕs Life is A Dream, at St. John the Divine in New York City. In May, Amy will be graduating from Mills College with a Master's degree in Dance Choreography and Performance.