Born in France, Jackie Matisse lived in New York until 1954. Since then she has lived in Paris, making frequent visits to New York. Between 1959 adn 1968 she worked for Marcel Duchamp, completing the assemblage of the "Boite-en-Valise." At this time using her married name, Jacqueline Monnier, she began making kites "in order to play with color and line in the sky." In 1980 she showed kites which were created to be used underwater at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York, and since then has continued to make kitelike objects intended for three different kinds of space: the sky, the sea, and indoor space, all linked through her use of movement. In collaboration with filmaker Molly Davies and composer David Tudor, she created a video on her underwater and sky work.
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Ray Kass, Professor of Art in the College of Architecture and Urban Affairs at Virginia Tech, is a nationally recognized painter and writer. His paintings have been widely exhibited and are represented by A.V.C. Contemporary Arts Gallery, 41 E. 57th St. NYC, and the Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. His publications include numerous reviews, articles and catalogues, including: Sounds of The Inner Eye: John Cage, Mark Tobey and Morris Graves, Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle and London (2002), Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner-Eye , Braziller, NY(1983) and John Cage: New River Watercolors , Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond,VA (1988) Burton Callicott: A Retrospective – "Sharing a Vision", Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, (1991) and Glenn Berry: Recent Paintings, Humboldt State University, California (1992).
He is founder and director of the Mountain Lake Workshop, a collaborative, community-based art project drawing on the customs, and environmental and technological of the New River Valley and the Appalachian region.
Artists who have completed several workshops at Mountain Lake include folk-artist Howard Finster, Japanese artist & sculptor and Jiro Okura, the late avant garde composer, writer and artist John Cage, East Harlem street artist and muralist, James De La Vega, Colorado based eco-artist, Lynn Hull, waste management installation-artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles (official artist in residence of the New York Sanitation Dept.), ceramic artist, poet and author M.C. Richards (author of Centering), sculptor in light forms and virtual reality, Jackie Matisse, among many others, including Kass himself, whose individual workshops seek to provide an interface between the concepts and discipline-centered activities of those of the visiting-artists.
More information about Ray Kass and the Mountain Lake Workshop is available at his website:
raykass.com
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Tom Coffin is currently employed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and is the Alliance Liaison for Virtual Environments, and the Technical Coordinator for the Alliance Center for Collaboration Education Science and Software in Arlington, Virginia. The Alliance (National Computational Science Alliance) is a group of over fifty institutions funded by the National Science Foundation expanding the need for high end computation and information technologies required by the U.S. academic community. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is the leading edge site for the Alliance and a part of the University of Illinois. Coffin is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute in Chicago and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Upon completion of his studies at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Coffin assisted in the commercialization of projection based virtual reality technologies and continues to support the users of these systems through the maintenance of web portals and the organization of community building activities of CAVERNUS (http://cavernus.org)
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Shalini Venkataraman created all the virtual reality programming for the "Art Flying In and Out of Space" VR piece 2001-2002. Shalini is a masters graduate of the University of Illinois. |
Dr. Ulrike Kasper was born in 1967 in Feiburg (Germany). She has taught art history and architecture at Skidmore College in Paris since 1995, and in 2001, became an associate instructor in aesthetics at the Department of Cinema, at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III.
Dr. Ulrike Kasper served as a curator assistant at the museum of the Cite de la Musique in Paris between 2000 - 2002 where she participated in the organization of several exhibitions, including "Chen Zhen," "le Jardin Magnetique" of Christina Kubisch, "Electric Body - Jimi Hendrix" and "Pianos Annees Zero."
She presented her PhD thesis on the visual arts of John Cage at the Sorbonne in 2000, and has published several articles and organized and participated in colloquiums and broadcasts on contemporary art and music. |
Dr. Ron Kriz is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He recieved the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Virginia Tech in 1976 and 1979 (Engineering Science and Mechanics) and B.S. degree from California Polytechnic State Univeristy in 1973 (Aeronautical Engineering). He has published over 50 technical papers in referred journals and conference proceedings in the area of mechanics and material science and engineering. Prior to coming to Viriginia Tech in 1990 he was active in Materials Research Engineering research at NIST for ten years. During that time, he used supercomputers to simulate the physics of stress wave propagation in anisotropic media. Several patents resulted from these studies that used visual data analysis tools to make these discoveries. Subsequently Dr. Kriz returned to Virginia Tech and continued the development of visual data analysis tools as they related to supercomputer simulations. He was founder of the Laboratory for Scientific Visual Analysis in 1991 as an academic affiliate with NCSA. For the last ten years he has worked with faculty in developing and using visual data analysis tools in the interpretation of their simulation results. In 1996 he was awarded NSF funds to build a CAVE(tm) facility in collaboration with NCSA as part of Virginia Tech's Advanced Communications and Information Technology Center (ACITC). He is the Director of the College of Engineering Visualization Laboratory (1997) and the Director of the Virginia Tech University Visualization and Animation Group (1996) of the ACITC. He is also PI of the Virginia Tech Scientific Modeling and Visualization Classroom (SMVC), and educational grant co-sponsored by Sun Microsystems Inc and Visual Numerics Inc. He was also the PI on the Combined Research and Curriculum Development (CRCD) NSF grant that used SMVC and developed extensive Web Java-based educational modules. |
Francis Thompson is currently a MFA candidate in Arts Administration at Virginia Tech University (School of the Arts) and was the Armory Art Gallery at Virginia Tech's gallery coordinator for 3 years. Thompson is a BA graduate of Virginia Tech University and also has an associates degree in science from Richard Bland Collge. During his time as a student, Thompson has assisted in the Mountain Lake Workshop, served as studio assistant to numerous artists in Virginia and New York, interned at the American Museum of Folk Art in NYC, World Arts Focus in Maryland, and the Cunningham Dance Foundation in NYC. |
Paul Weilinga is the Division Manager of the Insight Services Department at SARA (Stitchting Acdemisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam) Computing and Networking Services. |
Dr. Jason Leigh is a VR programmer at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dec 1997 PhD Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
Thesis: CAVERN and a Unified Approach to Support Realtime Networking and Persistence in Teleimmersion.
Aug 1990 MS Computer Science
Wayne State University
Thesis: Optimizing Parallel M-Way Join Queries
June 1988 BS Computer Science Magna Cum Laude
University of Utah
Consulting Experience:
Feb 6-8, 1996
Authored a multimedia presentation for Vice President Al Gore's Telecommunications Act of 1996. This was on display at the signing of the bill on Feb 8. Reference: Tom Kalil, National Economic Council, The White House, Washington DC 20500.
Sept 1996: WEB Site design for Association for Integrative Studies.
Jun 1995 - Dec 1995: Analysis software for hard disk media surface measurements for Akashic Memories Corporation, San Jose, California.
Apr 1990 - 1996: Computer Animation, Video Post-Production and Computer Graphics consultant for Video Vita, Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Nov 1994 - Jan 1995 : WEB server developer & interface consultant for ANDATACO http://www.andataco.com/
Graphics Experience:
CALVIN - A system for supporting collaborative design in persistent networked virtual environments. Shown at Supercomputing'95- Dec, 1995.
Vomit Mountain - Virtual roller coaster designer & simulator in the CAVE. EVE4 Art Show- May, 1995.
Star Blazer- SGI computer game on IndiZone2 CDROM 1994.
Exhibitor at VROOM'94 at SIGGRAPH'94 conference (Orlando, Florida) demonstrating application of virtual reality to neurobiology and advanced scientific databases.
Image shows the electric field around the weakly electric fish Apteronotus Leptorhynchus. Also designed the VROOM logo.
Exhibitor at Neuroscience'93 conference (Washington D.C.) demonstrating a practical hardware and software virtual reality platform for computational neuroscientists.
Image shows the interaction between a cerebellar Purkinje cell and an inferior olivary neuron.
Exhibitor at SHOWCASE'92 at SIGGRAPH'92 conference (Chicago, Illinois) demonstrating the application of virtual reality to computational neuroscience. Also designed the SHOWCASE logo.
Contributing artist for an art show at the Aesthetics Gallery, 1992 (Chicago, Illinois).
Other Experience:
1995: Member of Supercomputing 1995 Information Architecture Committee. San Diego, California.
May 1994 - May 1995: Reviewer for the virtual reality journal, PRESENCE.
February 1995: Book reviewer for IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications.
Aug 1991 - Dec 1997: Research Assistant at the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Summer 1993 - Winter 1994: Computer Graphics and Multimedia Database design consultant for the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Technical Knowledge:
Extensive experience in C and C++ development in UNIX, GL, OpenGL, OpenInventor, Performer for Silicon Graphics (SGI). Additional experience in Borland C++ Builder, Delphi, Visual BASIC, for IBM PC-compatibles.
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Dominique Geeraert - Modular Virtual Environment/CAVE Project/ENSAM/PSA Peugeot Citroen cluny.ensam.fr |
Tom Johnson, born in Colorado in 1939, received B.A. and M.Mus. degrees from Yale University, and studied composition privately with Morton Feldman. After 15 years in New York, he moved to Paris, where he has lived since 1983.
He is considered a minimalist, since he works with simple forms, limited scales, and generally reduced materials, but he proceeds in a more logical way than most minimalists, often using formulas, permutations, and predictable sequences.
Johnson is well known for his operas: The Four Note Opera (1972) continues to be presented in many countries. Riemannoper has been staged more than 20 times in German-speaking countries, since its premier in Bremen in 1988. Often played non-operatic works include the Bedtime Stories, Rational Melodies, Music and Questions, Counting Duets, Tango, Narayana's Cows, and Failing: a very difficult piece for solo string bass.
His largest composition, the Bonhoeffer Oratorium, a two-hour work in German for orchestra, chorus and soloists, with text by the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was premiered in Maastricht in 1996, and has since been presented in Berlin and New York.
Johnson has also written numerous radio pieces, such as J'entends un choeur (commissioned by Radio France for the Prix Italia, 1993), Music and Questions (also available on an Australian Broadcasting Company CD) and Die Melodiemaschinen, premiered by WDR Radio in Cologne in January 1996.
The principal recordings currently available are the CDs Musique pour 88 (XI,1992), Rational Melodies (Hat Art, 1993), and The Chord Catalogue (XI, 1999)
The Voice of New Music, a collection of articles written 1972-1982 for the Village Voice, was published by Apollohuis.
Self-Similar Melodies, a theoretical book, was published by Editions 75 in 1996.
The recipient of the French national prize for 2000 in the ÒVictoires de la musiqueÓ for Kientzy Loops, Johnson was also the curator of an exhibition of ÒSilent Music,Ó at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, July 10 – October 8, 2001. |
Suguru Goto is a Japanese composer and a multi-media artist. He started his career in a contemporary music scene. His recent works involves new technologies in experimental performing art. He invented Virtual Musical Instruments, which are the interfaces between gesture of human and a computer. Sound and video images are controlled by Virtual Music Instrument with computers in real time.
He has been internationally active and has received numerous prizes and fellowships.
His compositions have been performed in major festivals, such as Tanglewood Music Festival, Sonar, CICV-Les Nuits Savoueuses, ICC, Electrofolie , International Theater Festival Berezillia, SWR-Faszination Musik, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin, Haus der Kultures der Welt - Haimat Kunst, and Inventionen '94 etc.
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Dr. Dave E. Pape has recently completed his PhD at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory of the UIC EECS Department. He continues working with EVL for the summer, but will soon be found primarily under the guise of Res Umbrae. His work at EVL has consisted of developing and maintaining underlying software for the CAVE virtual reality system, and creating various CAVE applications.
He is currently Assistant Professor, Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo, NY
Education.
* Ph.D. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001
* M.S. Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1990
* B.S. Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1988 (summa cum laude)
Professional Activities
Association for Computing Machinery member
SIGGRAPH member
IEEE Computer Society member
VROOM Committee, SIGGRAPH '94
Information Architecture Committee (GII Testbed), Supercomputing '95
iGrid 2000 Organizing Committee, iGrid 2000 Research Exhibit, INET 2000
Honors & Awards
Foreign Title Award in Theater and Exhibition, Multimedia Grand Prix '97 (Tokyo) for Multi-Mega Book in the CAVE
UIC University Fellowship. 1993,1994,1995.
NASA/GSFC Exceptional Achievement Award. 1993.
NASA/GSFC Space Data and Computing Division Peer Award. 1993.
2nd place team, ACM National Scholastic Programming Contest. 1989.
Member Pi Mu Epsilon honorary society. |
Dr. Howard Risatti - Professor of Art at VCU, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Professor. Modern and Contemporary Art; Theory and Criticism
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