| 3pm, WSOA Digital Arts; Map
This event co-sponsored by The Trinity Session
HELEN THORINGTON
http://new-radio.org/helen
Helen Thorington is a writer, sound composer, and media artist. Her radio documentary, dramatic, and sound works have been aired nationally and internationally for the past twenty-six years. Thorington has also created compositions for dance (Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company), film (Barbara Hammer), and installation that premiered at The Kitchen, the Berlin Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and the Whitney Museum of American Art's annual Performance series. She has also taken part as a composer in a number of national and transatlantic distributed musical performances.
Thorington's Internet work includes Solitaire, an experimental narrative and card game with Marianne Petit and John Neilson (1998); and Adrift (1997-2002), an evolving multi-location Internet performance collaboration with Marek Walczak and Jesse Gilbert, for which she was awarded a 2001fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in Emerging Forms for Digital Art. Adrift's final performance took place at the New Museum of American Art. She has won numerous awards and commissions, most recently for 9.11.01 Scapes and Calling to Mind, which is currently in a traveling
exhibit in Europe.
Thorington is a published author, most recently in two issues of Contemporary Music Review and the soon to be released book edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan, Second Person. Her articles have also appeared in Style, EAR, and Black Ice, and online including the Walker Art
Museum.
She is co- director of the independent media organization, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. with offices in New York City and Boston, the founder and producer of the national weekly radio series, New American Radio (1987-98), and founder and current co-producer of somewhere.org and the
Turbulence web site (1996-present). Turbulence commissions artists who creatively explore the Internet and wireless networks. In 2004, she, Jo-Anne Green and Michelle Riel initiated the networked_performance blog on the turbulence site.
Jo-Anne Green
http://new-radio.org/jo
Jo-Anne Green is Co-Director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA). Born in Johannesburg, South Africa she graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1981 with a BFA Honours in Printmaking and a major in Art History. She emigrated to Boston in 1983 where she later obtained her MFA in Painting. In 1985, Green co-founded Cultural Resistance to educate the
American public about apartheid through the art and culture of South Africa. Until 1991, the organization curated multiple exhibitions, organized video screenings and performances, and published a monthly newspaper.
Prior to joining NRPA in March 2002, Green was instrumental in starting the artist-in-residence program at the University of New Mexico's (UNM) Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center; this initiative led to the creation of the Arts Technology Center (ATC). Green served as program coordinator for both the ATC and the Arts of the Americas Institute at UNM for two years before returning to Boston in 2001. Since then, she has earned a MS in Arts Administration from Lesley University, and initiated Art Technology Boston and Upgrade! Boston. Green has exhibited her paintings, one-of-a-kind artist's books, and installations in South Africa, Boston, and New York.
NEW RADIO AND PERFORMING ARTS, Inc.
http://new-radio.org/
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) was founded in New York City in 1981 to foster the development of new and experimental work for radio and sound arts. In 1996, it extended its mandate to net art and launched its pioneering web site, Turbulence. In March 2002, NRPA opened an office in
Boston to extend the geographic reach of its existing programs and continue to build its audience for experimental sound and net art.
Now celebrating its 25th year of service to artists, NRPA has a distinguished history in the two experimental fields of radio art and net art; it has commissioned ($1,000,000 +), distributed and archived hundreds of works, thereby supporting and advancing many artists' careers, and establishing itself as a vital resource for arts and educational institutions, and the general public. It is the only organization in the United States that has as its core mission the commissioning of networked art by both emerging and established artists.
(i) NEW AMERICAN RADIO (http://somewhere.org) a weekly national radio art series, commissioned and distributed over 300 works by artists between 1987 and 1998, and was ranked with such high-profile programs as ABC Australia's "The Listening Room," and Austria's "Kuntsradio." Its works, which won numerous international competitions, were aired throughout North America, Europe and Australia. 140 full-length works have been archived on somewhere.org and at Wesleyan University. 50 more works will be archived by March 2006.
(ii) TURBULENCE (http://turbulence.org): Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, Turbulence has commissioned more that 100 net art works and exhibited and promoted artists' works through its Artists Studios, Guest Curator, and Spotlight sections. Furthermore, as networking technologies
have developed wireless capabilities and become mobile, Turbulence has remained at the forefront of the field by commissioning, exhibiting, and archiving the new hybrid networked art forms that have emerged. This includes performance works and locative works using GPS.
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