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Eunsu Kang: Director, Visual and Sound Artist Diana Garcia Snyder: Director, Choreographer and Visual Artist Bo Young Choi: Visual and Textile Artist Donald Craig: Sound Designer Sheri Brown: Dancer Collborator Allan Sutherland: Dancer Collaborator Kathryn Hightower: Dancer Collaborator Chelsea A Weaver: Dancer Collaborator |
| Eunsu Kang is an international media artist from Seoul, Korea. For last ten or more years, she has been invited to numerous shows around the world. She was awarded her first and second solo exhibitions for her video installations. Her third solo exhibition was held on cellular phones with wireless internet connections. She is also a winner of the Insa Web/Mobile Art Project Award in 2003, the Korean National Juried Project for 2000: the Year of New Arts and the Korean National Fund for Emerging Artists which supported her collaborative international telematic project, Seonang in 2005. She was introduced as one of the most promising young artists in the book, Young Korean Artists 45: Interviews in 2006. Her life as an innovative artist in Seoul, a very crowded metropolis of the country with high speed internet access everywhere, and her MFA and MA in Media Arts and Technology degrees gave her chances to explore various materials and technologies. Currently she is focusing on more genuine use of sound, body and space to enhance immersive art experiences as a PhD student at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) in the University of Washington. Her current research interests center on the use of non-verbal languages as a part of cyborg communication and interactive audiovisual installations representing questions, but not necessarily pursuing answers. http://www.kangeunsu.com Diana Garcia-Snyder, is a choreographer, performer, educator and visual artist from Mexico. This concert marks the completion of her MFA degree at the University of Washington and represents a synthesis of her research on Butoh, collaboration techniques and studies in dance and technology with emphasis on video. She also holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in México City and received her ballet training with honors at the Royal Academy of Dancing in London, UK and Mexico City. Bo Choi is currently enrolled MFA program in University of Washington. She graduated from University of California at Davis in Fashion design and Studio Art. Previously, she worked to merge illusion and reality on the edge of fashion design and art in the fashion show "Unraveled." It was presented in San Francisco, CA in 2006 and she was invited to Seoul for the Costume Culture Association & Arcs Textrina joint international conference as a guest speaker. She received a Scholarship for Flyway journeys Wildlife Art Fellowship from California Waterfowl Association. Currently she works with a primary focus in fiber art, approaching habitual behavior and the mind indoctrination established by childhood environment. Donald Craig is a graduate student in Music Composition at the University of Washington. He earned his double degree in Music and Arts from the University of Washington in June, 2000. He was awarded his Master of Music in 2003. He will complete his Doctorate next year. He has studied with Joel Durand, Kenneth Benshoof and Richard Karpen. He is presently studying with Juan Pampin. He also plays guitar and has studied with Steven Novacek. Kathryn Hightower will graduate from the University of Washington in June 2008 with a degree in Dance. Her dance experience stems from ballet, tap and jazz, and branches into modern, yoga, Butoh, and capoiera. She is also a musician, focusing primarily on playing and composing for steel drums, which she incorporates into her choreography. Recently, she began pursuing her passion for video dance. In her creation of both music and dance, she is inspired by the simple harmonies and complex polyrhythms of Jazz as well as African Blues and Afro-Caribbean music. She was recently nominated for a Dean's Medal for her accomplishments in the Dance Program, and has performed in California, Mexico, and Seattle (including On the Boards and VSA Vision Gallery). Her works-in-progress include a summer arts camp for kids, in which she will be teaching dance and music, as well as a long-distance project with two fellow alumni, to be performed in Portland in July (longdistanceproject.blogspot.com). |