Summer Dance and Technology '05 (SDAT05)

Ellen Bromberg has been creating dances for over 30 years. Her work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Soros Foundation, the Arizona Commission on the Arts and others. Awards include two Bay Area Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, a Bonnie Bird North American Choreography Award, and a UCLA National Dance Media Fellowship. Her video works have been broadcast on national and regional PBS stations, and they have also been screened at numerous national and international dance film festivals including NYC's Dance on Camera Festival and the Body on Screen Festival in Melbourne, Australia. Since 1996 Bromberg has been working at the intersection of live performance and media, creating her own works as well as collaborating with other choreographers. Ms. Bromberg has been commissioned to create multi-media performance works by the University of Hawaii (NCCI Award), the Institute for Studies in the Arts at ASU and the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games. She has been a collaborating member of ADAPT (Association for Dance and Performance Telematics) since its inception. A former resident of the Bay Area, Ms. Bromberg is currently Assistant Dean for Research in the College of Fine Arts and Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Dance at the University of Utah where she is also the founding director of the International Dance for the Camera Festival and where she recently directed the International Arts Technology Synmposium, Arts of the Virtual: Poetic Inquiries in Time, Space and Motion.

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 Digital Media and Instructional Technologies 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. Dr. DiGangi 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 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 Digital Media and Instructional Technologies 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

John D. Mitchell is a multi-disciplinary composer, educator and researcher committed to using technology for expanding sensory and creative experiences in the arts and education. Mr. Mitchell has worked with artists from around the world to design and realize projects ranging from multimedia dance archives to interactive multi-site distributed performances. In 1987, Mitchell and choreographer Gary Lund created Movement Initiated Sound Events (MISE), one of the earliest dance works to use a personal computer and optical sensors for creating a completely interactive, performer driven sound score. Over the next three-years Mitchell and Lund produced several dance-driven, interactive multimedia works for the stage, often collaborating with visual artists and live musicians. Upon joining Arizona State University in 1990 Mitchell became a founding member of the Institute for Studies in the Arts. At the Institute, Mr. Mitchell was instrumental in pioneering the development of the Intelligent Stage - both as a concept and a facility - where he continued to work for the next ten years as a composer, director and interactive media designer. Mr. Mitchell has collaborated with numerous artists to create performance works that have been staged throughout United States and abroad. John D. Mitchell currently directs the graduate emphasis in Dance and Technology and teaches interdisciplinary media and telematics courses in the Department of Dance at Arizona State University.
http://www.ephemeral-efforts.com

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, 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. Sharir is an award winning choreographer and a multiple NEA choreography fellowship recipient. He has choreographed for companies around the world, along with over thirty-five works for hi own Sharir Dance Company. Sharir 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, 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. Sharir is a contributor to numerous international publications, journals and books related to issues regarding international interdisciplinary art & technology.