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Globe Theater: Sayonara Diorama

Company and Credits:

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Adrianne Wortzel - Creator, Writer, Producer and Questress [via video]

Adrianne Wortzel's installations and theoretical writings explore the possibilities of new electronic media in relation to traditional art forms such as opera and the novel, and use of the internet as a performance medium. Her Globe Theater features a repertory company of robotic actors in conjunction with human actors in on-line and real performance. A non-discursive narrative is developed for each venue of Globe Theater. Earlier work by Wortzel has included The Ship's Detective, The Hidden Archivists at the Anchorage, and Nomad Is An Island: FortDa in Linz. These performances constitute the first three scenes of Act I of Globe Theater, all played in 1997, respectively at Cooper Union in Technoseduction, CreativeTime's Art at the Anchorage at the Brooklyn Bridge and at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.

Adrianne Wortzel is currently an artist in residence at Lehman College Art Gallery which has been funded by the Electronic Media an Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

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Lehman College Art Gallery

Lehman College Art Gallery is a dynamic center for the visual arts located in the Bronx on the Lehman College campus of the City University of New York. The gallery presents the work of leading figures in contemporary art as well as important emerging artists. Art education is a major interest and each year over 8,500 Bronx schoolchildren participate in the Gallery's education programs. The Gallery has rapidly begun to explore new media and has produced a broad range of projects which have received critical attention in publications ranging from Art in America to Newsweek and Hotwired to New York Magazine. It has experimented with new technology to commission works by artists, to post exhibition catalogues, and to develop an on-line journal-Talkback! A Forum for Critical Discourse. Bell Atlantic through its Excellence in Education Award, is currently funding a distance learning project for Bronx elementary school children and school children in a village in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea. Adrianne Wortzel and The Globe Theater: Sayonara Diorama cast allow the gallery to continue to explore the possibilities of the Internet. This performance has been made possible with an artist residency funded by the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

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Ibrahim Quraishi - Director

Ibrahim Quraishi just returned from The Maryinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia) after directing a new production of P.I. Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, which was deemed "too modern, too un-Russian and too avant-garde." As one of the Artistic Directors of Dastaan Drama Circle (Lahore, Pakistan), Ibrahim has recently made a film called Dust upon us about the role of women in feudal societies. Besides producing a dance theatre piece called"8" with Dastaan Drama Circle, Ibrahim also worked as assistant director to Peter Sellars in Gyorgy Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre in Salzburger Festspiele1997.

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Frank Schneider - Clan-Is-Raw-Herd (Charles Darwin)

Frank Schneider is a stage, film, tv and radio actor . His credits include Franz Kafka in Liebster Vater at the Berliner Kammeroper, Egmont with the New Hampshire Symphony, and other roles in productions with Freies Schauspiel Berlin, the New School Drama Department Media Port, Berlin/Hamburg, Plan Film, Interfilm, berlin, DT64, Radio 100, berlin, Zoom TV and the Theater Zerbrochene Fenster.

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Arthur Aviles - Mr. Blemye

Arthur Aviles is a New York-Rican dancer/choreographer. He formed his own company in 1996 - Arhtur Aviles Typical Theater (AATT) -- which had its debut in Lyons, France with MAEVA AND THE FLOATING MAN. Mr. Aviles has moved the company to The Point, Community Development Corporation in the Bronx where he premiered ARTURELLA, a re-telling of the Cinderella story at the Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture in November.

In addition to his work with AATT , Mr. Aviles performs as a guest artist with various dance companies and choreographers.

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Silvia B. Birklein - Pandora

Silvia B. Birklein is a German dancer, certified Laban movement analyst and psychotherapist. She studied modern dance (Cunningham) in Berlin. Her background also includes extensive study of Contact Improvisation, Improvisation, Body Mind Centering, Alexander Technique, and Authentic Movement. Among her favorite teachers are David Zambrano, Lisa Nelson and Irene Hultman. She performed in dance productions with Yoshiko Chuma, Kel Takel, Min Tanaka, and others. Her latest performances were in Berlin with a Draw-bride and a Bunker. Last summer she performed "Therapy-Taxi" a project from two Swedish artists. She is currently exploring the emergence of body stories in transitional spaces.

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Timothy May - Master Sciapod

Timothy May has decided to join us from the Outside.

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John Glenn III - Mr. Panotti

John Glenn recently moved to New York City from Boston. Danced with Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works from 1989-1996, performing at Jacob's Pillow, the Altogether Different Festival at the Joyce Theater and Dance Umbrella in London. His training includes Alexander technique, contact improvisation and tap dance.

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Masayasu Nakanishi - DaVinci/Kiru

Masayasu Nakanishi is from Japan, Lives in New York, On stage he recently appeared in "The Flower of Water," at the Row Space and in "Hamlet ," at The Actors Studio. On Television he just played a waiter for "Soul Man," on ABC Network- to be .aired at the end of April. He also appeared in a film called "Sleepy Head." Studied at the Neigborhood Playhouse and Phil Gushee Studio, Masa is also a lifetime member of The Actors Studio.

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Clilly Castiglia- Sound Designer

Clilly Castiglia is the resident Sound Designer and a Research Scientist at the NYU Center For Advanced Technology. Currently she is engaged in research on the "Improv Jazz" project which incorporates musical interfaces as communication devices, performing in real time between human participants and three dimensional "virtual actors". Her technical and musical background includes an extensive list of production credits as a commercial Sound Designer in music, multimedia and film. Some of her recent sound design projects include the Gershwin Tribute at the Library of Congress, "Collected Visions" (http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu) in collaboration with Lorie Novak, "Patience My Blood," a multimedia performance by Eliza Schwarz, and "Mother Son", a play by Jeff Solomon. Clilly develops musical scenarios and environments that engage the participant in both an educational and entertaining interactive experience. She holds a Masters degree from the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.

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Ron Kiley -Stage Manager/Production Manager

Ron Kiley, worked as the Production Stage Manager for the Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra, Production Manager and Stage Manager for the New Jersey State Opera and at the Producers Club.

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Elizabeth L. Gaines - Lighting Designer

Graduated from Emory University in May. New York Lighting Credits include: Measure For Measure at the Raw Space, Cigarettes and Chocolate at the Angel Orensanz, The Purification at the Kraine Theater, and Cross Currents at the Squid Studio. Other credits include: Sleep Deprivation Chamber, Hair, and My Left Breast.

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Kate McDowell - Costumes for Pandora, Mr. Blemye, Mr. Sciapod and Mr. Panotti

Katherine Livingston McDowell has produced costumes for Juilliard Theater productions, Free Range Arts, House of Candles Theater, Center Stage, Alice Tully Hall, Ballet Metropolitano de Caracas, and Brown University. She is a graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

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Carol Young - Costumes for Darwin, the Questress and Kiru

Carol Young began her design career as an architecture student at U.C.Berkeley. After completing her B.A. in Arch in 1994 and working in the field, she fled to Southern China for a year of exploring the rapidly transforming cities and countryside, observing modern Chinese culture and teaching English. As a former dance student her fascination with the human body led her from the design of buildings to the design of clothing. In 1997 she completed her A.A.S. in Fashion Design at F.I.T. in New York and is currently working as a freelance fashion illustrator and designer.

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Soledad Crew

Soledad Crew - Video Face Footage and Performance Video. Small Chinatown-based free-thinking film artists. The Soledad Crew Company collaborates with, and encourages independent, really independent, projects.

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Many thanks to:

The Institute for Science Art And Culture (ISAAC)

The Institute for Science Art And Culture (ISAAC), is an innovative program in interdisciplinary learning and research at Lehman College, CUNY. The center, the brainchild of faculty and curators in three distinct departments at the College; the Department of Art, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and the Lehman College Art Gallery, grew out of a desire to provide an environment where artists, scholars, and scientists would work freely to explore the ever expanding world of creative and scientific imaging and its associated technology.

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Jose A. Betancourt - Robotmaster

Jose is a fine arts photographer and educator.

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Thundergulch, a project of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, is located in the New York Information Technology Center, one of the city's "totally wired" office buildings for new media and technology companies, located at 55 Broad Street in New York's Silicon Alley.

Thundergulch is a nexus of arts and technology projects, an exciting laboratory space that provides new forms of interaction between artists, audiences, and the new technology industries.

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ASCI (Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.) is a non-profit, international organization based in NYC whose purpose is to raise public awareness about art and artists using science and technology to explore new forms of creative expression. Members receive a bi-weekly ASCI BULLETIN via email, discounts at events, etc. Visit http://www.asci.org for full details or call: 718 816-9796.

ArtSci98... is a two-day Public Symposium, April 4-5, in the Great Hall at Cooper Union, NYC. There, 40 of our nation's top research scientists, artists, educators, writers, and science and technology professionals, will present their work in relation to issues of discovery, creativity, innovation, invention, and current career challenges. The goals of Art/Sci'98 are to dispel misconceptions, confirm suspicions about the advantages of multi-disciplinary learning, and take an affirmative step in the direction of narrowing the personal and professional schisms between scientists and artists and the general public.


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Mindy Lang - The Cooper Union Center for Design and Typography


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Jeff Hakner, The Computer Center, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art


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The Script

The Story

Information re the performances

Sayonara Diorama as published in Fall 1997 issue of Intelligent Agent

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