His recent work uses motion sensing devices to allow dancers creative input into computer music and digital video systems. These dance productions include: “Dark Around the Edges,” with Walter Ferrero, presented at Carriage House Theater, Providence, Rhode Island; “Songs for the Body Electric,” with Gerry Girouard, presented in Minneapolis at Intermedia Arts, and at the International Dance and Technology Conference in Tempe, Arizona; “Hitch’s Bitches,” with Cindy Cummings, at the Project Theatre in Dublin, Ireland and the Yale University Multimedia Festival; and “Falling Up,” with Cindy Cummings, a comMission from the Dublin Fringe Festival.

Winkler’s interactive video and sound installations use similar technology to alter digitized clips and real time video input based on the actions of viewers within a room. His video installations include:Light Around the Edges presented at the Kansas City Performing Arts Center, Watch Me, an installation for children presented at Rhode Island School of Design and Meeting Street School, Maybe…1910, a Rhode Island 2000 ComMission presented at the International Computer Music Conference and First Night Providence, and a large-scale video installation featuring audience participation and real-time processing, entitled, Magic Mirrors.

Winkler’s concert works incorporating computers with musicians have received international attention at festivals throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. His music appears on recordings from Capstone Records, Whole Sum Productions, MIT Press and CMA. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Composers Forum, the Arizona State University Center for Studies in the Arts, Meet the Composer, First Night International, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Rhodes Island State Council of the Arts, ASCAP, and a Fulbright Fellowship.

URL: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Music/Faculty/winkler/

Rovan is the recipient of several awards, including a jury selection and second prize in the 1998 and 2001 Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competitions, and a first prize in the 2002 Berlin Transmediale International Media Arts Festival. Recent performances include the performance of his “Vis-à-vis” for voice, electronics and video at the 2004 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Miami, performances at the 2005 Spark Festival and the 2005 New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) Conference, and the premiere of his “Hopper Confessions” for cello and interactive electronics at the 2003 Festival Synthèse in Bourges, France. Rovan frequently performs his own work, including performances at the 2000 ICMC in Berlin and the 2002 NIME conference, as well as many recent performances with the interactive performance duo “Envyloop”. His interactive scores for dance have been programmed in Munich, Paris, Reims, Monaco, the 2001 SEAMUS conference in Baton Rouge and the 2001 ICMC in Havana.

Rovan’s research into gestural control and interactivity has been featured in IRCAM’s Journal “Resonance”, “Electronic Musician”, the Computer Music Journal, the Japanese magazine “SoundArts” and is featured on the CDROM “Trends in Gestural Control of Music”, published by IRCAM (2000).

Jamie Jewett is the director of Lostwax Productions, a multi-media dance theater company that seeks to examine the visceral cusp between  installation, performance space and narrative through the use of technology. Jewett has choreographed, performed and taught across the U.S. as well as in Bali, Canada, France, Java, Nepal and the United Kingdom. He has been an artist in residence at HERE Center for the Arts in New York City (2003-2005) and STEIM in Amsterdam (2006). His works such as After the Fall (Danspace at St. Mark’s, 2003), as well as Seven Veils (CultureMart, HERE, 2004), Rest/Less (CultureMart, HERE, 2005), Snowblind (commissioned by IMMEDIA for the University of  Michigan, 2002), Kindly Bent to Ease Us (2001), and as far back to the evening length works Glyph (1996), and A Cloud In Trousers (1997) utilize interactivity and projections of still and cinematic imagery coupled with live closed-circuit video. The Other Paper (Columbus, OH) called Jewett’s Wexner Center award-winning film Auslander (Lincoln Center 2000) “A glimpse of Ohio film brilliance.” His on-going collaborations with author Thalia Field include performance works such as After The Fall and Seven Veils, Rest/Less, and an online multimedia piece, Zoologic (How2, 2004). Mudra, a collaboration with Matthew Peters Warne, was featured at the 2007 Spark Festival Gala Concert. MELT, his most recent evening length work a commissioned from the Firstworks Providence Festival, premiered in October of 2007. Jamie received his BA in Dance and Buddhist Studies from Naropa University, an MFA in Dance and Technology from the Ohio State University, an MA from Brown University’s MEME@Brown program (Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments @ Brown). He completed his PhD in New Media and Performance at Brown University in 2008. Currently he is working on a future length site-specific film adaptation of his piece MELT. Jamie is also an Artist in Residence at Perishable Theater and has just received a major commission from the Ammeran Center for Art and Technology at Connecticut College to work on a new evening length work BLINKING.

URL: http://www.lostwax.org

URL: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe