Thursday, December 12, 2013

https://www.facebook.com/natureboyexplorer

I am presenting a little interactive video installation whose working title is "It's Mark's World, We Just Live In It" at a performance of Mark Snyder's band Nature Boy Explorer at

9pm Friday, Dec. 13
Sudo Shoes
1771 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge,MA
(a few blocks south from Porter Square)


Come check it out!!!






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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Article on Roving Performances Published at Howlround

http://www.howlround.com/


An article I wrote on roving performances was published at the theater/performance journal and blog, Howlround.

http://www.howlround.com/towards-a-working-method-of-audience-movement

Thanks to Jamie Gahlon, Polly Carl, Srila Nayak, and the rest of the team at Howlround.  Special thanks to Adara Meyers for help editing the article.






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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Meridian Project - Spring 2014



Working with an incredible group of my favorite people – Kirsten Volness, Josh Lantzy, Jamie Topper, Caroline Doherty, and Jeremy Chapman – on a multimedia performance series that will take place spring 2014 at the Cormack Planetarium at Roger Williams Park in Providence.  Performances will mix music, live-processed imagery using the Planetarium's historic Zeiss Star Projector (!!!), and presentations on topics in astrophysics and cosmology, including Jeremy's ground breaking work in Dark Matter Detection.

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT:
https://www.newmusicusa.org/?project_preview=7963&msg=preview






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Monday, July 8, 2013

Dissertation, Defense, Graduation, ¡CityArts!

Been a long time since I posted.  After last fall's successful performance of The (unfinished) Ballad... I completed the second component of my Ph.D. dissertation, my paper The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery: The Creation of a Multimedia Murder Ballad and The Development of a Working Method for Roving Performances.  It included a detailed listing and analysis of all the components of the piece, from musical scores to physical computing to the history of the Mathewson Street Church in which it was performed.  It continued with an analysis of other roving-audience performances such as one I previously collaborated on (Mercy Brown and the Devil's Footprint), and the most famous contemporary roving performance, Sleep No More.  It concluded with the listing of a working method for roving performances based on my previous work, collaboration, and observation.

I successfully defended my dissertation on April 12.  
•Thanks to my committee members Todd Winkler, Butch Rovan, Dana Gooley, and Erik Ehn!  

I graduated with my Ph.D. on May 26, 2013.
•Thanks to all my friends and family for their support!  Especially to my 96 year old grandpa Harry who made it all the way from California!!!

I was lucky to receive two job opportunities on the west coast, but decided to turn them down to focus on things here in Providence.

I was again very lucky to have gotten a job as a media consultant and video teacher at Providence ¡CityArts! for Youth, a fantastic, veteran non-profit organization that provides free art instruction to 8-14 year old, under-served students in Providence.  My job has been to use a $15,000 grant budget from the Angell Foundation to build a new digital medial lab for ¡CityArts!    I will then be teaching video class to middle-schoolers at the end of the month (eep!).




















 
 Thanks to all my friends, family, and creative brothers/sisters in arms for their support getting me to this point.  I'm anxious and excited.  Will share more soon...






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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Review of Meyers's "Tryouts"

A good review from Edge Boston about Adara Meyers's play Tryouts, for which I did video design earlier this month.

Congrats to all on a fantastic performance!






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Saturday, March 9, 2013

"Tryouts" March 8/9, Factory Theater, Boston


I'm doing video design for the play:

TRYOUTS
by Adara Meyers
directed by Cecilia Raker
audio design by Kirsten Volness

When a group of mothers and daughters attempt to prove their “individuality,” the murky waves of love and death crash against generational angst and pseudo-religious understanding in this satirical play about womanhood.

Fri/Sat, March 8/9, 2013, 7:30pm
The Factory Theater
791 Tremont Street
Boston, MA (entrance to theater is in the back of the old Chickering piano factory, through the parking lot)

Tickets: $15 at the door or online.

Part of the Women in Action Festival






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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Station Nation: A Reflection on the Station Night Club Fire. Weds, Feb 20, 9:30pm. First Baptist Church, Providence.




I will be performing on bass for Kirsten Volness's piece, Long Winter Listen
Directed by Sylvia Ann Soares
for an event hosted by the group Station Nation memorializing the 2003 Station Nightclub Fire in which 100 people were killed in Warwick, RI.
9:30pm-midnight
First Baptist Church
75 North Main St.
Providence, RI
FREE







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