| Fellowships,
Awards and Residencies |
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2001-2002
Student
Community Service Fellow, Northwestern University, Campus Activities
Program
My responsibilities included: advising
a variety of student service organizations, educating students,
faculty and staff about the benefits of service learning as
well as helping plan and implement such campus events as Dance
Marathon, Suitcase Party and Project Pumpkin. |
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2002
Selected participant, Electronic
Thesis and Dissertation Program, Northwestern University Graduate
School
A pilot program designed
to compose, store and transmit dissertations
digitally, allowing for the inclusion of video, sonic and photographic
content. |
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2002-2003
Artist-in-Residence,
Studio Z Theatre Company, Chicago
The purpose of the residency was to work
collaboratively with media artists and computer scientists on
a digitized version of Dracula, to integrate 3-D computer imagery
into live-action performance.
Web site address: http://www.studioz.org |
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2003
Grant recipient, Northwestern
University,
Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts
Grant amount: $10,399.00
Project description: The DuSable Project was a collaborative,
media-intensive live performance event, combining Second City
improvisational forms with interactive digital technologies
to tell the story of Jean Baptiste du Sable, Chicago’s
first non-native settler. The project brought together practitioners
in the disciplines of Theatre (Professors Sandra Richards and
Sam Ball of Northwestern), Interactive Drama (Professor David
Saltz, University of Georgia) and Digital Media (Dan Zellner
of Digital Media Services, Northwestern University Library)
for the purposes of actively experimenting with concepts of
design for a digital stage and unifying divergent approaches
to the creation of digital art works for a live audience. I
served as the stage director of the project. |
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2004
Selected panelist, 2004 Mellon Dissertation Forum, Kaplan Center
for The Humanities, Northwestern University
An interdisciplinary presentation and
discussion of doctoral projects, selected by a university-wide
competition. The Forum was sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation. |
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2004
Artistic Residency in Digital Media Design and Application,
Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
This residency opportunity will allow
me to experiment with options for digital storytelling on stage:
namely, discovering elements of existing software and digital
formatting techniques that can be used to develop a new scripting
format for a media-rich stage that will also facilitate communication
between director, playwright and designers in this unique, hybridized
environment.
Web site address: http://www.banffcentre.ca |
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2004
Creative Sabbatical Residency
The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
The work I will be initiating
at Ragdale builds upon my Banff Residency which begun the process
of creating a scripting format for a media-rich stage environment
that will permit playwrights to better communicate with designers
and to compose works in diverse multimedia formats.
Web site address: http://www.ragdale.org
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2004-2005
Award Recipient, Northwestern
University Graduate School, Alumnae Dissertation Recognition
Award
This honor identifies a
dissertation research proposal of special merit, due to its
originality, rigor of thought, clarity of expression and effective
presentation. |
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2006
Researcher-in-Residence Grant
Recipient
Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology,
Montreal, Canada
Grant amount: approximately
$13,000.00
Following an international competition open to historians, curators,
critics and independent researchers, I was selected to receive
a comprehensive grant to examine the personal archives of pioneering
educator Sonia Landy Sheridan to chart the history of Generative
Systems, a program she initiated at the Art Institute of Chicago,
and trace its seminal impact on the development of technological
arts education. Employing a case study mode of analysis, I plan
to critically investigate the program’s core curriculum,
organizational structure and operational dynamics in order to
document the ways in which Sheridan’s methods of instruction
gave rise to a new pedagogical framework from which to study
the impact of emerging communications technologies on art production.
Web site address: http://www.fondation-langlois.org |
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2007-2009
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Marion
L. Brittain Program School of Literature, Communication and
Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Appointed to the Georgia
Tech faculty for up to three sequential one-year appointments,
Fellows teach three sections each term in Georgia Tech's Communications
Program and participate in one or more semester-long reading
groups that address the theory of electronic pedagogy, applied
electronic pedagogy, and the theory and practice of technical
communication.
Web site address: http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/communications/mlb |
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2008
Visiting Artist, Liminal Screen
Program, Banff New Media Institute, Alberta, Canada
The Liminal Screen Residency
provides a unique approach to video-based production by creating
a community of like-minded artists, developers, and researchers
engaging in a collective critical inquiry into video as a medium.
Liminal Screen encourages media practitioners to come to The
Banff Centre to experiment, interrogate, and reformulate the
art, communications, and distribution of the moving image. In
March of 2008 members of the Second Life Augmented Reality research
group from Georgia Tech were invited to tour the technology
labs on campus, share ideas with artists in the Banff community
and deliver a lecture about the team’s work.
Web site address: http://www.banffcentre.ca |
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2008-2011
Co-Principal Investigator, Modeling
Creative and Emotive Improvisation in Theatre Performance, National
Science Foundation
Grant amount: $378,364.00
Project description: A three year research study that explores
how to formalize techniques used in improvisational theatre
to better inform the design of digital interactive drama systems.
The project was selected to be part of the new Creative IT Program
that aims to produce a better understanding of creativity and
its role in computer science research, to encourage creativity
in education, and to support creativity with new information
technology that will improve American competitiveness and innovation. |
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2008-2009
PERFORMA Research Fellowship,
Third Biennial of New Visual Art Performance, New York, New
York
PERFORMA is a multidisciplinary
arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of
live performance in the history of twentieth century art. I
will be conducting research for commissioned projects involving
the integration of art and technology for presentation at the
2009 Biennial of New Visual Art Performance in New York City
from November 1-22.
Web site address: http://performa-arts.org/performa.html |
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