Alison Rootberg is an interdisciplinary artist whose primary focus is in dance and video. She completed her MFA in Dance and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. Rootberg also has a BFA in Dance and a BS in Inter-Arts and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Furthermore, she was selected and attended the Sydney Kahn Summer Institute at the Kitchen in New York, the Music and Dance Exchange at Dartington College of Art in Devon (United Kingdom), and STEIM in Amsterdam (Netherlands) for a residency in the Electronic Performance Arts.
Her work has been presented by Aalborg University Esbjerg (Copenhagen, Denmark), ADaPT (Association for Dance and Performance Telematics), Alterna Professional Haircare (CA), The Apple Store SOHO (NY), The Blankenship Ballet Company (CA), The California Institute of the Arts, the Charles B. Wang Center (NY), Dance Millennium Summer Dance Intensive (WI), The El Rey Theatre (CA), H & H Entertainment (IL), The International Consumer Electronics Show (NV), Intersection for the Arts (CA), The Kitchen (NY), the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts (Morelia, Mexico), Niccolò Paganini Music Conservatory (Genoa, Italy), Pochron Studios (NY), Queens University (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Rivolta (Venice, Italy), Roulette (NY), San Diego State University (CA), The Southern Theater (MN), St Mark's Church (NY), Stony Brook University (NY), the University of Arizona – Tucson, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Colorado – Boulder, the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the Wisconsin Union Theater, Workspace Limited (CA), and Zentrale Randlage (Berlin, Germany).
She has also been accepted to and presented her work at the Artificial Reproduction Technologies Conference (NY), the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival (WA), the International Computer Music Conference, the International Digital Media and Arts Conference, the MacWorld Conference, and the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression.
Rootberg is a board member of the New West Electronic Arts and Music Organization (NWEAMO) and the Dance Resource Center (DRC). In addition to all of this, she continues to serve as Artistic Director of Kinesthetech Sense, creating new work and traveling the world with it.
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Margaret Anne Schedel, an assistant professor of music at Stony Brook University, is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media. While working towards a DMA in music composition at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, her thesis, an interactive multimedia opera, A King Listens, premiered at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and was profiled by apple.com. She is a founding member of NeXT Ens, an ensemble with the unique mission to perform and support the creation of interactive electroacoustic works. She serves as the musical director for Kinesthetech Sense and sits on the boards of the BEAM Foundation, the International Computer Music Association, the New West Electro Acoustic Music Organization, Organised Sound, and the Womens Audio Mission; in conjunction with running workshops for Cycling 74 and Making Things.
Kinesthetech Sense was founded by Alison Rootberg and Margaret Schedel in 2006 with the intent to collaborate with visual artists, dancers, and musicians, creating ferociously interactive experiences for audiences throughout the world. In addition to their performances, Rootberg and Schedel also teach seminars on computer vision, sensors, and interactivity. Performers (dancers, actors, and musicians) can influence other media such as sound playback and video projections, through the combination of computer software, microphones, sensors, and video cameras.
Rootberg focuses on the incorporation of dance and video, while Schedel's expressive medium involves the combination of music with interactive technologies. The formation of complex relationships between human performers, lighting, music, and video creates an engaging organization of space and time. Their workshops expose participants to the multitude of possibilities offered by emerging technology and assists artists in developing new works which integrate dance, sound, video and interactivity.
Kinesthetech Sense incorporates technology with art, not as a spectacle to impress, but rather as a way to clarify and advance current art forms. As our society advances technologically, and is introduced to new tools, we as artists must acknowledge these changes and how they affect the way we live and how we create art.
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that my new album Afrikan Machinery is out now on Tzadik Records. Check out some of the tracks on my profile! You can buy the CD here, here, or here. It's also available on iTunes.
Best Wishes, Lukas Ligeti
"CNMRG" - research group (St. Petersburg, Russia) "Theremin - Center" for electroacoustic music (Moscow, Russia) "TMA" - Trans Media Akademie Hellerau (Dresden, Germany)
MediaLab workshops and performances by:
Frieder Weiss (Germany) Yuri Didevich (Russia) Daniel Ploeger (Germany) Dmitry Dubov (Russia) Thomas Dumke (Germany) Dmitry Letohovskiy (Russia) Mathias Harting (Germany) Patrick K.-H. (Russia) Micah Silver (Usa), Dmitry Subochev (Russia) Andrei Smirnov (Russia)
Just stopp'n by to say Hi!... To send peace and love... And to wish you and yours a most blissful, Holidays... "may your dancing be as happy as can be"...
Hey Alison and Meg, Thanks for finding me! Hope you're well. Hopefully see you soon - maybe in NYC in Oct.? I think I leave on a trip about when you come, but hopefully there'll be some overlap... Bests/soon, LL
the dancing in vedio is very great! recently, I just start to learn about dance, film and light. I fell it's very interesting and a good way to explorer not only visual but also bodily.
Thank you for the add! I love the idea of a digital quilt. Very exceptional work. You have quite a touring schedule, but if you happen to be in Los Angeles between June and October, please come by and check out one of our 50 free performances in downtown.
