Season 2

October 2003


DIGITAL ART
LYNN LUKKAS
Assistant Professor of Time and Interactivity and the
Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art

Lukkas is the recipient of a National Endowment for
the Arts Fellowship, Jerome Foundations, a Bush
Foundation, and McKnight Foundation Fellowships.
She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally
including the Walker Art Center’s “Out There Series”,
the “Capetown One City Festival” in South Africa, and
at the Cleveland Performance Art Festival. She spent
six weeks as an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre
for the Arts New Media Co-production Residency where
she developed the digital interface for a series of art
works that used the biological functions of the body
(breath, heart rate, brain waves, eyemovement, and
electrical impulses from the skin) to control interactive
installation spaces.



Danial ShapiroDIGITAL DANCE
DANIEL SHAPIRO
Shapiro & Smith Dance
Barbara Barker Center
for Dance

Danial Shapiro & Joanie
Smith (Co-Artistic Directors
of Shapiro & Smith Dance)
have developed a
collaborative process through
which they create their work,
taking turns developing
materials and directing the
choreographic process. Meeting during their years
dancing with Murray Louis and Alwin Nikolais, they left
in 1985 and spent a year in Helsinki, Finland on a
Fulbright Lectureship grant. Since then their work has
been commissioned by companies as diverse as the
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Alvin Ailey
Repertory Ensemble, Phoenix Dance Company of
Leeds, UK; and the PACT Dance Company in Pretoria,
South Africa and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

Description of presentation:
This international collaboration involved choreographers
and dancers in Minnesota and Florida; technicians in
Florida and Colorado; and musicians in Florida and
Brazil. Working in their own locations, participants
were blended in real time with live dancers at the
SuperComputing 2001 Conference in Denver. Through
the use of Internet2 (I2), we gathered these distant
participants in a virtual space for rehearsals and live
performance accessible at each of the sites. The
lessons and techniques learned are guiding the reation
and use of an I2 node at the Barbara Barker Center for
Dance. This node will allow collaboration in real time
with artists and scholars in distant locations, enabling
unique creative, teaching, and learning opportunities
for students and faculty.


DIGITAL VIDEO
MAURICIO ARANGO
Graduate Student, Department of Design,
Housing, and Apparel

Bio:
Mauricio Arango is an MFA candidate in multimedia at the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel. His work explores issues such as violence and disparity in our current world.

Description of presentation:
A distant and mysterious image that is both strange and familiar, seductive and intimidating.
An image that disturbs me and moves me, that undresses my ignorance and unknowingly fills me with melancholy.
Who are the inhabitants of those worlds I am unable to reach? What has happened in those far away lands -where beauty and horror breath as one?



Jay Anthony AllenDIGITAL MUSIC
JAY ANTHONY ALLEN
Ph.D Student

Bio:
J. Anthony Allen is a
composer of both
electronic and acoustic
music. He has received
numerous awards and
commissions, and his
music has reached
listeners and performers
throughout the United
States and Europe. Mr. Allen is a graduate of the
Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he completed
a Master's degree in Composition, as well as a second
Master's degree in Computer Music. He is currently
a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota. For
more information, please see: www.janthonyallen.com.

Description of presentation:
Software instruments for improvisation. A recent project
for a software based "turntable", which takes realtime
samples, and can manipulate them in the same fashion
a turntableist would, with some added bells and whistles.
The presentation will include a recording of a recent
composition for drums and computer.

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