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Education
Current Employment
Previous Employment and Professional Engagements
Professional Affiliations
Residencies and Consulting
Awards and Honors
Grants
Education
Education
MA Music Composition
University of Missouri; 1995
BA Music
Graduated Phi Beta Kappa; Stanford University; 1978
Current Employment
Current Employment
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Department of Dance
Associate Professor, Music Director, Co-Coordinator of Undergraduate Education, 2001-present
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), UIUC
Faculty Fellow, 2014-present
Illinois eDream Institute, NCSA
Co-Director, 2017-present
Illinois Informatics Institute, UIUC
Faculty, 2013-present
Previous Employment and Professional Engagements
Previous Employment and Professional Engagements
Illinois-Japan Performing Arts Network (IJPAN)
Technical Director, 2010-13
Advanced Technology Center, University of Missouri-Columbia
Producer, Sound Designer, Graphic Artist, Video and Creative Director, 1993-2001
Stephens College Dance and Theater Departments, Columbia, MO
Adjunct Lecturer, Dance Accompanist, Conductor, 1992-2000
San Francisco Symphony
Harpsichordist and Pianist, 1987-91
Carmel Bach Festival
Harpsichordist, 1986-91
San Jose Symphony
Pianist, 1988-1990
The Event of the Year, San Francisco, CA
Composer, Arranger, Conductor of musical/dance theater productions, 1986-1990
Stanford University Department of Dance
Dance Accompanist, Adjunct Lecturer, 1978-90
Palo Alto Children's Theater, Palo Alto, CA
Musical Director, Composer, Conductor, 1980-1983
New Performance Gallery, Footwork Dance Studio, San Francisco, CA
Professional Dance Accompanist, 1980-1990
Independent harpsichord and early keyboard instrument builder, 1978-1990
Professional Affiliations
Professional Affiliations
eDream, the Emerging Digital Research And Education in Arts Media Institute
Co-Director, 2016-18
Fiddler Fellow, 2018-present
LAIT, the Laboratory for Audience Interactive Technologies
Founder and Director, 2014–present
International Guild of Musicians in Dance
Founding Member, 2004-present
Past President 2009-13
Member, ASCAP
Residencies and Consulting
Residencies and Consulting
University of California-Irvine (UC-I) Institute for 21st Century Creativity
4-week residency to create INTERFACE: Alternate Reality; January-February 2018
NOMAD Dance Advocates
Movement Research Global Practice Sharing delegate; Belgrade, Serbia, October 2017
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Consultant hired to evaluate the Tisch Dance and New Media program; December 2016
Virtual Reality MultiMedia Park
Consultant for interactive software development for frameshift, version 2; Turin, Italy, May 2012.
STEIM (Studio for Electro Instrumental Music)
4-week residency to develop interactive musical instruments; Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Fall 2010
Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
eDream Fiddler Fellow Award
To establish a campus-wide alternative honors program at the Univeristy of Illinois http://edream.illinois.edu/endowment/fiddler-faculty-fellows
NCSA Faculty Fellows Award
Title and $25,000 to establish LAIT, the Laboratory for Audience Interactive Technologies, 2014-15 https://tinyurl.com/ycvc2855
Madden Fellowship in Technology, Arts, and Culture
Title and $15,000 grant to investigate computer-assisted interactive dance, 2006-7
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Pinnacle Award, Computer-based Public Education
Annual national award given to IMPACT–Asthma Kids!, the interactive CD-ROM that I produced while at the Advanced Technology Center at the University of Missouri, June 2002
Paul Revitt Award for Musicological Research
College Music Society, 1992
Grants
Grants
UIUC Office of Undergraduate Research
To implement a university-wide "alternative honors" program through the Illinois eDream Institute : $9,500, 2018
National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps program
To support commercialization feasibility study and enterprise training for the LAIT mobile application system: $2,000 and in-kind support, 2017
UIUC Research Board
To support the production of INTERFACE: Alternate Reality: $3,149, 2018
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
For the “Moving Stories” project to design digital tools for investigating movement, meaning and interaction through the intersection of three unique domains: Laban movement analysis, digital interaction technologies, and social and cultural applications and outcomes: Collaborating Researcher; $5M Canadian (UIUC share $1.25M US), 2012-17
Department of Education Illinois Learning Science Design Initiative (ILSDI)
To write a white paper about the uses of LAIT within education and other disciplines: $4000, 2015
FAA Creative Research Award
To research the use of iPads in performance and establish NOTABLE, the New Order Tablet Ensemble: $9,000, 2012-13
FAA Creative Research Award
To develop and stage the interactive dance work Inventions Suite: $4,000, 2007
UIUC Campus Research Board
To create an interactive dance work with choreographer David Marchant: $20,000, 2005
Provost’s Initiative on Teaching Advancement (PITA)
For workshops to improve the music in the Department of Dance and publication of the results: $5100, 2004
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