Season 3
April 2005
 Douglas Geers (assistant professor, School of Music ) is a composer who works extensively with technology in composition, performance, and multimedia collaborations. He is also the founder and director of the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, held each February at the University of Minnesota Arts Quarter ; he is a co-founder and co-Director of the Electric Music Collective, an internationally-based group of electroacoustic composer-performers; and he is a member of the electroacoustic performance group Sønreel. (Please see www.dgeers.com for more information on Doug and his works.)
At Emerging Digerati, Doug will speak about “Laptar”, a software-based instrument he has created for improvisatory music performance.
 Abinadi Meza is a multimedia artist based in the Twin Cities, and an adjunct faculty member of the dept. of art at the University of Minnesota. He is a 2004/2005 Jerome Foundation fellowship recipient, and his work is currently exhibited at Rochester Art Center, Minnesota and CAVE Gallery, Bethlehem International Center, Palestine. Visit www.abinadimeza.net for more info/projects.
Meza will present excerpts from The Prisoner, a 15 minute animation with surround sound, installed at Rochester Art Center from February 4th to March 31st, 2005. The Prisoner uses images appropriated from Carl Dreyer's silent film La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc. This footage is re-rendered as an animation by tracing thousands of frames from the film. The Prisoner focuses on Jeanne's political status as a prisoner. She is utterly alone and subject to the power of her captors. At the hands of her interrogators and prison guards she is tortured and eventually executed. Throughout the ordeal, she remains an individual. Her judges assume and express power as a group.
 Greg Scranton is currently teaching in the area of Time &
Interactivity in the Department of Art at the U of MN. He is researching and developing the use of interactive, wireless, and mobile technologies.
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