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Scott deLahunta (born 1957) began in the arts as a dancer and choreographer. He has been based in Europe since 1992 where, as a partner of Writing Research Associates, he has co-organized several international workshop/ symposia projects in the field of performance. In 1996, Mr. deLahunta organized “Connecting Bodies,” the first conference in the Netherlands to address the overlap between dance and emerging technologies. Since then, he has continued to research and write in this area and has co-facilitated and participated in a large variety of projects in more than a dozen countries. Currently, Mr. deLahunta is an Associate Research Fellow at Dartington College of Arts and an affiliated researcher with Crucible, an interdisciplinary research network within the University of Cambridge. He lectures on a new Masters in Choreography (Dance Unlimited) at the Amsterdam School for the Arts and serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Performance and Digital Media (Sheffield Hallam University Press) and Performance Research (Routledge, London, UK). For on line materials: http://huizen.dds.nl/~sdela
Samuel A. DiGangi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Education, specializing in technology integration with effective instruction and he presently heads up the Arizona State University Information Technology Instruction Support group. His research activities focus on infusing effective components of instructional design with emerging technology in education. In addition to extensive use of computer-mediated instruction in his teacher preparation courses, Dr. DiGangi directs several sponsored research projects examining implementation of high technology, telecommunications and international networking in the classroom. He possesses a strong background in human-computer interface design; he is adept at program design, as well as network infrastructure and topology evaluation. Dr. DiGangi has taught numerous courses devoted to evaluation and assessment of the impact of technology on education. His focus includes classical quantitative methodology, as well as Exploratory Data Analysis techniques. He has developed and delivered courses and training in addressing research design, methodology and evaluation, placing emphasis on data-based decision-making and continuous monitoring of performance. http://is.asu.edu/about/staff.html
Angel Jannasch-Pennell, Ph.D., is a Research Specialist with the ASU Information Technology Instruction Support Group specializing in technology integration with education. She is involved in the development and delivery of instructional resources specifically designed to meet the needs of faculty researchers, K-12 teachers and students. Dr. Jannasch directs several sponsored projects which focus on employing innovative means of assessment and evaluation to incorporate effective components of instructional design with emerging technology in education. http://is.asu.edu/about/staff.html
Zachary Lieberman is an artist, engineer, and educator whose work is focused on exploring the creative and human uses of technology. He produces installations, on-line works and concerts concerned with the themes of kinetic and gestural performance, interactive imaging and sound synthesis. In 2002 Artist-in-Residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria; in 2003, Artist-in-Residence at Eyebeam Atelier in New York. Working with collaborator Golan Levin, he created a series of installations - "Remark" and "Hidden Worlds" - for the Ars Electronica Museum of the Future focusing on visualizing speech; these were followed with "Messa Di Voce," a concert performance in which the speech, shouts and songs of two vocalists are radically augmented in real-time by interactive visualization software. The concert premiered at Ars Electronica in 2003 and is touring England this season. Lieberman lives and works in New York City. He is a professor at Parsons School of Design, teaching courses in audio-visual synthesis and creative image processing. http://www.thesystemis.com/
John D. Mitchell is a multi-disciplinary composer, educator and researcher, concentrating on the use of technology for expanding sensory and creative experiences in arts and education. Mr. Mitchell has worked with artists from around the world to design and realize projects ranging from the creation of multimedia dance archival models to interactive multi-site distributed performance initiatives. As a composer and interactive performance designer, Mr. Mitchell has collaborated with numerous artists to create performance works that have been performed throughout United States and abroad. He currently directs the special graduate program in Dance and Technology and teaches interdisciplinary media courses in the Department of Dance and Institute of Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University.
Yacov Sharir graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art in sculpture and ceramics, and continued his studies in dance at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, and the Bat-Sheva Dance Company School. A dual citizen of Israel and the United States, Mr. Sharir was the founder of the American Deaf Dance Company, which pioneered the inclusion of deaf artists in professional dance. He subsequently founded Sharir Dance Company, the resident professional Dance Company of the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Fine Arts. Mr. Sharir is an award-winning choreographer and a multiple NEA choreography fellowship recipient. He has choreographed for companies around the world, along with more than 35 works for hi own Sharir Dance Company. He completed a two-year fellowship from the Banff Centre for the Arts, where he collaborated with visual artist Diane Gromala and architect Marcos Novak on a virtual reality and cyberspace project entitled, “Dancing with the Virtual Dervish-Virtual Bodies.” In addition to teaching Dance and Choreography at the University of Texas at Austin, Mr. Sharir teaches computer-aided choreography/Virtual Reality and Cyberspace in the Arts, and multi-disciplinary art and technology graduate courses. He is a frequent keynote speaker at arts and technology conferences and symposia in the USA and around the world. Mr. Sharir is a contributor to numerous international publications, journals and books related to issues regarding international interdisciplinary art and technology.
