- Stephanie Rothenberg People
Stephanie Rothenberg works in performance, video and net-based media to create interactive situations that question relationships among individuals, identities, lifestyles and public spaces; she references corporate models and merges advertising and market-research formats with participatory role-playing and fantasy. Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad, including ISEA 2004 (Helsinki) and venues in New York City, Montreal, Bremen, Chicago and North Adams, Massachusetts; she commutes between New York City and Buffalo, is Assistant Professor of Communication Design at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Anna Sperber People
Anna Sperber is a Brooklyn-based dance artist; she was a 2006-07 Movement Research Artist In Residence and received NYSCA Dance Program Public Commissioning Funds. Her work has been presented at venues throughout New York City including Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church and the 92nd St. Y Harkness Dance Center; she collaborated on the cinema installation Cutting and Joining (2005) with composer Mario Diaz de Leon and video artist Jay King. She holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase, has performed with Julie Atlas Muz and Isabel Lewis, participated in the Movement Research Improvisation Festival 2004, runs Brazil studio in Bushwick and lists http://www.annasperber.com/.
- Galen Joseph-Hunter People
Galen Joseph-Hunter has served as Executive Director of free103point9 since 2002 and worked at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) since 1996. She co-curated Video Jam with Michael Rush at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (2001) and curated See Through at PBICA (2000); other projects include Video Windows (2001), Tune(In))) (2003), Tune(In))) The Kitchen (2004) and Airborne (2005). She has presented lectures and served on panels on Transmission Arts at ArtChicago (1999), Bard College (2001), The Kitchen (2002) and Observatori Festival, Valencia (2006); website http://www.free103point9.org.
- Prema Murthy People
Prema Murthy examines the shifting boundaries of a gendered and socially constructed body by remapping its surface through new technologies; she explores gender embodiment through performance, net-based installation, digital prints and sound. Her work has been shown at venues including The Clocktower Gallery-NY, The Gertrude Stein Repertory Theater-NY, Sandra Gering Gallery-NY, MIT-Cambridge, MA, The Alternative Museum-NY, The University of Iowa-IA and The Bianca Pilat Gallery-Milan, IT; she has collaborated with Floating Point Unit, The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Fakeshop. She has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Computer Arts and is currently an artist-in-residence at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York; in the Fall 1999 she will present with Fakeshop the performance/installation multiple_dwelling at The Ars Electronica Festival.
- Blithe Riley People
Blithe Riley is a video, performance and installation artist whose work combines narrative fragments with systemic structures and examines the operations of spectatorship; recent projects investigate space, navigation and perception in urban environments and seek to reveal dynamics of power, design and the shifting city landscape from unusual viewpoints. She received a BFA from Alfred School of Art and Design in 1999 and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005, where she taught courses in video and performance; her work has screened nationally and internationally at venues including Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Kitchen, Roulette, Broadway 1602 Gallery and Monkeytown in New York City, The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and The European Media Arts Festival in Germany. She resides in Queens, New York; website: http://www.blitheriley.net
- Getting into the Act: Video in Live Performance Bibliography
The article examines how video has enabled live performers to manipulate space and time, citing Trish Brown's wall choreography and Joan Jonas's distant performance; it argues that video offers immediacy, flexibility, and new compositional possibilities on stage. It traces video integration from late-1960s experimental work (Vito Acconci's Claim, Chris Burden's Match Piece) through narrative and abstract uses, with examples including Marjorie Gamso's At Turning Points, Alien Ginsburg's Kaddish, Joanne Kelly's Tahmar, Amy Greenfield's Mat/Glass and Aldo Tambellini/Sarah Dickinson's Pierot in Time. The author is a freelance writer and coeditor of The Handbook of Television Dance, to be published by Marcel Dekker Inc. by the end of this year.