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Chair:
Mohit Satyanand (India)
Mohit Satyanand is Chairman of Teamwork Films, which promotes
the Indian performing arts and cinema across the world. He is
also an educational entrepreneur, mountain dweller, trekker and
photographer. In 1987, he founded Nukkad, a program to work with
street children in and around New Delhi railway station. Now
called Salaam Baalak Trust, the program caters to the needs of
some 5,000 underprivileged children every year. In 1995, he co-founded
Friends of Music, a platform to promote innovative music in Delhi.
Between 1989 and 1996, he was a prolific TV producer and documentary
film-maker. Today he works primarily as a strategic management
adviser, and in promoting the causes of economic and civil liberty.
Presenters & Delegates:
Shankar Barua
Shankar Barua has been networking e-Creative Practices and Practitioners
around the world for several years. His own own works as an e-Creative
Practitioner range mainly through music, imaging and some video,
all "on a side-burner", and have been featured in various
exhibitions, events and entities in various countries. Over the
years of his variegated career, he has written texts for three
books, authored innumerable newspaper and magazine articles and
columns, pursued photography through advertising, adventure-travel
and 'art', exhibited and sold photographs, paintings, pen-&-ink
& also digital works, illustrated newspaper articles, book-covers
and an entire children's book, worked fulltime in executive and
editorial positions, and also launched and for some time run
a corporate & institutional networking company together with
his wife, Poonam. He is Managing Trustee of The Academy of Electronic
Arts, Special Advisor to Public Affairs Management, The Electronic
Music Foundation and EMF-Institute, Co-Curator and also Archives
& Documentation Associate of the Thailand Media Art Festival,
and Honorary Committee Member of the Digital Art Guild and Museum
of the Living Artist International Digital Exhibition 2006, and
has been a speaker and course-advisor to a couple of top institutions.
The few relatively 'major' public arts-events that he has conceptualized,
organized and (always) participated in
through life thus far "have each been founded upon impulsive
personal responses to various circumstances of the time".
LEE Jean A
Ms. Jean A LEE is an educator and creator as a script writer
and dramaturge for performing arts especially dance. She graduated
from the Arts Administration department of the Korean National
University of Arts in 2002, and has taught production and theoretical
classes for young choreographers since 2004. Chance brought her
into making dance performances successfully in 2005. And now
she has many works with mid-career choreographers in Korea, U.S.A.
and Europe. She
is also interested in integrating art forms in the media art
field, and its management. And it is as a result of this that
her associates and she will show the workshop residency project
[Dancing about Architecture].
Ashim Ghosh
Ashim Ghosh is a multiple media expert and educator, with interventions
ranging from multi-channel audio design, to international corporate
communications, video and photography. He has traveled widely,
across India and across the world, having exhibited and performed
globally. His recent photographic work - Home Street Home : images
of poverty - engages with and problematises captioned photojournalism,
while opening up a dialogue on the power hierarchies of languages.
Ashim's ongoing audiovisual work on masculinity has come together
in a solo performance - The Missing Ling : perspectives on masculinity
- with live music, original songs and imagery. Ashim now mostly
lives in Kumaon, and claims to have hung on to his inimitable
sense of humour in these dark times
Nathalie Boseul
Shin
Nathalie Boseul Shin is curator, exhibition team manager, storyteller,
writer, project manager. She begam her professional career as
a curator at the Lotte Art Center in 1998, and then from 1999
to 2000 for '21C young artists group', when she curated "flag
art festival" in the Yeouido Public Park, and "Coal
Mine Exhibition" in Gohan Coal Mine Village, with over 100
artists from Korea and Japan. Her media based career started
in 2000 as one of the starting members of Art Center Nabi,, where
she organized symposiums and exhibitions until 2002. She also
organized the media performing event "Audio-Visual Matrix"
at this time, and has been Exhibition Team Manager of <media_city
Seoul>, while also organizimg exhibitions as an independent
curator for shows, events, workshops and symposia manifested
in various countries.Her primary interests lie in media education,
digital sublime and community programs, and she is presently
preparing another independ ent
project closely connected with media art archiving and community,
while also serving as advisor nd curator to the Loop Media Space
in Seoul.
Chang Jae Ho http://trebari.net
Jaeho Chang is a composer and sound artist. He is currently directing
the Music Technology program at the Korean National University
of Arts (KNUA) as an assistant professor. His music pieces including
both acoustic and lectroacoustic works have been performed at
many concerts and festivals such as ICMC and SICMF(Seoul International
Computer Music Festival). His multimedia nstallation works have
been exhibited at renowned galleries in Korea such as Leeum and
Art Center Nabi. He studied musical composition at Seoul National
University in Korea and electro acoustic music (Sonology) at
Royal Conservatory in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Recent interests for Dancing about Architecture> His
recent interest is to create new integrated language among Music,
fine art, design, architecture, dance, theatre, engineering,
phisics, mathmatics so on as many as majors could be, by interdiciplinary
way build a making 'Art As Platform' as a advanced form of interactive
media art as like a 'Web 2.0' represents op ening
and participation . It is also main idea of [Dancing about architecture].
YANG Seung Hee
Born in Seoul Korea and educated theatre directing and acting
at Seoul institute of the arts, Seung-hee Yang is a choreographer
and performing arts director. He moved to Greece where he started
working as a professional dancer and choreographer all around
the world in 1997. He moved to the Netherlands and developed
his choreographic vision and world wide communication at European
Dance Development Center in 2000. He gained M.A form Dance Unlimited
School major in choreography course in 2004. Meanwhile he researched
improvisation and open formed composition he was interested in
how spirituality comes to body expression through movement and
how to symbiosis dance and media as a natural organ(body) and
virtual system(computer). In his remarkable work <Transform(2004)>
he kept his idea. Recently he teaches at the Korean National
University of Arts, Chung Ang University and so forth.
Recent interests for Dancing about Architecture> As
he has been interested in how intergrates dance and media, he
wants to develpe this idea further with others as researching
with which kind of algori thm
how sybiosis between human being and computer. Also with ordinary
equipment how to improve the usage enriched when we show our
study results on stage.
YANA (LEE Kyoung Yi) http://yana.yana.co.kr
Kyoung Yi LEE is a Dong-Ah Broad Casting Colledge posting Professor,
Yana design president, and Graphic designer. She is currently
working with her new name YANA. YANA stands for 'You Are Not
Alone' from Shakespeare' sonnet- 'though single wilt prove none'
as she interprets the meaning is 'being alone has no meaning'.
She believs her creating talants are for the future people represented
by the method of her designs. She has been interested how to
use interactive design tools for performing arts.
Recent interests for Dancing about Architecture> Using
her recent invention 'auto composer', she wants to intergrate
interactive performance.
Yangachi
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